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[quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="ozzy43"]It's not verbosity that is lacking - it is clarity.[/quote] Clarity or comprehension? [quote user="ozzy43"]I have just described how lots of 'right wingers coming to libertarianism' has, in the past, led to dilution of the fundamental principles of libertarianism
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[quote user="liberty student"] Your presumption of my perspective is inaccurate. [/quote] Perhaps this explains it: [quote user="liberty student"] Because I am not as verbose as some here. [/quote] It's not verbosity that is lacking - it is clarity. I have just described how lots of 'right wingers coming to libertarianism'
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This is tangential to another thread I started on 'the environment'. Yeah, I know, use of those two words puts people's brains into non-thinking, auto-reaction, magical thinking mode. So manually switch back to rational thinking mode again if you must. I want to know if Austrian economics makes any distinction between finite, and non-finite
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[quote user="wombatron"] We could start a new thread, if there is any interest. [/quote] I am always interested in exploring ideas I have not encountered, or in exploring ideas further which I've touched but not dug into. I also think its vital to consider all sides - too many people have decided to close off their minds to 'certain
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[quote user="liberty student"] Ok, but the 1960's SDS is not today's SDS. What is being advertised, is today's SDS, which is decidely socialist IMO. It's like when Carsonoid the Mutualist links to the IWW on his blog. Chomsky is in the IWW. It's a marxist organization IMO. Why are libertarians getting tied up with socialists
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Agreed. For the vast majority of the labor, you don't even need skilled workers - just guys able to swing sledgehammers to pack the tires, and then to lift the beams, trusses and so forth. The earthship people sell a modular power package - integrated solar hot water heater, panels, invetrer for the panels, control logic, all that stuff, so that
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[quote user="david_z"] Someone should open-source the earthship idea, that would be a start. Right now, they cost the same as a wood/steel-framed house, and the "owners" want to charge you about $5-$10k for the blueprints. [/quote] Well, to be fair, Michael Reynolds has spent 30 years of his life figuring out, often by expensive
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[quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="Geoffrey Allan Plauche"]You do know that the New Left back in the '60s, of which the SDS was a part, was fairly libertarian, right? They weren't perfect, but then again neither was the Old Right, nor are many contemporary libertarians. You might read some of Rothbard's articles
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[quote user="wombatron"] I just think that the mutualists and individualist anarchists have several insights that are usually missed by libertarians. [/quote] Can you either be more specific (maybe start another thread) or provide links?
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[quote user="Juan"]I really don't know if peak oil's been reached or not, and AGW may be a fact. But you'd have a harder time arguing that 'ecological balance' is an objective and scientific concept - No offense intended =] [/quote] Well, perhaps - I am using the term conceptually, with no intended implication of human