Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

LIBERTY’S POINTS

Libertarianism needs a reformation.

The church was an instrument of totalitarianism whose pacifism came from its weakness, not it’s intentions, where were always self interest.

The Aristocracy ACTED, and the church TALKED.

The church’s rhetoric is a dialectical competitor to Aristocratic action.

The church’s arguments cannot be understood EXCEPT as only half of the dialectical argument with Aristocracy.

The pacifist church could not exist without the warrior caste.

And liberty cannot exist without a militia.

A militia do not beg for liberty – they take it by force.

And by taking it with force, they make it for others.

The source of liberty was, is, and always will be the organized use of violence to suppress free riding in all its forms.

Property is the result of that prohibition on free riding – ‘cheating’.

Property is not the cause of liberty, and it is not created by ‘appeals to reason’.

Property is the consequence of the organized suppression of ‘cheating’ in all its forms.

And Rothbardian ethics fully endorse and justify ‘cheating’.

THAT IS WHY WE FAIL

We need leadership with solutions that will work. Not tolerance.

Appeals to tolerance are merely a symptom of our lack of good philosophical arguments.

Our lack of good philosophical arguments is evidenced by our failure to enfranchise the worlds moral specialists: conservatives.

Conservatives are the moral specialists, not us. And we can, and have, measured that fact empirically.

But conservatives cannot reform their ancient moral code because their philosophy is metaphorical, not rhetorical.

Their moral arguments are not open to rational criticism.

Which is why they retreat into religion.

And we are not, with Rothbard’s ethics, either giving them a tool to express their morality in rational terms, so that THEY can reform their ideas.

By failing our role as the intellectual leaders of aristocratic egalitarian liberty, we drive the conservatives into religion as their only defense against the state.

Our failures: The failure of libertarianism. The failure to obtain liberty.

The failure to constrain the expansion of the state.

All of this is our fault.

We fail not because the world does not understand us.

It is because our prophet was terribly, terribly, immorally wrong.

The source of liberty – property rights – is the enfranchisement of any individual who will use the threat of violence to suppress free riding – cheating – anywhere and everywhere.

And all other arguments are cheap and failed attempts to obtain liberty at a discount by relying on the empty verbalism of the church.

LIBERTY REQUIRES POINTED WEAPONS, POINTED ARGUMENTS, AND THE WILLINGNESS TO USE THEM BOTH.

Everything else, is just a cheap and ineffective technique for trying to obtain liberty at a discount.

Curt Doolittle