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And beliefs that an open society, free flow of information and free market economics are good things are of course highly political and strongly ideological. Th
by r_hoods_ghost 4y ago
And beliefs that an open society, free flow of information and free market economics are good things are of course highly political and strongly ideological. They are just largely uncontested (at least amongst the types of people who read hn)
- mytailorisrich 4y ago> They are just largely uncontested I think this has a lot to do with the fact that the alternatives that have been tried have historically been either failures or catastrophes.
- andrepd 4y agoSo much to be said about that trope... Are there seriously people who still believe in TINA? What a bleak way to see the world.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoI'm curious about what alternative you have in mind if you think that living in an open and free society is bleak.
- andrepd 4y agoBut I don't think that the current society is open and free. It is open-er and freer than what it replaced. It is also open-er and freer than some proposed alternatives. It is not the best, most open, and most free society that could ever be conceived. I don't like political arguments on hn but if you're truly interested I can try to summarise them when I get home later.