Muy relacionado con mi post anterior, de casualidad encuentro este artículo:
The past 25 years have been an intellectual tug of war for me. Morally, my soul is still attached to the notion that the keystone of libertarianism—liberty—must be given a higher priority than all other objectives. The problem, however, is that this noblest of all objectives often collides with the dominant aspect of secular life: reality.
Reality is synonymous with truth, and truth is unyielding. One can choose to ignore it, scorn it, or even curse it, but all to no avail; in the end, truth impassively stands its ground in the face of the most overpowering emotional, verbal, and intellectual onslaughts.
Further, truth can be especially brutal to those who insist on worshipping at the Altar of Theory. This is because truth has a way of frustrating theory and, much like a mongoose circling a snake, ultimately wearing it down and devouring it.
More to the point, truth—or reality—seems to take special delight in thumbing its nose at theory and leaving purist libertarians frustrated in the process. So much so that the past two-and-a-half decades have brought about a personal and accelerating evolution that has brought me ever more rapidly to what I consider to be a more mature view of life.
I believe this view has made it possible for me to see the world as it actually is rather than the way I would like it to be. Instead of seeing life as a black-and-white objectivist or unyielding, anarchistic libertarian, I now view life through the eyes of a hybrid ideologue: theoretical libertarian/practical conservative.
I am painfully aware that my admission will be considered nothing less than heresy in many quarters, because so many people are emotionally and intensely tied to their ideological beliefs. Indeed, the late Edith Efron once wrote about the time that Ayn Rand put a curse on her—literally—for daring to disagree with certain aspects of her philosophy. The faithful tend to take these matters very seriously.
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Muy bueno Luis.
ReplyDeleteY sobre aquello del libertarianismo disney, es algo así como tratar de razonar con un tigre hambriento que está a punto de devorarte. "Si tan sólo le mostramos al tigre lo bueno que es convivir en paz y armonía..." Es lo que está ocurriendo en el caso de los libertarios de la línea de Lew Rockwell con respecto al Islamofascismo. Es más, me parece que ignoran completamente la amenaza del Islam. Y nos va a costar caro.
A mí me parece que hay mucha gente que se empeña en ver el mundo como a ellos les gustaría que fuera y no como realmente es. Puede resultar una postura muy romántica pero no por eso deja de ser muy peligrosa. En muchos casos me parece que también tiene que ver con un proceso de maduración, en lo personal y en el plano de las ideas.
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