This is only the fourth new year’s day and Manzi came out with a strong contender for stupidest post year. I really like “business ecosystem that encourages innovation” which is like 1990 vibe to it. I can really feel the unreality of their halcyon days when free money that made almost every middle class of baby boomers feel like a genius.
Mandel used the term, which is why I do, although I have no problem with it, because it seems quite descriptive for me.
“de-politicizing” the economy is a good idea. The problem is that there will be no advocate of a strategy in the political class. Not one. I have searched in vain for someone who is elec had no intention of using the lever on the Government to implement the “bright idea” or “reform” burr anything already under saddle. The impetus that leads directly to government interference in the economy and central planning by technocrat DC. The brutal fact is that we have a lot of people who insist on using the Government to enforce their idea of goodness, and virtually no forces that resist the wave of meddlesome do-gooders. The result is an irrational tyranny and slavery to all but those who have a connection to the Government. The probability of a peaceful return to some semblance of a constitutional Government almost certainly zero.
I hate it “man,” because I spent * years * making fun of Ron Paul and his assistants were online fanatics … but, if You want someone in the White House is not a technocrat, Dr. Paul is pretty much the only option now. Obama, Santorum, and Romney are all dyed-in-the-wool big government technocrats–although Mr. Santorum a technocracy is much more accep to me than President Obama. So, see if You can stomach his views on foreign policy, because I think you are right–we really don’t have a lot of pictures on getting the whole “limited Government” it is just before the great experiment fails.
God forgive me, I just call him “Dr. Paul” in public. I am more in the kool-aid than I thought.