I was recently reminded that Milton Friedman -- profit, err, prophet of Freedom Markets™ -- actively eschewed empiricism. It's not that these sages didn't unde

I was recently reminded that Milton Friedman -- profit, err, prophet of Freedom Markets™ -- actively eschewed empiricism. It's not that these sages didn't understand. They refused. They actively rejected understanding. Our epistemological crisis, where we don't even have a shared reality, has ancient roots.