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 In the article "Not Knowing How Chocolate Milk Is Made Won't Cause Starvation, But Socialism Might," the author writes - "Seven percent of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the Innovation Center for US Dairy. ...On April Fool’s Day, 1957, the BBC broadcasted 'a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland,' as Hoaxes.org states. The 'documentary' explained that the bumper crop was due to 'an unusually mild winter and to the virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.'" And many Brits believed it! This may seem ridiculous - it cracked me up - but it illustrates how little we need to know to be able to function in a well-ordered society. I've been playing and working with computers and programming since I was a kid - for over 60 years now - but I'm constantly amazed at how little I know about this vast industry of producing PCs, printers, smartphones, operating systems, apps, and the ever-increasing mountains of data being produced every day by almost everyone: e-news magazines, blogs, music, videos, TV shows and movies. There's no way we can keep up with it all! On the other hand, if a society is disordered by an iron fist that thinks it can control everything (for example, Venezuela or the USSR), that society fairly quickly becomes impoverished and falls apart. I lived in the USSR during the last several months of its existence, and witnessed the empty grocery stores with long lines of people in front, waiting for the stores to open so they could grab up the daily allotment of bread or milk. Then just one year after the USSR dissolved, free markets had sprung up and there was plenty of food in all the stores. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |