Monday evening links - AEI
"Chart of the Day I (above) that graphically illustrates this one-sentence summary of recorded human history according to Luke Muehlhauser: Everything was awful for a very long time, and then the industrial revolution happened. Here’s more: Interestingly, this is not the impression of history I got from the world history books I read in school. Those books tended to go on at length about the transformative impact of the wheel or writing or money or cavalry, or the conquering of this society by that other society, or the rise of this or that religion, or the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, or the Black Death, or the Protestant Reformation, or the Scientific Revolution. But they could have ended each of those chapters by saying “Despite these developments, global human well-being remained roughly the same as it had been for millennia, by every measure we have access to.” And then when you got to the chapter on the industrial revolution, these books could’ve said: “Finally, for the first time in recorded history, the trajectory of human well-being changed completely, and this change dwarfed the magnitude of all previous fluctuations in human well-being.” Amen." Before capitalism and the industrial revolution, there were other economic systems, all abject failures. The most recent was feudalism. Socialism is little more than feudalism removed from the agricultural economy and applied to the industrial economy. It works here as poorly as it did then. This is what Sanders, Warren, AOC and all the rest of the Democrats what to subject us to a return to, the horrors of the feudal economy and its deprivation. The progressive Republicans are little better. They too want to subject us to a retreaded progressive model, er, socialism, only this time they get to feed deeply at the trough. I want neither; I want a new socio-economic model which finally and permanently removes Americans from the threat of socialism and a return to the deprivation and want of feudalism whether based in an agricultural or industrial model. It is time for change, time for a new socio-economic model based on individual liberty, personal responsibility, capitalism, free markets, reformed religions, and republican governance.
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