The debasement of the value of a people’s currency is secondary to the debasement of the people and values themselves.
Dear readers, for my sins I am that most cursed of creature… An Ex-Libertarian.
There are indeed a shocking number of us, there might actually be more Ex-Libertarians today than there remain “Libertarians”.
Indeed the completeness of the failure and implosion of Libertarianism is matched only by the popular appeal it once had amongst the intelligent White Youth of America and in the wider anglosphere. Below a certain age cut-off Libertarianism once enjoyed more support than any George Bush style Republicanism or even many left wing ideologies that had traditionally dominated student politics…
Then Libertarianism imploded almost completely in repeated humiliations, ideological self-sabotage, rivalled purity spirals of retardation (somehow as lockdowns were happening the Reason crowd decided obscure arguments WRT “externalities” justified forced vaccination, whilst others performatively bought the George Floyd panic… Just as they buy every police brutality story)…
That an ideology and an intellectual leadership so bankrupt, so careerist, so self-sabotaging, and so actively hateful of the actual intelligent (slightly autistic) patriotic freedom loving white Americans who support them, could have won the support of those very same intelligent patriotic freedom loving white Americans? That requires explanation.
The Median Libertarian supporter was an highly intelligent 20 something educated, (or “some college”) White Male distinguished by his independence streak, patriotic disposition, disagreeable personality, unusual —often self-employed— career path, and willingness to read seemingly THOUSANDS of pages of economics, political theory, secret histories, and dissident articles… And with a infallible ear for Inauthenticity that would make perfect pitch opera singers and submarine sonar technicians blush.
Consistently tricking one such person would be a nightmare… How do you consistently get MILLIONS of them to act in concert against their own interests to advance the careers of mediocrities that hate them?
These people are like herding cats when you want them to do something productive and for their own interest!!! How do you consistently trick all of them at once in concert?
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It all centers around a very subtle sleight of hand.
Dear reader Answer a question for me…
What is Libertarianism?
Ask 10 Libertarians and you get 30 different answers… but one of the most consistent answers you’ll get is that Libertarianism is the founding ideology of America.
That Libertarianism is just the beliefs of the Founding Fathers and Patriots of 1776 carried forward.
Indeed this profound fondness for the founders is found in their rhetoric, symbolism, stated values, and almost everything they do… The TRAPPINGS and SYMBOLS of the American Founders and the 18th-19th century Patriot movements (See the Decemberist revolt in Russia, the 1837 Rebellion and Patriot War in Canada, the risings of 1848, the Fenian Raids and Irish Risings, and obviously the French Revolution, etc.) are all very dear to Libertarians in their individual countries…
You know what is NOT dear to Libertarians?
Any of the Writings, histories, or policies of those early patriotic thinkers, nor any of the works that they themselves were reading.
Rather for a Ideology that waves the Gadsden flag, vows to “Live Free or Die”, and is composed overwhelmingly of the palest white males you have ever laid eyes on and whose families invariably trace their roots back to the founding stock of their countries and regions… you will find narrowest smallest minority of founding stock thinkers in the bottomless corpus of Libertarian theorist who are read and promoted.
The 35 Million living Mayflower Descendants represent over 10% of the US population and 15% of the US white population… Yet somehow they represent far less than 10% of the prominent thinkers in an almost 90% white American movement.
Libertarianism in other Countries is no less perplexing in that it draws it’s support overwhelmingly from the country’s autistic white founding stock, yet promotes writers, thinkers, commentators, speakers, etc. From anyone but that stock.
This is of course true even of the texts they read.
The American Founders, despite being THE FOUNDERS of American liberty are not read in any prominence by Libertarians, indeed you could go dozens or even hundreds of hours through libertarian podcasts without a specific individual founder being mentioned or quoted as all but a hand waving symbol “the founders wouldn’t want [thing I don’t want]” not even requiring a sourcing or citation from one of the actual founder.
So which thinkers ARE they reading and discussing?
All these intellectual sensitive young men with endlessly systematizing minds and the will and curiosity to read thousands if not 10s of thousands of pages of dry economic theory?
What are they reading?
They’re reading Jewish theorists from the Weimar Era of Axis humiliation.
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Goyslop is a term of abuse that’s come out of the internet health community to describe ultra-processed factory assembled food and other goods that are made to resemble things which were once real substantive products so as to trick you into buying the slop. They were real foods and products, but are now cheapened, adulterated, and even poisoned to the point of resembling real food and other goods not at all. “They were men once” in the words of Aragorn.
Fast food is the classic example:
In the early 90s and Before McDonalds enslopified French Fries were actually healthy, or would certainly qualify as healthy today.
Across decades Brands which had built real estate and business empires off of the quality and flavor of their goods, realized that their core clientele had aged with them, lacked functional tastebuds anymore, often had developed psychological complexes around the foods they ate as kids… And so would not notice or would even tolerate NOSE-DIVING quality of the actual goods.
Wide Sections of young people might be openly repulsed by McDonalds and other fast food places, but people raised on it as kids or aging boomer demographics whose tastebuds are fading like their eyesight either don’t notice or are willing to tolerate that the actual food has collapsed in quality and that what was once fresh beef patties are now ultra-processed industrial amalgams of bottom grade beef, soy, chemical preservatives, industrial lubricants like “vegetable oil”… And other Slop ingredients and fillers.
You’ll notice this happening to every product with a brand that was once valuable. Hotels that were once good are now crap, Film Franchises that used to be defined by Auteur film makers with vision, are now made in the cheapest low risk manner possible by diversity hire producers and committees…
The product doesn’t go all at once (usually), that might be noticeable. But slowly everything that was good about it is adulterated, substituted, shrinkflated, and otherwise EnSlopified… Because the owners realized the brand was sufficient to keep ensnaring the aging, the gullible, and the young who didn’t know any better.
Also, as the internet does in most things, the Term identifies Jewish financiers as the cause of the Slopification… With the similarity between the roving financier practices at public corporations and traditional Jewish business practices, the McDonalds food scientist as the stereotypical unscrupulous Jew adulterating vodka, being a matter which can be debated one way or the other, but which the internet has latched onto.
Here food scientist Eugene Crabs is introducing SpongeBob the the cost saving Magic of Canola Oil
But My Contention however is that LIBERTARIANISM is a Goyslop Ideology.
That Libertarianism the Ideology resembles the Patriot Militia ideology of the American Founders and the Nationalist Patriot Revolts of the 18th and 19th century, about as much as Grocery Store Velveeta instant Melt “Cheese Product” Resembles a heritage cheese from the Village of Cheddar in Somerset.
Left: Gas station Nacho “cheese” dispenser. Right: A wedge of Unpasteurized West Country Cheddar cheese, made in Somerset
Across decades the Liberty Ideology of the Founders has been adulterated, the harsh edges, flavors, structure, and logic shorn off… The racial and ethnic particularity and harsh words apologized for, censored, and excused away; all talk of violence or mere rudeness that might be necessary for an effective movement denounced and rejected; all manly honor and opinions about the relation of the sexes shamed and chased away…
So that now instead of the functional warlike Patriot Liberty ideology the Founders left for their “Posterity” their flesh and blood SONS, there exists instead a Goyslop ideology which is supposed to appeal and be marketable to all ethnicities, all races, all 72 genders and sexual identities, offend no one, and CERTAINLY NOT make anyone question if they shouldn’t actually do what the founders DID and defend their lands and liberty by scalping Foreign trespassers, burning the skin off tyrants and collaborators with hot tar and feathers, and certainly not launching armed revolts against a tyrannical state for opposing the manifest destiny and interests of your National Ethnicity.
Indeed we see the exact same linguistic transformation. Not one of the American founders or fighters of the revolutionary war called themselves “Libertarians”, just as no 17th century Cheese-Maker in Summerset ever referred to his Cheddar cheese as “Kraft Cheddary Cheesey Snack-Spread”. The Founders referred to themselves not as “Libertarians” but “Patriots” or when organized “Patriot Militias” (a term you might recognize from the 90s), just as the The Sommerset Cheese-Maker refers to his product not as “Cheddary Cheesey Snack Spread”… but Cheese.
Indeed use the word “Patriot” around a Libertarian and you will immediately get the same qualifications, nuances, “well actually”s, and spin that you’d get from Lawyer at Kraft if you told them you wanted a good “Cheese” to serve on your Burger.
Just like other slop products it has no appeal to anyone not already nostalgic for American Liberty actually meant something, and most non-senile connoisseurs of the actual Founding Patriot Ideology complete with its classical education, warlike sense of honor, Ethno-supremacism, manifest destiny, and frontier values actively despise the new inoffensive cosmopolitan “Liberty product”.
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Why Do Libertarians Hate the word “Patriot”
You might think the Libertarian aversion to “Patriot” has something to do with the “Patriot Act” or the War on Terror… but their aversion precedes that by decades.
Rather Libertarianism is an Anti-Racist, Universalist, Post-National, Egalitarian ideology… They just think everyone should have “Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome” (you see why libertarian inevitably start to support open borders), many will object to that phrasing now… but there is no substantive change in libertarian ideology from when that line was popularized.
By contrast the American Patriots were NATIONALISTS. The American Revolution was indeed the first Nationalist “Bourgeoise” Revolution. Far from believing in Universal egalitarian values, anti-racism, or “tolerance” as a general principle… The Founding fathers were profound ETHNO-NATIONALISTS. They owned multi-generational slaves of other ethnicities. They scalped Natives born on the same “magic dirt” as them, George Washington even fought the existing process that scalp bounties could be paid on French Canadians who accompanied natives in the French-Indian War. And many Founders would go on to Scalp Mexicans, Spaniards, and stranger ethnicities.
The meaning of the Indian Headdresses worn during Boston Tea Party was not to trick the British (the protest wouldn’t have worked if the British had been tricked into thinking Indians had actually done it)… But rather it was a Statement of Ethno-genesis. That the protestors considered themselves a new Indigenous people to the Americas and were breaking their bonds of kinship and identity with the British who were tyrannizing them.
The significance of the Founders bringing forth “A New Nation” was not a statement about a new “government” being created out of the Articles of Confederation (Indeed that would not have been much to be proud of… Some people make new governments every decade), but rather that they had become a New Ethnic People… The same way we might speak of the German Nation or Polish Nation persisting across any number of monarchies, regimes, foreign occupations, World Wars, unification, dissolutions, etc. The Ethnic Nation persists… And the Americans had created of themselves a new Nation.
Do you see why an ideology propagated by immigrant Jews in the midst of the Desegregation movements and the ethnic tumult of the 50s and 60s would be violently opposed to the word “Patriot”?
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Young Americans who have not read the Classical Authors these great people studied and revered. Who have not read ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War (Vol 1, 2 , 3) , nor Xenophon’s Anabasis and Hellenica (Vol 1 and 2) nor Livy’s History of Rome (Vol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (the missing 3 are easy to find in other editions)) nor indeed Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy…. Nor any of the traditional classic texts of the Ancient and Early modern world that before the 2nd world war were core to creating a Gentleman… and massively influential on the founders.
Young Liberty Minded Americans have instead read the vastly DRYER and HARDER to read thousand page economic treatises… of whom?
Mises? Hayek? Rothbard? Friedman? Ayn Rand? Walter Block?
Walter Block’s Portrait at Mises.org
Men (and Woman) who in contrast to the founding fathers were largely not Americans by birth or were second generation later immigrants, were not frontiersmen, fought no battles for liberty, did NOT win any wars, gained NO political power, nor founded any great nations on their ideas.
Yet bright young White Anglo-Saxon Americans, many of whom grew up on rural frontiers, many of them directly descended from Veterans of the Revolution, Civil War, or Cowboy Pioneers, or direct descendants from the Mayflower… People who have lived and experienced America’s tradition of liberty, and have intimate family traditions of fighting for liberty, collectively turned en-masse for an education in their own liberty, national tradition, and frontier values… to Cosmopolitan foreign Jewish academic, many of whom still spoke with the thick accents of their central and Eastern European homelands.
But why?
Seriously I cannot Emphasize to you enough how Cosmopolitan-Jewish Libertarianism is.
I visited Porc-Fest (the Porcupine Festival) in Upstate New Hampshire the other year. I had stopped really considering myself a Libertarian, but wanted to see the Free State Project’s experiment in Ethnogenesis of moving all the Autistic white disagreeable libertarians to one of the smallest, Whitest, most rural states in the Union for myself. By coincidence I was visiting New York City for unrelated reasons immediately before. So I left New York, following the Hudson river valley up back to Canada stopping at West Point to see a the Army’s Military Academy, crossed the St Lawrence river at Kingston and the Cottage country of the 1000 Islands for another errand… Then the next day drove another 10 hours following The St Lawrence River, across the Rapids at Grande Isle in Quebec, through the outlying Laurentian Mountains… Back across the US Border into Vermont, reversing the route Benedict Arnold took in 1775 to lay Siege to Quebec at the outset of the Revolution, through the green Mountains and Victory State Forest to Lancaster, New Hampshire… Home of Porc-Fest and at the former Border of the 1832-1835 Independent Republic of Indian Stream.
And at Porc-Fest… In the most remote and rural part of America, in such an old frontier New England part of the US you’re inches from forgotten independent Republics and old revolutionary war battle tracks… The headline event was a Debate between Gene Epstein and David Freidman, two Octogenarian Jewish Economists who commented that the debate was something of a continuation of their previous debate months before at the Soho Forum in New York City… 3 blocks from where I had gotten Chinese Food 20 hours of driving before hand.
If that seems Artificial or strange, all these white 20-50 somethings gathered in the New Hampshire woods to hear two octogenarian Jewish academics from New York and Chicago? It is.
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The common innocent reason to read authors of other ethnicities and to forego your own traditional texts and modes of thinking… is because it works.
The Meiji Restoration
The Japanese after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 buried themselves in European texts, technology, protocols and culture… Because the Europeans had them outgunned. The Japanese adopted foreign traditions and modes of thought and copied all they could, because they couldn’t tell at a glance what was the secret sauce that gave the Europeans victory seemingly without limit… And so they copied everything they could, and only began to reintegrate their own nationalist cultural artifacts once they had experience with the the state of the art and could judge which of their own traditions wouldn’t doom them to conquest.
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By contrast Liberty minded American White intellectuals and precocious teenagers were abandoning the texts and traditions of the Founders who had actually WON. Had actually defeated tyranny. Had actually attained political power. Had actually created regimes of liberty… And the Classical Literary and Historic traditions which had produced those founders and the Gentlemen conquerors of the American 19th Century, the industrial revolution, and the age of Exploration. In favor of foreign losers.
People who had been driven from their countries in disgrace, people who had failed to defeat or even send a solitary volley of lead towards the people they considered tyrants… Mises and Hayek mourned the fall of the Austrian Empire and had fought for Austria in WW1, but they’d had ZERO success in producing a functional state after the war, and Mises even expressed contempt for having been forced to fight for the empire he subsequently mourned the fall of (Hayek by contrast was decorated for bravery).
Mises was the only one to attain any notable political power, having been the head economist of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce in the interwar period we associate with the Weimar republic in Germany… Then fleeing Austria in 1934, years before Anschluss, after the internal political failure of his faction.
And yet that’s the most successful of them in terms of any real world impact.
How did the Austrian School achieve such a coup in American intellectual life that it enjoyed such esteem among American Liberty Minded White Youth… Forming both a minor faction in American Republicanism and succeeding in taking over the American Libertarian party, explicitly, with the Success of the Mises Caucus (though the Libertarian party was not exactly functional or founders minded before hand)…
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How did the Austrian School, an ideology that failed so completely IN AUSTRIA, dig itself so thoroughly into American political discourse?
You want the real answer?
Libertarianism is a State Backed Ideology
The Career path of Nobel Prize Winning free-market economist Milton Friedman. You will notice that despite “advocating” the Free Market, Friedman never once interacted with the Free Market. Indeed his entire Career was a study in Central Planning, even starting his Career in the “National Resource Planning Board”.
Over the course of the past few decades Westerners have had a harsh brutal reality drilled into their naive little minds:
There is no such thing as a non-profit institution.
Someone is benefiting.
And the most proximate profiteer of supposedly charitable or non-profit organizations are almost always their senior salaried employees… Who can often make 6 figures or more doing what is supposedly “Charity work” but what is in fact often largely money laundering and patronage for some political entity or influence network.
The Modern “Non-Governmental-Organization” or ThinkTank or Charity is almost always some means of corruption or influence peddling… Indeed in much of the world the “Non-Governmental Organizations” taken on a joke dimension, as so many NGOs are funded not by their own governments… but foreign intelligence agencies, or foreign billionaires who receive choice business contracts and regulatory carveouts for having acted as the tools of various intelligence agencies and national governments (Think Soros, the Addelsons, etc.)… The “Non-Governmental” is a statement of foreign allegiance.
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Now apply this analysis backwards… We need not even speculate as to the funding sources of various Libertarian thinktanks and institutes in the modern day… Instead note how almost every single prominent early Libertarian got their money.
They were all professors. [With one exception.]
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Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rothbard, Block none of these people survived off of book sales, a business they had built, family money, wars of conquest… None of them made like Ted Kazinsky or William Gayly Simpson and lived like Zarathustra writing the truth no one wanted to hear from some lonely mountain top. None of them came to their intellectual careers later in life after throwing their professional reputations away on a matter of principle. None of them robbed banks to sustain themselves like communist dissidents of the early 20th century, or the Silent Brotherhood Neo-Nazis of the 80s. None of them applied their Free-Market anti-government principles and took to the lives of Drug Kingpins (though in his sincerity Ross Ulbricht later would)
All of them had university professorships. Most Tenure track.
Milton Friedman’s son David Friedman, himself a prominent libertarian intellectual, completed degrees in Chemistry and Physics… Only to become a Professor of Law without EVER having completed a course credit in Law, nor having ever practiced law. How does that happen? Well I imagine it helps when your dad is a Senior regime economist and was given the Nobel Prize for his life’s work… not least the Income Withholdings Tax.
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Now I’ll admit my Bias… I’m a white heterosexual Zoomer from Canada.
The idea of EVER getting a professorship in any field strikes me as a nigh impossibility irrespective of intelligence or effort if undertaken honestly and in a spirit of intellectual curiosity. I attended the top university in Canada for my undergrad, and I knew men and women with PERFECT GRADES across the board 4.0s that could not get into Law School, Med School an MBA program, etc…. Because they were white. They were often told this to their face.
We knew what corruption, ethnic nepotism, and often open prostitution it took to become a Student at a Law School… A Professorship? Especially in a soft subject? We KNEW what it took to become a Professor.
We knew which of our Professors were HIV positive from a lifetime of bending over for “networking” and career advancement (many of them openly told us this in class as a matter of pride to “destigmatize” “queer ways of living”). We knew which of our professors had done dirty work for various political campaigns. We knew which of our professors were tied to international criminal networks. We knew which of our professors had manufactured fake crimes against various ethnicities and fake statistics to justify government policy. We knew which of our professors in international relations and at various “centers for peace” had enabled regime changes and various massacres and genocides… We knew which of the visiting professors had probably personally fellated John McCain and George Soros. (In the literal sense… She was not intelligent enough to get in those positions otherwise nor spend that much time with two such power players, even with the female diversity boost)
So maybe I’m biased… but when I see someone was “given” a Professorship (because 6 figure positions are just handed out like lollypops at parades) my very first instinct is that that they’re being compensated for crimes they committed against their countries in their previous positions, lies they propagated, ethnic nepotism networks they’re part of, or aging powerbrokers they slept with…
So I’m biased, I hear “Professor” and I think of a Diversity Hire Prostitute/Mobster/War-Criminal with ties to Ukraine and Israel. Presumably it was not always quite this overt.
But Libertarianism is remarkable even with this frame however, because of how many of their prominent thinkers were given professorships… Despite not having ever had a career in America or the Anglosphere, and having been chased from their previous positions in various states of ill will, with works that weren’t even written in English.
For reference, usually when you lose your career or position in society… You start over in your new country near the bottom. No professors of Marxist-Leninist theory lost their job in Russia when the USSR collapsed, only to land Professorships in Chicago or New York. German and Japanese professors largely had to suffer through their countries’ losses in poverty, with many even barred from teaching, imprisoned, or Executed… Yet these Professors who lost all standing in Austria when the Weimar era regime that backed them collapsed… whose only military careers were as conscripts serving in the ENEMY force of the US in World War 1… They Get prominent professorships in America and the UK almost instantly?
And just a reminder these were economists and social theorists… Not great inventors or physicists like Werner Von Braun who would justify something like Operation Paperclip.
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Libertarianism indeed resembles almost no other Philosophical school in its origins, funding, the Career path of it’s early thinkers… Except for one you might have heard of: The Frankfurt School.
Yes the Frankfurt School, The Weimar Era post-Marxist German-Jewish school of Social Theorists that gave us Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Habermas… And which most thinkers trace the origin of woke modern Gay Race Communism to.
The Austrian School and Frankfurt School even follow the same naming convention… and yes both are over 80% Jewish despite being from Germany and Austria where the overwhelming majority populations were German and Austrian, respectively.
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These professorships were not “given” away… any more than Professorships are “given” today.
The Early libertarian thinkers were, with one exception, state funded and backed through educational institutes, Mises himself was brought to the US with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation (now synonymous with US influence ops) and their Ideological thought was very explicitly pushed and subsidized, largely as Alternative ideologies to National Socialism, and Nationalism in General, and as ethnic allies in the contest for Dominance of the Western World.
Mises was partially employed at New York University studying currency for the Pan Europa Movement led by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi.. Yes. That Kalergi. Which even if we ignore conspiracy theories about Kalergi and the Great replacement, is significant because it means the most prominent and “extreme” Anti-State intellectual turned to by American Dissidents opposed to Globalism, foreign influence, and the international regulatory regime… Was himself one of the early Architects of Globalism and the EU.
There is one exception though, and that exception is Ayn Rand.
A Legacy Media Ideology
I consider Ayn Rand to be one of the great American Writers.
Whatever the problems with her philosophy… Atlas Shrugged particularly, despite petering out towards the end, starts with maybe the best 500-800 pages of American Dystopian-Mystery-Romance-BDSM ever written…. Which you’d think would be a niche genre (and was when Rand first wrote) but is now maybe the biggest genre in the world, almost single-handedly keeping Barnes and Noble standing.
Rand defined that genre, and she did it very well.
Ayn Rand would have gotten obscenely rich off her lightning in a bottle writing in almost any era. Indeed if you look at Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa(1748), The Marquis De Sade’s Justine(1791), John Norman’s Gor Novels, Or 50 Shades of Grey, you can see that Genre/mystery/suspense Sex-Danger with Philosophical musings ALWAYS sells well, even with the most extreme dissident politics.
I should just write these books… I should do it. I should pull the trigger. Stop trying to start a revolution and just get rich off the Goon-pocalypse instead…
Comment below if you want me to start writing erotica instead of revolutionary theory.
However Rand made her money honestly, in the free market, and She’s not an Austrian Jew! She’s a Russian Jew…. And she never once had a career in academia. However, I’ve always found her particular level of success ever so slightly more than I could believe.
Ayn Rand was writing politically dissident, right wing, atheistic, Scifi, Sex novels in the 1950s…
And yet I can look up DOZENS of black and white and technicolor long-form televsion interviews of her from when her novels were new in the 50s, 60s, and 70s…
I cannot emphasize this enough:
Television was a SCARCE resource at this time. There were 3 channels, they had to cater to the entire demographic spectrum, cartoons for kids, soap operas for stay at home moms, the evening news for dad, sports, Variety shows, talk shows, westerns…
Getting an interview on TV is a massive break for a writers even today… In this era when you could have had nearly a monopoly on a 3rd of tv viewers, 10-20 Million Americans or more… That’s a huge break…
And they gave it to Ayn Rand. For a half-hour+. Multiple times. Across years!
(^This interview is 3 parts, half an hour on just Ayn Rand, in 1959)
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I Cannot emphasize enough… Ayn Rand is terrible TV guest.
They’re hyping her up as a philosopher which is weird…. No Left-wing Television producer before or since would concede that of Ayn Rand (“Self styled philosopher” maybe) , but in itself the median TV watcher does not care about philosophers, so that’s weird on its own (I challenge you to turn on the television next time you’re at your Grandmother’s and find a philosopher of any sort on any channel)… . But also her philosophy is entirely contrary to most Americans, she was a free love Atheist Jew who praised “The Virtue of Selfishness”… On the face of it you’d expect the median American to get disgusted with her and turn off the television… And you expect Leftists TV producers to not WANT to put her in front of them at all.
But that’s not the real problem.
Her Russian Accent. If you had the Slightest amount of TV Static coming through your Bunny-Ears I’m fairly certain you would never understand a word she was saying. Something any Television producer would notice in the first minute of speaking with her.
And yet they’re giving her ALL OF THIS, to 20 million viewers in-spite of her being a RW extremist whose values contradict not only every political American administration, but American religion, civic values, and the politics of basically every TV producer who ever lived…
I checked. I struggled to find black and White interviews of Robert Heinlein, Rodger Zelazny, Philip K Dick, John Norman, or even fellow Jew Isaac Asimov (who seemed to have an easier time getting on TV later on) doesn’t really have any interviews before 1975. Ordinary top of their game SciFi authors simply weren’t going on TV until really the late 70s. The only exceptions I could find was Aldous Huxley who’s hit Brave New World was 27 years old modern classic at the time of his 1959 interview, and an interview with Jewish television producer Rod Sterling of Twilight Zone fame, who was already a television staple.
Yet Ayn Rand was getting put in front of millions of Americans, thick Russian Accent and all…
And I think that this was a very specific choice.
Just as every Legacy Media outlet’s chose in 2016-17, at the same time they were “Deplatforming extremists”, to suddenly have then unknown Richard Spencer on prime time television multiple times asking him soft-ball questions about how he could be such a firebrand rebellious racist who’s attractive and doesn’t play by the rules… That was also a choice.
In the modern day we are all trained to recognize that this is how you know a “Dissident” thinker is astroturfed… Think how Brilyn Hollyhand immediately got endless television interviews within days of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
They get endless hours of free publicity on Legacy Media television which portrays them as dangerous, but never actually goes for the throat and tried to end their career, cancel them or cause embarrassment… Real dissidents they will studiously pretend don’t exist unless and until they can find a sex scandal, criminal behavior, or “Nigger moment” (in utterance or behavior) with which to try and destroy them.
Why would you not think this this is true of prominent figure in the past?
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Indeed when you look at the Careers of almost all the prominent Libertarians, you find people who had extraordinary access to Legacy Media.
Yes this was the start of Schwarzenegger’s political career… And yes, he was this buried in Reaganomics, “Freedom”, and The American way… And then said “Screw your freedom”, get force vaxxed, and don’t be an Antisemite… That seems a good Barometer for the sincerity of the other people in that Milieu.
Reason editor Nick Gillespie got basically all of his fame from appearances on Real Time with Bill Maher which is second only to Oprah and Ellen as a clearing house for influence peddling(Bill Maher is the place I first heard the name Chrystia Freeland… I swear her life is just a map of Influence networks, read Red Notice by Bill Browder).
Prominent Libertarian podcaster Thomas E. Wood’s 2004 book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History was not so politically incorrect that legacy media wouldn’t promote it on Fox News, give him reviews in prominent papers, and list it on the New York Times bestseller’s list (they will just not list far right, self-published, and other books they want to disappear… There have even been lawsuits about the lost revenue from writers not being listed… NYT successfully defended themselves that their “bestsellers list” is “editorial content” merely “informed by the numbers”)
And of course famous Libertarian podcaster and comedian Dave Smith, despite being an alleged New Media figure… has in fact been on various Fox News shows constantly for almost a decade.
This is true of almost all prominent Libertarians you’ve heard of, not just the early academics. TV appearances, book reviews, academic positions, Contributions to various papers, for “dissidents” the regime is shockingly content to give them microphones.
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The Innocent Theory
At its most innocent one might say that Libertarianism is in fact an ideology uniquely ADAPTED for the legacy media and academic patronage landscape.
That Libertarianism’s “Evolution” of the original American Patriot ideology: doing away with all ethnic, national, and racial language to create a universalist language of “individual liberty” (Itself not exactly a concept found in 1776, more later) that can justify things the founders never even contemplated or indeed might not have ever in a million years have supported such as Homosexual Marriage, Drug legalization, Abortion, interracial marriage, no fault divorce, antidiscrimination as a moral good if debatably a legal good, pornography, decriminalization of drugs (George Washington waged a land-war against American citizens over a Whiskey rebellion)… So as to appeal to Leftist TV producers and academics to allow them into elite institutions… Whilst selectively appealing to “antiwar” values, “Civil Liberties”, “Christianity”, “Empathy” what have you so as to dodge or denounce anyone such as McVeigh or any other extremist “Patriot Militia” that might think the values of the founders, or “Inalienable liberties” ought be defended with the violence of the founders.
Live Free or Die… but come on, we don’t we don’t want anyone to get hurt.
Rather Libertarians disappear into geopolitical, economic, and legal obscurantism ( my god the hundreds of hours I’ve wasted on legal and economic theory)… not because these are at all effective levers with which to actually alter society, or elevate the fact that they are subjected to thousands of intolerable tyrannies every day… But because these are matters dry enough and obscure enough that until relatively recently you could take dissident positions on them and still have a career in the Media, Government, or Academia (as long as it wasn’t a dissident position on the Civil Right Act, Antidiscrimination, women’s suffrage, or really anything touching any of the regime’s pet interest groups.. Libertarians even get very quiet when you ask about just outright abolishing welfare or any of their “mean” policies or obvious implications: Ask a libertarian if “taxation is theft” and “all taxes are enforced with violence” whether or not it is self defense to assassinate IRS agents? The Founding Father’s actually said “Yes” with regards to British Tax Collectors, though the first wave they just seared their flesh with hot tar then covered them in feathers.
Thus Libertarianism is an evolved ideology… Not to ever effect politics or achieve anything regarding political outcomes, nor even, as it might at first present itself, as a realistic political philosophy about the nature of state violence… but rather it basically exists as a way for RW intellectuals to talk themselves into obscurantist positions which was permitted in legacy media and academia, such that you could have a career whilst sincerely deluding yourself you were having a slow but important effect on high level politics… when your actual effect, unknown to you, was that you were being employed and subsidized by the regime to dissipate populist energies and rebellious intellectual youths into wasting their time on irrelevant legal and economic theories with which they’d never alter the world… Whilst consciously and unconsciously directing them away from the actual Patriot ideology of the founders, and certainly the classical Renaissance, Roman, and Greek writers on Warfare, politics and violence that have traditionally allowed one to alter the world… Nor the 20th century Extremist writers like Lenin, Trotsky, Hitler and Mussolini… Who themselves were reading those classical authors (Trotsky even brought back the Ancient Roman practice of “Decimation” for his Red Army conscripts after reading about it in Livy and Plutarch).
That is the innocent theory… That Libertarianism just organically evolved to outcompete Patriot ideology and wear the trappings of the Founding as a skinsuit over anti-discrimination and anti-violence, because those were the incentives academia and the media created.
Note: In America there are ZERO laws preventing you from advocating discrimination or violence. Brandonberg V. Ohio held in 1969 that even KKK marches advocating “Revengeance” on Blacks and Jews was legal as long as it remained the abstract advocacy of violence and law breaking… not “Imminent Lawless Action” against a proximate specific target such as a mob boss ordering a hit or a revolutionary partisan ordering a mob to kill a specific individual standing in front of them. Indeed you will notice communists in the past and to this day have never held back from openly demanding abstract violence, and do not endure legal consequence because all their theory and words are abstracted… ICE and NAZIS must be punched and face violence, and the borgoise,reactionaries, and counter revolutionaries killed… but at the actual specific moment in proximate contact they conciously lie and shout “Hands up don’t shoot”, “Peaceful protest”, “Just be a good person” even as those about them throw molotov cocktails and try to cave in a cop’s skull, or beat and kill a 17 year old.
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The Conspiracy Theory: An Iron Curtain with Painted Fields
That’s the Innocent Reading… but lets take it back to Ayn Rand in 1959.
For reference it is NOT the case that Far Right thinkers with or without odd sexual proclivities are or were just invited on to have friendly longform political discussions today or on 1950s television (as much as I’m sure your grandmother would love to hear from me). Even modern libertarian figures who are really skilled at television like Dave Smith usually only get a few seconds on a panel, or like Fuentes on Pierce Morgan are brought on in the hopes that a skilled hatchet man and Smear merchant can take them down a notch (this is interpreting Fuentes as innocently as possible). Most far right thinkers often struggled to even get published at all (which might not be surprising to anyone who’s tried to get published today… Thus the revolution in self-publishing)
Indeed one of the most prominent Right Wing political books of 1950s —depending on the source, the second best selling non-fiction Right Wing book of 1950s (After William Buckley’s Astroturfed “God and Man at Yale”)— Was Colonel John Beaty’s The Iron Curtain Over America [FULL BOOK]… a work he commented on struggling to get published at all.
Yes that is 4 Retired WW2 Flag Officers praising a dissident RW Book as the most important work on US Politics and Communist Infiltration.
John Beaty… Despite being a Best selling Author, University Professor, US Army Intelligence Colonel, his work being praised by Flag Officer after Flag Officer, and Getting 11 printings in 3 years… Was NEVER Interviewed on Television as far as I can tell, despite being a seasoned university lecturer who spoke unaccented English.
And when you know what his book is about you will immediately see why.
Beaty was a pre-war professor of Eastern European languages, history, and ethnicities. (this is why he got promoted so fast in WW2) and after the war he wrote Iron Curtain of America on the Role of German-Jewish (“Khazar”)-American relations in the war… And specifically the role of Jews, Communism, and Zionism in running American foreign policy (yes it was a thing all the way back then).
Beaty’s work is the Rosetta Stone of basically all conspiracism and rightwing dissidence. Basically everything that was thought by the pre-war old right about forbidden subjects and everything that was thought about the post-war dissident right about those subjects finds its connection in Beaty’s book. Indeed Pat Buchanan’s book on WW2 even partially shares a title with one of Beaty’s chapters.
Beaty even discusses in depth what US Intelligence knew and concluded about the Holocaust and the 6 Million figure… Going into vastly more detail than Churchill, Eisenhower, or Charles De Gaul even did in their books, and even most Jewish scholars didn’t really tackle til the 60s. Indeed I think almost all non-standard takes on the Holocaust and Final Solution basically trace their origin to Beaty’s book.
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But whatever one concludes about his specific theories and sourcing on this or that, the Main focus of his book, where he gets the title… Is the subject of privately enforced state-backed cartelized censorship in American publishing, Newspapers, Radio, and Television.
I don’t think I need to inform or insist at all forcefully that Legacy Media is, was, and remains a tightly controlled tool of government, intel agencies, billionaire, and special interest censorship, propaganda, and control… this is so obvious that even famed (alleged) Epstein Client, Noam Chomsky has written a (punch pulling) book on how the News Media “Manufactures Consent” for the regime’s propaganda goals, wars, etc.
The OG Glowniggas
But whereas we now basically accept that this period of Manufactured Consent existed, the propaganda “Matrix” was real, and we’re all more or less “Red-Pilled” that like Neo we were living in a dream world maliciously designed to enslave us…and possibly still are via social media astroturfing and censorship… See my recent post:
Colonel John Beaty predicted it, documented its rise, documented the early censorship… And identified who, how, and why people would be censored for the next 80 years. IN 1951!
And he Identified this with Jewish influence networks and ideological circles cornering the market on Film, Publishing, and Television.
Now you may object to his theory… but the simple fact is he predicted EXACTLY that antisemitism, Jewish involvement in Bolshevism, “Discrimination”, and Jewish WW2 deaths would be the subject of the the fiercest censorship…. At a time when this was not at all Obvious.
In 1951 you might logically think that Anti-communist McCarthyist censorship might dominate US media. Or that the Existing Hay’s Code enforcing restrictions on sexual content might simply expand into a hyper-puritanism. Even Brown vs. Board was still years away… you might logically think in 1951 that the US government might conclude that Questioning Jim Crow or racial agitation would be too destabilizing and ban it.
Instead in 1951 Colonel Beaty predicted that Anti-Semitism and leftist sacred cows, something on no American’s radar, would become the subject of the most aggressive censorship regime in American history, he accurately predicted that this would be carried out not by the government, but by the network of owners producers and financiers of Jewish heritage cornering the market on the industrial means of mass media distribution.
And he named the individuals actually implementing it. He described this Jewish/Leftist censorship regime as an “Iron Curtain Over America”.
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What he did not predict however! Was that “dissident” Jewish intellectuals professing right wing ideologies would be astroturfed, given wildly fortunate breaks, and tolerated to say things that any Gentile would lose his Job over. To this day you can hear boomer and Gen X pundits “This thinker’s so important BECAUSE HE’S JEWISH, and that lets him criticize them”… No, THEY LET Jewish pundits criticize Leftism, Israel, Antidiscrimination, what have you because they believe, either implicitly or with explicit assurance, that such a Jewish pundit even professing “Far Right” values, will have ultimate loyalty to their ethnicity.
And indeed they consistently do.
Thus figures like Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Walter Block, etc. Are consistently allowed to criticize communism in the harshest of terms because they never under any circumstance identify the Ethnic component that all pre-war anti-communists identified as the core factor of Marxist-Leninism (two Jews).
Lenin’s paternal grandfather was Jewish. Saying he’s not ethnically Jewish is like say the Prince of Wales’ son in not a Royal… he’s in direct line of descent!
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Likewise despite preaching antidiscrimination and multiethnic universalism in America, in direct contradiction of the actual Founder’s own explicit words… A shocking percentage of Jewish libertarians (yes “not all”) are avowed Zionists! Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Walter Block all publicly opposed American Segregation… but had nothing but praise for the segregationist regime of Israel.
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This is why EVERY SINGLE mainstream Right Wing ideology seems to be dominated by a 40-80% Jewish influencer and intellectual class, despite Jews making up only 2% of the American population.
There is extraordinary ethnic nepotism, subsidization, favoritism, toleration of variation from American Taboos… Etc. If you are Jewish.
Whereas if you are a Gentile, all those Jewish owned and controlled institutions of Legacy media inherently see you as a threat, and inherently suspect that you are an Antisemite or Fascist hiding your power-level because good Goys don’t become Patriots and Right Wingers. And they’ll be damned if they let some Goyish Nazi have a platform at their Television station, university or publishing house.
Thus the EXACT SAME ARGUMENTS. THE EXACT SAME WORDS might be spoken by a Jewish Right Wing intellectual on legacy media from 1950-2025 with maybe a kerfuffle but almost never long term career impact… whereas when spoken in private or published in an article will get a Gentile intellectual cancelled and cast out of public society.
And people wondered why libertarians, where your authenticity and seriousness is communicated by your willingness to violate taboos, somehow wound up an 70-80%+ Jewish intellectual class.
Because everyone else was cancelled, bankrupted, and lost their teaching contracts.
This was by conscious design. Indeed even leftwing Jewish thinkers like Chomsky say that this was conscious design… They just say it was “the corporations”.
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In Conclusion: Towards A New Patriotism and a New Classical Education
Libertarianism is NOT America’s founding ideology.
Indeed if you ever point to any of the founder’s actual policies:
-Scalp Bounties on violent Indian tribes (Analogous to Illegals with ICE Detainers) -Restricting the Franchise to Male Landowners -Zero state provided welfare -Slavery for African Americans who haven’t been explicitly freed as someone able to provide for themselves -Zero Police Force (New York City didn’t get a police force until 1845), all disputes decided private dueling, deputized posses, open bounties, or Militia deployments -Restricting Naturalization to “Free white persons”
Or doing away with all Desegregation Era made up “rights” such as:
And the defacto “Right” to not be expediently executed, but instead force the people to spend millions going through decades of Appeal…
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All of these were MADE UP by 20th century progressives entirely out of the Treason of the Judiciary, and bear ZERO relation to how the Founders lived, the policies of the Founders in office, or law as it was enforced in the founding period.
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Yet Libertarian will defend it, and if you point to what the founders actually said and did and the policies they actually implemented Libertarians will reveal their true stripes as 20th/21st century Liberal Progressives and talk about “evolving” or “progressing” or “Expanding the scope of liberty” or “universal values”… betraying that not only are Libertarian NOT continuous with the values and ideology of the Founders… their ideology is not even of the same ideological Genus and species. And share none of the ethnographic, historical, philosophical, or metaphysical assumptions of the founders…. Foremost, as the founders and classical scholars all believed, that history is not “progressive” but “cyclical” that the great concern is not that the Morals of America “improve” towards some Libertopia, or gay race communism… but that American Morality not become DECADENT and lose the manly frontier resolve of VIOLENCE that safeguards a people from foreign subjugation, occupation, and invasion… As we are seeing now.
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And the thing is the Jews actually got this right.
One of the Most incredible things is that even as American Whites stopped reading the founders, and even more importantly stopped reading the Classical Greek and Roman writers the founders themselves had read in favor of various Jewish thinkers Talmudically debating across thousands of pages how many Austrian Business cycles can dance on the head of a pin…
Actual Zionist Jews in America did what the Japanese did in the Meiji period… And started reading what works!
Leo Strauss
At the same time Communist Jews in American education were “decolonizing the classroom”… Zionists like Leo Strauss and the Neo-Cons started reading Machiavelli, Hobbes, Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus, Caesar, Deo, and all the Classical writers the American founders had on their bookshelves.
My edition of “The Landmark Thucydides” has a Donald Kagan Quote on the back promoting it… Who is Donald Kagan? He’s a Lithuanian-American Jewish Professor of Greek History at Yale… He’s also the Father of Arch Neo-Conservative Robert Kagan and Father-in-law to Robert’s wife Former Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
At the same time the Libertarians were disappearing down rabbit-holes of Economics and Legal theory, the Neo-Cons and Arch-Zionists trying to secure the state of Israel and Israeli-American relations were obsessively studying the exact same Classical texts the Founders themselves had all read and poured over.
Many of these people have read the entirety of Thucydides IN GREEK, and Livy IN LATIN … and could, off the cuff, volunteer an interesting and unique Critique of George Washington’s identification with Cincinnatus, Rome’s Reluctant Farmer-Dictator citing from memory oddities of Cincinnatus’ life not otherwise found in secondary texts. So BURIED in classical texts were this school of highly successful Neo-con conservatives.
Indeed you yourselves probably follow one such figure… Costin Alamariu, better known as Bronze Age Pervert… Is himself a Ph.D of Classics from the Straussian tradition and in addition to poorly imitating a Russian accent, he’s a Romanian Jew who can read and recite Homeric Ancient Greek with an admirably melodic Dactylic Hexameter verse tempo.
It’s really weird that the only prominent RW Twitter personality who can do that is Jewish. (I can’t)
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So did these Neo-Cons’ and Straussian Zionists read all these classical texts informed by a love of the American founders and a newfound appreciation for the True non-cucked non-lolbert tradition of American liberty? Are the people behind the Patriot Act the true Patriots?
No. God no.
I mean, I assume there exist some of them that kinda like America. I’m certain for many it might manage to even take their slot for “Second Favorite Country”… But these are devoted Zionists and the trick to getting the “Straussian reading” of Strauss is just remembering that “The Ancient City” he talks about is always the Jewish people and Modern Israel. Heaven help the Melians.
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Rather Straussians and Zionists and a whole lot of people associated with the Conservative Israeli party Likud specifically, all read the Greek and Roman classics from people Jews traditionally consider their ancient ethnic enemies…Because they work.
The exact same reason the Japanese copied every European technology, mode of dress, and institution they could figure out. It worked.
The Ancient Classical Tradition of Power Politics is the single most effective theoretical framework, dataset, and training tool ever devised for people who actually want to win and hold onto real power. And 2300 years after Alexander first conquered them and the Maccabees threw a fit, the Jewish nationalists finally figured out that Alexander was right and the Hellenic tradition is just THAT overpowered.
They took to the Ancient Classics obsessively not because the Founders liked it, but because it worked. They saw the examples of Frederick the Great, Washington, Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington, Roosevelt, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky… All WINNING. Just as the entire European Gentry-class had been winning for almost 200 years… And they wanted in. They wanted the secret sauce.
And if Liberty minded Americans want to stop losing and start winning, they need to go back to the works and commentaries not just of the founders, but that the founders were in tradition with… Not of Free-Market Economics or originalist legal theory, which are tertiary concerns, but the Western Classical Political tradition that the founders themselves were steeped in.
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The “Don’t tread on anyone” rephrase of “Don’t Tread on Me” is the greatest longhousing downgrade you’ve ever heard. A violent commitment by the speaker to fight to the death and kill or poison their enemy and would be Tyrant… And proclamation of personal Freedom, Honor, and will to fight. Transformed into the hectoring lazy moralistic scolding of a irate female kindergarten teacher “Billy! stop treading on Suzy. We don’t tread on anyone”.
The Pacifistic Progressive Anti-descriminatory AntiWar Ideology that libertarianism has morphed into is NOT IT. And the preening about “Individual Liberty”… Is not a pre-requisite of actual liberty, rather individual liberty is a consequent byproduct of National Ethnic Self-Determination and COLLECTIVE Liberty won through war, daring, guile and struggle. Such as you might find discussed in Aristotle, Thucydides, Livy, or later thinkers like Machiavelli, Hobbes, or Carl Schmitt.
And you might think I’m smuggling something in… That these values and this conception of Liberty that I present are slightly off and that I’m deceiving you, and that actually politics is some other-way… But that’s the beauty of classical text… There aren’t that many, only a few hundred, and maybe a few dozen total relevant ones and they’re ~2000 years old, and some good Translations are 400 years old… Its really hard to hide something in something that old… It’s really hard for Thucydides to know what lie he should propagate to appease the American regime or what political facts of life are taboos that you’re never supposed to discuss.
Every single western nation’s Founding father: From Washington in America, to Macdonald in Canada, to Napoleon in France, to Bismarck in Germany, or Nelson and the Duke of Wellington in Britain… all of them were intensely educated in the Classical western Hellenic/Roman tradition, the subsequent thinkers that came to it, and their own national heroes.
That this is no longer the Case of the educated classes is the proximate cause of our civilizational decay.
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We can make the original real ingredient unadulterated American Patriotism anew with the same classical education and reading the Founders’ actual words.
We don’t have to accept a modified food starch, canola oil, Soy-Protein, Corn Syrup amalgamation with a Gadsen Flag on it and call that “Liberty”.
Austrian and Chicago school Economists and legal theorist who have called themselves Libertarians must be politely but firmly reminded that they are a Tertiary addition to the various national traditions 100-250 years later than the Actual primary sources. And that their arguments and works will be assessed by how relevant, accurate, contributory they are to the original values, intent, lives, stratagems, and deeds of action, of those heroic founders.
To the extend they are valuable and contribute, they will be praised… And to the extent they have led astray they will be criticized.
Too many people have read to many hundred pages of Mises and too few single digit words of Washington.
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Whether you think that is a cultural accident, a side-effect of a broader censoring of the founders, or an intentional substitution and EnSlopification… It is a problem that needs to be corrected.
PhD University level Macro-Economics and Legal Theory is the equivalent of rushing to Desert, without the main course of what the 19th century would have considered a teenager’s level of Political Theory, Classical History, and National History.
Eat your meat and eat your vegetables.
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I appreciate you calling out the need to read the classics. It was actually reading Plato's Republic that put the death nail in any attraction Libertarianism had for me.
I appreciate you calling out the need to read the classics. It was actually reading Plato's Republic that put the death nail in any attraction Libertarianism had for me.
Interesting topic. About the same when I was younger. Can’t stand libertarians anymore.