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He makes some really good points about the way that the capital owning classes actually don't want greater democratic enfranchisement. He also makes some great
by sudioStudio64 11y ago
He makes some really good points about the way that the capital owning classes actually don't want greater democratic enfranchisement. He also makes some great points about how there doesn't seem to be as much inclination towards revolutionary art.
As people come to grips with the decline of American power and begin to realize that, in fact, we aren't free or special or really living up to any of the high ideals that are described in some of our founding documents and rhetoric you will see more arguments like these.
At the root of his critique is that he really does believe that we are special and this place can be magic. It isn't and it won't be.
EDIT: Libertarianism is a dying hooker licking 9V alkaline batteries for that metallic taste of excitement every time it gets to posit a counterfactual notion about some basic human tenant. It's a foolish sounding semi-sorta ideology when espoused by the middle class who are algorithmically incapable of seeing any benefit from it's implementation and a smug blanket of self-serving satisfaction for the wealthy who use it to make their social position intellectually palatable in a "dinner party" conversational sense.
While the wealthy capitalists in this article may really entertain ludicrous thoughts of building a treehouse-fort-island where they are the biggest bully, they don't do so in any way that might upset their own apple cart's on the way to markets created and policed by a political process that they go out of their way to openly despise but are intravenously connected to in ways that conjoined twins sharing a single heart would consider too close for comfort.
Libertarianism's philosopher's are the unpopular clowns at the children's birthday party of society hoping that bending their "business innovation's" into balloon animals will convince the starving attendees to actually enjoy watching them eat all of the cake. "Look it's a lion! Rawr!"
EDIT EDIT: COME ON. You know that's good. Come on!
- kiba 11y agoDemocracy doesn't necessarily lead to freedom. It's dependent on the voters making the correct decision on who to elect. There's a reason why people hate our politicians.
- sudioStudio64 11y agoIn fact I think that you can have a functional Democracy without any freedom. That's kind of what I mean. I don't think that people are interested in freedom and I don't mean that to sound like a tea party fan. I just think that this place wouldn't be the way it is if people were genuinely interested in freedom...in fact it's such a nebulous term that it's almost meaningless. Remember in Braveheart where Mel WahtsHisFAce rides in front of the soldiers waiting to go into battle to establish yet another monarchy, "What will you do without freedom?" That's a great summation of Americans arguing about freedom during an election cycle. We are an open society. We are a little d democratic society. I don't think that we are a free society. Sorry for the blahblah blah stuff. It's just been on my mind a lot for some reason. Back to the salt mine.
- x3n0ph3n3 11y agoDon't conflate Ayn Randian Objectivism with libertarianism. Ayn Rand actually hated libertarians.
- sudioStudio64 11y agoI'll take that point. Cheers.