{"id":74383,"date":"2020-06-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74383"},"modified":"2020-06-09T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:01:08","slug":"the-road-to-serfdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74383","title":{"rendered":"The Road To Serfdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our &#8220;elites&#8221; lecture us about climate change, then fly home in private jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They &#8220;order&#8221; us to stay indoors even as the actual evidence starts to show that the &#8220;models&#8221; they used, if they were put out by the private sector, would be considered frauds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As parts of the &#8220;elite&#8221; get wealthier beyond belief, the media gets ever more flooded with puff pieces touting the virtues of insect-based diets, &#8220;high-density&#8221; living and &#8220;new normals&#8221; that sound ever more miserable&#8230;for the rest of us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worried that our new tech superstars are censoring speech on &#8220;social media&#8221; just as the political and media superstars do in the traditional media &#8211; and their kids at the universities are doing the same, literally and physically, in the working world just as they did in college?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concerned that political &#8220;elites&#8221; like Lisa Bender to AOC consider whatever you *have* earned in this world to be a &#8220;privilege&#8221; to be extracted, statutorily by the IRS or by force by whatever group decides, with a nudge and wink from local politicians whose younger relatives they are, to take it at the point of a Molotov Cocktail and a baseball bat?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think you&#8217;re seeing society sorting out, not by race, but by class, with the &#8220;elites&#8221; forming an ever-more cloistered pseudo-aristocracy, which gets to play by its own rules?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, you&#8217;re right. You are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayek&#8217;s classic of conservative thought was titled <em>The Road to Serfdom<\/em>.   It envisioned a different mechanism for this decline into feudalism &#8211; the telephone was the only social medium, back then &#8211; but he was, as always, right.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/a-new-book-warns-of-our-neo-feudal-future\/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&amp;utm_medium=blog-post&amp;utm_campaign=river&amp;utm_content=more-in&amp;utm_term=second\">Joel Kotkin now argues the world is becoming more feudal<\/a> &#8211; an &#8220;overclass&#8221; that becomes wealthy by turning everyone else, including most of you &#8211; into dehumanized production machines, no better than the gilded age robber barons did?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation can be saved &#8211; but victory is by no means assured, nor easy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217; gonna urge you toi read the article. Then the book.  And my NARN people are calling his people as we speak.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our &#8220;elites&#8221; lecture us about climate change, then fly home in private jets. They &#8220;order&#8221; us to stay indoors even as the actual evidence starts to show that the &#8220;models&#8221; they used, if they were put out by the private sector, would be considered frauds. 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