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リベラルの思想が、ベトナム戦争当時と変わっていないことを批判して、Arnold Kling の評論
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Stuck on 1968
By Arnold Kling : 27 Jan 2006
If 1968 were an influential thinker, it would have many disciples who share its folk
beliefs. Those folk beliefs are the mental security blanket still being clutched by my
liberal friends, even those who are not old enough to remember 1968.
1968年がリベラルの全盛期で、その時代にはリベラルでなければ知識人ではない
という雰囲気があふれていた。
1968年当時の政治・文化状況を説明し、あわせてミルトン・フリードマンの保守思想への
貢献について触れて：
In 1968, Friedman's views were far from the mainstream. When Paul Samuelson wrote an
article for the Canadian Journal of Economics on "What Classical and Neoclassical
Economic Theory Really Was," he sneered that for modern economists trying to understand
monetarism was like being a farmer who had lost his jackass and having to ask, "If I
were a jackass, where would I go?" In short, Samuelson considered Friedman a jackass.
しかし、そういうリベラル的状況は、今や完全に泡のように消えてしまった。今となっては：
I want to contrast the way the world might have appeared to a reasonable liberal in 1968
with the way events have unfolded since then. Afterwards, if you still prefer the folk
beliefs of 1968 to my views today, so be it. But at least you have an opportunity to
reconsider.
彼の言っている事は、極当たり前のことだけれど、アメリカでも、日本でも、1968型思想の
リベラルが考え方を変えるには、ずいぶんと時間が必要なのだろうと思える。
この評論は本格的で、マジなものなので、簡単に要約することはできない・・