These antagonistic ideas are destroying civilization.  People don’t think when they drive a car, they know how to design one.  However, when they see a minute news clip, they think they are an economist.  Both are equally absurd.  The economist is always dragged into the turmoil of the political arena.  It’s not from talking about politics, its because politicians talk about economics.  Many of them don’t know anything about economics.  This is as absurd as talking about the designs of cars.

They pretend that they are being practical.  They are not.  They are implying their own ethic.  Implying violence is valuable.  Economics relies on sound theories and destroying fallacies, not telling a politician what he wants to hear.  The economist is describing things, the politician prescribes things.  By describing things, the economist will point out that things are not perfect—known as the nirvana fallacy.  The pseudo-economist will tell politicians things can be perfect.

The honest one will be vilified by apologist of the official statist doctrine.  It is, indeed, very sad, that people can’t learn from theory nor experience.  The pseudo-economists, and pseudo-experts, cannot deal with the arguments put forth.  They put forth schemes that are impossible or rely on violence.  Only to a limited extent does man want truth.  Truth is uncomfortable.  As Goethe pointed out “What is false is usually more comfortable for feeble people.”

The many things said or written are not truth but deception.  The evils that the world produces is not capitalism but statism.  It’s impossible to understand capitalism, love humanity, and hate capitalism.  Likewise, it’s impossible to fix statism with more statism.  Statism is annihilating civilization and leading us straight into the abyss.  Lies and deception are destructive to human nature.  Seek the truth not the consequences of truth.

References

Ludwig von Mises; Economic Freedom and Interventionism

Friedrich Nietzsche; On Truth and Untruth