hofmann@NRL-CSS.ARPA (10/30/86)
Libertarians? Objectiveists? You all sound like idealogues to me... you will only be satisified when there is no one else around who disagrees with you (mainly because you are uncomfortable with discrepancies in your philosphies). In a certain South American country wreaked by years of political/ social/ and literal warfare on the people, the mobs no longer chant "rightist" or "leftists" slogans; their cries are roughly translated as : "No More Fanatics!" Does ideological orthodoxy lead to fanatisism. Probably. Are "Libertarians" and "Objectiveists" and any other mess of people who have to feel united under a label Ideologues? Well, maybe not. You have to decide on a group by group assessment. As for me, I can't think of any examples of groups who are not in the end analysis, ideologues. I think the people of this world are fed up with people who profess these quasi-religous ideologies and try to force them to submit to the laws and gov'ts they set up to support their "religion". As to whether they are going to do anything about it, remains to be seen. jim -------