FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE

by Paul Rosenberg
I can’t believe I actually have to write this article… and I’m deeply disappointed that no one else has. Where are all the other adults? I don’t want to wade into Internet crapstorms; I have better things to do with my time.
But there is disease in the liberty movement, and if no one else will call it out, I guess I’ll have to. So be it.
Old poisons are flooding back into the broader liberty movement, being sold with new packaging. And they’re leading ‘anti-state’ people right back into the swamps of political obsession and plain old hate. The more you suck it up, the more you’ll slide right back into the stinking pits of politics and mingle your life with all the venom and degeneracy it produces.
Welcome back to the Matrix, Mr. Libertarian.
The Obsession
I just checked a popular liberty website, and of the 50 stories linked, 14 had titles like these:
“Israel’s Friday Bloodbath”
“Ethnic Cleansing and Zionist Supremacy in Israel”
“Israelis Are Today’s Nazis”
This is simply obsession. Articles like these are the seeds from which poisoned fruit grows. Don’t believe me? Then maybe you won’t want to read some of the comments this post will generate.
Israel is a state, and we hold all states as morally inferior, do we not? So, why the obsession with just this one? Where are the breathless horror stories from Belarus? Where are the brave investigations of Turkmenistan? Where’s the in-depth analysis of Uzbekistan, or Burma, or the Congo. Why do none of those places matter?
The answer becomes obvious soon enough: Those places don’t generate the right kinds of passions. And if you keep reading these obsessive stories, you’ll absorb their slogans and take their rationalizations into your mind.
Do you really want to go back there?
But, But, But…
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