Henwood's view of free choice

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

I was going to drop out of this discussion, and someone already said
something like what follows, but here goes.

Henwood wants people to be free to choose their behavior, ingestion,
consumption.  Splendid.  But this libertatian view is posited as if we
all had that freedom and only lefties of one stripe or another want to
impose behavior on others.

The world we live in doesn't give us choices of behavior.  Doug's
position simply is neo-classical economics about consumer behavior --
independent selection of what to buy and how to live.  We don't have
that independence, we are totally entwined, one with another.

We impose consumption on each other, and are in turn imposed upon.
Samuelson et. al. are full of shit.

Gene Coyle