Monday, April 16, 2012

So there's a name for that?

Interesting:
I came across the phrase ‘leapfrogging’ only a few days ago — apparently meaning the Leftist practice of ignoring experience — the concrete, obvious and near at hand; and leaping over it to the ideology — abstract, remote and far away (usually only experienced via the mass media).

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(Soviet Communism made a core principle of leapfrogging — it was the true Communist’s duty not to alleviate specific instances of distress or injustice, since this might delay the revolution which would end all distress and injustices.
For extra credit, apply the Leapfrogging analysis to libertarian philosophy.

5 comments:

  1. > For extra credit, apply the Leapfrogging analysis to libertarian philosophy.

    Oh, OUCH!

    That hurt.

    Nicely done. ;-)

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  2. TJIC, heh. Self awareness is a virtue.

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  3. Wait, doesn't hollywuuuuude! depend on this concept to keep the obamubucks rolling in?
    Suspension of disbelief?
    My empirical observation has been that most people just sleep walk through life. It doesn't take much of a nudge to steer most of them.

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  4. Struggling for examples of leapfrogging in good, solid libertarian thought.

    Sorry TJIC, I can find a lot of it in anarcho-capitalist thought, but not libertarian.

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