The Wizards of Ozymandias

Index

Adams, Henry, 231

Albright, Madeleine, 87, 212

al-Qaeda, 149, 166

Amish, 228, 274–77

Anarchy, 57, 225–34, 274

Appleton, Josie, 250

Articles of Confederation, 259–60

Ashton, T.S., 247

Assange, Julian, 52, 105, 223–24, 255

Assassination, presidential authority to order, 9, 26, 56, 87, 145, 166–68, 211, 256–57, 267

Automobile industry, 4, 6, 26–27, 94, 98, 188

Beard, Charles, 118

Berger, Fred, 128

Bierce, Ambrose, 209

Bin Laden, Osama, 55, 165–69, 201

Boulding, Kenneth, 67

Bourne, Randolph, 71–72, 77, 118, 121

Burckhardt, Jacob, 13

Burke, Edmund, 161

Bush, George W., 40, 44–46, 53, 55, 71–72, 76, 87–88, 124, 138, 159–63, 182, 186–87, 194–95, 211, 274

Butler, Smedley, 121

Campbell, Joseph, 82

Capra, Frank, 124

“Carbon footprint,” 177, 247–51

Carlin, George, 67, 176, 178, 243, 255

Carroll, Lewis, 254–55

Chandler, Alfred, 27–28

Chaos/complexity, xvi–xviii, 8–11, 27, 34–36, 94–95, 108, 138, 148, 181–84, 188, 200, 229, 259–63, 265

Churchill, Winston, 156

Civilizations

created by, xxiv, 3, 266,

defined, 2,

destroyed by, xxiv, 16, 147, 199, 266

Civil War, American, 61, 69–70, 76, 122, 124, 204

Clastres, Pierre, 262

Clinton, Hillary, 94, 189, 236, 255

Clinton, William, 43, 46, 159, 206, 262

Cohan, George M., 124

Cold War, 71, 124, 131, 166

Collective unconscious, 221, 269n

Collectivism, xxiv–xxv, 3, 13, 16–17, 25, 36–41, 47, 50, 52, 57, 80–81, 99–100, 118, 121, 196, 205–09, 266, 268–69, 273

Common good, 37–40

Constitution, 24, 26, 46, 55–57, 109, 131, 161–62, 168, 182, 203, 254–56

“Bill of Rights,” 26, 55–56, 256

cummings, e.e., 38–39

Cutting-and-filling of rivers, xxiii, 92, 269

Dark-side forces, xxiv, 13, 50, 59, 62, 87, 114–15, 125, 149–50, 159, 245, 268–69

Decentralization, 7–10, 34, 66, 95, 103–05, 135, 168, 187, 199–201, 211, 220–24, 241–43, 255, 269

Declaration of Independence, 24, 69, 157, 161–62

Defense, Department of (Pentagon), 71, 82, 152, 174, 183

DeJasay, Anthony, 57

DeMille, Cecil B., 153

Discrimination, 191–96

Disney, Walt, 124

DNA, 10, 14, 92, 177, 278

Durant, Ariel, 4, 6

Durant, Will, xv, 4, 6

Ebadi, Shirin, 219, 224

The Economist, 134, 136

Egalitarianism/equality, 38–39, 146, 167, 205–06

Einstein, Albert, xix, xxv, 127, 132, 134

Electrical power, 171, 242–44

Eliot, T.S., ix, 139

Ellul, Jacques, 91, 215, 243–45

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, xix–xx, 138

Enlightenment, the, 249, 270

Entertainment, 75, 78, 121–25, 153, 248, 254

Entropy, 2, 6, 10–19, 50, 81, 177, 260

Environmentalism, 66, 110, 112–15, 122, 156, 175–78, 248–51

Federal Reserve Board, 40, 108, 127, 129, 138, 172, 182, 223, 244, 249

Fleming, Harold, 97

Foucault, Michel, 122

“Founding Fathers,” 156, 161, 166, 168

Frankl, Viktor, 271

Free expression, 46–47, 56, 103, 222

“Free rider” question, 267

Frontier, xxii–xxv, 218, 228

Fukuyama, Francis, 152

Gandhi, Mohandas, 91, 156

Geithner, Timothy, 172–73

Goebbels, Joseph, 221, 223

Goldman, Emma, 130, 223

Goleman, Daniel, 253

Gore, Al, 111–14, 122, 133, 175n2, 212, 250

Government

contracting, 98

defined, 54, 102–03, 109, 129, 132, 153, 201

licensing, 50, 94–95, 198, 227

research and development, 80, 98, 198

subsidies, 3–4, 30–31, 65, 76, 87, 98–99, 108, 115, 129, 172, 184, 198, 210, 216–17, 268

“Great Depression,” 25, 99, 145

Greenspan, Alan, 138

Guantanamo, 101, 168

Gutenberg, Johann, xix, 94, 189, 213, 249, 255, 270

Hayek, Friedrich, xxi, 153

Heaney, Seamus, 68

Hitler, Adolf, 99, 124, 142, 155–58, 205

Hobbes, Thomas, 131, 149–50

Holographic/holistic systems, xxii, 7, 134–36, 179

Homeland Security, Department of, 43, 71, 163, 236, 238

Horizontal networks, 7, 34–36, 67, 179, 187–89, 198–201, 211, 219, 222, 241, 260, 268

Hussein, Saddam, 149, 166, 201

Illich, Ivan, 81

Industrial Revolution, xx, xxiv, 2, 10, 13, 23, 114, 135, 201, 247–49, 270, 274–75

Instruments of expansion, 5, 97–99, 199, 268–70

Inquisitions, 55, 95

Internet, 7, 9, 44, 52, 56, 67, 94, 98, 101–05, 120, 174, 186–89, 199–200, 213, 219, 222–24, 242, 255

“Invisible hand,” 99, 128

Iron Mountain, Report From, 113–14, 248

Jones, Alex, 186, 189

Jung, Carl, 8, 17, 59–60, 101, 115, 221, 268–69

Kafka, Franz, 165, 224

Kant, Immanuel, 138

Kelvin, Lord, 185

Kierkegaard, Soren, 35

Kipling, Rudyard, 183, 250

Koestler, Arthur, xxii, 63, 196

Kohr, Leopold, xxi, xxv, 27, 28, 241–45

Kolko, Gabriel, 27

Korzybski, Alfred, 225, 273

Koyaanisqatsi, 245

Krugman, Paul, 115, 133

Kuhn, Thomas, 183–84

Laissez-faire, 8, 52, 99

Law, study of, xx–xxiii

Law Merchant, 54

LeBon, Gustave, 59, 115

LeFevre, Robert, 226

“Left-brain” and “right-brain”

functions, 50–52, 63–67, 131

Leprechauns, 276–77

Leviathan, 71, 157, 215, 260

Liberty, xviii, xx, xxiv, 3, 5–6, 19, 25, 40, 52, 65, 81, 94, 127–32, 203–05, 266, 273–74, 277

Lincoln, Abraham, 70–71, 173

Linear thinking, xvii–xviii, 50, 52, 64–67, 81, 86, 184, 222

Llewellyn, Karl, 39, 134

Lorenz, Konrad, xxii, 49

Lovelock, James, 175

Luddites, 114, 201, 224, 271ff.

MacCallum, Spencer, xi, 102

Machine-like people, ix, 86, 142, 232, 275–76

Maher, Bill, 195

Malraux, Andre, 148

Manning, Bradley, 105, 224

Marketplace, xvii, 8–12, 24, 26, 38, 54, 65, 94, 98, 100, 108, 177–78, 198, 200–01, 210–11, 266–68

Marxism, 15, 177, 206

Mayer, Milton, 148–49

McCain, John, 88, 137, 211

Melvill, Mike, 18–21

Mencken, H.L., xxv, 39, 140

Mergers, effect of, 28–30

Mises, Ludwig von, xxi, xxiii, xxv

Moglen, Eben, 224

Monderman, Hans, 232

Motion, Newton’s third law of, 151, 184, 216, 244

Mussolini, Benito, 99, 156

Napolitano, Andrew, 188

NASA, 18–20, 111–15

National Museum of Iraq, 216

Nazi Germany, 55–56, 114, 156–57, 271

New Deal, 70, 99, 108, 156, 274

Nobel Prize, ix, xi–xxii, xxv, 115, 133, 156, 219

Nuclear power, 242–44

Nuclear warfare, 55, 66, 76, 87–88, 121, 150, 195–96, 211, 256

Nullification, 103, 169, 219

Nuremberg Trials, 26, 211, 256

Obama, Barack, 4, 40, 67, 87–88, 109, 111, 137, 145–46, 166, 172–73, 182–83, 206, 211, 216, 256

Orwell, George, 27, 52, 73, 78, 171, 203, 256–57

Ozymandias, xiii

Paine, Tom, 159

Patriot Act, 43, 71, 157, 163

Paul, Ron, 40, 108, 120, 183–84, 223

Pavitt, James, 147–53

Place, power of, xix–xxiii, 62

Plato, 108, 182, 220, 224

Pollan, Michael, 177

Pound, Ezra, 69, 203

Pragmatism, 134, 220, 233, 261, 271, 278

Pratchett, Terry, 181, 229

Prisons, 45, 141, 168, 204

Proctor, Robert, 156

Projection/scapegoating, 59, 67, 86, 125, 131, 142, 149–50, 160, 163, 269, 275

Property ownership, 24–29, 37, 51, 61–66, 135–37, 177, 206–10, 227–30, 243, 259, 266–78

Quigley, Carroll, 4–5, 28, 99

Reformation, the, 114, 249

Reid, John Phillip, 228

Renaissance, xx, xxvi, 13, 20, 249, 269–70

Reno, Janet, 87, 272

Rothbard, Murray, 107, 271

Schools

government, 2, 4, 19, 66, 80–81, 119, 122, 149, 187, 191–92, 204, 210, 248, 254, 272

private, 7, 103, 199

Schumacher, E.F., 241

Schumpeter, Joseph, xxii, 28–29, 92, 98, 137, 207, 269

Scientific Revolution, 249, 270

Secession, 7, 43, 103, 155, 169, 200, 219, 260

Shakespeare, William, 142, 153, 192

Sheldrake, Rupert, 221

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, xiii, xvi

Sinnott, Edmund, 178

Size, effects of, 5–6, 18, 27–30, 65, 93, 200, 223, 226, 241–42, 244

Slavery, 24, 60–62, 70–71, 113, 173, 203–08

Social contract, 55, 161–63

Socialism, xxiv–xxv, 8, 15, 24, 39, 99, 123, 135, 137–38, 156–57, 176

Sony Corporation, 139–42

Soviet Union, 7, 24, 48, 55, 71–72, 99, 114, 148, 156, 166, 201, 212, 248, 260

Spiritual dimensions of life, x, xxvi, 3, 13, 18–20, 24, 50–52, 64–67, 80–82, 86, 110, 131, 138, 140, 234, 270, 271–78

Spontaneous order, 108, 177, 184, 199–200, 228–29, 236–39

Spooner, Lysander, 154, 169

Stalin, Joseph, 87, 156, 167, 204

Standardization, 4–6, 30, 47, 81, 95, 100, 155, 198, 274

Stewart, Jon, 114, 140, 188

Subjective nature of values, xix, 37–38, 167, 229, 254, 267

Suicide, 8, 45, 66–67, 79–82, 119–20, 141, 143, 173n, 181, 197

Sullenberger, Chesley, 236–39

Tainter, Joseph, 28, 267

Technological influences, ix, xvi, 5–7, 64, 98, 103–05, 120, 184, 219, 222–24, 242, 255, 270, 276

Terrorism, 7–9, 35, 40, 45, 56, 72, 76–78, 93, 101–02, 114, 118, 131–33, 142, 153, 201, 212, 248, 272

war against, 8, 45, 66, 72, 103–04, 124, 147–53, 195, 198–201, 211, 268

as “war to preserve institutional order,” 9, 10, 104, 255, 268

Thermodynamics, second law of, 12, 135

Thomas, Lewis, 179

Thoreau, Henry David, xx, 35

Tolstoy, Leo, 33

Torture, 9, 71, 86, 110, 135, 168, 211, 256, 267

Toynbee, Arnold, 4

TSA, 102–04

Turner, Frederick Jackson, xxii

Twain, Mark, 153, 251

Utilitarianism, 39–40, 266

Vertically-structured systems, 7–9, 34–36, 51, 66, 120, 179–81, 198, 201, 211, 220–22, 236, 241–42, 260, 268

Vonnegut, Kurt, 83

Voting, 127–28, 130, 156–57, 217, 223

Wang Wei-Lin, 272, 276

War as the “health of the state,” 71, 118

Watson, Thomas J., 242

Weil, Simone, 85

Whitehead, Alfred North, xxii, 23, 265

Wikileaks, 52, 85, 105, 186, 224, 255

Witch trials, 114–15, 176

Woods, Thomas, 183

World Trade Center, 4, 8, 35, 60–62, 122, 150–52, 195, 237

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 276

Zanuck, Darryl, 185

“Zero tolerance,” 191