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How I outgrew yet another label: 1. Understanding that there isn't always one noun to describe the particular mix of beliefs that work for you. 2. Understandi
by dalek_cannes 13y ago
How I outgrew yet another label:
1. Understanding that there isn't always one noun to describe the particular mix of beliefs that work for you.
2. Understanding that a belief system isn't always the same as the dominant group that is claiming that belief system for themselves at a given point in time (say "the" libertarian party)
3. Understanding that written statements of principle are always approximations to reality. Reality always has complications and exceptions.
4. Rule: there are always exceptions. There are no exceptions to that rule.
5. Competition tends to war as rules tend to zero.
6. Be ready to change your mind when confronted with new data.
7. NEVER identify yourself with your beliefs. If you do, an attack on your beliefs become an attack on you. Then you'll never see things straight.
- hef19898 13y agoI'd like to upvote that comment more than once. Really well put. But that means accepting a complex world and that is pretty hard.
- ThomPete 13y ago8. All political ideologies/systems have the solution to problems in others.
- devx 13y agoNot to mention many of the ones he calls "libertarians", probably never were actual libertarians, but were just paying lip service to it, or were libertarians, and became corrupted down the road, and instead of caring about everyone's liberties, they started caring only about the corporation's liberties, or something like that. It's like calling the warmongering, civil liberties anti-Christ, and whistleblower-persecutor - Obama - a "liberal", and then saying your "outgrew liberalism".