Difference between revisions of "Libertarian Self-Delusions"
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: One of the great lines from Monty Python's "The Life Of Brian". Brian is trying to dissuade the crowd from proclaiming him the messiah, telling them not to follow him, and he says "You are all individuals." The crowd responds obediently in unison "We are all individuals." Like Christians, most libertarians are indoctrinated with the same small set of basic texts and, despite their diversity, tend not to vary very much from the same small set of beliefs. | : One of the great lines from Monty Python's "The Life Of Brian". Brian is trying to dissuade the crowd from proclaiming him the messiah, telling them not to follow him, and he says "You are all individuals." The crowd responds obediently in unison "We are all individuals." Like Christians, most libertarians are indoctrinated with the same small set of basic texts and, despite their diversity, tend not to vary very much from the same small set of beliefs. | ||
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| + | ; Libertarianism is democratic. | ||
| + | : No, it is not. Take Nozick, for example: in [[Anarchy, State and Utopia]] he does not use the word democracy, and uses the word democratic in only four places late in the book when discussing how there are market alternatives. In the [[Ayn Rand Lexicon]], Rand is openly disdainful of democracy. David Boaz, in [[Libertarianism: A Primer]] page 14, states "Libertarians, as the name implies, believe that the most important value is liberty, not democracy." Some libertarians such as [[R. J. Rummel]] conflate libertarianism with democracy. | ||
