[extropy-chat] [Politics] Real Politick

[Al Brooks]

 By all means lets there be maximum liberty the world
over as long as one can accept the fleas coming with
the dog.
For instance, cults are religions without political
power, cults want the maximum they can get and we are
obliged to protect a Jim Jones' liberty as well as a
decent Mormon's. *Everyone* wants liberty plus enough
political power to protect their liberty. Or licence. 

We intellectuals discuss these matters in a sanitized
manner yet the reality is very ugly. You know the
future wont be anything like we expect.




> Conversely, many see the liberals and the europeans
> being the ones who
> are clinging to realpolitik, in believing that the
> US needs a
> 'counterbalance' in the world, based on no
> principles, morals, or
> philosophy, but merely on a corrupt and cynical idea
> of maintaining a
> marxist dialectic conflict for the sake of power
> politics.



		
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