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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nuni who wrote (33504)	3/29/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Okay, I'll fess up in public: Me too. My age is no secret, since I've merrily decorated my personal profile with it. (Anyone makes assumptions about my economic and social background from the following comments is going to be stunningly incorrect.) I have never forgotten staying with a friend for a couple of weeks in Amagansett during the summer: The telephone rang. It was a friend of hers in East Hampton begging us to turn on the television to watch the Democratic convention. We thought he was crazy. Until we looked. And we kept on looking. We watched things about Vietnam that chilled us, things our parents never saw about war--any war, regardless of the provocation and possible necessity. We read things we might never have read and thought thoughts that might never have occurred to us. I lived for a while with an aunt who was associated with the Marine Corps. I met men who saw things (and told me about them) that drove them to reinlist because they were convinced that, at the very least, we stood for the lesser of two evils and that our leaving after the "conflict" had really gotten under way would only result in a deeper horror. I met men who would sleep on her couch and wake up screaming in the night, men who were apparently "adjusted" during the day. (This is not the way one wants to be holding a man!) I think of Kosovo today and I shudder: Here we go again and "right" is not clearly anywhere. Once again. As I just PM'd LRR, I did drop out for a while. I still have my love beads. Made 'em myself. And although I don't think I'd want to live today totally in the world we envisioned (consider Altamont as a definite extension), I could never reject the person I was and what I did to express that self. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Not all libertarians have the credo, "Live and let die." Some of us found an affinity in the demand for personal freedom and the real importance of individuals during that time. One does not have to be a devotee of undiluted Ayn Rand to regard with a very dubious eye state coercion, regardless of the purported social good. We have learned not to trust the state, which is so easily directed by the vocal. (Chuzz, O.T. as well on, note well.) A "good"--i.e., liberal liberal libertarian, which characterizes most of the ones I have known, tends to be very charitable and giving personally but does not want his or her money snatched away to support causes that the person does not deem a place where he or she feels comfortable supporting. Should we take the money of people who have fought for a education and a hard-earned income, as Donna Summer sang in a song devoted to another end, people earned money, and let the state play with it as it pleases. Do you disagree? I recognize the argument that the private sector is inefficient about the allocation of monies. Has the public sector proven any better at allocating funds? (snicker at how egregious a problem this is for both the public and private sectors, who exult in finger pointing)