"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
F. A. Hayek on Social Evolution and the Origins of Tradition
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2011-11-04 00:00
In this exclusive video, professor Hayek discusses the evolution of morality and social norms, arguing that they result from unplanned, emergent processes and so are not the direct result of applied human reason.
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