It strikes me that Libertarianism can be associated with a level of human cognitive and social development that is rather adolescent in character, in that it focuses on individual initiative, responsibility, gain and loss, without regard for, or even cognizance of, a human collective supporting such individual functions, toward which the individual has material and social obligations. As long as individual human beings have to develop from square one, there will always be adults in human societies who are parked at this level of development. How do we honor who and where they are, and integrate them into our societies, while still maintaining collective levels of social, cultural, material and spiritual development that are in keeping with the broad individual range and overall collective potential for human development?
And later this same day, what should appear but an an op-ed in the NYT about Libertarians in general and Rand Paul in particular:
