Intellectual Honesty | Propaganda

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These antagonistic ideas are destroying civilization. People don’t think when they drive a car, they know how to design one. However, when they see a minute news clip, they think they are an economist. Both are equally absurd. The economist is always dragged into the turmoil of the political arena. It’s not from talking about politics, its because politicians talk about economics. Many of them don’t know anything about economics. This is as absurd as talking about the designs of cars.

They pretend that they are being practical. They are not. They are implying their own ethic. Implying violence is valuable. Economics relies on sound theories and destroying fallacies, not telling a politician what he wants to hear. The economist is describing things, the politician prescribes things. By describing things, the economist will point out that things are not perfect—known as the nirvana fallacy. The pseudo-economist will tell politicians things can be perfect.

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