I know it prob doesn’t look good that like my first 2 posts both feature this guy, but this was just too good.
So this is like really long, so I don’t bother you if you don’t feel like watching the whole thing, but you just might want to if you have some time to kill. I find this whole thing to be one of the most fascinating things I’ve seen.
So like Whittle’s like a typical neocon-lite kind of guy…the flavor of big “R” Republican who prefers to call himself and everyone who agrees with him “conservative”. And my first post was the video of him making a plea for us to vote for his Paul Ryan. (Since there’s too many undeniable issues with the actual candidate, he liked to focus on the “budget hawk” guy. In fact I’m pretty sure he made an entire video about it after Ryan was named the running mate. It was like we were all supposed to fall in love with Romney because he picked the budget guy.)
Anyway, I was especially curious to watch the reactions of all the hard line Republican guys (maybe it’s shadenfrude or something, I don’t know). So when I see a video from this guy that’s 90 minutes long, titled “A New Beginning…”, I figured I was gonna get exactly what I was looking for!
And in a way, I kind of did. I knew this guy would be really affected, but i totally didn’t see which direction he was gonna take it…
So it starts off kind of predictable “I’m not gonna waste any time whining, blah blah blah”. Then he states his assessment of the situation…basically that the problem is, 50% of the country is without virtue. Kinda rubbed me the wrong way, but I guess if you tweak your definition of “virtue” I can kinda see what he’s saying. (Although I love the hypocrisy when he’s talking about the virtueless hedonists who go around promoting drugs and homosexual activity…and then right away comes back and tries to be like “I have no problem with homosexuals!”, right after he literally just said they were essentially bad people.)
Anyway, then he starts talking about what he thinks we should do about it. Right away he’s like “I’m not talking about revolution or going Galt, I’m not even talking about civil disobedience. We FOLLOW THE LETTER OF THE LAW.” And I’m like, “way to go asshole. You go right ahead and turn Harriet Tubman in to the proper authorities.”
And then it starts to get crazy.
He starts getting into his plan. He describes “parallel structures”. And when he starts going into it, you realize he’s basically talking about libertopia…privatized, voluntary-everything. He starts sounding like Seasteading Institute but without the moving out to sea. His plan is: if we could just get enough people to pool their resources (the model he describes is a recurring monthly payment into a 501c3), we could essentially pay for whatever we wanted.
It’s like, he’s almost getting it. It’s so remarkable…it’s like the re-election of Obama just shook him to the core and he’s detaching.
But then it gets even weirder. The first example he gives is private space flight. This part you gotta listen to. The whole thing starts at 27:10. You just gotta watch it. I can’t say I’ve ever seen anyone who could articulately string two sentences together and considered them crazy. Like actually insane. But that’s exactly what I started to think as this guy went on. I was like “holy crap, this man has actually gone insane.”
For the best example of this, check out 35:00-37:09. That has to be the most insane 2 minutes I think I’ve ever seen where the person was actually talking intelligibly. If you watch nothing else, just watch that segment if for nohting more than the shock value.
But as if that werent enough, RIGHT AFTER that, he goes right into making the most sense, and relating the most to us that he ever has. 37:13-41:00, he more or less becomes a voluntarist. It’s the strangest thing.
And he goes on to basically talk even more good stuff (of course mixed with some confused and not-quote voluntarist stuff) throughout the rest of the video.
It gets really serious at 53:54. That’s another part you gotta see. This guy has been seriously shocked to the core. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such a hard core neocon Republican flip so fast. Literally (literally) overnight.
I seriously. Just watch. It’s literally watching a necon become almost a full voluntarist right before your eyes.
This man is so ready to join our team. He’s essentially beating on our door. I mean, listen to him come up with ideas that libertarians have already been working on for years. At 1:17:34 he starts to invent the FSP. It’s almost comical. The guy’s been so immersed in his neocon world for so long, and been so busy calling libertarians hippie kooks or whatever, that he literally has no notions at all of the fact that essentially all of these things he thinks he’s coming up with are already underway, and have been for a long time.
Someone needs to send him a copy of Chaos Theory or something. Is there like a single definitive book or set of books for just nudging someone in the right direction?
In this case it wouldn’t even be like pushing someone over the tipping point…this guy is already gone…it’s more like just correcting his course a little. Giving him a little clearer direction.
This Romney loss may be even better than we imagined.
