Even a Bankrupt Market Economy Is Ten Thousand Times Better Than a Perfect Planned Economy

2006/2/25 12:53:45

A market economy has crises and can even go bankrupt, but even a bankrupt market economy is ten thousand times better than a perfect planned economy. Liberalism plus market economy, and collectivism plus planned economy — these are the two greatest tumors and lies that human society can possibly produce, and the latter is worse than the former.

Human society has always been composed of lies; history is the orgy of infinite falsehoods. The lies of a market economy may be detestable, but they are merely one kind of worldly lie, whereas the lies of a planned economy come from a self-gratifying heaven. The cowards of market economy surrender themselves to the invisible hand, while the madmen of planned economy demand to anoint themselves as God or Christ.

Economics is like debauchery — free debauchery and planned debauchery are still debauchery in the end. But planned economy adds a tedious sense of purpose to the debauchery, like trying to prove that copulation is solely for reproduction. To extend the metaphor further: market economy believes that sex, beyond reproduction, is more importantly for pleasure, while planned economy only believes in sex related to reproduction. Yet sex is just sex — nothing more than a trashy, cookie-cutter article written in a string of irregular brainwaves as code and a string of chaotic body language.

A market economy is full of hypocrisy and cunning, and needs blue pills whose effects are known only to the user. But it is at least more honest than a planned economy, because it at least hasn't fantasized itself into God. The honesty of a planned economy, on the other hand, is the greatest hypocrisy and cunning of all — a manually manufactured debauchery, as detestable as God himself. But moral judgment is tiresome. For a market economy, its bankruptcy merely represents the imperfection of the human world. But whether establishing or going bankrupt, the very existence of a planned economy — even its mere conceptual existence — proclaims all the original sins of humanity, representing all of mankind's arrogance, stupidity, and ignorance.