Hayek Document Analysis

Freedom in today’s society is looked at being the right the people have of the united states. While in earlier years it has been looked on by people who actually have freedom is simply something they get because of the power and wealth. Throughout both documents it is showing different point of views one from someone who believes that freedom should be earned not just given too, and one is believes that freedom only comes to those of power and wealth.
Throughout Hayek document he expresses that freedom in American is merely another work for power and wealth, compared to Lyndon B. Johnson looks at freedom as everyone is equal and that we all have the right of freedom. The difference between the two are that document 149 by Hayek states” freedom
Throughout both document they explain why these things cause such a threat their liberty of freedom. “In the road of serfdom, Hayek claimed that even the best-intentioned governments efforts to direct the economy posed a threat to individual liberty” (Pg.197). governmental involvement in the liberty does more harm than good, from the Hayek document. He explains that the government we have worked so hard to build theses years doesn’t help the freedom we deserve. “For at least twenty-five years before the specter of totalitarianism became a real threat, we had progressively been moving away from the basic ideas on which western civilization has been built” (Pg.197). Hayek explains that not only has this civilization be built on such government but we have worked so hard to make this something successful on and not the greatest strength of American could come tumbling down because of it. Today American is known for its power and freedom of the people. As Johnson would put it the greatest threat is the weakness if family and we must build it so that this will not cause a threat to the liberty of freedom. “The family is the cornerstone of our society” (pg.281). knowing that our most commonly everyday life is created because of those people we grow up with,
As Johnson stands from a liberalism American citizen in 1965 was known as the president most involved with the civil rights movement during this time. Both as we have discussed have different views and this is because of the different platforms they stand on with one, Hayek believes that the federal government’s role was not to restrict the American from being free. As Hayek states “The new freedom promised however was to be freedom from necessity, release from the compulsion of the circumstances which inevitably limit the range of choice of all of us, although for some very much more than for others” (pg.199). The government only limits what we see and doesn’t give us full information to make out own decisions Hayek sates that the government is more of a “compulsion” and they only tell the American people what they want to, to persuade them into doing what they want the world to do ultimately there should be not federal government to watch over the “free” society. “before man could be broken, the “despotism of physical want” ad to be broken, the restraints of the economic system” relaxed” (Pg.199). as Hayek continues to express that the