I guess these days, though, some of the rhetoric from my youth is starting to ring hollow, as I observe the world that my kids are growing up into. I mean, if I go to some parts of Los Angeles at night, yeah there are people who quote, “are not violating the non-agression principle” — they’re just wandering around menacingly and aimlessly and in some other mental universe, and we get libertarians suggesting, “Oh, well, I wrote a policy paper about how to fix this.” I think it’s unfixable. I think we have a gigantic number of people who are just gone. Their souls are empty. I don’t know what to do about it, and I don’t think that fixing housing policy — I think that’s really naive. I think we have to admit some things just don’t have political solutions.

Tom Woods

Ep. 2267 Have We Lost Younger People? And Other Issues with Ezra Wyrick