Ben Darrington, the Yale Austrian who won the 2007 Douglas E. French Prize, was recently quoted in Time:
“He’s [Ron Paul] about something that American nerd culture can get on board with: really knowing one subject and going all out on it,” says Ben Darrington, a Ron Paul supporter at Yale. “For some people, it’s Star Wars. For some people, it’s Japanese cartoons. For Ron Paul, it’s free-market commodity money.”
He might as well have been talking about Austrian economics in general.
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Too bad the rest of the article was the same biased, statist crap from Time.
The column was full of cheap shots. It’s an old strategy: if you can’t discredit an idea, then you take potshots at the people who support it.
Basically, collectivist thinking is afraid of a campaign that is being waged for individual liberty.
The article is an example of the typical flatulence to come out of the mainstream media. Even the quoted statement was meant, I think, by the author to be an insult. It was an attempt to trivialize and discredit free market economics by comparing it to Star Wars and Japanese cartoons.
Is Time in the habit of being derisive and snide?
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