{"id":4088,"date":"2019-09-01T19:54:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2019-09-01T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:54:59","slug":"i-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4088","title":{"rendered":"I, Pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/i-pencil\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/encil.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An essay from 1964 that I just became aware of. This shows how inferior a command and control socialist\/communist economy is to freedom and free markets. All illustrated by a simple pencil\u2026 which isn&#8217;t really as simple a product as you might think.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The above is what I meant when writing, &#8220;If you can become aware of the miraculousness that I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing.&#8221; For, if one is aware that these know-hows will naturally, yes, automatically, arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand \u2014 that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive masterminding \u2014 then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free people. Freedom is impossible without this faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/i-pencil\">I, Pencil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay from 1964 that I just became aware of. This shows how inferior a command and control socialist\/communist economy is to freedom and free markets. All illustrated by a simple pencil\u2026 which isn&#8217;t really as simple a product as you might think. The above is what I meant when writing, &#8220;If you can become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4088\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I, Pencil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}