For public musings:

I often wonder, what has happened to me over the last few years.

I've had a complete about face on a whole raft of issues.  Most of my political thoughts have utterly about faced, sometimes two or three times.  And looking back I'm at an utter loss to understand how I ever held the contradictory position to how I now feel.

I guess I'm going to INTEND to use this place as somewhere I can steam consciousness, and troll Libertarians from.  I mean, who can stand those people?

Are they just more hopeful than I am?  I think that might be what robbed me of my faith in their system when I left high school.  I can't see how people can be induced to do the right thing in a free state.  The state is there as the stricture of protection against those dark moments when people fail.  And there is ample evidence in history that greed and profit rule the day over basic civil liberties.

I mean, in a libertarian society, the rich are allowed to murder as long as they pay the reparations, right? 

I was told the other day that the Norse system pre-christianity functioned like that (a complex heirachy of debts incurred for various crimes), and their society was full of constant vendettas to revenge some death or another, blood fueds that would wax eternal given only a short time.  I mean, sure, this system died when they got Christianity because through Christ one could forgive someone hteir heinous crimes, but I think the system where the user pays for their crimes promises that these kinds of abuse will happen.  I mean, a rich man could kill anyone and walk free, a poor man would no doubt become a debtor to the system somehow.  And this won't rehabilitate anyone.

How can the Libertarians live with these images of society?  Are they just all so hopelessly naively optimistic that they feel people will behave right?  Or is it just they want to be unfettered personally and don't consider the consequences?  I know that certain figures in my life who preached liberation were doing so out of some naive belief that corporations will always factor environmental life and long-term reprecussions into their planning.  But people think too short term, we're all too small fry.


Now to start uplaoding this thing full of data and to remember to rove through it from time to time.  If you've friended this expect my next rant to be about religion, with about the same level of Lucidity.