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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInside the libertarian version of Burning Man: Guns, booze and Bitcoin
There are also guns.
Lots of guns. Colt .45s, Smith & Wessons, and Rugers hang on hips. A bearded man clings to an AK-47; a guy with a Mohawk has a shotgun with flowers coming out of the barrel strapped to his back. For this isn't your typical bacchanal in the woods. This is the libertarian version of Burning Man., where a kumbaya discussion around the campfire goes something like this:
"It's great to be around people who understand. I don't get how the left won't just admit that income tax is theft. Who cares if it's for a good cause? If I held you at gunpoint to pay for my mother's cancer treatment, wouldn't that still be theft?"
Once a year for the past 11 years, this campground in the northern part of the Granite State turns into a libertarian utopia. And this year, roughly 2,000 people mostly white men have paid between $45 and $100 to experience for one week what life would be like without the onerous mechanisms of laws, if the market ruled to the exclusion of all else. Want to wear a loincloth and sell moonshine, shop at an unregulated market that accepts Bitcoin and silver, or listen to a seminar called "How the Collapse of the State is Inevitable"? Then this is the place for you.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4629148-inside-the-libertarian-version-of-burning-man-guns-booze-and-bitcoin/
Lots of guns. Colt .45s, Smith & Wessons, and Rugers hang on hips. A bearded man clings to an AK-47; a guy with a Mohawk has a shotgun with flowers coming out of the barrel strapped to his back. For this isn't your typical bacchanal in the woods. This is the libertarian version of Burning Man., where a kumbaya discussion around the campfire goes something like this:
"It's great to be around people who understand. I don't get how the left won't just admit that income tax is theft. Who cares if it's for a good cause? If I held you at gunpoint to pay for my mother's cancer treatment, wouldn't that still be theft?"
Once a year for the past 11 years, this campground in the northern part of the Granite State turns into a libertarian utopia. And this year, roughly 2,000 people mostly white men have paid between $45 and $100 to experience for one week what life would be like without the onerous mechanisms of laws, if the market ruled to the exclusion of all else. Want to wear a loincloth and sell moonshine, shop at an unregulated market that accepts Bitcoin and silver, or listen to a seminar called "How the Collapse of the State is Inevitable"? Then this is the place for you.
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4629148-inside-the-libertarian-version-of-burning-man-guns-booze-and-bitcoin/
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Inside the libertarian version of Burning Man: Guns, booze and Bitcoin (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Jul 2014
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Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)1. Libertarianism is great!
for about one week.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)2. or until YOUR kid's school goes broke & closes or a bridge YOU use, collapses
or until YOU get fired/laid off & there is no unemployment check for YOU..
Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)3. Exactly!
htuttle
(23,738 posts)4. This a little old, but still good...
"I have Cholera!"