FYI from BATR

He was always aware of the inescapable scarcity in this life: that every benefit has a cost, that every advance imposes a price, that there are no free lunches. If you want progress, you will sacrifice tradition. If you want the division of labor that a city offers, you will lose the community that small town life offers. There was not a trace of utopianism in his writings. This is why he is so devastating when he writes about utopian thinkers, of whom there have been many in the West. He hated Plato but acknowledged his greatness. He had the same opinion of Rousseau, who he regarded as the greatest single influence for evil in Western social thought – far more important than Marx.