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“We ought never to expect in a man, or in a nation, a consistent life of virtue. Not that any have been thus far, but that the human heart is ever so much the subject of change. That the human will is ever so apt to err. And it is a principle which may be extended, if we will, to the whole state of society, that the reason why things are so, is not that they cannot be so, but because they will not be so.”
This is the kind of talk that riles up the water buffalo right in the heart of capitalism. And the response to these speeches is something like this:
“Say what you will, the great secret of good government is that it cannot be good. We can have good laws and good orders, good police, good arsenals, good money, and good universities. But we cannot have good government; it is impossible. We cannot have it, unless we have in the same state both a wise and a good government. We can have good laws and good orders, good government and a wise and a good people, but we cannot have both a wise and a good government. This is the great secret of society and government.”
This is also a cool insight. But can you imagine someone saying this in North Korea, Russia or Cuba today? No, not really. A “good” society cannot be good. So just because America is a society of free enterprise doesn’t mean we are necessarily a society of freedom. And I don’t think that’s the point of F.A. Hayek’s insights into the subject. I think he was talking about the motivations of individuals and was making the point that the human will is ever so much subject to change and prone to err. And I think that’s what he meant.
I just finished reading The Road To Serfdom by F.A. Hayek, the most remarkable economist of the last century. Hayek was born into an aristocratic Austrian family. His father was a director of the bank for which Hayek worked when he was a young man. The elder Hay be359ba680
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