It is so funny that you should ask what I meant by the 18th century liberal superstition that natural forces were going to take care of things, that things would just magically work themselves out with something akin to Newtonian laws of gravity and force. As if an American liberal would not have one of those on the tip of their tongue to mock, the idea that human markets were regulated and ruled by "an unseen hand" which would embody all economic wisdom if only allowed to work without human intervention is just one of those imaginary entities. That all of the workings of that "unseen hand" were a product of human intention, of intentional acts no more guaranteed to be wise or good or even rational than attempts to regulate economic activity for the common good doesn't seem to be considered.
And if that weren't as perfect an example as any, Marx applied Hegel's imaginary and absurd dialectic, a progressive force which would work out the unseen physics of economics to its deterministic and ordained end, certainly no less flaky an idea as applied to the product of human intention and agency.
And in terms of yesterday's piece, there is the slogan "more speech" invented within the entirely interested media industry and its hired hacks in the legal profession. It is a slogan which ignores several pertinent issues, first is that an interested lie told by wealthy people through the media they own has a built in "more speech" feature due to the multiplication of power that, especially broadcast media and its marketing enjoys.
That feature was there in print and it was often used to malignant ends but the medium had nothing like the same power as Television, radio and the movies in ease of spreading false information and malign influence. So the owners of the media already enjoy much more "more speech" than people without access to those resources. When they already have that "more speech" that which is allegedly available to individual truth tellers who don't own the media is a fantasy that some hack writer might write a syrupy, heart-warming movie script about, it doesn't exist in effective reality so as to overcome the lies.
To merely mouth the slogan "more speech" to those so dis-enabled is entirely inadequate because, though arguably real and there for the wealthy owners of media and their hired scribblers and babblers, it is certainly a force so feeble among those who are not so enabled economically as to be non-existent . That disenablement is exactly due to the same inequality in wealth that makes it so much more likely that the rich will lie to their benefit and the dispossession of the large majority of people.
That is how the media created, sold and imposed Donald Trump on us and how it is thwarting the aspirations of Hillary Clinton who is the victim of one of the most extensive and successful lie campaigns mounted by the great free press of the United States. The first great lie campaign by them, against the Kennedy family, was only a prelude to their massive and unrestrained lie campaign against the Clintons. As compared to the private activities of the younger Ted Kennedy and, certainly, Donald Trump throughout his life, the behavior of Hillary Clinton is a quintessential and selfless record of public service. And she's the one the free press have been making their most unrestrained and concerted effort to destroy for the past quarter of a century. There is no more amount of "more speech" that can overcome that kind of effort by a media which can lie with impunity. Even for someone who became - so late in life - as wealthy as the Clintons couldn't possibly counter it The lavishness of the lies the free press has passed on and magnified on behalf of the worst, most incompetent, most dangerous person to ever be within reach of the American presidency makes that "more speech" line the most superstitious of all of those products of secularist magical thinking.
Update: There's nothing hard about this. Your feeble little "more speech" in answer to massive media lies is one voice as opposed to their blanket coverage of the national attention. And your more speech can be responded to by their "more more speech". Even your "more, more, more, more, more, more, more...." speech will be swamped by their ever more, ever louder, ever more multiplied speech into an effective infinity of power for them. Supreme Court justices speaking from the bench might mistake their "more speech" as the same thing available to real people in real life but that's only a demonstration of how prone to becoming out of touch to the lives of the poor and powerless you can get from sitting on that anti-democratic Olympus. The "free speech-free press" hacks and lawyers are lying about this, they always have been but it's undeniable, today. They know who pays them.
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