From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Aug 18 2000 - 07:44:36 MDT
Question my claim all you want ;-) By the way dear old Saudi is as about
as pro-capitalist, mercantilist as you get, from and economic point of
view. And yes, you need nanotechnology to have real freedom. Otherwise
what's all the fuss about on the mailing list? Libertarianism never has
been really tested out, has it? In fact I suppose the largest intellectual
contributors to Extropianism, may not indeed be Libertarians or agree with
its logical positivist philosophy of Libertarians. My examples would be
Minsky, Moravec, Tipler, et al. Max More may be devoted to Libertarianism,
(or not) but I doubt if everyone on this list is. Otherwise it would be
subscribe libertarian@majordomo.org or whatever. On getting rid of
dictators I am all for that. As far as self-interest espoused by Ms.
Rosenbloom, contributing to the common good, I tend to say fuggedabodit
until we gots nanatech, then we can make our own dollhouses or whatever.
Neptune sayeth:
I don't follow you here. Freedom only works if one has nanotechnology?
It's funny that the more libertarian a nation is, typically, the better off
its economy and its society as a whole is. (Surely, there are
counterexamples to the first part. Saudi Arabia, sitting on top of huge oil
reserves, is not doing to badly financially, but its society is not so
great, especially with strict internal control to barely suppress those who
are trying to overthrow its monarchy.) This alone makes me question your
claim.
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