So many buzzwords, so little time

I've just read the excerpt from Milton Freidman's book, and the most glaring thing about it to me is the evolution we are watching unfold in the history of political and economic theory. Starting with Hobbes and Locke, but especially as we have delved in to the nature of capitalism, there has been so much speak of the inherent lack of freedom in humans' natural state. Freidman speaks of this freedom in terms of the idea that "absolute freedom is impossible." Not all freedoms can be accounted for because the freedom of one individual inevitably infringes on the freedom of another.

It is for this reason that Freidman examines the importance of government in society and especially in the economy. The government, according to Freidman, sets the rules to the game of life and allows to adjust them so that the market may, in fact, be free to the interests of the men. The privatization or public ownership is subject to the interference of the government because there must be some overarching determination of how to regulate areas in which no man's freedom can supersede that of another, such as transportation industries or national resources. 

I think it is interesting that the basis for government in all these articles is always the inability of man to provide for his own freedom. Even though government is completely unnatural, it is the most natural and logical way for human society to function efficiently.