If you're talking demographics, your timescale just jumped to generations, and that might have its own problem, as I will discuss below.
As for technology: can it cure enough of the limitations?
One thing I have noticed--maybe it's an anomaly and you can correct me on this--is that there is one event that turns libertarians into mere conservative Republicans, and that's becoming a parent. In short, every active libertarian I know has ZERO minor children.
Where does the next generation of libertarians come from? Most libertarians I know became such due to exposure to YAFF in colege--they usually don't have libertarian parents.
Where does the next generation of libertarians come from? Most libertarians I know became such due to exposure to YAFF in college--they usually don't have libertarian parents.
Interesting. I don't consider myself a L/libertarian, so can't at all offer my own 18-year-old kid as an exception to any lack of future generations of those inclined. Most of the generally young libbies I've exchanged thoughts with over the FSP are first or second hitch military personnel, not a real great climate for having kids without some serious reflections on both family priorities and military career/s impact, so I don't expect they're particularly good examples either. You reckon the kids of Libbies will rebel by becoming liberal socialists?
But it wasn't YAFF, the Ayn Rand Discussion Club or other college influences that got my interest in the possibility that there was more to libertarians than doctrinal theorization. My late pal Mark Penman, a FReeper who wrote as laissezfirearm traded multiple e-mails with me, and caught my attention with his thoughts on the theory, if less so with examples of such thought in action.
Mark committed suicide in the Summer of 2001, and I miss him still. I'd dearly love to know his thoughts on the FSP had he been around to consider the idea, and I'd dearly have loved to have had him as a neighbor.
But if a new town or community emerges in that hoped-for experiment, and they're looking for a good name for it, my suggestion will be *Penman.* He had offered something pretty close to the FSP idea back in 1994, and whether a case of others swiping his good idea or great minds thinking alike, I wish he was along for the ride to see how it panned out.
No kids left along the way he travelled, so far as I know. He liked the ladies, but the one to complement his days never happened his way, it seems.
But perhaps he's found her now.
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Now you one one....I have two chilluns, aged 2 and 4.
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