Libertarianism: The Bastardization of a Powerful Philosophy In The Age of Fascism
The irreconcilable contradiction at the heart of modern conservatism
As humans, our greatest desire is freedom.
Freedom on how to live, who to love, where to live, where to go and to do all that we want.
We are defined by our freedom. It shapes our life choices. And quite naturally, when our freedom is encroached upon, we react quite violently.
Philosophers, whose job it is to interpret and shape our relationship with nature, have taken notice of this most human of all desires and created a vast epistemology around this ideal through the last four centuries.
The likes of Adam Smith, David Hume, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill played a huge role in generating the theoretical framework on which our societies are ordered.
It is no lie to state that the ideas of these gentlemen found the greatest expression in the constitution of the United States of America.
Locke’s explanation of the state of nature is worth sharing here:
To properly understand political power and trace its origins, we must consider the state that all people are in naturally. That is a state of perfect freedom of acting and…