235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Unconstrained Vision of Progressivism and Wokism
In the constrained vision, whatever artifices or digies restrain or ameliorate inherent human evils will themselves have cost some in the form of other social ills created by these civilizing institutions. In this unconstrained vision, there are no intractable reasons for social evils, and therefore no reason why they cannot be solved with sufficient moral ocommitment. The idea that a group, an oppressed group, should sit around waiting for others to get their act together first is isisis nonsensical. And it's also why he puts this emphasis on free market capitalism. Because among the various types of government, what free market capitalism does is at least put a price on discriminating against people
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