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> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > So why are geeks such market-besotted libertarians? Because they're
> > poorly socialized loners? What's the reason?
>
> <flamebait>
> Do not mistake a lack of desire to socialise with morons as poor social
> skills.
> </flamebait>
>
(part of Matt's post trimmed)
>
> Most of the cyberlibertarians care about RKBA, privacy, and cryptography.
> How many secrets would the .gov let me keep in the Socialist Utopia? The
> Socialist Utopia may look great on paper but it ain't gonna fly when
> you've got the Klintons and the Algores usurping power.
>
> THAT's why geeks are [market-besotted] libertarians.
>
>
> Matt
Well, this is certainly a point in favor of the 'poor social skills' argument about geeks and libertarians. Matt, do you honestly not understand the effects of your comments, or are you just having fun giving 'geeks' a bad name?
I'd also like to add an additional comment - Matt here makes some 'libertarian' comments about 'Klinton' and 'Algore'. Note that he doesn't mention the Republicans in Congress, or in the judiciary?
I mention this because I actually use to believe the libertarian argument that they were a 'third-way', not on the standard left-right political scale, etc. Then I spend time on Usenet.
Does anybody here believe the libertarian 'third-way' argument?
Barry