I remember when I became a libertarian……….
February 9, 2016 by Tom B.
Filed under Integrations
Hello, Mark!
I remember when I first became a libertarian, back in 1979. What an epiphany this was!!
I was just wild with excitement!!
The most exciting part?
The most exciting part being my first coming to awareness THAT THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE who THINK like me!! People who call themselves, wow!!, “libertarian”. And that they actually have organized a political party with a libertarian world view. What a head rush!
1979 was a long time ago.
I am still libertarian in mindset. In fact, I can say I am now more than libertarian in mindset.
But……….
Having watched the progress of libertarian efforts over these decades has been less than fully inspiring. Even less than fully inspiring is……….the belief of so many party libertarians toward a
“minimum government”. Or perhaps I should say “minimal”.
How I wish………..
The libertarians, of whom I am still one, had started, like you and Society of Secrets members are now, by coming up with the equivalent of “The Prime Law”.
Especially the……..”NO EXCEPTIONS” part.
Yes!!
No exceptions.
No exceptions.
No exceptions!!
ALL!! initiatory force MUST end.
How I wish……….
The libertarians had used a more STIMULATION BASED approach. Like you and the Society of Secrets are proposing now. How crass it all seems to be too focused on “politics as usual” and how we have to correct this abuse. That abuse. How that is not theirs to take. Not theirs to command.
Much less theirs to give away.
I wanted to see the future!!
I wanted to see the future that libertarian success would make possible!!
The awesome technologies. The freedom of lifestyles. I want pictures!! The expanding earth domain. The vastly extended lifespans of play and creation. I wanted stimulation!!
Multi media stimulation. Articulate. Coherent. Persuasive. Exhilarating. Enthralling!! Multi media pictures of the kinds of futures a libertarian world would make possible.
How I wish the libertarians, who I still admire deeply, had come up with a phrase like yours:
“The movement to make all of us rich………….including the poor”
Now THAT one gets the juices flowing!!
I wonder what OTHER phrases we may yet come up with………..
Of course all this did not quite come to be………..
It is my role now………however successful I may be…………..TO DO THIS NOW!!
It is in embryo now…………but I am moving on it……..
Wow!!
I am excited again!!
Let’s play!!
The future is yet young………..
Tom B.
Hi Tom,
I recently found that politic is now in hospitals right down to the average worker. Thinking they have the power to choose on their own how people will be treated in that moment. When and how they say so with a total disregard of their immediate needs. Which was so sad to see recently. Where in other states they still care about the patients in front of them with kindness.