Why Libertarianism Struggles and How It Could Succeed
Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 4 months ago to Government
A few weeks ago I wrote a post I'm Not Ready for the Gulch and stopped reading this website regularly. http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/21... Thank you to those who encouraged me to go live life prosperously in my real or virtual gulch.
A few people pointed out it was a poor choice of words for me to say the AS strikers “gave up”. I should have said “gave up on the looters' world.” As I said in the post, I'm where Dagny was most of the book, still wanting to be part of the world and solve its problems. I can't remember her words, but I thought even she said something like "how can they give up when the world needs their help?"
I enthusiastically support those who “give up” and work on building a seastead or micronation in a remote location, e.g. a gulch, a remote arctic area, under water, or in outer space.
So many people identify as “social liberal, fiscal conservative”, it borders on being a cliché. So why the heck isn't there a mainstream political party representing libertarian views!?
I suspect it's because most outspoken libertarians are extremists and/or mean-spirited. They focus on how $hitty things are and appear long for an AS-style apocalypse that paves the way for a better world. I can't actually know what people long for, but I know Rand fans have more than our share of dickishness.
When I came back and read comments to my post, most were positive, but someone said he/she would spit and turn away in condemnation of me. This is how you respond toward someone working in small ways for libertarian causes? It's no wonder we struggle “to win friends and influence people” as it were.
I hope the mean-spirited and extremist are just a vocal minority. If a startup housed on a ship incubator, initially for immigration/visa reasons, becomes the next Facebook, they can build a fixed physical platform and hire lobbyists to get other nation states to leave them alone. If the organization that manages it is committed to respecting a US-style Constitution established by the residents and not widely interpreting it away, they'll have a veritable libertarian micro-republic in my lifetime, IF THEY CAN KEEP IT.
For it to work, every one who believes in the right to be let alone must be your friend.
A few people pointed out it was a poor choice of words for me to say the AS strikers “gave up”. I should have said “gave up on the looters' world.” As I said in the post, I'm where Dagny was most of the book, still wanting to be part of the world and solve its problems. I can't remember her words, but I thought even she said something like "how can they give up when the world needs their help?"
I enthusiastically support those who “give up” and work on building a seastead or micronation in a remote location, e.g. a gulch, a remote arctic area, under water, or in outer space.
So many people identify as “social liberal, fiscal conservative”, it borders on being a cliché. So why the heck isn't there a mainstream political party representing libertarian views!?
I suspect it's because most outspoken libertarians are extremists and/or mean-spirited. They focus on how $hitty things are and appear long for an AS-style apocalypse that paves the way for a better world. I can't actually know what people long for, but I know Rand fans have more than our share of dickishness.
When I came back and read comments to my post, most were positive, but someone said he/she would spit and turn away in condemnation of me. This is how you respond toward someone working in small ways for libertarian causes? It's no wonder we struggle “to win friends and influence people” as it were.
I hope the mean-spirited and extremist are just a vocal minority. If a startup housed on a ship incubator, initially for immigration/visa reasons, becomes the next Facebook, they can build a fixed physical platform and hire lobbyists to get other nation states to leave them alone. If the organization that manages it is committed to respecting a US-style Constitution established by the residents and not widely interpreting it away, they'll have a veritable libertarian micro-republic in my lifetime, IF THEY CAN KEEP IT.
For it to work, every one who believes in the right to be let alone must be your friend.
