The Libertarian Moment

From "The Post Libertarian Moment Defined"

The next few Monday’s will be reprints of the sections that make up my new essay The Post-Libertarian Moment Defined which you can download in full by visiting postlibertarianmoment.com. I consider this essay of vital importance to anyone who calls (or as the case may be called) themselves “libertarian.”

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The Libertarian Moment

The year is 2008, America is on the cusp of inaugurating Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of the United States.¹ On the pages of Reason Magazine’s December issue, editors Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch encapsulated “The Libertarian Moment”

“This is now a world where it's more possible than ever to live your life on your own terms; it's an early rough draft version of the libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick's glimmering "utopia of utopias." Due to exponential advances in technology, broad-based increases in wealth, the ongoing networking of the world via trade and culture, and the decline of both state and private institutions of repression, never before has it been easier for more individuals to chart their own course and steer their lives by the stars as they see the sky. If you don't believe it, ask your gay friends, or simply look who's running for the White House in 2008.”

They go on to say the Libertarian moment is based on “a few hard-won insights” these include

1. Markets are the best way to organize an economy

2. Vaguely representative democracy is the least worst form of government

3. End of colonialism and communism

4. The internet

They wrote this after Dr. Ron Paul’s first run for President, and the beginning of what would come to be known as the modern “liberty movement.” . . .

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1. He was black too