The Lucky Libertarian

This young black man, Tarnell Brown, a most insightful, articulate Libertarian, is a friend of my nephew, Kenneth Slaathaug, a bright intellectual from Bismarck, North Dakota--an atheist, which saddens me, but be that as it may be.

Brown posts this on his Blog:

PROMOTING LIBERTY, SELF-RELIANCE, AND TRUE FREE MARKET PRINCIPLES SO THAT MANKIND MAY REACH ITS FULL POTENTIAL 

Now that is quite parallel, as least initially, to what I have promoted under Mavellonialist thought: my reform is for people to individual-live, relegating group-living to comforting, present, available, but of secondary rank social importance. This new mode of existence will present people with real liberty on a personal level with political and economic ripples of major significance.

Brown advocates self-reliance, and this Emersonian heritage is in severe decline in America, requiring immediate reversal. In school, self-reliance should be taught as a class every 3 years: kindergarten, 4th grade, 8th grade and llth grade. Kids should learn to handle finances, love profits, and be self-reliant, of public dole, and not dictated to by any hierarchy.

I have not explored what he means by true free market principles, but I like genrally the concept. Profits and money in the pocket of all, earned, based on their hard work and prudence, will lift the boats of all as prosperity and affluence become societal norms as capitalism blesses all. Just think of those 3rd world nations with real money to be made at home: they would have no need to pour across our open borders.

Brown wants mankind to follow his principles so that it can reach its full potential. Sounds awful close to the Mavellonialist ideal of human liberation as self-actualization of each person's full potential, as commanded to so live and soar as expected by God.

My belief in God, my fundamentalist religious conservativsm, my traditonalism on social issues, and my belief in basic human wickedness are values repugnant to the gentle, young Libertarian mindset, so worldly, so secular humanist, so radically live-and-let live in a world where evil must be actively countered, but we conservative Libertarians have some ideas that need vetting. It requires a strong stomach to go where I reside intellectually. Come aboard.