Ideologues see diagrams, not human beings

Kevin O’Brien writes:

On a recent blog post, I said, “The economy was made for man, not man for the economy.” Reader Manny replied,

“The economy is not made for man … If you find it flawed, then fix mankind.”

Virtually every monstrous evil inflicted on the human race in the past century was committed by people who thought “This diagram is not made for man, but man for the diagram”.