Also, just a warning, trying to get through The Communist Manifesto is hell when you’re a libertarian. It’s like Alex in A Clockwork Orange when he’s listening to Beethoven after they changed him to hate it.
Haha you need to detach yourself from your views. Not saying that it always works but put yourself in their mindset. What is that word that Mises used that was meant to transfer the views of the past with your own. I forget how to spell it.
Not verstehen?
systematic interpretive process in which an outside observer of a culture attempts to relate to it and understand others.(Wikipedia article on Verstehen)
Yes that! Thank you. Verstehen is what historians should practice. Relating to the surroundings of their topic.
Yeah, I guess I should attempt to be a little bit more open-minded. In fact, not so long ago I found a good video where Penn Jillette is describing this very same thing.
Problem is, I have such a hard time reading and viewing statist crap that I find to be lies. Not sure if I can pull off that flexible demeanor. I literally shut the door and put on my computer headset when my parents are watching the news.
No way, Metal. I disagree. I just don’t see the usefulness in constantly walking around forcing myself to believe that “maybe I’m wrong about slavery”, or “maybe printing money doesn’t make it worth less”, just for the sake remaining perpetually “open minded”. It’s nonsense.
I responded to that Penn Jillette clip here, but even better, I had a pretty lengthy discussion with Neodoxy on this very subject. You can find it here:
from John James’ “greatest hits”:
For a short response, you can just listen to this passage. But I think that discussion in that thread is pretty informative.
Why do I feel like I’ve just had a little bit of sense slapped back in to me that I lost?
You got John James’d
I told my friend to read the revolution ( i let him borrow it), when he finishes, then ill give him econ in 1 lesson for him to carry off to college.
I like how you slipped in “JJ’s greatest hits”
Yeah you might notice I’ve started throwing in links to the various meta threads when I link to something included there. If it gets more exposure to the resources, I figure why not. More people will go and see what’s collected there and probably learn more than they otherwise would have without the link included.
Wouldn’t that be Nicht Verstehen?
Ahh yes, I’m afraid I’m still ein Junge concerning the wide world of German.