Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Obama effect

Hope and change is working. Take it from me. Every bookshop now has posters of Ayn Rand and copies of "Atlas Shrugged", a staggeringly dull novel, well displayed. (A tip to those who do not know: read Rand's essays. They are shorter and the ideas with which one cannot quarrel, are more pithy and coherent.)

Of course, the fact that we have three socialist main-stream parties in this country helps.

Now we have news that Friedrich Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" is selling like hotcakes. Heh!

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for introducing me to the cartoon version, Helen:

    http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2007/06/political-thought-in-cartoons.html

    And who's written a book called "A New Road To Serfdom: A Warning to America"? Why, Daniel Hannan:

    http://www.amazon.com/New-Road-Serfdom-Warning-America/dp/0061956937

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  2. Daniel Hannan would do better to concentrate on what is going on here and the fact that his party has no solutions to our own "serfdom".

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