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You can't make utopia because it cannot be made.
Impossible.
Socialists don't understand this while they also fail to account for human nature.
Libertarians don't understand this while they also fail to account for human nature.
They just head opposite directions in misunderstanding people and allow evils of similar stature.
It was L. Niel Smith's rants about anarchy that convinced me that the libertarians were off the reservation and never coming back. They were a stopped clock that used the fact that they were right twice a day to pitch that they were never wrong.
There was one group in America that had figured out human nature.
The Founding Fathers.
Ever notice they didn't do democracy? They did a republic.
They didn't seek unfettered liberty in what they'd done. They sought to maximize liberty, knowing that it needed some restriction to truly flourish. The tree of liberty needs to be pruned carefully, as it were.
Without such care, it kills itself.
This is why libertarians and globalists don't understand tariffs.
The lowest price is meaningless to a consumer who doesn't have a job.
International Socialism, Libertarianism, and Globalism all reject the nation-state model.
Yet the nation-state is the only proven model running. Yes, it's the worst way to do things; except for all the others. Just like republican government.
I'm a small-l libertarian myself, but I think the anarcho-libertarians are a bit nucking futz, and I do realize that what we do here in reality would be different from what we'd do in Libertopia.
ReplyDeleteLibertarian is most useful as a rule of thumb. Does X promote individual liberty or curtail it? If the answer is Promote it's probably good, and Curtail is probably wrong. Of course probably means not always, and we need to see past the various sophistries to spot the exceptions, otherwise we get shanked by the ferals, or gassed by the national socialists.
ReplyDeleteThe original ideal is lost. Only remembered by the elders.
ReplyDeleteLibertarian has become an irrational pursuit of a utopia that cannot be achieved unless everyone is educated and moral to an impossible degree.
We need a new word to describe the old meaning. Maybe this time we can include the concept that having a government at all doesn't make you a statist.