Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

brunians at brunians.org · 19 May 2009, 19:21 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:21:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
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Sure, why not?

I want to say that I am neither a socialist nor a big L libertarian. I
sometimes call myself a Goldwater Republican, sometimes a Jeffersonian,
sometimes a Machiavellian.

I think that government is, by its very nature, the enemy of human people
and that it should be kept weak and never trusted.

I think that individuals are the best judges of how their money is to be
spent.

I think that the use of public money, that is money obtained by armed
robbery from the citizenry, should be restricted to a very few very
specific areas of expense.

I am not necessarily opposed to social welfare schemes, but I would
ideally like to see one that doesn't involve large scale theft. Such a
thing might even be possible: the Mormons do it, after all.

"The way we do things in this country is you get to do whatever you like
as long as you aren't preventing someone else from doing what they like."

-- Major General Barry Goldwater USAF

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>> Really?
>> I have never met a libertarian who claims that the government issues
>> money
>> or that theft is OK when performed by the government.
>> I'd be more than happy to talk to such a creature, just to see how its
>> mind works (or should that be "how its 'mind' 'works'").
>
> I'm all for scientific inquiry, but if we going to have a persistent
> thread
> on the virtues of Socialism and Libertarianism divorced from direct
> references to Wolfe's books, then I'd prefer we change the title. I'm not
> sure I'm done with this particular discussion and I'd like to avoid having
> it zombified.
>
> J.
>
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