From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 09:00:37 MDT
From: "Reason" <reason@exratio.com>
> I can't even listen to NPR anymore out here. You listen to them argue
about
> what legislation is needed for markets and social contracts that are
screwed
> up because they are so heavily legislated that nothing works. SOP is to
take
> the current situation as broken without even stopping to think about *how*
> it became broken; i.e. legislation. So people argue about how they are
going
> to break it worse. It's so frustrating that there is no way out of this
> rathole; no plane ticket to a better-run place where I can at least choose
> my own brand of idiocy and see if it works better...
Realistically and IMHO I don't think we'll ever see a libertarian society.
Don't think there has ever been a time when a libertarian society worked,
and don't know of any successful libertarian county presently. One has to
ask: why? One reason, I speculate, is that humans are imbued with the
"selfish gene" meme - a condition that can be described as a three-pronged
tragicomic mask: the good, the bad and the ugly. An all-libertarian
society imagines that mask can be all good. But underneath the mask we are,
nevertheless, only human.
Olga
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