Thus far, Hayek has stated and restated the idea that America and the people traveling down the road to serfdom have something in common: they do not see, or rather choose not to see the truth.
Q: How does Hayek sarcastically depict this idea that 'we' are not responsible for the problems that are rising?
A: "However much we may differ when we name the culprit - whether it is the wicked capitalist or the vicious spirit of a particular nation, the stupidity of our elders, or a social system not yet, although we have been struggling against it for a half a century, fully overthrown - we all are, or at least were until recently, certain of one thing: that the leading ideas which during the last generation have become common to most people of good will and have determined to major changes in our social life canot have been wrong. We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world may be the result of genuine error on our part and that the pursuit of some of our most cherished ideals has apparently produced results utterly different from those which we expected." (pp. 13-14)
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