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It's sad that libertarians / ancaps are bullied out of the real world to do their experiment. These kind of experiments should be done on land.
by zerostar07 8y ago
It's sad that libertarians / ancaps are bullied out of the real world to do their experiment. These kind of experiments should be done on land.
- mjburgess 8y ago> It's sad that libertarians / ancaps are bullied out of the real world Uhuh. Though they just call that "thinking". There is no "real world" form of utopianism. It's a dangerous adolescent form of thinking which requires purifying one's environment until it is All Good according to a single set of criteria. All society-level attempts at this measure their results in millions of deaths.
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- zerostar07 8y agoBy that standard we should have stuck with absolute monarchy. (you might want to think it over. I 'm sure the ancient romans said the same things, as did imperial russia)
- mjburgess 8y agoEvery change which has occurred has never resulted in a single pure ideology characterizing a civilization. All change is plural and incremental, even so-called "revolutions" really just exchange the set in power for another set. They leave the plurality of really-existing power structures in place, whilst disturbing only a small number. This is simply an incremental shift in power at the very top. Utopian projects take pluralities of lifestyles and pragmatic political systems and attempt to unify them under a single consistent set of criteria. It's something for the mind of an adolescent, to which this mode of thinking is common.
- zerostar07 8y agolibertarians leave capitalism intact. You can say that government delegates is "a small number".
- mjburgess 8y agoThere is no "capitalism". Society cannot be characterized by a coherent set of ideological principles. It is the behavior of human beings, which is highly plural and inconsistent when formalized. There is no ideology to "leave in tact". By destroying the government you do not "uncover" some latent capitalism, you take the ways everyone is behaving -- have them repeat that behaviour -- but now without a government. You'd find that to be a catastrophe.
- Daishiman 8y agoYeah, nothing worse than believers of "greed is good" who literally have no concern for society at large being told that their ideas are bad and that we don't care much for them.
- zerostar07 8y agowho is this "we" who believes such falsities?
- krapp 8y agoWhat? No one has "bullied" libertarians and ancaps out of anywhere, the choice to construct this settlement as it is and to move there is entirely voluntary.