On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:55 AM, raghu wrote:
In my experience there is a strongly and widely shared libertarian streak among the Silicon Valley techie crowd. Are there any good studies of this?
I know of no studies nor do I need any. I just ask--what are the alternatives? "Techies," by definition have strong analytical intelligence but are, like almost all Americans, allergic to a theoretical or historical approach to politics. That makes the more critical of them very unlikely to find anything appealing in the corrupt, fascistic Dumbocratic and Repugnicon parties. The "left" remains incoherent, impotent, stained with the legacy of "really existing socialism," and largely a dumbocratic satellite to boot. In the observable political spectrum, someone like Ron Paul stands out as the symbol of opposition to imperial war, political repression, regulation-enforced crony capitalism, and the banksters. Libertarian ideology, for such people, is understandably the default choice!
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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