Asking the hard questions: Wishful thoughtlessness, #FeminismPatrified and what to do about the poor.

Killing a man slowly is no kindness.

After mocking the left for their creepy embrace of the man formerly known as relatively dignified, I take up the black bug of libertarianism: What to do about the poor?

I think the post-Randian dodge – private charity – is beyond stupid, but even then it is not so stupid as the political proscriptions of the risible Dark Enlightenment.

Here’s the hard truth: What happens after the Federal Reserve Bank bounces its last check may turn out to be very libertarian. As we discuss in the video, I expect it to be very Hoplite in its politics, for the same reasons the Hoplites were Hoplites. But as for what happens to the vast hordes of tax-payer dependents – the news is not good.

Cited in the video: The essay Meet the Third Thing and my anarchism FAQ.

This week’s Church of Splendor homily is an extension of that FAQ, the answer to what is seemingly the most difficult question libertarians face – and the one they are most disingenuous in answering.