He that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
The principles of the free market should be applied to ideas the way they already apply to goods and services. Products that don't work very well naturally become obsolete as demand for them diminishes. The same should be said for ideas. Those which don't work very well should be allowed to go bankrupt.
The marketplace of ideas should be one where theories are free to fail. Idea entrepreneurs should be allowed to hock bad ideas so long as they are also allowed to go broke. The public should not be forced to purchase cheap theories that don't work. There are ideas deemed too big to fail: like evolution, climate change, egalitarianism, etc... There are tariffs placed on competing principles deemed too big to be allowed: like creation, religion, responsibility, etc...
Even though the wokey pokey doesn't work, never has worked, and never will work, it is supported by tax dollars and bailed out every time it inevitably self-destructs. Bad ideas should not be illegal, but neither should they be mandatory. They should be allowed to go out of business. They should be forced to reap what they sow. People should be allowed to worldview window shop and proprietors of knock-off, trinket philosophies should be allowed to go broke. Thus, the free market for the mind.
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