A couple of entries ago, I said: Yet in spite of all of it; ALL of it, the average guy all over the world is far better off than he was 10 years ago, or 20, or 100, or 1000, or 5,000. In spite of all the evil, we do better and better. As an individual, the chances are ever greater that you will live a longer and more prosperous life than anyone who has come before you, and the father back you go to compare, the greater the chances and the greater the disparity. Today, Billy says: Nevermind the conceptual basis of freedom for protests that people ought to be left alone to attend their own affairs without the forcible interference of various imperiots. You're living better than a hundred or a thousand years ago, and all the Web-order catalogs prove it: you're free to buy anything you want with the productivity that you are permitted to dispose, and that's the thing that counts. John Maynard Keynes always had the right idea. So let me clarify, because if it wasn’t clear to Beck, then it likely wasn’t clear. Whether or not I’ve forgotten everything I ever learned from Hayek,...