Where peace, prosperity and freedom reign -- a voluntary society based on mutual respect for each individual’s ownership of his/her own body and property.
Libertopia is an annual festival of freedom, community and art for sovereign individuals. It is a unique experience -- a three-day gala packed with renowned speakers, banquets, parties, films, music, art and social networking.
Over thirty leading thinkers in the movement for a voluntary society include philosophers, economists, political scientists, law professors, entrepreneurs, and artists who give short, informative, exciting speeches with ample time for question and answer interaction.
And hey, if Roderick T. Long is gonna be there...
Happening October 15-17 in Hollywood, CA.
Everyone will spontaneously live in peace, harmony, and productive bliss... all as long as it's "voluntary," by which they mean privatized and only available to those well off.
ReplyDeleteWhat a unique solution to the problem of dealing with those pesky lower classes: don't include them in your society. Brilliant. Buy in or get out, losers!
Bret, it is the current "democratic" statist corporate/bankster run system that keeps the poor and working class down.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to discuss elevating the level of lowest among us, I'm all for it, but privatization is a proven system of plutocratic oppression. Pointing out inequalities in a system that includes everyone cannot compare to the inequalities of a system that excludes anyone.
ReplyDeleteBy your bullshit "logic," America should have amazing medical care, since the government is more hands-off than any other developed nation. And what we have is a system that not only doesn't cover millions, yoking them with medical debt at the first major illness, but the system is predatory on paying customers for lack of government regulation. The insurance companies are choosing to drop sick people when they are most vulnerable.
There is nothing down that road... privatization is the sickest tyranny, because it cannot be voted out. It is kingly nobility, wealthy assholes passing the spoils of our sick and dying to their spoiled trust fund babies.
Pointing out inequalities in a system that includes everyone cannot compare to the inequalities of a system that excludes anyone.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell are you talking about? The current system includes everyone only to the extent of making us all equally serfs.
And America does have amazing medical care, when you can afford it. What has to be asked is why is it so expensive. This idea you have that the U.S. government is "hands off" in the health care arena is laughable.
It is government intervention that allowed the creation of the HMO system that most American's are tied to (through their employers) and that leaves those outside that system without the access they need when a real health crisis strikes, and it was and is government's continuing role that has driven up costs and kept them going up.
privatization is the sickest tyranny, because it cannot be voted out.
ReplyDeleteNeither can we vote out the current system. Our votes can't even end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.