Economist

Today, after being out of the field for a week and a half, we finally found a field that had dried up enough to continue planting.  So, we planted that one field and then had to quit because every other field is still too wet.  And its supposed to rain again tomorrow! 

My major in college was Agricultural Economics.  Therefore, I had to take a lot of economics classes (both ag and general) to fulfill the requirements.  I have recently seen some quotes on social media from one of my favorite economists.  Thomas Sowell is an economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author.

Here are some of my favorite Thomas Sowell quotes:

 

 "The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'."

“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” 

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” 

“Intellect is not wisdom.” 

“Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?” 

“Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?” 

“For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.” 

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

 The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

 
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

 As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

 Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

 What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

 Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

 One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.   Deuteronomy 4:6