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Well, my beliefs are pretty meta-contrarian, and I think it stems from a desire to be different. So those old-rich may look at the new rich, feel disgusted tha
by araneae 16y ago
Well, my beliefs are pretty meta-contrarian, and I think it stems from a desire to be different. So those old-rich may look at the new rich, feel disgusted that they may possibly be put in the same "bucket" as them, and try to find some way to distinguish themselves from them.
That's how I went from Democrat to Libertarian. And then Libertarian to libertarian. And then libertarian to ?.
If I were going to be less self-effacing, I could also say that any time my beliefs are held by a large number of people, I start to question them, because it's not possible for a large number of people to both agree and be perfectly correct...
- jbooth 16y ago++ to you for the self-awareness. Personally I saw how libertarian arguments were just so fun to make and just so unworkable in any real world situation and skipped the whole trap, stayed a democrat. But I've made my own meta contrarian points (trying to tell my liberal friends that the iraq war was a good idea) and almost always been borne out wrong by reality. Turns out if your motivations veers from "truth" to "it feels good to make this argument", you're gonna steer yourself wrong.