tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post292966275670658067..comments2024-03-22T06:05:36.544-04:00Comments on Kids Prefer Cheese: Bertrand Russell on Hayek (Sort of)Mungowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-63020165824023259902013-08-15T16:02:38.489-04:002013-08-15T16:02:38.489-04:00Not to worry, Keynes was watching out for us;
htt...Not to worry, Keynes was watching out for us;<br /><br />http://hsalbert.blogspot.com/2013/03/keyness-letter-to-hayek-in-1944.html<br /><br /><i>I should therefore conclude your theme rather differently. I should say what we want is not no planning, or even less planning, indeed I should say that we almost certainly want more. But the planning should take place in community in which as many people as possible, both leaders and followers wholly share your own moral position. Moderate planning will be safe if those carrying it out are rightly oriented in their own minds and hearts to the moral issue. [ This is in fact already true of some of them. But the curse is that there is also an important section who could almost be said to want planning not in order to enjoy its fruits but because morally they hold ideas exactly the opposite of yours, and wish to serve not God but the devil. ]*<br /><br />What we need therefore, in my opinion, is not a change in our economic programmes, which would only lead in practice to disillusion with the results of your philosophy; but perhaps even the contrary, namely, an enlargement of them. [ Your greatest danger ahead is the probable practical failure of the application of your philosophy in the United States in a fairly extreme form. No, what we need is the restoration of right moral thinkingă…ˇa return to proper moral values in our social philosophy. If only you could turn your crusade in that direction you would not look or feel quite so much like Don Quixote. I accuse you of perhaps confusing a little bit the moral and the material issues. ]** Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.</i>Patrick Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948365865741313524noreply@blogger.com