Western freedom based on paranoia theory

3 Responses to Western freedom based on paranoia theory

1. CMAR II says:

   March 16, 2007 at 00:00

   LB,

   The “self-interested model of human behav­ior” was not devel­oped dur­ing the Cold War as this doc­u­men­tary claims. It was not sub­se­quently adopted by economists.

   It was detailed by the 18th cen­tury econ­o­mist Adam Smith. Fur­ther­more, it was also detailed by the Amer­i­can founders in the Fed­er­al­ist Papers as the basis of the pro­posed US constitution’s model of “checks and bal­ances”. The idea was that every per­son being free to make choices accord­ing to his own ben­e­fit, col­lec­tively make choices that ben­e­fit every per­son. Those founders were in turn influ­enced by Eng­lish Enlight­en­ment polit­i­cal philosophers.

   The self-interested model is at least 250 years old.
2. LadyBird says:

   March 16, 2007 at 09:43

   This is where you didn’t got it

   This doc­u­men­tary is not record­ing the his­tory of freedom.

   It meant to reveal how politi­cians and econ­o­mists hijacked freedom
3. CMAR II says:

   March 16, 2007 at 21:17

   It meant to reveal how politi­cians and econ­o­mists hijacked freedom

   They did this 220 years ago with the found­ing the the US constitution?

   The US Con­sti­tu­tion and all liberty-based eco­nom­ics are founded on the self-interested model. Both pre­sume on the self­ish deprav­ity of human motives and rather than try­ing to sup­press them (wack-a-mole), it assumes depends on the self-depravity of the all indi­vid­u­als to keep those of the minor­ity of indi­vid­u­als in check.