{"id":20574,"date":"2016-05-14T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20574"},"modified":"2016-05-14T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:56:50","slug":"how-i-became-a-libertarian-and-an-austrian-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20574","title":{"rendered":"How I Became a Libertarian and an Austrian Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"wrapper entry-header page-header\">\n<div class=\"title-with-sep single-title\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cobdencentre.org\/2016\/05\/how-i-became-a-libertarian-and-an-austrian-economist\/\">HOW I BECAME A LIBERTARIAN AND AN AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-media\">I suppose I can date my interest in both libertarianism and Austrian Economics from the day I was born. The doctor grabbed me by my little feet, turned me upside down and spanked my tiny bottom.<\/div>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"grids\">\n<div class=\"grid-8 column-1\">\n<div class=\"single-box clearfix entry-content\">\n<p>I began to cry out. That is when I realized the fundamental axiom that, \u201cman acts.\u201d In addition, I appreciated that what the doctor had done was in violation of the \u201cnon-aggression\u201d principle.<\/p>\n<p>The rest is history. Well . . . maybe not quite.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I had found history and current events interesting when I was in my early \u2018teens in the 1960s. I had a part-time job at the Hollywood Public Library in Los Angeles when I was in high school. Part of responsibilities was to maintain the magazine collections on a balcony in the building. I would finish my work, and hide up in the balcony reading new and old political and news publications.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Confusions of \u201cLeft\u201d and \u201cRight\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But I soon was confused. When I read \u201cleft-of-center\u201d publications like\u00a0<i>The Nation<\/i>\u00a0or the\u00a0<i>New Republic<\/i>, they always seemed to have the moral high ground, making the case for \u201csocial justice,\u201d \u201cfairness\u201d and morality. \u00a0On the other hand, when I read \u201cright-of-center\u201d publications like\u00a0<i>Human Events<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0<i>National Review<\/i>\u00a0the argument was made that all that \u201cbleeding heart\u201d stuff just did not work. There was a \u201cbottom line\u201d: it cost too much, screwed things up, and socialism and communism seemed to kill a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>When I was about seventeen, and living in Hollywood, I met two men who introduced me to the works of Ayn Rand. I ran into them at a restaurant called \u201cHody\u2019s\u201d that was at the corner of Hollywood and Vine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW I BECAME A LIBERTARIAN AND AN AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST I suppose I can date my interest in both libertarianism and Austrian Economics from the day I was born. The doctor grabbed me by my little feet, turned me upside down and spanked my tiny bottom. I began to cry out. 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