From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 13:03:36 MDT
At 08:50 PM 9/9/03 -0700, Damien Sullivan wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:39:17PM +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> > http://www.techcentralstation.com/102802A.html
> >
> > (long version at http://www.davidbrin.com/libertarianarticle1.html)
The oxymoron of "Cheerful libertarianism" is almost as outrageous and
wonderful as "Compassionate libertarianism". Now wouldn't it be great to
have a coalescence of smart liberals and compassionate libertarians
starting a new party called CFFD - Compassionate libertarians for Democracy
:-) In fact, I'm surprised that no one is using a more contemporary name
for a political party, since wide use of extant acronyms and abbreviations
has become commonplace.
>Cool essay, especially the longer one. Anticipation vs. resiliency (a point
>he's made before) (or anticipation *and* resiliency), the Platonism of Ayn
>Rand's "Objectivism" (Is it falsifiable?) And the righteousness-addiction and
>individualism-training, although those are way old hat for me by now.
Rand is a primer for righteousness-addition. I just watched "The Passions
of Ayn Rand" again the other night on TV and felt sick afterward. I
realize that she may have had a neurological or chemical imbalance in her
50s, or perhaps it was a very difficult menopause, but gee wiz. The
followers reminded me of Hollywood Boulevard Scientologists who got "clear"
on a literary level.
>Evolution of society from an implicit to an explicit social contract.
Well, maybe just a little rope to leeway. :-)
Natasha
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