Great piece by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times about F.A. Hayek and his popular book, The Road to Serfdom.
A particular striking paragraph in Tucker's piece is the following quote of Hayek:
“The word ‘truth’ itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to be believed in the interest of the unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.”
When I think about the quote above, and the government's response to #Covid, pieces of the Covid puzzle start to connect.
Tucker asserts, "There are many such postulates around today, points that you are supposed to believe even though you might have doubts about the evidence. Public health is a good example. The wars over vaccines are no longer about health; they are about compliance and shame for those who have doubts".
The final piece that completes the puzzle is concluded towards the end of Tucker's piece, yet leads me looking for the beginning of the next puzzle: the implementation of totalitarian at the next level.
"A mark of the danger always comes with the demand that you must believe such and such in order to be a good citizen and a contributor to the grand project. Hayek’s three elements—ideology, propaganda, and censorship—are the signs that someone is attempting to curate the public mind for totalitarian purposes".
Who Controls the Public Mind? | ZeroHedge
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