Self-interest is not same as self-INDULGENCE as of satanism....

Below-copied by ap first submitted at comments, http://www.unz.com/article/french-de.../#new_comments

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Smith's "Invisible Hand" Refers To Natural Harmony Of Rationalism, Rule-Of-Law
(Apollonian, 13 Jan 19)

As I understand, the "invisible hand" of Smith meant that within the free market (Smith was against mercantilism, w. it's tariffs and monopolies, etc.)--remember a market w. genuine RULE-OF-LAW working, in accord w. freedom and sanctity of contract--the participants all working for their self-interest would yet prosper one another "as if by an invisible hand"--such is the proper context and understanding of Smith and "invisible hand."

Note earlier, Bernard Mandeville (1705) wrote his "The Grumbling Hive" which similarly posed a thriving economy by means of participants all working for their simple self-interest, BUT in a rationalist fashion, governed by rule-of-law.

And even earlier, both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke posed the larger political system governed by RATIONAL self-interest, their pt. being we're all necessarily self-interested by nature, the thing now to being is most rationalistic in accord therewith, hence the rationalist social-contract.

What thou art totally over-looking about Crowley is he pushed a gross self-INDULGENCE in DIS-REGARD for reason and rule-of-law, there being no rationalist rule-of-law for Crowley--total SUBJECTIVISM--whereas the aforementioned Englishmen (Smith fm Scotland) presumed the objective reality.
Thy problem is whether Crowley's ignoring reason and rule-of-law is really in harmony and accord w. self-interest; thou are confusing self-interest w. irrational self-indulgence--typical of subjectivists, subjectivism, and satanism.


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# 140, Heros says:
January 13, 2019 at 3:37 pm GMT • 100 Words
@Wally

Tim Kelly and Joe Atwell recently made a podcast about this:

The Free Trade Myth
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/t...11_48_31-08_00

They conclude that Adam Smith was a freemason, and that all this “Magic Hand” of “free trade” is really just a precursor to Crowley’s “Do what thou wilt”.