Oh and good luck talking about this kind of stuff with anyone, basically. Trying to analyze society and culture in anything outside the extent of Enlightenment liberal individualism will just piss people off (like, really really piss them off) and they'll assume you're just trying to make them feel stupid.
Had a friend get pissed off because I kept dismissing his thought experiments as individualist abstractions that ignored material reality. He just ragequit the discussion because I wasn’t interested in constructing a beautiful logic model which could guide all people to enlightenment via fax and logik
Guy I knew who did this progressed into just melting his brain watching Mises Institute videos instead of even trying to think abstractly.
Now he sends me videos he wants me to watch that all consist of some utter libertarian stereotype equivocating some point about how actually Ayn Rand is to the left of FDR or something.
Oh and good luck talking about this kind of stuff with anyone, basically. Trying to analyze society and culture in anything outside the extent of Enlightenment liberal individualism will just piss people off (like, really really piss them off) and they'll assume you're just trying to make them feel stupid.
Had a friend get pissed off because I kept dismissing his thought experiments as individualist abstractions that ignored material reality. He just ragequit the discussion because I wasn’t interested in constructing a beautiful logic model which could guide all people to enlightenment via fax and logik
Guy I knew who did this progressed into just melting his brain watching Mises Institute videos instead of even trying to think abstractly.
Now he sends me videos he wants me to watch that all consist of some utter libertarian stereotype equivocating some point about how actually Ayn Rand is to the left of FDR or something.
Libertarianism, as Stephen Molyneux likes to say, has stolen the productivity of an entire generation of young men