If that is your perception, then you should consider your projection problem.
As for Spooner, as a philosopher he had many insights and observations that are playing out RIGHT NOW in American politics.
And yes, if you haven't read Kropotkin, Marx, Hitler, Tzu, ect... then how do you know what you are supposed to be fighting against? You have to understand them to beat them.
Right now, our Republic is in dire shape. Particularly because of some of the very things Spooner was warning about. Hence my inclusion of that particular treatise on the list.
If that is too big a concept for you to wrap your head around, it could lie at the heart of why no one takes you seriously here...
A darkly ironic comment - if intentional.
As for Spooner, as a philosopher he had many insights and observations that are playing out RIGHT NOW in American politics.
Spooner was not a philosopher (although I understand how abused that term is these days, what with Buckminster Fuller, Gore Vidal and others being given that title) but the Lyndon LaRouche of his day and age.
His arguments are basically variations on the theme of "If the Constitution were a draughtsman's contract then it would have expired." Wow.
And yes, if you haven't read Kropotkin, Marx, Hitler, Tzu, ect... then how do you know what you are supposed to be fighting against? You have to understand them to beat them.
But you were obviously recommending Spooner as constructive source, not a negative source required for getting inside the heads of the left.
Your interest in Spooner is not in "beating him." After all, The Probability Broach is precisely the sort of fantasy narrative that Spooner's musings envision.
Right now, our Republic is in dire shape. Particularly because of some of the very things Spooner was warning about. Hence my inclusion of that particular treatise on the list.
Spooner seemed to do a lot less warning and a lot more remonstrating, as I recall, like writing letters to Congressmen telling them they were not allowed to legislate because the Constitution had no legal force, etc.
If that is too big a concept for you to wrap your head around, it could lie at the heart of why no one takes you seriously here...
And by "one", the casual reader should understand "Ron Paul cultist."