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echo: barktopus
to: Dave Ings
from: Randall Parker
date: 2005-11-12 17:46:44
subject: Re: John Galt...

From: Randall Parker 

Dave,

If you are not willing to be ideological then you can't be either a left-liberal or a
neoconservative or a big "L" libertarian.

Big "L" libertarianism is as ideological as left-liberalism and
neoconservatism. It
is based on false assumptions about human nature.

Dave Ings wrote:
> I liked the two back to back paragraphs that started with " To the {Left,
> Right}, government should whip individuals into collective lockstep" as it
> pretty much sums up how I feel about Democrat vs Republican (and Liberal vs
> Conservative in Canada).
>
> Both sides want to impose their view of the "correct" social
order on you
> (i.e. me) and mostly I just want to be left alone (although I'm not so
> ideological to believe that pure Libertarianism would work in the
"real"
> world).

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