I don't know the context of this note but I have some thoughts.
I love freedom but I'm also a realist.
"Lul just stop paying taxes bro" is fedposting at best, naivety at worst.
"Lul just ditch ever...
The grand tradition of LARPatarianism is to keep trying the same thing over and over, expecting greater results.
The formula goes like this:
1) Someone presents a novel idea (e.g. "Hey there's a lot of war going on here. Maybe less?" or "How do you do, fellow nerds, I made this decentralized currency. Please give it a whirl."
2) Idea enjoys small penetration rate
3) Libertarians notice idea is compatible with their value system. Begin propagating idea as THE solution.
4) The libertarian radicalization funnel suddenly appears.
5) Suddenly, the mission isn't about the new idea -- the idea becomes the platform upon which all the nutty libertarian ideas and purity tests are now propagated. In order to adopt new idea, you first have to be subject to hundreds of hours of libertarian free market radicalization -- Austrian economics, praxaelogy, non-agression, "child sex work is akshually a good thing!", etc...etc...
6) New idea now just becomes a recruiting tool for radical libertarianism
7) New idea languishes
The formula goes like this:
1) Someone presents a novel idea (e.g. "Hey there's a lot of war going on here. Maybe less?" or "How do you do, fellow nerds, I made this decentralized currency. Please give it a whirl."
2) Idea enjoys small penetration rate
3) Libertarians notice idea is compatible with their value system. Begin propagating idea as THE solution.
4) The libertarian radicalization funnel suddenly appears.
5) Suddenly, the mission isn't about the new idea -- the idea becomes the platform upon which all the nutty libertarian ideas and purity tests are now propagated. In order to adopt new idea, you first have to be subject to hundreds of hours of libertarian free market radicalization -- Austrian economics, praxaelogy, non-agression, "child sex work is akshually a good thing!", etc...etc...
6) New idea now just becomes a recruiting tool for radical libertarianism
7) New idea languishes
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