ISO: The ONLY Litmus Test for Voluntaryist Legimacy (A video commentary on the recent bickering between libertarians about "left" and "right")
There is a lot of bickering going on about "the left" and "the right."
There are even self-identified "libertarians" arguing the Fascism is a necessary prerequisite to freedom. I think this is absurd. I'm naming names and calling out this bullshit. Sorry.
Without compassion and a ruthless unwillingness to abandon the bedrock principle of libertarianism, Individual Self-Ownership, there can never be hope for a more free future or even present. I'm 33. The breathtakingly puerile and inane nature of the online bickering happening between grown children online, with no compassion for anyone who dissents, and no view of the big picture, is indeed frustrating, and truly puzzling.
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
The element I find is most often missing from such arguments is any appreciation for the complexity of the issues being discussed. Imho, most strong political opinions in online arguments are a result of oversimplification.
I find that the human element is missing almost entirely, in most cases.
I agree wholeheartedly.
“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
― Thomas Sowell,
It's so much easier to drop into name-calling and jingoism than to actually work to effect change.
The shock-jocks are pushing buttons because they know it gets a response.
"pass through the eye of fascism to bring about libertarianism"
Just give me these "temporary" powers until we can get rid of those bad people over there.
And I didn't see any boogers @kafkanarchy84
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.”
― Robert Higgs
Amazingly apt quote.
Balance to the force is the path to a healthy community. That doesn't mean the "no violence" of pacifism, it just means violence only as defense.
But it is easy to fall off the knife edge of balance to the point that you are preemptively attacking others as a means of "defense."
Balance is difficult to maintain in all things. It is hard to stay at the point of voluntary community, which is healthy, and not drift off into the collectivism mind fuck of communism or fascism.
The critical point, as you say, is to keep things voluntary and small. As long as this is present, then society can have moving parts, and with moving parts, it can adjust, and when it can adjust, it can trend towards equilibrium rather than away from it.
I've never heard it put this way. This is brilliant. Thanks.
Left = Sheep
Right = Sheep
Libertarians/Anarchists/Voluntaryists= Individualism
What do you think of the anarchists that burned cars etc. in Hamburg G20? Do they have a right to go against the oppressive government in this way?
I don't support the random destruction of property. I support it if it is in direct self-defense, though, which some might argue the Hamburg protests are, but I don't see them that way.
You post very well ..
Thanks. Why, specifically, do you feel I post well?
Thanks for the information! Nice blog!)
What "information" ?
nice