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I love his meta-criticism of Libertarian and Leninist (and presumably other) ideologies: > [It] makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can onl

by _greim_ 13y ago

I love his meta-criticism of Libertarian and Leninist (and presumably other) ideologies: > [It] makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density... I need to read more of his books.

craigyk 13y ago
He is pretty exemplary as an author. He marries really interesting ideas and their consequences with a healthy amount of humor.
webXL 13y ago
Too bad he doesn't explain why libertarianism only works if we are all uniform and frictionless. Perhaps because it's nonsense and libertarianism actually doesn't require that. It's also too bad emotional rants like this carry such weight. Is the status quo really that great?