Glen, my good friend -
[...]
but most card-carrying Libertarians *would* risk personally assasinating
an innocent person or being party to a lynchmob who did the same... and
*that* is why I can't "hang" with them. Revenge might be sweet, but it
is not Justice and often lowers everyone to the lowest level.
Yep. What I suppose I always misunderstood when I did actively call
myself libertarian was which societal mechanisms [sh|c]ould be
facilitated by government. I've always agreed government should be
precise, accurate, delicate, and sophisticated (read "small" if you
don't like those words). But the violent, ham-handed, and cruel
"libertarians" seemed to come out of the woodwork sometime during W's
administration. Or perhaps I changed and that's just when I noticed them.
I noticed it about the time I grew fully into my own Anarcho-Libertarian
self... I realized that most of the hosers who wanted to take the same
label (presumed they OWNED the label) were not just hosers but posers.
It may be more about coming to a certain level of "maturity"? Like
when you learn a new word and suddenly you hear it *everywhere*! Once
you recognize a fallacy in an ideology, the solid fabric sometimes
becomes a tattered fabric.
I suppose I just talked myself right up my own tailpipe here (as if
*that* never happens) and realized that I'm really not interested in
politics except for the way it tweaks my morbid fascination...
I'm truly more interested in community and what motivates people, and
what makes life worth living...
But isn't that what politics _should_ be?
Well, maybe... which is probably why I keep getting dragged back into
political discussions, because I think it is going to be about what it
_should_ be, not about what it has degenerated to or been replaced by or
parodied by?
I want leaders who are statesmen, not politicians, so I suppose that
means I am interested in statesmanship and leadership not politics?
In any case, I really appreciate the way you read right through all my
blabbering here and find the nut of the issue so easily.
- Steve
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