On a less sophisticated level than the argument against 'alienation' are the demands for 'liberation' from the burdens of civilisation - including the burdens of disciplined work, responsibility, risk-taking, saving, honesty, the honouring of promises, as well as the difficulties of curbing by general rules one's natural reactions of hostility to strangers and solidarity with those who are like oneself - an ever more severe threat to political liberty. Thus the notion of 'liberation', although allegedly new, is actually archaic in its demand for release from traditional morals. Those who champion such liberation would destroy the basis of freedom, and permit men to do what would irreparably break down those conditions that make civilisation possible. Everywhere, in the name of liberation, people disavow practices that enabled mankind to reach its present size and degree of cooperation because they do not rationally see, according to their lights, how certain limitations on individual freedom through legal and moral rules make possible a greater - and freer! - order than can be attained through centralised control.
F.A. Hayek
