<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Mar 5, 2017, at 2:53 AM, Tomaz Kristan <<a href="mailto:protokol2020@gmail.com">protokol2020@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">We are witnessing a John's slow drift toward the left for several years now.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:01 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Legionara </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:legionara@openmailbox.org" target="_blank">legionara@openmailbox.org</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Take from the rich and give to the poor and everybody is poor.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">As Bob Dylan would say </div>The Times They Are A-Changin'<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> ; not surprising I suppose as we approach the Singularity. 3 examples: </div></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">1) Slogans that I myself would have spouted until very recently no longer make sense to me.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">2) Due to the advance of technology, for the first time in human history it is no longer a economic necessity that somebody be poor.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">3) Strict adherence to classical libertarian dogma, will lead to the collapse of civilization </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4">And if you think these 3 changes in thought are <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">all </div>that will be necessary in the future then you just don't understand what a meat grinder the Singularity will be. Flexibility will be essential for survival and these are just the first 3 baby steps. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Libertarianism is on the Far Left.</div><div><br></div><div>I question whether John ever was a libertarian in any meaningful sense. Sure, he might have fancied himself one, but so do many other folks who are simply nothing more than folks willing to legalize pot, but who otherwise want to stomp out freedom.</div><div><br></div><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>