No no, when communists do it it’s state ideological oppression, when Ancaps do it it’s the Watchdog state providing “essential stability guarantees” to the marketplace.
So one of the like, libertarian one world government conspiracies that came out of the 1970’s was that the government wanted to document everything so that way they could feed it into a giant database and then arrest you for ‘future-crime’ and ‘thought-crime’. It was one of their big pushes against welfare programs and other government services that ‘documented free citizens’, and they would argue that is why the government wanted everyone on welfare, so they could track us like the communists did to their people.
It’s pretty quaint now, but those undercurrents are what powered dystopian sci-fi in the U.S. Most popular sci-fi in the U.S. is very wrapped up in libertarianism honestly.
I thought the whole ‘future crime’ thing was something libertarians used to argue against communism?
Every accusation something, something
No no, when communists do it it’s state ideological oppression, when Ancaps do it it’s the Watchdog state providing “essential stability guarantees” to the marketplace.
When libertarians describe their ideal minimal state, they begin with “well, of course first we must have cops”
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled. Too late.
Wdym? I don’t think I’ve heard this argument before, what does it entail?
So one of the like, libertarian one world government conspiracies that came out of the 1970’s was that the government wanted to document everything so that way they could feed it into a giant database and then arrest you for ‘future-crime’ and ‘thought-crime’. It was one of their big pushes against welfare programs and other government services that ‘documented free citizens’, and they would argue that is why the government wanted everyone on welfare, so they could track us like the communists did to their people.
It’s pretty quaint now, but those undercurrents are what powered dystopian sci-fi in the U.S. Most popular sci-fi in the U.S. is very wrapped up in libertarianism honestly.