literaryjoe on Nostr: Paul wrote that we see dimly as if through a veil, and this applies to today’s ...

Paul wrote that we see dimly as if through a veil, and this applies to today’s current events unless one studies to discern the riptides surging under the ostensible surface of media propaganda.

"Contemporary practitioners of artificial order “pretend that their plans are scientific and that there cannot be disagreement with regard to them among well-intentioned and decent people,” not unlike the planners of various totalitarian regimes over the last century.

However, Mises warned that “there is not such a thing as a scientific ought. Science is competent to establish what is. It can never dictate what ought to be and what ends people should aim at.”

Since the importation of Chinese artificial order, novice dictators of formerly open societies have been imposing fixed values that not only lie well beyond the limits of a state’s action according to liberal thought, but also exceed the scope and purposes of science. Moreover, they refuse to accept that “men disagree in their value judgments.”

~Birsen Filip, summarizing and applying Mises’s _Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis_, 1962