[extropy-chat] Authenticity, extropy, libertarianism, and history

[Damien Sullivan]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:37:58PM -0500, Max More wrote:

> me from further comments, but I went ahead. My political views have NEVER
> earned me any points throughout my years in an academia thoroughly
> dominated by ?liberals?, i.e. heavy duty statists. When I was 15 or 16, I

I just wanted to note that I've been having a growing sense of the diversity
of meanings of 'liberal' and 'conservative'.  In particular, outside the US
'liberal' seems to mean 'markets', and something like a safety-net
libertarianism.  E.g. the Lib Dems of the UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)

or much of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

 From a minarchist POV, "heavy duty statist" covers a wide range, from basic
safety nets or collective health or old age insurance to nationalization and
hate crime laws.

-xx- Damien X-)