I am becoming more convinced all the time that any objections to a really free society stem from a lack of imagination. For any objection raised, I can see all manner of possible solutions. For any solution, others seem committed to only thinking of endless problems. I have never been accused of being an optimist, either.
Yet I still realize that my own imperfect imagination prevents me from seeing most of the possibilities. I'm not the sharpest member of the species by a long shot. The human mind, and necessity, will in time find solutions beyond my wildest dreams. It always has, and I see no reason to believe the future will be any less innovative.
OK, so I have occasionally been accused of having an overactive imagination, but I don't base any of my scenarios on UFOs landing and changing human nature or altering the laws of the Universe. Nor do I have hope of Sasquatch donning a robe and preaching the word of liberty to adoring masses. Instead, I think people will continue to act in their own best interest, as they always have. My own experiences have taught me that respecting other peoples' rights IS in my own best interest.
It is just frustrating to me that people say "it can't be" when it obviously can, but people will need to stop thinking like they have been trained, by the state, to think. That is probably the first baby-step, but may be the hardest. It is time to let go of the indoctrination and imagine what liberty will look like and how it will work. Because liberty is ALWAYS the best course.
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ReplyDeleteThough Marx is almost the complete foil to any freedom fighter, his comment of:
ReplyDelete"I can only look into the current reality. I cannot write the recipes for the cook-shops of the future"
...fits for freedom fighters as well.
I find it the same with the future vision of freedom. It is impossible to describe exactly how this, or how that, may or may not work - the infinity of variables and basic theory of chaos can only guarantee that what we think will happen will probably be wrong.
But that said, it doesn't mean what will happen is wrong. In fact, it means it was right - because the outcome was derived from freedom. Just because we cannot predict it, doesn't make it 'wrong'.
Statists are, by their nature, incredibly uncomfortable with such lack of fore-knowledge. Of course, they have never been able to predict the future either - but the illusion that they are, some how, in control makes them feel good.
Drugs do that too.
Found myself recently making exactly the same point during a discussion of agorism. My interlocutor wasn't happy to be accused of lacking imagination, but it was a milestone in the conversation in that it opened up some more possibilities. Right as always, though your mileage may vary using it as a rhetorical device.
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