Q: How are we sometimes blind to the cause of a social problem?
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 struggled against it for half a century, fully overthrown - we all are, or at last 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 the major changes in our social life cannot have been wrong. We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization ecept none: that the present state of the world may be the result of genuine error on our own part[.]" (Hayek: Definitive Edition pg65 - pg66)
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