RE: Torn between Conservatism and Libertarianism?
Nicely put! What are your thoughts about the morality necessary to sustain liberty? Do think technology alone, which minimizes the need for government and cripples it's ability to control, will be enough or do you think people need a moral awakening?
I sort of think that natural selection has been artificially subverted and that social programs are basically the subsidization of stupidity. Once these government distortions are removed, people will naturally become more moral out of necessity and through facing the negative consequences. The stupid genes will be eliminated from the gene pool resulting in more intelligent and more moral individuals.
I am still concerned with how fast it will happen. Socialists seem to be hell bent on destroying the West with mass third world immigration and it's happening quickly. This is why I truly wonder if all out war may be necessary to preserve Liberty in the meantime, hence my comment about helicopters.
I have not studied any science about whether natural selection would filter out predisposition to leeching. I presume nature will anneal to the resources available even if they’re a self-destructive power vacuum. Genetic evolution moves far too slowly anyway for that to make any sense. Although afair Freeman Dyson (when he obliterated Richard Dawkins) argued that cultural/technological change is a form of evolution which evolves much faster.
In any case, I agree we are entering a very dangerous potentially megadeath totalitarian juncture. We also have a Maunder Minimum coming and the changes to the climate and widespread natural disasters (e.g. drought/flooding) could potentially disrupt civilization. Technology may rescue us.