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RE: The Daily Owl. Ep. 05: The Immutable, Objective, Metaphysical, Natural Law Reality of Individual Self-Ownership
I used to be exactly like you. I was a very idealistic libertarian..
Ditto.
I used to be exactly like you. I was a very idealistic libertarian..
Ditto.
I am certainly no idealist. That is very funny, actually, because it’s more like hardcore, stubborn as hell realism.
Surely that would mean accepting things 'as they are', and not 'as you want it to be'?
Considering the lack of any historical evidence of voluntarism principles ever enduring, or working, it would suggest that it's not 'realism' orientated, but idealistic....?
Maybe I misunderstand..?
Being realistic does not preclude action. It also does not preclude wanting to change things. It is important not to be sloppy with definitions, I think.
I understand very well that to entertain the pipe dream of a “great man” or men in politics (a mechanism of an intrinsically violent state) changing things for the better and eroding the state via its own machines is about as unrealistic as it gets.