| Values Associated with Statism |
Values Associated with Freedom |
| Subjectivism; evasion of reality |
Rationality; consciousness of reality |
| Submerging of self |
Self-esteem; psychological and physical health of the individual |
| Cynicism |
Recognition of the moral as the practical |
| Hypocrisy; pretense |
Honesty |
| Dependence on others (especially the perceptions of one's peers) |
Independence, responsibility |
| Fatalism |
Optimism; sense of personal efficacy |
The statist/altruistic/subjectivist values of the mixed economy can be summed up as a negative sense of life, inculcated in many youngsters from their earliest years (especially in government schools) and reinforced by their experiences in a coercion-based social system. Clearly, all of these values, listed in the left column of the table, are conducive to the rise of drug addiction, while the values of a free society are fundamentally incompatible with drug abuse.
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