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As a “libertarian”, I have to hold my tongue and smile in most conversations. The Overton Window has become so shockingly small, that most “normals” educated i
by pjkundert 7y ago
As a “libertarian”, I have to hold my tongue and smile in most conversations.
The Overton Window has become so shockingly small, that most “normals” educated in the last 20 or so years no longer even realize that they have been mentally neutered.
- peterwwillis 7y agoI mean, of all the different libertarian philosophies, most of them are radical, in so much as they all seek to distance the individual from systems of government and social institutions. Since those things are what most people use day to day, and in the US only one of the two political parties leans that way, it does put you in a minority camp whose views can be felt as a sort of existential threat. (And honestly, politics and religion should both be kept out of most conversations)
- pjkundert 7y agoEveryone is a libertarian — when it comes to their own liberties. Other ideologies vary, insofar as they devalue and restrict differing sunsets of other peoples’ liberty. So it is always strange to me that valuing other’s liberty as highly as my own is now being considered as “radical”. And, I’m always ready and willing to lay down my life to defend my liberty — and yours. I find is also strange that the political ideologies deemed non “radical” are willing to demand that I defend their liberty with my life — but would throw me and my loved ones under the bus without blinking. But, I’m the “radical” one...
- peterwwillis 7y agoIt sounds a bit like you've got an axe to grind more than you want to actually discuss political philosophy, and that might be more the reason why other people don't want to discuss it. (And for what it's worth, 'radical' isn't pejorative... Pretty much anything that isn't social progressivism or social conservativism is radical in this country)