[ExI] Enlightenment - was Re: statins

[Jason Resch]

Rojava is an interesting libertarian experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava#Politics

Jason

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:39 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm not sure whenever/wherever it's been easy to be a practicing
> libertarian. The trend may be toward authoritarianism but I'd like to think
> that some day there'll be another Enlightment and we can move past that.
> Dave
>
> I have often wondered why the world doesn't follow us.  Most of the world
> has authoritarian govs. and are way behind us and Western Europe in every
> category.  Why can't they see that our way is the way to go?  Is it
> religion?  The Chinese, at least, have adopted our way of doing business
> and many of their people are clamoring for democracy.  Africa is clearly
> held back by tyrants who disrupt their economy.
>
> I don't know what more can be added to what the original Enlightenment
> believed.  People in the Western world are, I think, freer than they have
> ever been and better at feeding the population than any time in history.
>
> That should be enough to change the whole world, eh?
>
> bill w
>
>
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