I, Pencil

by Sarah Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2001 at 3:09 PM

Read "I, Pencil" by Leonard Read

To understand how humanity works cooperatively, without coercion, peacefully, without "loving" each other, maybe even hating each other, but they are able to make a pencil. But no one person knows how to make a pencil. We can't even explain how to make a pencil, yet we think we can allow a government bureaucrat to plan anything. Ask a bureaucrat to plan to make a pencil. They can't. They are stupid. So don't allow them to do or say anything to you. They are stupid. Bureaucrats are stupid. Governments are stupid, except for keeping the peace. Read Leonard Read's "I, Pencil" for more on this beauty of the human ecology.

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