This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, February 22nd, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Making the case for individual liberty often requires having philosophical discussions that are at the same

time real to people. Few people have done this more effectively than Bob Chedister, producer

of Milton Friedman's famous Free to Choose series.

We spoke this weekend in Chicago about increasing the impact of libertarian ideas through storytelling.

Being a libertarian or is someone who is well versed in a lot of, let's just say even the basic standard

neoclassical economics, if you're trying to make an appeal to someone, there are layers of thinking that sometimes that you have to engage in.

It's not just, hey, that guy's beaten up that other guy.

He should stop beating up that other guy. That's a very simple other guy, he should stop beating up that other guy.

That's a very simple solution to what, you know, on the surface is a very simple problem

and probably is a very simple problem.

But the bottom line is that communicating ideas that are libertarian or economically free market

require those stages of thinking, but translating that into something that is video. It's often a very daunting task. How have you looked

at that task? First of all it starts with who I am and I prefer to use the phrase individualist rather than

Libertarian as a descriptive and why because I think that is a way to describing a worldview that is not based on

scholarship etc and it's it's one that I think I can relate to many many people who don't think

about ideas but who are very moved by the fact that they essentially want to control their own lives.

Or they've not understood and given thought to the actions that they take in the political arena as

citizens that just drip, drip, drip, incrementally, erode their decision rights.

And then the question is, if you start from that point of view, how do you best

then reach those people and that is to show them a story that

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