Everything good arises from hard work, thrift, family and faith.

An interesting thought.   

All prosperity is dependent on rising productivity.

The more productive you are, the easier it is to exercise the freedom of choices.

The start of of our modern dramatic increase in productivity, the industrial revolution began in the early 1700s.

The basis for that rising productivity for the entirety of the period has been hard work, thrift, family and faith.  Virtually every innovation or dramatic in productivity can be traced into some balance of hard work, thrift, family and faith.

For whatever reason, both public intellectuals and government, over the past thirty years have not only intellectually taken against hard work, thrift, family and faith but have implemented onerous policies which, directly and indirectly, attack and undermine hard work, thrift, family and faith.

If hard work, thrift, family and faith are disabled via public intellectual aversion and/or via government policies, can we still obtain increased productivity.  And if productivity slows or declines, can a reversion away from liberties and freedoms be far behind? 

It appears increasingly clear that the current ideological miasma of authoritarianism, social justice, and critical race theory or not only incompatible with a prosperity agenda but are the antithesis of a freedom agenda.

The intentional reduction in freedoms, the intentional reduction in range of choices, the intentional increase in basic costs (energy, food, shelter), the intentional increase in panic propaganda, the intentional increase in focus on uncertain and improbable solutions to complex and ill-understood issues, are an unsustainable pattern.

I think we will self-correct.  It is merely a matter of how soon and how much damage will have been done in the meantime.