Zatch
07-08-2011, 09:09 PM
Libertarianism lite
Posted: July 08, 2011
1:00 am Eastern
© 2011
A certain establishment-endorsed libertarianism is currently being touted on the Fox News and Business channels as the only legitimate brand of libertarianism. This lifestyle libertarianism, or libertarianism lite, as I call it, tends to conflate libertinism with liberty, and appeals to hippies of all ages, provided they remain juveniles forever. As I noted, when defending Ron Paul, in 2008, from attacks by the same libertarians:
Beltway libertarians … are moved in mysterious ways by gaping borders, gay marriage, multiculturalism, cloning, and all else "cool and cosmopolitan." Judging by Reason Magazine's "35 Heroes of Freedom," "cool and cosmopolitan" encompasses William Burroughs, a drug addled, Beat-Generation wife killer, whose "work is mostly gibberish and his literary influence baleful." … Madonna Reason has exalted for, as they put it, leading "MTV's glorious parade of freaks, gender-benders, and weirdos who helped broaden the palette of acceptable cultural identities and destroy whatever vestiges of repressive mainstream sensibilities still remained." That sounds like the unscrambled, strange dialect spoken by a professor of Women's and Gender Studies. [Or is it "Wimmin's Studies"?]...
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Posted: July 08, 2011
1:00 am Eastern
© 2011
A certain establishment-endorsed libertarianism is currently being touted on the Fox News and Business channels as the only legitimate brand of libertarianism. This lifestyle libertarianism, or libertarianism lite, as I call it, tends to conflate libertinism with liberty, and appeals to hippies of all ages, provided they remain juveniles forever. As I noted, when defending Ron Paul, in 2008, from attacks by the same libertarians:
Beltway libertarians … are moved in mysterious ways by gaping borders, gay marriage, multiculturalism, cloning, and all else "cool and cosmopolitan." Judging by Reason Magazine's "35 Heroes of Freedom," "cool and cosmopolitan" encompasses William Burroughs, a drug addled, Beat-Generation wife killer, whose "work is mostly gibberish and his literary influence baleful." … Madonna Reason has exalted for, as they put it, leading "MTV's glorious parade of freaks, gender-benders, and weirdos who helped broaden the palette of acceptable cultural identities and destroy whatever vestiges of repressive mainstream sensibilities still remained." That sounds like the unscrambled, strange dialect spoken by a professor of Women's and Gender Studies. [Or is it "Wimmin's Studies"?]...
[Article Continues] (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=319869#ixzz1RZbevnKi)
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