Saturday, July 02, 2011

Is ignorance a virtue?

Want to read about economic ignorance? Hypocrisy? Robert Tracinski seems to understand why Obama has the market cornered on those two phenomena. Here is just one paragraph:
Consider Obama's background. He grew up among leftists, his childhood mentors were outright communists, and he then went off to academia, where he spent his formative years in an environment where business and profit-making are looked down upon as ugly, dirty, rapacious, immoral. Is it any mystery why he doesn't know about business or economics? Asking him to study the economics of the free market is like asking one of the old New England Puritans to thumb through a manual on sex education. Why immerse oneself in a subject that is so unseemly? Why make a study of how to be immoral?>

Read the whole thing here.

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