http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/road_serfdom_five_minutes Comments for "The Road to Serfdom in Five Minutes" en http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/road_serfdom_five_minutes <p>Now, we may not be at the end of a war in the conventional sense in which national planning was necessary to keep up the war effort, but have a look at this and see how many of the captions can still be applied to today's political establishment and direction. It's quite scary really:</p> <p><embed bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="width=480&amp;height=392&amp;mediaId=10904&amp;affiliateId=0&amp;javascriptContext=true&amp;skinURL=http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/skins/Default_Raster.swf&amp;skinImgURL=http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/skins/night_skin.png&amp;actionBarSkinURL=http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/skins/DefaultNavBarSkin.swf&amp;resizeVideo=True" height="392" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" salign="TL" scale="noScale" src="http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" wmode="transparent"/><br />Courtesy of <a href="http://one.revver.com/watch/10904" target="_blank">revver.com</a> after F A Hayek &#38; Look magazine.</p> <p>Is T Blair the "strong leader" brought in to enforce obedience to the plan whom they thought they would one day be able to dispense with I wonder? </p> <p>Is there any evidence that the ability of "planners" (aka political leaders) to implement a plan has improved? </p> <p>Is there not a feeling growing more and more that a propaganda (aka "spin") machine is controlling the agenda we are allowed to hear?</p> http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/road_serfdom_five_minutes#comments economic liberalism libertarian miscellany political philosophy Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:44:30 +0000 Jock 32 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk