From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 00:09:24 MDT
>From: Greg Burch <gregburch@gregburch.net>
> As usual, some personal background as context: I come to my current
>libertarianism primarily from a "left-liberal" adolescent and early adult
>mind-set. Recently I came across some things I wrote 25 years ago or so,
>and I was amazed at how "red" my sentiments and values were. It was an
>interesting exercise to look into how I could have written the things I
>did.
>Most of it could be attributed to a very deep ignorance of how in fact the
>world really works. My world-view was influenced by a few sketchy ideas
>about "business" and "corporations" that, in the hindsight of knowledge
>gained from real work in the real world of business and law, I can now see
>to be utterly wrong.
Funny, just today (um, or was it yesterday?) I was listening to a show on
NPR about baby boomers. Apparently your sort of idealogical conversion is
endemic among the boomers. The same hippies who once marched on Washington
in protest of racial segregation are now lawyers and corporate fat cats who
send their kids to exclusive (read: all-white) private schools.
Apparently its a lot harder to be a rich liberal than a poor conservative ;)
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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