In historical events great men—so-called—are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.
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I agree that the priming experiences seem to temporarily blind the person from their established values. I can see how that would lead him and you to conclude that it must be an irrational decision. Which, can very well be the case. My problem is that it can just as easily be explained by incoherent values. I defined the incoherent values as "hidden values". Couldn't the primers have just triggered the hidden values in ways that were unexpected? Since, the traditional economic theory is what he is attacking, why not show precisely why the "hidden values" are unsatisfactory in explaining these unexpected outcomes?