Media

Hayek explains how to overcome establishment propaganda.

"Over the long run, public intellectuals—Hayek called them “professional secondhand dealers in ideas”—wield an “all-pervasive” influence on public policy and politics by shaping public opinion.
A public intellectual need not be an original thinker, scholar, or expert in a field. He need not possess special knowledge or be particularly intelligent. But a public intellectual can readily talk and write on a wide range of subjects and he becomes acquainted with new ideas sooner than others. They serve as intermediaries in the spread of ideas."

These people now dominate the 24 hour cable news channels.

"Public intellectuals are the gatekeepers of ideas in modern society, and voters tend to follow them in the long run."

Government fears the internet because it empowers people to escape these establishment tools.

"“The intellectual, by his whole disposition, is uninterested in technical details or practical difficulties. What appeals to him are the broad visions, the spacious comprehension of the social order as a whole which a planned system promises.” Thus liberty lovers must play into this visionary character and have the “courage to indulge in Utopian thought.” "

I like his advice not to water down positions with political compromise.