Yeah... nice to see more people expressing what at this point is glaringly obvious to me. Reno really does an incredible job of telling the story of how we got here. You can disagree with him on his political opinions but he does a pretty good job of trying to not inflect that on the reader. I'm less sympathetic to his critiques of the Austrian economists. For one, I don't think they would look at global trade and be happy with what it is today.
One area where I think he has nailed it on the US problem and that of Europe is the idea of cultural homelessness. Another is that when you push religion out of the culture as has been done with much gusto in Europe and the US something else takes its place. Something that can never replace it. The state. The ideals of democracy which really are hollow. The worship of wealth.
I'm 100% in favor of free trade and capitalism (free markets, not crony) but absent a moral foundation, like the one provided by the Christian church we get what we have today. A selfish, pleasure obsessed society that have a deep longing they can't seem to fill. Reno wars that there is a risk of society swinging to authoritarianism and cautions that returning to the Church and centrality of God as supreme is a better direction.
This is where I most agree with him. I am not moved to defend the political system that firebombed Tokyo any more than I am to cheer on Trump. I would like to see more honesty about the use of power when its being moralized by commentators.
Yeah... nice to see more people expressing what at this point is glaringly obvious to me. Reno really does an incredible job of telling the story of how we got here. You can disagree with him on his political opinions but he does a pretty good job of trying to not inflect that on the reader. I'm less sympathetic to his critiques of the Austrian economists. For one, I don't think they would look at global trade and be happy with what it is today.
One area where I think he has nailed it on the US problem and that of Europe is the idea of cultural homelessness. Another is that when you push religion out of the culture as has been done with much gusto in Europe and the US something else takes its place. Something that can never replace it. The state. The ideals of democracy which really are hollow. The worship of wealth.
I'm 100% in favor of free trade and capitalism (free markets, not crony) but absent a moral foundation, like the one provided by the Christian church we get what we have today. A selfish, pleasure obsessed society that have a deep longing they can't seem to fill. Reno wars that there is a risk of society swinging to authoritarianism and cautions that returning to the Church and centrality of God as supreme is a better direction.
This is where I most agree with him. I am not moved to defend the political system that firebombed Tokyo any more than I am to cheer on Trump. I would like to see more honesty about the use of power when its being moralized by commentators.