March 05, 2004
The Not So Wild Wild West: "hard work, trade, tedium, and peace"
Brian Micklethwait today on Samizdata comments on the myth of the "Wild West" that some of us have for years known as a myth:
One of the most potent anti-liberty memes has been that simple phrase, the "Wild West". Wild as in lawless, violent, murderous. And one of the most potent pro-liberty memes is therefore, if only because it negates the first meme, the fact that the Wild West was, in the words of a famous Journal of Libertarian Studies article by Terry Anderson, the Not So Wild Wild West.
This anti-"Wild West" meme deserves wider propagation.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at March 5, 2004 01:09 PM | TrackBackComments
http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=1449&id=66
Did you seee this article on the Ludwig von Mises site? It's not by Terry Anderson. Maybe LVMI just really likes the peaceful, hard working West.
Curt-
Posted by: Curt Howland on March 5, 2004 03:32 PMPost a comment
