Ilana Mercer on "lifestyle libertarianism"

[Zatch]

Libertarianism lite
Posted: July 08, 2011
1:00 am Eastern

© 2011
A certain establishment-endorsed libertarianism is currently being touted on the Fox News and Business channels as the only legitimate brand of libertarianism. This lifestyle libertarianism, or libertarianism lite, as I call it, tends to conflate libertinism with liberty, and appeals to hippies of all ages, provided they remain juveniles forever. As I noted, when defending Ron Paul, in 2008, from attacks by the same libertarians:

Beltway libertarians … are moved in mysterious ways by gaping borders, gay marriage, multiculturalism, cloning, and all else "cool and cosmopolitan." Judging by Reason Magazine's "35 Heroes of Freedom," "cool and cosmopolitan" encompasses William Burroughs, a drug addled, Beat-Generation wife killer, whose "work is mostly gibberish and his literary influence baleful." … Madonna Reason has exalted for, as they put it, leading "MTV's glorious parade of freaks, gender-benders, and weirdos who helped broaden the palette of acceptable cultural identities and destroy whatever vestiges of repressive mainstream sensibilities still remained." That sounds like the unscrambled, strange dialect spoken by a professor of Women's and Gender Studies. [Or is it "Wimmin's Studies"?]...

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[Adrian.Bisson]

What a snide, snobbish, stupid, divisive pile of shit this article is. Trashing people for not conforming to her own taste in media and insulting people who are overall contributing to the pursuit of liberty is making the "perfect" the enemy of the good. She can take her smug Christian moralizing and shove it. This sort of crap is exactly what the fake-tea-party infiltrators are pushing to poison the movement from within.

She has the right idea when she claims: "Naturally, I'm down with any lifestyle the individual chooses, just so long as he or she doesn't visit violence on others" but unfortunately she's a huge hypocrite and this entire article suggests that she can't practice what she preaches.

 

[tpreitzel]

"My heroes are in the Greek tradition: Silent, stoic, principled yet private; the American founders, not lifestyle libertarianism's philanderers."

LoL ... Ilana hits a bit too close to home for the exhibitionists parading their wares .....
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