Arch-conservatives and utopian socialists make the same mistake. They have a vision for society; people are tools for carrying it out. There are exactly three known cures: (i) suffering under the boot, (ii) Hayek '45 — and (iii) this curious little poem by D. Friedman.

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(The Friedman poem is the epigram to Part 1 of The Machinery of Freedom. I first found this when I was 17 or so, and despite leaving anarchy-capitalism long ago, the poem and its main point have stuck with me.)