It appears that many believe humans don’t have reason.  It seems they believe they have reason and others don’t.  If those without reason listen to those with reason, we will be in utopia.  They all have their schemes, but there’s one overriding factor for all utopian schemes, compliance.  Ignorance is fatal.  They fail to realize reason is individual reason, based on subjective values and knowledge.  They believe their reason is infallible and are intolerant of all dissenters.

They delude themselves and its conceit at the highest level.  They believe they are the supreme legislators of mankind and all else are heretics or blasphemers.  The truth seekers don’t pretend reason and scientific research have all of the answers.  They are modest enough to realize there are limits to the mind.  Those who pretend to be supreme legislators exaggerate brainpower of themselves.  Their extreme pride is deceitful.

These are nothing but fantastic delusions.  All of these statist plans are unrealizable.  It seems these utopian schemes would be done for.  Why do they persist?  Reason must be destroyed.  The role of these schemers is to attack the individual and ideas that are not their own.  Ideas are not allowed to come from mortal men—they certainly don’t view themselves as mortal.  Human reason is incapable of finding truth so it must be left to a schemer.

They believe—as Marx did—that different classes have different reason.  The individual has different reason than the utopian statist schemer.  Therefore, all decisions must be left to them.  Of course, if you use reason, it’s selfish, you’re a conspiracy theorist, or any other term they use to attack ideas.  This is what Mises referred to as the Fourier Complex.  Apparently, the individual is not endowed with the power to think.

How can we recover reason?  You can’t count on schools to instill you or your kids with reason. Individuals must be committed to self-education.  Ideas are attacked and information is controlled.  The mainstream media is not a reliable source of information either.  We have the internet, but that’s a mine field.  Information does get deleted too, but there is a way to recapture reason.  Start here and here.  It’s ideas that matter.

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; Human Action