Quote: (09-15-2018 06:15 AM)Thomas Jackson Wrote:
The autistic libertarian view that all humans are interchangeable and GDP growth is the highest goal in policy also irks me. Nations and institutions come from the people if you replace the the people it is no longer the same nation.
Libertarianism was never supposed to be cucked. The movement was co-opted by classic liberals (egalitarians) who stripped the cultural and sociological aspects of it. In an article titled The Idea of Liberty is Western, Mises says:
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Western society was a community of individuals who could compete for the highest prizes. Eastern society was an agglomeration of subjects entirely depending on the good graces of the sovereigns. The alert youth of the West looks upon the world as a field of action in which he can win fame, eminence, honors, and wealth; nothing appears too difficult for his ambition. The meek progeny of Eastern parents know of nothing else than to follow the routine of their environment. The noble self-reliance of Western man found triumphant expression in such dithyrambs as Sophocles's choric Antigone hymn upon man and his enterprising effort and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Nothing of the kind has ever been heard in the Orient.
Here's Hans Hermann Hoppe trashing what he calls left-libertarians: