Quoth Brian Holtz: > One of my strongest reservations about my recent > conversion to hardcore geolibertarianism is why it doesn't have higher > mindshare among libertarian intellectuals.
That's an easy question to answer: The Georgist theory of property in land is radical in the sense that it goes very close "to the root" per se (property in land is one of the most basic political issues), and replacing the prevailing Lockean theory of property in land with it would therefore entail rethinking everything from that "close to the root" point on up. Intellectuals pride themselves on questioning basic assumptions ... but in practice that usually tends to mean the basic assumptions of others, not their own, especially if those basic assumptions command the almost unanimous loyalty of their fellows, too. It's like asking them to consider taking a wrecking ball to everything they've ever built and starting over. Tom Knapp
