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1a26a25
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Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!
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arts
diy
funding
government
grant
libertarianism
self-support
support
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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ec35109
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Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
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freedom
frontier
individualism
justice
liberalism
libertarianism
liberty
mercy
social-contract
solidarity
state-of-nature
the-west
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Cormac McCarthy |
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fa48200
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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it is always the ideas of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity that stand in need of reaffirmation.
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atheism
internationalism
libertarianism
politics
religion
secularism
social-class
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Christopher Hitchens |
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48f1ebe
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I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. If that saying doesn't convince you of the fatuousness of left vs. right labels, nothing will.
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libertarianism
politics
republicanism
socialism
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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741c186
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Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you still have to argue it point-by-point. Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That's libertarians for you--anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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libertarianism
libertarians
police
privilege
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Kim Stanley Robinson |
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287d113
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Let us say that we did battle, and I emerged the victor. By your reasoning, I would thus become the rightful King of Vaa-oh, wait. I see now. That would not serve, since I haven't the proper bloodline. What a cunning system you have there. You and all the other self-proclaimed royalty of Faerun. By your conditions, you alone are kings and queens and lords and ladies of court. You alone matter, while the peasant grovels and kneels in the mud, and since you alone are 'rightful' in the eyes of this god or that, then the peasant cannot complain. He must accept his muddy lot in life and revel in his misery, all in the knowledge that he serves the rightful king.
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entreri
libertarianism
sellswords
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R.A. Salvatore |