WE LEARN FROM WHO WE CAN UNDERSTAND If you can access Sowell, Hoppe, Hayek, Haid

WE LEARN FROM WHO WE CAN UNDERSTAND

If you can access Sowell, Hoppe, Hayek, Haidt, and Mises then you will make better arguments. If you can access Bastiat, Rothbard and Friedman you will make adequate arguments. But if pop-libertarians activate your sentiments, and with activated sentiments you promote libertarian ideas, then I’m perfectly happy that you do a good yeoman’s labor, even if your arguments aren’t as strong as they could be or your solutions as complete and possible as they seem to be.

Liberty need not be for philosophers alone. If you have libertarian sentiments, you need not have libertarian economics, history and analytical philosophy. All you need is a handful of moral parables to promote libertarianism.

You will reach a lot more people more effectively than those of us who write convoluted philosophical proofs referring to empirical evidence in an effort to combat the propaganda, proofs and evidence of the opposition.

At about every fifteen points of IQ we think very differently. Some of us in layers of abstractions, others in empirical analysis, others of us historical references, others in moral analogy and still others in moral sentiments. We think differently even if we all value liberty similarly, regardless of our method and mode of thinking.

The desire for Liberty at its core is a sentiment: a desire, an instinct, an emotional affiliation, a preference. No matter how we express it, and which level of experience or abstraction we use to argue in favor of it – we all express our preference for liberty to those with whom we share a common language.

Liberty doesn’t need to be precise. It needs to be popular.