Comments on: The Seen and the Unseen http://www.newclarion.com/2009/08/the-seen-and-the-unseen/ Our mission is to combat the unreason and selflessness that are sweeping our culture from the nihilist left to the religious right, and to sound a new ideal of capitalism and individual rights in American politics. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kayak2U Blog » Blog Archive » The Klein/Krugman circle jerk http://www.newclarion.com/2009/08/the-seen-and-the-unseen/#comment-5295 Kayak2U Blog » Blog Archive » The Klein/Krugman circle jerk Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:05:36 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1417#comment-5295 [...]  Thanks to Jim May for the link, and for the excellent observation that (alá Bastiat) positing the non-existence of the U.K.’s National Health Service [...] [...]  Thanks to Jim May for the link, and for the excellent observation that (alá Bastiat) positing the non-existence of the U.K.’s National Health Service [...]

]]> By: madmax http://www.newclarion.com/2009/08/the-seen-and-the-unseen/#comment-5217 madmax Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:10:35 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1417#comment-5217 "Had that progress started earlier and remained unfettered until this day…" Exactly. I think that if you take Bastiat's Broken Window fallacy and apply it historically as in "what would have happened if the US was never corrupted by Progressivism and remained largely free economically" you can arrive at the conclusion that we would have been far more technologically advanced than we are today. Would it be at the sci-fi level? I don't know. But major breakthrough's in medicine and longevity science may have been made. Of course you can't apply the Broken Window fallacy the way I described because philosophy is the major factor driving history and there was no way that the Progressive Era could have been avoided given the state of Post-Kantian philosophy. Still for a guy with Hawking's intelligence, couldn't he be a bit smarter than defending one of the greatest political failures of the last 60 years, namely socialized medicine? Just like Einstein, brilliant in one area and totally clueless elsewhere. “Had that progress started earlier and remained unfettered until this day…”

Exactly. I think that if you take Bastiat’s Broken Window fallacy and apply it historically as in “what would have happened if the US was never corrupted by Progressivism and remained largely free economically” you can arrive at the conclusion that we would have been far more technologically advanced than we are today. Would it be at the sci-fi level? I don’t know. But major breakthrough’s in medicine and longevity science may have been made. Of course you can’t apply the Broken Window fallacy the way I described because philosophy is the major factor driving history and there was no way that the Progressive Era could have been avoided given the state of Post-Kantian philosophy.

Still for a guy with Hawking’s intelligence, couldn’t he be a bit smarter than defending one of the greatest political failures of the last 60 years, namely socialized medicine? Just like Einstein, brilliant in one area and totally clueless elsewhere.

]]> By: L-C http://www.newclarion.com/2009/08/the-seen-and-the-unseen/#comment-5212 L-C Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:43:33 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1417#comment-5212 Statists would think of your scenario as science fiction, madmax, but just look at what the severely hampered private sector has accomplished over the last 150 years. Had that progress started earlier and remained unfettered until this day... Statists would think of your scenario as science fiction, madmax, but just look at what the severely hampered private sector has accomplished over the last 150 years.

Had that progress started earlier and remained unfettered until this day…

]]> By: madmax http://www.newclarion.com/2009/08/the-seen-and-the-unseen/#comment-5207 madmax Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:22:34 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1417#comment-5207 If we lived under laissez-faire, Mr. Hawking probably wouldn't be in the position he is in. His brilliant (but compartmentalized mind) would be transferred to a brand new designer body and he would be living in perfect health. Its amazing that a man so smart in one field can be so oblivious in another. If we lived under laissez-faire, Mr. Hawking probably wouldn’t be in the position he is in. His brilliant (but compartmentalized mind) would be transferred to a brand new designer body and he would be living in perfect health.

Its amazing that a man so smart in one field can be so oblivious in another.

]]> By: rob sama http://www.newclarion.com/2009/08/the-seen-and-the-unseen/#comment-5205 rob sama Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:55:41 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1417#comment-5205 Well put. Good find on Hawking. I knew there had to be more to it than the snide snippets we were hearing. Well put. Good find on Hawking. I knew there had to be more to it than the snide snippets we were hearing.

]]> By: Grant http://www.newclarion.com/2009/08/the-seen-and-the-unseen/#comment-5203 Grant Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:48:27 +0000 http://www.newclarion.com/?p=1417#comment-5203 Yep. That's the argument that runs as follows: "Why don't all just stop paying our taxes and all go back to living in caves then!" I stop talking when that one comes out. Yep. That’s the argument that runs as follows: “Why don’t all just stop paying our taxes and all go back to living in caves then!”

I stop talking when that one comes out.

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