Why I am not a libertarian, an ancap, or a voluntarist

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

A great write up, I have had the same thoughts although Satre's words articulate it far better than I could (I've never read his works by the way, any recommendations?). The presumption of voluntary libertarianism is that we are free to make choices as we please and if we fail than it is the fault of our bad choices, but this is a kind of application of tabula rasa applied to reality where we reject that any environmental contextual issues play a part in our life. The ideology in general, including both its economic and social tenets, are full of contradictions and flaws when analysed critically (and it becomes even more a challenge to piece together when you start identifying as a conservative libertarian like many libertarians who are close to the dissident right do).

[–]WaltzRoommate[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I've never read his works by the way, any recommendations?

No, he's a pretentious shit lib. Literally married to Simone de Beauvoir, the mother of feminism, and it was an open relationship. I only know him because I majored in philosophy and had to. I'd recommend checking his wikipedia page, spending ten or fifteen minutes on it, and then go find a better thinker to invest the kind of serious time and effort it takes to read a book by a pretentious dude of another era that was translated from another language.

[–]AFutureConcern 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Let me just check his Wikipedia real quick, yep - there it is:

was a French philosopher

Every. Single. Time.

[–]WaltzRoommate[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

He literally wrote books about anti-semitism. He was the ultimate shabbos goy.

[–]AFutureConcern 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Of course, I'm mostly just memeing, but there really is a pattern to be noticed of pretentious French philosophers spewing absolute crap that gets taken way too seriously.

[–]WaltzRoommate[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This shit all started in France. The French revolution was the big bang of POZ, which is not to say that the cracks weren't started earlier.