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- inactive, on 06/28/2008, -0/+4Reminds me a lot of Freedomain Radio / Stefan Molyneux's argument for DRO's (or Dispute Resolution Organizations).
- JDenigma, on 06/28/2008, -1/+5"Rather than by means of a top-down reform, under the current conditions, one's strategy must be one of a bottom-up revolution."
That's exactly what I've been trying to get across to the people naively trying to promote the libertarian party by supporting Barr. They just don't get it. Of course some of them are likely carpet baggers who came over from the republican party after the McCain nomination so it's not like they would care about that anyway. - tvanwyk, on 06/29/2008, -1/+4"i look at Barr as my way of saying im not a Democrat or a Republican"
Certainly you can come up with a better way of saying that than voting for a douchebag, no? Like maybe just saying it instead of hiding behind a ballot? - lukeev, on 06/28/2008, -0/+3Bingo. It's exactly the model we need. Absolutely superb article.
I started a discussion on FDR about the similarity to the DRO model: http://freedomainradio.com/board/forums/p/15979/13 ... - BaconIsGood4You, on 06/30/2008, -1/+3Very interesting read. I would certainly like to see more discussion of this. I'm not about to throw limited government out the window yet, but I won't deny the Constitution, as intended by the Founders, has been a tragic failure, an exponential decay of liberty.
- randumbusername, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1i look at Barr as my way of saying im not a Democrat or a Republican. i know his chance of winning is minuscule to zero. part of making progress is marketing (which is a role i see for bob barr and the libertarian party) and there needs to be a strategy to undermine government at it's every turn. bob barr isn't perfect, he isn't a purist, but he is a start. it's better to start and readjust than to never start until perfection is achieved.
another thing is you can't place nice with these people (big government/democracy supporters) and you will not convert them. in every battle you go for the jugular. there are millions of people sitting on the sidelines that see the ***** for what it is but think they are alone. - CanTheSpam, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Freedom is a good idea no matter when it happens.
Government has gotten bigger and bigger throughout American history. It just happens to be during the dawn of the information age that the problems it creates are becoming so readily apparent. Big government would still be a tremendous problem, even if we didn't have digg.com. - edlv, on 07/01/2008, -0/+0One of the most thought provoking articles I have ever read. I wonder, however, if the focus--broad as it is--may not be too narrow. For example, there is no discussion of the subtle discarding of the common law basis of our society (and a citizen-based Grand Jury system could go a long way in holding public officials accountable for their crimes against the people; instead the Grand Jury has become an instrument of the State!!).
Another example is the failure of the author to acknowledge that the entire bases of societies (from individual concepts of morality to religious beliefs and forms to the size and nature of government) change depending on the nature of the economic age (Toeffler's "Third Wave"). What Hoppe favors in terms of governmental behavior was productive during the Agricultural Age, but was probably counterproductive during the Industrial Age (especially from about 1890-1960) during which those nation states with dogmatic religions and all the characteristics which both Hoppe and I deplore turned out to be the winners. Now the Information Revolution is proving that the very behaviors and structures which made us the richest and most powerful nation on earth are, in fact, impoverishing and enslaving us. Perhaps a return to the norms of governance of the Agricultural Age will be useful (even necessary), but it must be evaluated in light of what the internet means, not accepted blindly because it worked in the past.
Certainly the voluntary choice of the people US to appoint modern-day Luddites (Clear Channel, Rush Limbaugh, George Bush, Fox TV) to be leaders of the Information Revolution has been an unmitigated disaster. Can anyone imagine the absurdity of the factory owners of the 1850's being the Luddite destroyers of their own textile machines?!! - MnoruS, on 06/29/2008, -0/+0I'd like to hear from Mr. Hoppe his ideas on the transition to this insurance-based protection of rights, specifically how government money will be returned to people in a fair manner; protection of intellectual property, and whether competing insurance firms can agree on the terms for this; and protection of abandoned children, and how abortion would be treated.
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