I liked the opening paragraph as well:
On the most abstract level, I want to show how theory is indispensible [sic] in correctly interpreting history. History — the sequence of events unfolding in time — is "blind." It reveals nothing about causes and effects. We may agree, for instance, that feudal Europe was poor, that monarchical Europe was wealthier, and that democratic Europe is wealthier still, or that nineteenth-century America with its low taxes and few regulations was poor, while contemporary America with its high taxes and many regulations is rich. Yet was Europe poor because of feudalism, and did it grow richer because of monarchy and democracy? Or did Europe grow richer in spite of monarchy and democracy? Or are these phenomena unrelated?
Given that you quoted Hoppe's LewRockwell.com article touting his book (which I haven't read, but sounds very interesting), I'm not sure how you are interpreting the 68% drop out voting to leave and the 70% graduates voting to stay. It's difficult to support a political exp<b></b>ression favored by high school drop outs when one is trying to make a point in favor of something (most might say that dropouts voting to leave make it obvious that's a bad choice). I, though not a high school drop out, am in favor of the UK leaving the EU, as well as the other countries in time.
In fact, given the paragraph from Hoppe's article that I quoted (which I very fundamentally agree with), I would say that the college graduates have incorrectly analyzed the past, with meme filters that provide a blindness to reality of the historical data, and perhaps they feel that continuing with a political behemoth made up of disparate political and economic entities is a way to wealth as described over the past century or two (kind of like what Bush tried to do in Iraq, though the two examples are too different to really compare). Whereas I say it has all happened in spite of such restrictions on freedom.
I'm not sure why the dropouts would vote for leaving, aside from maybe a larger majority of them are "on the dole" and fear that the siphoning of money from the country towards the poorer of Europe's citizens might cause them problems, or perhaps they are truly xenophobic as a majority and bought into the problem with Muslim immigrants spreading throughout Europe, which has some very real aspects to it.
I do feel somewhat sure that most college graduates are probably taught nowadays that government = Good, bigger government = Better and total control for everyone's own good = Best (I once found an old '40s Sears catalogue in an abandoned house when I was a teenager and items were sold in grades like that - Good, Better and Best
not important to my point, I just thought it was neat). It would not surprise me that college graduates fear that the leaving of the UK and the possible future dissolving of the EU would be catastrophic. After all, aren't most places of higher education often funded in some manner by governments, even if they are a private institution? And if we know anything about governments at all, we know they are very interested in their own survival, always beyond that of the survival of individuals or groups of their own citizens. And most should know that organizations such as those of higher learning are rarely the type of organizations to stand in the face of pressure from their benefactors and teach the opposite of what those benefactors require.
I've mentioned in this forum previously that I believe the US should break up into smaller countries. I'm betting pretty much everyone knows my take on the US Civil War and how it was probably the worst thing Lincoln could have done for the future of the country as a whole (i.e., not just for the "white masters"). I consider myself a patriot - I truly do. I absolutely am fascinated with the Revolution, the reasons behind it and the mechanics of it and the way it came into being and thrived - and most of all the men and women involved. They were absolutely brilliant, even the Federalists with whom I entirely disagree.
We now have a tyranny that affects, percentage-wise, more people on this planet than the British Empire did 240 years ago when those brilliant men rebelled against King George. The EU could be on the way to a similar mega-state as well. I think if George Washington could see the current state of the US he'd think similarly to me. I think if he saw Europe joined under the current union he'd think the world gone mad.
