What is a Libertist?
Someone recently asked me this question. I was shocked. I had come to think the word was self-evident.
So I turned to google to make sure I wasn't just a snooty upturned nose type forcing plebs to accept my jargon.
Typing "define Libertist" into google and you have to go almost to the bottom before you come into the definition. Google assumes I meant Liberttist, with two t's. A Liberttist, two t's, is a person that writes the texts that go along with an Opera and this text is called a Libretto. It, dictionary.com, tells me is derived from Libro, or book. Fair enough and completely sensical (I used 'sensical' on purpose because English professors everywhere still think it is not a word. My typing it and publishing it here, prove, gentlemen, otherwise).
But if you take out that second t the word means: one that defends Liberty. Thus my reason for shock, because I had assumed that since the word was in the name, that the clarity and purpose of modifying it to 'ist' was clear. A Journalist is a person that 'writes reports', in modern parlance: a person that makes up phony emotionalisms about factual events and then immorally calls these stories 'news'. A Botanist is a Botany specialist. In fact, you can alter the end of most nouns to include 'ist' if you want. I'm also a Caninist, in that I advocate for dogs. Heinlein would have wanted me to be a Felinist, but I digress. Just know RH, I agree there is a special place in hell for those that abandon kittens.
Thus this series of papers is a work that advocates and defends Liberty, above all else.
The reason I went with "ist" was to avoid Liberal, because that word no longer has anything to do with liberty, natural rights, self-sovereignty, etc. The Newspeak types have managed to mutate the word into an advocacy for communism. This blog is adamantly anti-communism. It is anti-socialism in any form. People cannot be property of others.
So there you have it, Libertist, is a person that defends Liberty. More than one Litertist, are Libertists. Thus, the name.
So I turned to google to make sure I wasn't just a snooty upturned nose type forcing plebs to accept my jargon.
Typing "define Libertist" into google and you have to go almost to the bottom before you come into the definition. Google assumes I meant Liberttist, with two t's. A Liberttist, two t's, is a person that writes the texts that go along with an Opera and this text is called a Libretto. It, dictionary.com, tells me is derived from Libro, or book. Fair enough and completely sensical (I used 'sensical' on purpose because English professors everywhere still think it is not a word. My typing it and publishing it here, prove, gentlemen, otherwise).
But if you take out that second t the word means: one that defends Liberty. Thus my reason for shock, because I had assumed that since the word was in the name, that the clarity and purpose of modifying it to 'ist' was clear. A Journalist is a person that 'writes reports', in modern parlance: a person that makes up phony emotionalisms about factual events and then immorally calls these stories 'news'. A Botanist is a Botany specialist. In fact, you can alter the end of most nouns to include 'ist' if you want. I'm also a Caninist, in that I advocate for dogs. Heinlein would have wanted me to be a Felinist, but I digress. Just know RH, I agree there is a special place in hell for those that abandon kittens.
Thus this series of papers is a work that advocates and defends Liberty, above all else.
The reason I went with "ist" was to avoid Liberal, because that word no longer has anything to do with liberty, natural rights, self-sovereignty, etc. The Newspeak types have managed to mutate the word into an advocacy for communism. This blog is adamantly anti-communism. It is anti-socialism in any form. People cannot be property of others.
So there you have it, Libertist, is a person that defends Liberty. More than one Litertist, are Libertists. Thus, the name.
Does this include the inalienable right to economic freedom or economic liberty also, or just the liberty of my own person?
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