Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis. Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups.
Libertarian paternalism is an oxymoron because it is totally at odds with the second argument. Okay fine, you are not forcing anyone to do anything. But you are still assuming that top men can properly deduce what the right things people ought to be doing are.
In part this is because of the re-emergence of social issues and even more so because of foreign policy. Longtime conservative and evangelical leader Gary Bauer questions the political viability of libertarianism, noting that a recent Pew study showed that most self-described libertarians are not very libertarian. âAn even bigger problem is that once people find out what libertarianism means, most reject it.