Gray embraces an extreme version of environmentalism, under the guidance of James Lovelock. According to this bizarre view, human beings are in danger of upsetting the Earth, which is viewed not as a mere planet but as a living organism. At times, Gray despairs of human beings altogether and appears a veritable misanthrope.
What an irony it is that the capitalist entrepreneurs so despised by the Arts and Crafts Movement turned out to be its saviors.
But the "right people" aren't (and won't be) running for office. Instead, we will continue to have "the average American legislator [who] is not only an ass," as Mencken wrote, "but also an oblique, sinister, depraved and knavish fellow."
Mass unemployment proves in fact wholly to be the result of government preventing private enterprise from working freely and providing itself with a money that would secure stability.
The government closes doors. The market, incredibly and fortuitously, keeps opening them.
Capitalism delivers the goods, and it does so in abundance. Interventionist alternatives do not.
The choice at base, therefore, is whether the world shall go back to the principle of freedom (not necessarily the conditions) of pre-1914, which unhappily no one under forty years of age remembers, or on to closer confinement in captivity as the socialistic system develops.
Only these four steps, although drastic, will restore a fully free market in medical provision.
"The protectionists speak of trade with the contempt of feudal nobles, but on examination it appears that they have something to sell, and that they mean to denounce trade with their rivals."
The purpose of the Property and Freedom Society is to promote the scientific debate of the politically relevant questions of our time without regard to the concerns of party politics.
