Complexity is the lie that sustains the State

Early American history is full of clear thinkers who offered simple solutions to societal problems. Only since fashionable, but wrong, European ideas began to make their way into America did a pernicious myth begin – the myth that small-government types naively neglect the “complexities” of life.

This is the sort of mentality that makes the average person trust people like Ben Bernanke or Hank Paulson; they think they have some special insight into how to centrally plan an economy because, after all, they must understand the complexities of stabilization policy. In reality, there is a simple solution to most of our problems: "Freedom".

The common sense of mankind has been confounded by the notion that we need tens of thousands of pages of legislation, and just as many bureaucrats running our life, because the modern world is supposedly just “too complex”. It is high time that this myth was debunked.