Interesting, balanced, mature writing on freedom, thank you. I just found you via search for Derrick and Alison, trying to find info on their feud. Reading your three articles and comments from Alison has certainly framed her as a fundamentalist idiotologist (sicK). I gather she like Chomsky believes in her brand of the State coercing the Free Market for the Greater Good? It seems as if you are tending towards a Voluntaryist position (all governments are unnecessary evils) but are still leaning into Libertarianism (small governments are necessary evils)? Whatever, stay safe and free.
If I was to play Devil's Advocate, in your world you describe people having a choice eg to participate in a community currency but what if they felt they had to? I was thinking of people who work in sweat shops because if they didn't, they would starve. Or people who go to work for 35 years in order to pay off their mortgage.
The world in which they live doesn't give them the choice to opt out and easily live.
Interesting, balanced, mature writing on freedom, thank you. I just found you via search for Derrick and Alison, trying to find info on their feud. Reading your three articles and comments from Alison has certainly framed her as a fundamentalist idiotologist (sicK). I gather she like Chomsky believes in her brand of the State coercing the Free Market for the Greater Good? It seems as if you are tending towards a Voluntaryist position (all governments are unnecessary evils) but are still leaning into Libertarianism (small governments are necessary evils)? Whatever, stay safe and free.
If I was to play Devil's Advocate, in your world you describe people having a choice eg to participate in a community currency but what if they felt they had to? I was thinking of people who work in sweat shops because if they didn't, they would starve. Or people who go to work for 35 years in order to pay off their mortgage.
The world in which they live doesn't give them the choice to opt out and easily live.