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Libertarians can offer a positive, optimistic alternative vision of society.
When libertarians seem to be “against” everything, this is what we are
worried about. If citizens ignored politics, things wouldn’t be so bad.
But we are worried that our excessive focus on politics will cause us to
ignore society and each other. If we fail to connect as social beings
in complex reciprocal exchange relations, modern “democratic” life
becomes anomic and mean, just as Tocqueville foresaw.
That—that—is what we are for: voluntary associations, in all their richness and bewildering complexity.
If you want to go out and persuade some people to work with you, and
all voluntarily work for the benefit of each, then that is libertarian
social change. If someone wants to opt out and form a different
association, they are free to do so. And that’s a good thing, because
you get diverse experimentation in problem solving.
Source: Michael
Munger, “What Are We For?” The Freeman, December 04, 2013
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