On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 04/10/2011 05:57 PM, David Schneider wrote:
>
>> Do you mean left of center or left of you?
>>
>>
> My Utopian society is "libertarian right", but I know that Utopia means
> "not a place".
>
> Thus, many, many laws, unions, regulations, etc are needed in a large,
> complicated heterogeneous society of woefully imperfect Man to protect the
> weak from the strong and morally bankrupt. Note the Samuel Adams quote in
> my signature. (Yet the producers of society *hate* such regulations and
> will do anything -- like pick up and move away -- to get to a region -- i.e.
> leaving California, Michigan and New York for South Carolina, Georgia, Texas
> and the PRC -- where they can reap huge profits in relative peace.)
>
> So, that would seem to make me a State Capitalist.
>
> OTOH, I know that people dynamically react to their circumstances and there
> is a large segment of humanity that won't work if they don't have to. (I
> count myself in that number: I have to work, so I do. If I could somehow
> magically [i.e., from the Chinese] acquire a similar income w/o working,
> then I'd quit in a heartbeat.) There are huge swaths of people in this
> country who after generations of government assistance have forgotten how to
> or think they deserve not to work. They live in government-supplied
> "adequate poverty". (My Mother The Rural Mail Carrier can show some of them
> to you.) That corrodes society. Eventually it will collapse.
>
> That, then, would seem to make me a Libertarian.
>
> So, call me a Statist Libertarian that thinks it's all going to Hell in a
> handbasket.
>
>
>
Amen, I'll agree to that. Hell, Handbasket, dressed like a Chinese geisha.
> --
> "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
> the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
> corrupt."
> Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
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