From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 23:20:25 MDT
--> Damien Broderick
> I arrived in Sydney too late to take part in the libertarian Push that
> honed Germaine Greer among others, but the odd name Harry Hooton was
> mentioned now and then. He really does seem to have been a kind of proto
> extropian. Anyone here know of his work? Here are a couple of
> items dredged up from google:
>
> http://www.takver.com/history/hooton_bio.htm
>
> a 1955 piece by him on `Anarcho-technocracy ':
>
> http://www.takver.com/history/aia/aia00024.htm
Definately and absolutely on the spot. While I'm perfectly congnizant of the
fact that people have been saying exactly this for a long, long time, it's
saddening to be introduced to yet another well spoken person from 50 years
ago who may as well have consigned his sense and writings to the fire for
all the good they did.
On the same note, anyone see the Friedman articles on Reason?
http://www.reason.com/hod/jm072602.shtml
http://www.reason.com/sullum/072602.shtml
Essentially being lauded for giving up his earlier positions and going along
with the expansion of government and reduction of rights, but protesting
against same.
As I've said before, it seems to me that you can a) give in and try to steal
what you can from the system before the system steals it from you, b) lead a
principled but unrewarded life, fighting the good fight, or c) work towards
engineering a place to which you can leave [libertarian state, island in the
ocean, offplanet, virtual nation].
People seem to have missed the boat on the (comparatively) easier methods
for c). Small world we live in now, and no-one will complain too loudly
about that Region X that got steamrollered because they did things that
someone else halfway round the world didn't like.
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