THE MESSAGING IS ALSO IMPORTANT.

Robertas Bakula laments, "If only there were Ayn Rand…"

We'd believe you, if perhaps you didn't shout so much.

“Near total lack of empirical lived experience with socialism’s manifest defects,” [Duke's Michael "Kids Prefer Cheese"] Munger points out, contributes to the rising interest in socialism. Imagine if that same thinker, having suffered socialism herself, could convey the horrific experience of living (or more precisely, slowly dying) under socialism to those who, hopefully, would never have to? She could, say, write a novel, a tool humanity invented to immortalize stories and experiences.

I don't know, maybe introducing youngsters to The Theory of Moral Sentiments or Anarchy, State, and Utopia might get the work done without the fireworks, or, to build on the preceding post, alienating the people who might otherwise be won over.