I highly recommend it to anyone interested in mainstream libertarian thought. There’s the original 1980 PBS series, and the 1990 update introduced by Arnold Schwarzenegger. At the end of each episode is a debate with people who have opposing viewpoints.
This is a highly influential series, and it’s worth watching even if you disagree with it, so you can at least understand the position of the other side.
I wasn’t intending to spam anything. Libertarianism is a common topic of discussion in Great Debates, and this is one of the more important Libertarian works. Linking to it is no different than if someone linked to the works of Galbraith or Keynes. Or a documentary on climate change.
And I posted the thread expecting there might be some debate over the material.
I don’t see how this is any different than past posts where somebody provided a link to a YouTube video and said “watch this”. Sam isn’t selling anything.
Thanks Sam. I have read Friedman, but never saw these shows. It will be good to watch over the semester break. (Og knows I wont have the time after that!)
I think this is appropriate for the Dope, just dont know which forum though.
Whenever I read Friedman, his notion of “freedom” always seemed exceptionally limited to me. Just like Von Mises, he didn’t appear to take any account of cognitive science in his near-spiritual belief in the mechanics of human decision-making (though maybe I didn’t read carefully enough), and the “freedom” to literally die because someone else “owns” that which you depend on for survival doesn’t sound particularly free to my libertarian-socialist ears at all. In fact, it sounds more like slavery.
