RE: "liberal media"

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 11:27:12 MDT

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    Anders wrote:

    >>
    >> ### Yes, freedom, and the use of non-violent methods is not a
    >> thinkable issue, once you become bound to the left or to the right.
    >
    > No, the real problem is the assumption that the current system is
    > given. Both of the speakers wanted freedom (but they meant different
    > things), none were in favor of violence (both thought rational people
    > would want to pay the taxes voluntarily) but they could not imagine a
    > situation where the current system is challenged by alternative
    > institutions, new lifestyles, new people or running a deliberate
    > political program to change the system (and the leftist speaker was
    > supposed to be a *leninist*!). So the big issue was the size of the
    > taxes, how much to redistribute to which poor and what treatments to
    > subsidize.

    ### You have it exactly right - the real problem is lack of imagination.

    There is a lot of people with reasonably honest motives, who are mired in
    short-sighted, self-defeating patterns of behavior, like group-oriented
    thinking, zero-sum games, futile attempts at achieving total control by
    means of laws and regulations, unchecked redistribution (aided by a hefty
    dose of greed) - and simply can't crawl out of their little boxes.

    In your experience, how many Swedes are able and willing to follow a
    libertarian line of reasoning, without exclaiming "Egoist!" halfway through
    the introduction?

    Rafal



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