"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
What Used To Be Called “Wisdom”
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2017-02-16 04:00
This is the perception of libertarians, and especially anarcho-capitalists today: We don’t care about people, feelings, experiences, or anything but principles and arguments. If it’s not an argument, it doesn’t matter. On the other hand though, this standard of rigor would have, in days past, been the only respectable way of practicing any academic discipline, especially philosophy.
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