Podcaster and commentator Pete Quinones joins me for a discussion about what’s going on with libertarians and why in his opinion they’ve lost the plot. Stuck in a fugue of reflexivity of their own devising, much of the libertarian movement has willingly taken themselves off the gameboard of not only politics but the culture war itself.
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It also took me far too many decades to deal with the world as it is instead of the world as I would want it… A common ailment, by the sounds.
I was getting a little nervous about where Peter seemed to be looking for the best form of authoritarianism to deal with the current socio-political disorders. I would much prefer to have Singapore’s kind rather than the one that involves jackboots & hanging from the thumbs with electrodes clamped to the genitals.
So I’m glad Peter approves of the island state. Not that it hasn’t been harsh at times, with political opponents being severely repressed, for example. However, there has been some liberalization of the system, even there. When the New Zealand Prime Minister of the mid-80s, David Lange, went on an official visit to Singapore and met Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, he made the obligatory tut-tutting references to human rights abuses, viz:
“Why do you jail your political dissidents?”
“The reason why we jail our political dissidents”, answered Lee Kuan Yew, “is that it is no long socially acceptable to hang them”…
The first step down a slippery slope? Not in Singapore, yet, as far as I can tell.