I had a dalliance with libertarianism as a high school senior. In hindsight it's because I didn't know shit about shit. Libertarianism is the default setting for those who think they know something about the world.
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I was raised in a center-right (which has become far-right, unfortunately) household and voted as such until Trump. Leading up to the 2016, I dabbled in libertarianism until I bothered to learn anything about anything and instantly identified with the left.
I had a very similar phase. It kind of ended the first time I went to a Ron Paul campaign rally and saw how weird & backwards the vibes are with that lot.
Yeah. Once you realize the Ron Paul movement started as a critique of the Bush years *from the right* it clarifies a lot. At the time the Bush/Fox style of conservatism was so ingrained and dominant that anything that was different could be confused as coming from the left.
Absolutely. I think seeing adult men dressed in revolutionary war garb and forcing their families to wear costumes was what caused the lightbulb to go off in my young, dumb brain.
I was a card-carrying Libertarian for quite a while in my vanished youth. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that "this would work really well in an alternate universe" isn't a good reason to support a thing.
One of the unsung benefits of specialized education is seeing how much the modern world demands extreme specialization. You need millions of folks to know their "thing", or else it all falls apart. We're all in it together.
Libertarianism imagines a world of polymaths, but that's a silly fantasy.
No matter how good you are at coding, you probably can't plumb your house. You definitely can't manufacture the pipes yourself, and you DEFINITELY couldn't mine and smelt the ore necessary to do that, even if you could.
Quality of life requires complexity, which requires cooperation.
“Young Libertarian Twitter” is just a bunch of ultra-naive clout-chasers who’ve never had anything bad happen to them or their families, 60% of whom know their T-levels for some reason.
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It denies the obvious reality that there will always be a dispute and there will always be a decider.
Fiercely independent and yet completely clueless to the world around them that they are completely dependent upon.
It’s an ideology for spoiled babies
Libertarianism imagines a world of polymaths, but that's a silly fantasy.
Quality of life requires complexity, which requires cooperation.
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