Libertarianism is heavily populated social rejects for a variety of reasons. But

Libertarianism is heavily populated social rejects for a variety of reasons. But the movement captured a large number of the smarter guys who had nothing more concretely rational or scientific to work with.

I think we’ve pretty much buried libertarianism over the past few years, and it’s just a matter of the smart and younger guys moving to the new right, the over-invested older guys dying off, and the left-libertarians absorbing the rest.

The underclass right can’t do much except rebel. So someone has to produce a set of ideas that can be expressed as demands, and implemented as institutions, as an alternative to violent revolution.

Now, everyone lives under a bit of a lampost that he grasps the light of which does not reach too far beyond his experience.

The only way to know if our experience is meaningful is not through our own experiences, but by exhausting the experiences available to man – mostly by traveling and reading.

So the fact that my work isn’t accessible to everyone’s lamp light is simply something we would expect.

One of the observations we can make about man, universally, is that the average imbecile thinks his opinion on ethical, moral, social, political, and economic matters, in the absence of specialized knowledge in the subjects, is somehow possibly to test by intuition, any more than whether or not the earth is flat, the stars are just lights in the sky, and astrology produces predictable results.

The average idiot has an opinion about things in the domain of the social that are no more valuable than his opinoins on protein folding, the stress of different materials, the problems with the unified field, the subject of infinity, or scientific epistemology.

It’s ok. Toddler’s think they’re cunning also. Dunning Kruger, like the devil, is always at our shoulders.