March 28, 2005

Libertarianism: The Marxism of the Right

Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 4:22 pm

This article by Robert Locke hits home and explains why I have simultaneously flirted with and been repulsed by Libertarianism. Money quote:

If Marxism is the delusion that one can run society purely on altruism and collectivism, then libertarianism is the mirror-image delusion that one can run it purely on selfishness and individualism. Society in fact requires both individualism and collectivism, both selfishness and altruism, to function. Like Marxism, libertarianism offers the fraudulent intellectual security of a complete a priori account of the political good without the effort of empirical investigation. Like Marxism, it aspires, overtly or covertly, to reduce social life to economics. And like Marxism, it has its historical myths and a genius for making its followers feel like an elect unbound by the moral rules of their society.

This article gives a pretty clear explanation of why Lefties like David Horowitz and myself end up on the Right. I bought into the Marxist interpretation of history (history driven by economics) and have recently considered some of the writings of Ayn Rand.

Gotta keep an eye on that…

More Crushing Of Dissent

Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 1:29 pm

Looks like the GayPatriot was silenced when he took on the PC-Correct outing campaigners who threatened a boycott of the corporation he works for.

Let’s think about this a second:
An openly gay man expresses himself on the Internet and he is silenced - not by the Religious Right, not by the homophobic Republicans - but by the Left for expressing opinions that they don’t like.

I witnessed the beginnings of the PC movement on college campuses during the 1980s and I am continually struck today that the Left fails to appreciate this irony:

The biggest push for censorship since the days of McCarthy is coming from the Left Wing.

So today there is one less gay voice on the Internet today. Nice work guys.

Silence = Death alright.

Schindlers Tell Protesters to Get Lives

Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 9:11 am

Well they didn’t put it that way, exactly (link).

I have never been a big fan of protests. In fact in my entire life I have attended all of two - one against Reagan in 1984 and a candlelight vigil against wilding attacks in 1991. I don’t like protests for several reasons.

First, I don’t think they are effective except in rare cases - say as in when hundreds of thousands gather to overthrow a gov’t. Those types of protests are effective, but in the USA we haven’t seen an effective street protest in over thirty years. That leads to the second reason I don’t like protests.

Because they are ineffective most rational people don’t waste their time. After all I have a hard enough time watching a rented movie in a week. Where do I have the time to waste hours or days protesting? Which leads me to the third reason I don’t like protests:

Those that have the time to protest are moonbats. Left wing moonbats. Right wing moonbats. It doesn’t matter to me. These are people who get a kick out of chanting, carrying signs and pissing off cops - and I don’t like to hang around this type of people. At all. I would much rather hang around with people who do encourage change. These are the thousands of people who work for non-profits and advocacy organizations like the ITPAA, or the NRA, or the AMA.

There may have been a time to protest outside of Terri Schiavo’s hospice, but that time passed when the Schindler family told the protesters to go home. Anyone who remains out there against their wishes is a moonbat. He or she needs to get a job, a prozac script, and a life in that order.

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