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"European civilization was several thousand years more advanced than the Aboriginal cultures of North America both in technology and social organization". Sounds very enlightened. Literally a thin veneer on "they were savages who were lucky to have the white man come and liberate them from their idiocy".
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That is a pretty standard mainstream perspective in current streams of anthropology, and geography. Flanagan was always big on cross-disciplinary approaches. Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" was pretty inspirational to his stuff in "First Nations. Second Thoughts" and "Beyond the Indian Act."
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You are obviously not stupid, so don't pretend that the claimed "classical liberalism" Hayek subscribed to doesn't have a Venn-overlap with modern conservative ideals, especially in regards to a free market. What I'm getting at is that Hayek's ideas fell more in line the Modern Conservatism than Libertarianism. Modern Conservatism is Authoritarian.
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http://www.cato.org/doc-download/sit...nservative.pdf
Also, Road to Serfdom, and Constitution of Liberty are explicitly anti-conservative. In fact, as a Hayekan, I consider traditional conservatives to be as great ideological enemies of liberty as I do socialists!