Quote Originally Posted by Oreka Bailoak View Post
A few things...


3) I learned that socialism is the best economic system; many of my English major/sociology major friends and history teachers were all socialists. When I finally majored in economics and read the data myself I found that large level socialism doesn't work economically long term and amazingly, based on the data, it also DOESN'T even work socially!

4) I learned that all people are the same. I thought that every difference between the races- be it unemployment rate, salary- could only be due to discrimination. Then in college my teacher wrote a book about discrimination showing that it's due to the fact that races are different not because of discrimination. This opened my eyes to books like 'Race Evolution and Behavior' 'Geography of Thought' 'The Bell Curve' "G-Factor' and books about race differences in personality. I now realize that race is unique and worth preserving (it's not at all incredibly variable like our society wants us to think, if race is detectable in genetics then it's detectable in the traits- be it mental or physical- that we have- it's who we are).
Yes these applied to me, though I suppose communism was more relevant than socialism. For example the idea of doing what you love, for an equal pay etc.

My school seemed to instil all the thoughts of the school of frankfurt. It was really just by coincidence I saw Milton Friedman's name which by extension sent me onto F.A. Hayek.

Interestingly enough F.A. Hayek admitted in an interview in 1985 he was a socialist until he began to study natural sciences.