If someone asked you what your favorite emotion was, how do you think you’d answer? For many people, I suspect they would answer “Happiness”, “Joy'', or some variant of exclusively positive emotion. Someone may think more meticulously and answer with “Contentment”, which while a positive emotion has a lot of nuance attached to it. However my answer to that question is what I feel others would consider more orthodox: Bittersweet. Pleasure accompanied by suffering, not exactly most people’s first pick but from my perspective pain is necessary in order to enjoy the pleasure that life gives you. Perhaps I'm over-romanticizing but there’s something to desire from looking back fondly at times where you were hurting and seeing yourself in a better place in the present. Perhaps you finally have moved on from “The one who got away” and can look back on those times with fondness. Perhaps you are sharing stories of a friend or family member at their funeral and though they may never w
The fundamental issue is that @comicdavesmith is interested in creating libertarians, whereas agorists are interested in creating liberty. Dave has a classic case of @perbylund’s Savior Complex - the irrational desire of individualists to save the collective whole of society.
There are lots of problems with this, but even if creating libertarians is a worthy goal, does that mean the Libertarian Party is the best vehicle to accomplish this task? Has anything the Libertarian Party ever done caused even a slight retreat of statism?
Dave rightly points to his own success at spreading the message of liberty. It's true, no one - save Ron Paul or Tom Woods - has converted more people over the past ten years than Dave, but he did it all through entrepreneurship - podcasting, comedy specials, public appearances, etc - not politics or partyarchy.
Now Dave justifies his new approach because Ron Paul did it thirteen years ago. But Ron Paul did it from one of the two major political parties, not a minor third party that lacks representation on the Federal Election Commission & thus, has no real shot of ever being allowed on their debate stage or being given the sort of exposure Dave is after.
But I’m not justifying the paleo approach either. Even from within the duopoly, Ron Paul’s success at spreading the message was an isolated example, an outlier, an anomaly - and it's unwise to base any long term strategy on anomalies.
As Per Bylund has said, “politics is not a means to achieve freedom from politics.” More on this & other non-political approaches to liberty in my forthcoming book, Anti-Politics, scheduled for release later this month..
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