From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 14:49:18 MDT
--> Olga Bourlin
> 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,
Iceland, c900-1200. The only one I'm aware of. Somalia now might qualify as
borderline sort of maybeish in an undesirable way.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/long1.html <-- nice read, low on facts.
> 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.
Well, no. Iceland's society worked well for 300 years before it broke down
because power became centralized. Some of the greatest works of art and
culture in that period came out of Iceland. So it can happen.
And what of early post-declaration America? Up to maybe 1830 they were doing
a pretty good job at divorcing the state from religion and economics.
Reason
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