Tim Worstall

The Boy Dave (M)

Not exactly a clear thinker, is he?

In the end, no society can be the sum total of individual desires.
…
I call it the politics of "I can". The era of "I can" is the
culmination of the long decline of deference and automatic authority.
It is the late flowering of individual autonomy and control. It is, in
other words, one of the founding ideas of left-of-centre politics: to
put power in the hands of the people.

So we put power into the hands of individuals, promote autonomy, so that people can in fact pursue their individual desires, knowing that this won’t work as no society can simply be the sum of said individual desires?

So now we know the education system is screwed if this is the sort of logic we get from a PPE graduate (a first, no less) at Corpus Christi.

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  1. Marcin Tustin Avatar
    Marcin Tustin

    As I’ve said before: you’d be surprised how many people with firsts from Oxford hold the currently fashionable muzzy-headed bolshevism-lite. Why? People suspend thought and criticism when thinking about politics.
    The only way to change people’s minds is with something that transparently benefits them directly. Like school vouchers, branded as “sending every single child to a private school.”

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  2. Martin Avatar
    Martin

    Tim,
    Not ‘I can’, but ‘some’ can.
    It’s working out who the ‘some’ are that’s that’s the tricky bit.

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  3. Josh Avatar
    Josh

    [b]It is, in other words, one of the founding ideas of left-of-centre politics: to put power in the hands of the people.[/b]
    Say what? Does that power including the rights to spend their money as they choose, rather than the State? Isn’t this the same Milli who wants to make every individual carry carbon ration cards?

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