This was how, after all, Friedman's world went flat:
Belief in the market, Mother nature, human nature,
and truth, science, and democratic values.
He sees these two groups of concepts as somehow related, but the latter are for him always good, while the former are now sometimes quite bad but corrective in an equilibrating sort of way.
To everyone now going all the way, he now says beware of the very forces he had espoused to make the world go flat...the market, mother nature, and human nature.
Guess what?
They really are, for Enlightenment liberals, since around 1760, two different sets of terms for the same damn thing.
Perhaps no one sees the irony but me.
Say, you don't believe me.
Ok, I will give you a single citation, it should suffice, but the possible sources of this criticism are legion.
Look at Palmer's Catholics and Unbelievers in 18th Century France, "Some Modernizers"
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