Thought for the Week

The myth is deliberately cultivated that we are embarking on the new course not out of free will but because competition is spontaneously eliminated by technological changes which we neither can reverse nor should wish to prevent. This argument is rarely developed at any length -- it is one of the the assertions taken over by one writer from another till, by mere iteration , it has come to be accepted as an established fact. F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom It is nice to see that we have moved on in our arguments. No-one uses such a crass technique as to say something is inevitable so we should just accept it. Do they????