And Don Boudreaux clarifies any confusion someone might have about what he meant. Who on this board is an “inferior man?” I won’t name names but I can think of a couple. Being truly free can be paralyzingly terrifying to the inferior man. At least that’s how Mencken saw it. Me, too.
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Tweet… is from pages 53-54 of the 2009 edition of the incomparable H.L. Mencken’s 1926 book, Notes on Democracy: The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man’s mind. He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of […]
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