Ok...Is my ideas presented coherently? If not, where does it sound funny?
In the library, a friend insisted on me to read "Road to Serfdom", an "influential classical liberalism work by Hayek that is definitely mind-opening". When I opened the book, I was immediately engrossed. It was different from all the works about politics I had read previously. The theory of Hayek was not completely alien to me--many ideas I encountered before have their roots in his theory. What I find astonishing and engaging in this book was the amazing power of "systematic". I have always been interested in politics and love to read political editorials, attracted by their strong views and simple, yet, convincing arguments. But now I find them less attractive and far less convincing, because their length limits them from fully developing the idea. But the book on my lap, with a systematic structure, was able to expand the theory into almost all aspects of economic life and point out insightful facts from numerous angles to support the main theory. I recalled the various problems I encountered because of understanding politics merely through reading editorials: every editorial I read seemed equally convincing to me; when I talked about politics I quoted ideas from articles I read instead of forming my own; I cannot find flaws in those seemingly reasonable arguments even if I disagree with them. Suddenly it dawned on me: all these problems occurred because my understanding on politics is a collection of scattered thoughts accumulated from all the articles I read, while the mind of a true intellectual, like Hayek, should be a powerful systematic whole.
In the library, a friend insisted on me to read "Road to Serfdom", an "influential classical liberalism work by Hayek that is definitely mind-opening". When I opened the book, I was immediately engrossed. It was different from all the works about politics I had read previously. The theory of Hayek was not completely alien to me--many ideas I encountered before have their roots in his theory. What I find astonishing and engaging in this book was the amazing power of "systematic". I have always been interested in politics and love to read political editorials, attracted by their strong views and simple, yet, convincing arguments. But now I find them less attractive and far less convincing, because their length limits them from fully developing the idea. But the book on my lap, with a systematic structure, was able to expand the theory into almost all aspects of economic life and point out insightful facts from numerous angles to support the main theory. I recalled the various problems I encountered because of understanding politics merely through reading editorials: every editorial I read seemed equally convincing to me; when I talked about politics I quoted ideas from articles I read instead of forming my own; I cannot find flaws in those seemingly reasonable arguments even if I disagree with them. Suddenly it dawned on me: all these problems occurred because my understanding on politics is a collection of scattered thoughts accumulated from all the articles I read, while the mind of a true intellectual, like Hayek, should be a powerful systematic whole.
