It is about panicking the American people into taking the next step on the road to serfdom.
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Hayek wrote a best-selling polemic railing against economic planning, The Road to Serfdom, shortly after World War II.
Paraphrasing Frederick Hayek, this constitution is nothing but the road to serfdom.
Seven decades have passed since The Road to Serfdom was published.
If you've heard Hayek's name, it will have been as Keynes' arch enemy - the "Austrian" economist who wrote the Road to Serfdom and believed that markets should be as free as humanly possible.
Some recommendations: The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek, The Way the World Works by Jude Wanniski, yours truly's Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS, and the recent columns of Brian Wesbury and Robert Stein, as well as those of David Malpass.
Mr. Mamet rattles off the works that affected him most: "White Guilt" by Shelby Steele, "Ethnic America" by Thomas Sowell, "The Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War" by Wilfred Trotter, "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek, "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman, and "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill.
The road to digital serfdom is paved in good intentions, of course, or at least mundane intentions.
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He shows how Statism is a sure road not just to serfdom but to misery.
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From this, it can easily be seen how difficult it is to say with assurance whether we are on the road to recovery or on a path to serfdom.
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