Bolger Politics (an old topic)
Hi,
whilst searching another topic I saw this interesting research:
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians
...And what* did I think of straight up?
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Bolger is precise. He is also funny, self-deprecating, easy to challenge
on dogma, free with conversation when he's in the mood for it, and oddly
anti-precise in his libertarian tolerance of new and strange ideas.
Conversations with Bolger, when he gets rolling, skip sideways from yacht
design to politics, ancient history, the space program, sex, money, any
number of things. And they are full of quotes and footnotes from H.G. Wells,
Alexander the Great, Kipling, Mary Renault, W.C. Fields, any number of
people.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/8570
He graduated cum laude from Bowdoin,
and he took with him not only laurels but a distaste for what he indicts as
"an academic establishment that is wrecking American civilization." Bolger
describes himself as "a card-carrying Libertarian," and he feels that
students who learn on their own, and get good at something, should have the
same access to professions as students who have gone through the motions of
acquiring an academic ticket. Bolger soon sought a ticket in yacht design, a
thing that, true to his principles, seems to be granted on performance
rather than school credentials.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/11496
I read somewhere, can't recall, that PCB is a 'card-carrying libertarian'.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/11505
Libertarians do not carry cards...I guess that explains his amount of liveaboards and hard to regulate
sailing vessels and/or a predisposition towards independent sailors.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/11501
Libertarians do not carry cards. It is the rest of the xxxians and xxxists who are required.
Phil's writings copiously support that assertion.
Carron
feeling that discussio of PCB *can't be* off topic on this list :-)
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/11521
> I know this is a little off topic, but for my own curiousity... I> read somewhere, can't recall, that PCB is a 'card-carrying
> libertarian'.
From "The Folding Schooner", Page 195, Chapter 33 "Anchor":
"Nobody should buy a stockless anchor under fifty pounds," I muttered
to myself (I'm a libertarian and never say "there ought to be a
law"), and I designed an all-welded, removable-stock anchor for a
welder of my acquaintence to make.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/11534
I don't know if he is a "card-carrying libertarian" but from his writings a
would say that he has libertarian leanings. Which doesn't really bother me
since I am a card-carrying member of the libertarian party:-)
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/11530
It's an alternate universe science fiction set in South Africa.
It sort of explores the outer limits of libertarianism, in some cases
being outrageous because that's where some logical extension of the
story line takes it, in other cases the story line seems to flogged a
bit to introduce an element of outrageousness as a means of letting
the author stick his finger the eye of a particularly irritating
aspect of our culture...
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/topics/11496
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/11521
I can hardly imagine a more "in your face" Libertarian screed then
Schorpioen. It's practically a big, raised middle finger to the ideas
of arm-twisting egalitarianism, sensitivity politics and racial
identity politics.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/11552
Yeah, "in your face" is quite apt. Schorpoien is an alternate
universe yarn set in Africa in the near future, a United Africa run
along libertarian lines. Libertarian for half the population,
anyway; women are literally considered property, and (in the book,
anyway) don't seem to mind. It's a very very wierd mixture of
utopian libertarianism and mild S&M. The book was privately
published, I think, and is quite rare.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/15423
I know that Mr. Bolger is a libertarian, but it his discussion
of politics almost always seems to drag down his writing.
It does the same thing in the newsgroup. I wish it didn't.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/15430
I just re-read Schorpion, and thought it is rather
interesting. There aren't that many other designers
who have made such a point of political writing.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/68883
- The importance of recognizing facts.
- The principle that reason is man's means of knowledge.
- The principle that acting in one's best interest is in one's best interest.
- The principle that initiation of force or committing fraud is always wrong; whoever does it, for whatever reason.
- The principle that freedom is a requirement of a proper human life.
- The principle that one should think for oneself.
- The principle that whatever promotes human life is good, and that which harms or destroys human life is evil.
- The principle that men should deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit.
- Love of mankind and the accomplishments we have achieved."
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/conversations/messages/68951
Despite being a card-carrying Libertarian, in light of the heavy work accomplished and the values represented he might vote for the President again...
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bolger/info
& Etc.