Eric,
Nope it doesn't.
But OK, you got me; I will stop my convolution and obscurity
(even when asking you about yours). I also promise to not be too
technical, philosophical, dogmatic, deeply reflective, or book
warmish for your meat-and-potatoes mentality. Here goes, short
and sweet:
You drop names well, especially authors. The trouble is that your
stated philosophy varies greatly from theirs in some very
important areas. Yet, you continue to drop their names, implying
your alignment. How do you explain this?
-Mark
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The reason I'm having a hard time answering is because what your
asking is so convuluuted and obscure.
Ask me a question straight out.
I believe you're asking me why it is I'm not more "philosophical"
but rather express my libertarianism by "grass roots political
activism," right? And how did I come to that?
I can tell you I had never heard of Mises, Rand, Hazlitt, Hayek,
or
Rothbard until I met Nick Dunbar and Dianne Pilcher straight out
of
the Navy, in Jacksonville, Florida.
I was active in the local ACLU and most especially the local
chapter
of the National Abortion Rights League. Nick met me at an ACLU
meeting at the Jax Unitarian Church and invited me to a
Libertarian
Party meeting. Of course, I gladly accepted. Told Nick I was
already a Libertarian cause I voted straight LP absentee while in
the Persian Gulf in 2002.
(Interesting side story. There were 380 guys on my ship the USS
Luce - a guided missile destroyer. A Lt. JG was in charge of
the "Vote Campaign" on the ship. He got a grand total of 2
people,
himself and little ole' me to vote absentee from the entire ship.
Not even the friggin' Captain voted!!! in 1982. Is that insane
or
what???)
Well, anyway, I told Nick I considered myself to be a "Pro-Choice
Republican"; I hated the Religious Right, Pro-Choice was my
issue, I
supported drug legalization, and I hated drinking age laws. On
Economics I told Nick that I liked Milton Friedman's Free to
Choose
style of economics. On foreign policy I told Nick that I was a
hardcore Military guy; kick ass and take names. But that I was
much
more concerned with the threat from the Muslims and Arabs than I
was
from the Soviet Union.
He told me that I was "a natural" for the Libertarian Party, and
handed me a couple Ayn Rand books, Mises, Hayek, Hazlitt, Nozick.
Read them all in two to three months, then ordered more from
Laissez
Faire Books.
That's my philosophical story. Hope that answers your question.
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