{"id":1529,"date":"2008-10-18T09:20:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2008-10-18T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T13:20:01","slug":"the-end-of-libertarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/18\/the-end-of-libertarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Libertarianism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Weisberg, writing in Slate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he libertarian apologetics fall wildly short of providing any convincing explanation for what went wrong. The argument as a whole is reminiscent of wearying dorm-room debates that took place circa 1989 about whether the fall of the Soviet bloc demonstrated the failure of communism. Academic Marxists were never going to be convinced that anything that happened in the real world could invalidate their belief system. Utopians of the right, libertarians are just as convinced that their ideas have yet to be tried, and that they would work beautifully if we could only just have a do-over of human history. Like all true ideologues, they find a way to interpret mounting evidence of error as proof that they were right all along.<\/p>\n<p>To which the rest of us can only respond, <em>Haven&#8217;t you people done enough harm already?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2202489\/\">Here&#8217;s the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(And with that, I&#8217;m going back to my libertarian comment system ways, and turning off the moderation.\u00c2\u00a0 The spam seems to have abated.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I&#8217;m heading off for the day, so if there&#8217;s an avalanche of it . . .)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Weisberg, writing in Slate: [T]he libertarian apologetics fall wildly short of providing any convincing explanation for what went wrong. The argument as a whole is reminiscent of wearying dorm-room debates that took place circa 1989 about whether the fall of the Soviet bloc demonstrated the failure of communism. Academic Marxists were never going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}