Libertarianism as the Antidote to Turnkey Totalitarianism
The future will be pro-liberty, but I expect getting there won't be easy.
These days, I’m bullish on the long-term prospects of libertarianism. We're diving into why liberty is beginning to win hearts and minds inside and outside the US. We’ll also review the current breakdown of civil society and what lies in store for the liberty movement.
In the complex world of feel-good political mumbo jumbo, libertarianism now stands out for its simplicity. What I mean is that it's not just for political junkies anymore. About 85% of Americans are fed up and distrustful of the government, this is bad news for ruling castes historically.
This is a golden ticket for libertarians because our ideas are firmly rooted in the philosophy of telling Big Brother to shove it. We protect individual liberty, a basic building block of civil society, by dialing down state meddling and promoting personal responsibility instead. Libertarianism is about letting people live their lives their way, as long as they're not stepping on anyone else's rights. If most people don’t trust the government, it’s just a matter of time before they look elsewhere.
This is being enabled thanks to the internet and social media. We're far more interconnected than ever before. This tech boom is a match made in heaven for libertarians promoting decentralized currencies and blockchain that make everyone their own bank and record keeper. Consider how much better our free speech, guns, and trading crypto would be without the state breathing down our neck directly or via some bullshit fascistic public-private partnership instead.
Thanks to American academia’s embrace of critical theory via the New Left—a hideous and sickening postmodernist synthesis of neo-Marxism and libertarianism, society has been shifting towards a libertine, "you do you" attitude. At the same time, however, the state paradoxically expands. The woke mind virus tricks people into embracing a contradictory ideology that promotes bread and circus libertinism paid for by picking the people’s pockets. Sooner or later, the lunatics begin to run the asylum, the sane react in horror, grief, and amusement, and society’s mental health declines.
That’s okay because the welfare state will subsidize the less productive or outright anti-productive, while the therapeutic state will misdiagnose dissident dispositions as a mental illness worthy of anesthetization. As political podcaster Brett Weinstein has pointed out, we are slowly creeping towards turnkey totalitarianism, where the state’s infrastructure is being built out right under our noses. Once a critical mass is reached, the trap will activate and the American people will find themselves in a scary new reality.
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