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“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”-Friedrich Hayek

I wish more people would read Hayek. He’s exactly right, as is El Gato. The game here is to exploit or manufacture crises in perpetuity in order to persuade or compel us to surrender our liberties. This is the ploy of every aspiring tyrant.

Covid, Climate Change, (BLM/CRT) Racial Division… These are the pretexts of the moment.

It’s the Reichstag Fire strategem.

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I have individualism and economic order in my pile of to read

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A key lesson of the last 16 months or so is that Friedrich Hayek, George Orwell, Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell were extremely insightful about a lot of things. And reading, or rereading, their books is a very smart thing to do. Their writings act as a highly effective prophylactic against totalitarian manipulation and propaganda.

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