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"Libertarianism was the other one I fell for..."
One, idealistic, version, no doubt.
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"it's so simple and clean."
My particular version is 'simple and clean': Mind your own goddamned business and keep your fuckin' hands to yourself...or else. If folks did this, 99% of all problems would evaporate, but folks don't and won't, not cuz "humans are not simple and clean" but cuz some humans are mercenary motherfuckers who sell snake oil (products, services, and 'philosophies'). This little, always present, segment of any population you care to name works hard to twist self-interest into service to 'the other' (quietly benefiting from all that 'altruism'). Part and parcel to this 'service' is makin' the other guy (the one who doesn't buy the snake oil) toe the line (one for all, pal, one for all.).
Of course, this twisting of a normal and natural self-interest takes generations, but -- glory! glory! -- the 'good work', the 'holy communitarian project' is almost done...pretty much: up is down, right is wrong, in is out, and reason is in the hospice, pukin' blood and dictatin' its last will and testement.
The 'We' ascends while the 'I' is run outta town in disgrace.
Too bad (for you) the new Boss is just as bad as the old one.
Kumbaya.
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Climate change happens.
Climate change driven by human industry does not.
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