Small Talk, Great Tea
A week ago we had a summer gathering of the Small Books, Great Ideas colleagues.
No books this time, only some ideas about the next edition of the seminar, to start this fall.
· 12 iulie 2007
A week ago we had a summer gathering of the Small Books, Great Ideas colleagues.
No books this time, only some ideas about the next edition of the seminar, to start this fall.
„What is contradictory in theory, is no less contradictory in reality. No ideological inconsistency can provide a satisfactory, i.e., working, solution for the problems offered by the facts of the world. The only effect of contradictory ideologies is to conceal the real problems and thus to prevent people from finding in time an appropriate policy for solving them. Inconsistent ideologies may sometimes postpone the emergence of a manifest conflict. But they certainly aggravate the evils which they mask and render a final solution more difficult. They multiply the agonies, they intensify the hatreds, and make peaceful settlement impossible. It is a serious blunder to consider ideological contradictions harmless or even beneficial.”
Ludwig von Mises : Human Action, p. 185