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I wish someone would meme the concept of Chesterton’s Fence into the public consciousness. Whole lot of “I don’t know why this fence is here, but it’s gotta go
by trafficante 4y ago
I wish someone would meme the concept of Chesterton’s Fence into the public consciousness.
Whole lot of “I don’t know why this fence is here, but it’s gotta go” behavior ripping apart thousands of years of collective/cultural moral development - and the proffered alternative is an abysmal mashup of Alister Crowley and early 2000’s internet libertarianism.
Most remarkable is how “Do As Thou Wilt If It’s Consensual” has become the dominant ethos of even the left. Back in my Occupy days, we used to joke a lot about the goal being Star Trek style “gay luxury space communism” - I guess they figured “one outta four ain’t bad”.
- remarkEon 4y agoThe spirituality of libertarianism tends to be on the hollow side (as evidenced by other “just let them die, bro” comments elsewhere). I learned long ago to consider libertarianism to be little more than an attitude about trying to satisfy one’s own vices and not a serious attempt at any sort of governing philosophy for society.