Cooper Koch Quotes

It’s important to understand that while libertarian philosophy may have been regarded as a fringe movement in American politics, epitomized by Ron Paul followers, it has become the mainstream economic philosophy for both Silicon Valley and the Republican Party, thanks to the Koch brothers. The libertarian belief that the supremacy of the free market is the natural order of things is in reality nothing more than an “imagined order,” which the historian Yuval Noah Harari defines in his book Sapiens as the shared myths we use to induce cooperation. “In order to safeguard an imagined order,” Harari writes, “continuous and strenuous efforts are imperative.” Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” is no more a law of nature or physics than Moses’s Ten Commandments.

cooperation is the highest from of self-interest.

Robert Koch pronounced that plague always retreats before the advance of civilization. The second claim was that, even in the Orient, scientific understanding of the disease would enable colonial authorities to exterminate it—if only the uneducated natives would cooperate.