http://www.libertariannews.org/2012/01/17/fear-and-greed-the-real-political-parties-of-the-state/ Hate The State Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.libertariannews.org/2012/01/17/fear-and-greed-the-real-political-parties-of-the-state/#comment-10112 Doug Nusbaum Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:12:00 +0000 http://www.libertariannews.org/?p=11936#comment-10112 And we will just ignore the 1% or so of the population that are psychopaths.  But the author will say that it is our evil culture that manufactures psychopaths.  Why yes it is, our culture takes a normal brain and makes it unresponsive to emotionaol situations,  It just re-wires that little ole brain.   And in a family of, oh say 5, if one kid is just nasty and likes to torture the family pets, and beat up on his smaller syblings, why that he watched to much TV.   The same TV that did not seem to cause problems in those siblings he is torturing.

]]> http://www.libertariannews.org/2012/01/17/fear-and-greed-the-real-political-parties-of-the-state/#comment-10064 Michael Johnston Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:31:00 +0000 http://www.libertariannews.org/?p=11936#comment-10064 Thank you for this. It echoes my own thinking on the matter. I tend to use the word ‘envy’ rather than ‘greed’ – but it amounts to the same thing. I think this kind of analysis is especially useful for drawing attention to the need for the libertarian revolution to start and finish in the minds, hearts and souls of individuals. As a generalisation, I think that the old ‘left-right’ political spectrum is characterised by envy to the left and fear to the right. Libertarinism is orthoganal to this spectrum and involves attaining a certain level of spiritual maturity; in the words of Bob Marley, “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds”.

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