[ALawPoker]

Self-righteousness.

The beauty of classical liberalism is its simplicity. Belief in it does not require creative and self glorifying solution.

People who believe in the free market will point to lack of understanding as the reason many oppose it. I agree, but I think it's more that people *don't want to* believe it even if they're capable of it. For self-righteous reasons. They want to be the guy with the solution. People want to feel like their ideas matter. And when you hold the "position" that the market takes care of itself, you effectively eliminate your opportunity to be the hero who figured everything out.

And I'm not really talking about the politicians and the hack journalists. They'll mislead you but they don't necessarily believe what they're saying. Joe Shmoe believes what he says.

People care about government. People talk about government. Joe Shmoe wants to feel like his ideas about something as important as government are superior. He graduated with a fancy political science degree, HE HAS SOLUTIONS. HE'S AN IMPORTANT MEMBER OF SOCIETY WITH IMPORTANT IDEAS. He didn't pay $130K to come to realize that he should accept the fact that he can't manipulate the market. So he'll never accept it until it's smacking him in the face.

If there's any way to believe it isn't true, he will find ways to believe it isn't true.

The market to me is like gravity. You can't touch it. Socialists talk about "capitalism" like some dude invented it in a lab. Capitalism is just a natural force of efficiency. You can choose to restrict it if you're a pussy or an [censored], but don't lie to me about blatant truths and expect me to have a reasonable discussion with you.

Fortunately, gravity is hard to reject. The ones who did all fell over the cliff. But if people could plausibly reject it in lieu of their own ideas, they would. And they'd spend their time, effort, and money finding new and creative ways to apply force on air born objects at roughly -9.8 meters per second. The fact that they could just do nothing and get an equal or slightly better result would not fly well with people who think they are more important than the natural order of our existence.


I mean, I'm not "for capitalism" in the sense that I care much about money or associate much with people in suits. But how can you deny the blatantly obvious? Is your desire to personally solve the world's problems *that* important to you?

Trust gravity. If you jump, you will come down. Get over yourself. You're not that important. You can't fly.

I think the desire to affect our world is probably a natural human yearning though. I wish people would redirect this desire to a personal level, and trust that the impact will be made. Just work hard if you want to affect the world. Open a pizza shop and sell people delicious pizza.

Oh wait. That takes effort. But whining about which laws are good and bad and who is right and wrong is easy, and makes us sound smart. And it proves to everyone how good our ideas are, which is more noble than cooking a tasty pizza. I forgot.


Thoughts?