[ExI] libertarians nominate none of these

Kelly Anderson postmowoods at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 07:53:12 UTC 2024


On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Samamtha, I have since childhood been a lower case libertarian of the
> "Space Cadet" (Heinlein) variety.  But uppercase Libertarianism just does
> not work.  The people involved can't get along with each other, much less
> put together a coherent worldview.  The Randroid and the more extreme
> versions such as objectivism are even worse.  I once heard one say that his
> personal survival was more important than the entire human race.
>
> A political party based on evolutionary psychology would be interesting,
> though not many people can understand it.
>

I feel like I have a good enough grasp on evolutionary psychology, but I
have a profound failure of imagination when it comes to creating a
political party based on those terms. Could you perhaps elaborate? I would
have a much better idea of what two parties based upon cats and dogs would
look like.

-Kelly
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