Crippled thinking

Here’s a nice turn of phrase I ran across: crippled epistemology. I like it because it so nicely encapsulates Randianism. People become embedded in tightly controlled feedback loops, and suffer from information starvation.

Randianism/libertarianism (they echo one another) yield negative results when implemented. That’s abundantly clear. The fallback response is that the implementation was imperfect, in other words, not enough. So some years back when electrical deregulation produced a catastrophe in California, we were told that deregulation was not done properly. That’s all. Also note that even though tax cuts* are said to produce jobs by putting money in the hands of “job creators” (a PR term if ever one was dreamed up), current unemployment is reaching depression era proportions.

These people firmly believe that once implemented, their proscribed philosophy will yield positive outcomes. Evidence does not sway them. That’s not only defined insanity, but also religious faith.
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*I suspect one reason why the wealthy (and their intellectual stooges) so vigorously oppose even a modest tax increase from 35% to 39.6% is the Clinton lesson, when a tax hike preceded a robust expansion. That is evidence that taxes have far less impact on economic growth than we’re led to believe. Ergo, no tax hike of any sort is allowed, as it might again defeat their flimsy philosophy.