Here’s a curious piece on Salon, pointed out by a
Facebook friend today, “Libertarianism is for petulant children: Ayn Rand, Rand
Paul, and the movement’s sad ‘rebellion’”, link here authored by David Masciotra Alternet (the last name is intriguing). It’s true,
that the wrap-up of the idea “You’re not the boss of me” seems to apply to my
own life.
One thought that stuck out was a curious comparison of
libertarianism to “anti-intellectualism”.
That seems way off base. In fact,
people of libertarian disposition often enjoy solving intellectual puzzles for
their own sake. In fact, it is a disdain
for a certain kind of community engagement, and an unwillingness to lay aside
personal “objectivity” and make necessary concessions for some kind of temporizing
common good, that sometimes gets
libertarians in trouble.
Libertarians don’t like others to put boundaries on
the way they define themselves. But yet,
one’s accomplishments don’t mean much unless the other people around really
mean something.
I’ll be taking this up in my video series soon. And I did just order David Boaz's "The Libertarian Mind".
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