Ep. 1338 Society Needs the State Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I explore the history of the idea that society can more or less run itself, that there are certain observable regularities in our relationships with one another, particularly in commerce, that cannot be interfered with without negative consequences, and do not actually need to be interfered with in the first place.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1338. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:35.4 | My link is Ron Paul homeschool.com. Hey Hey everybody, it's Tom Woods, and in this episode, |
| 0:42.7 | I'm reproducing an interview I did on a podcast called Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:49.8 | Andrew Heaton has been a guest on this program, and he is a stand-up comedian, very funny guy, great guy. |
| 0:56.6 | He's had a segment for a long time with Reason TV called Mostly Weekly. |
| 1:01.0 | And right now, he's got a great gig over at The Blaze. |
| 1:04.5 | Theblaze.com is the host of his podcast, which is Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 1:12.9 | And he's just a great host. He's an interesting guy. He's a fun guy. He's a little bit more, shall we say, middle of the road |
| 1:17.8 | libertarian than I am, but he's such a charming and wonderful fellow that, well, I can overlook that. |
| 1:24.4 | So we had a nice conversation. He wanted to talk about the development of the |
| 1:28.1 | idea that society is not just a random series of events, but that there are certain |
| 1:34.1 | regularities to it, that there's a sense in which it runs itself, it's self-regulating. |
| 1:40.1 | And sometimes this is referred to as spontaneous order. I'm not a huge fan of that expression. I'm not quite sure why. Something about it makes me crazy. But that's the general topic that we were unpacking and we had a very good time doing it. So that's what you're about to hear right here. And if you like what you hear, check out Andrew's podcast over at the blaze.com, or of course, you can just find it on iTunes. |
| 2:02.4 | Just type in Something's Off, and Something's Off with Andrew Heaton will pop right up. Here we go. |
| 2:08.5 | Tom, thank you for joining me. Always a pleasure to talk to you, Andrew. Yeah. So I want to apologize to you and the listeners in advance in that I think you are a walking |
| 2:17.9 | encyclopedia of history from what I can tell. I don't think I can catch up with you at any |
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