Are Libertarian Futurists Stuck in the Nineteenth Century?

The 1920s were the last decade in American story during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics . Since 1920 , the immense increment in social welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to cleaning lady - two constituencies that are notoriously bad for libertarians - have rendered the notion of “ capitalist democracy ” into an oxymoron . . . I no longer believe that freedom and majority rule are compatible . . . In our time , the great task for libertarians is to get an escape from political science in all its manakin - from the totalistic and fundamentalistic catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so - promise “ social democracy .

After much scream on all side , Phil Browermaster got the last word :

One area where transhumanists consistently disappointment me is politics . We can speak about accelerating modification and singularity and human sweetening and the possibilities are eternal , but when the subject occur to politics , everyone seems to revert to one of a very small number of philosophical templates , most of them create in the nineteenth hundred or earlier . And for some rationality those are inviolate .

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