Life, Love, and Liberty

Musical electicism continues with Stevie Wonder taking center stage today; He has an awesome tune at the end of the film High Fidelity called I Believe(When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever). Other good listens of his include…

-Superstition

-For Once In My Life

Otis Redding has a fantastic voice that shines through in I’ve Got Dreams To Remember and it’s one of my favorites.

We’re still on the oldies track with When A Man Loves A Woman by the infamous Percy Sledge today. I’ve got fond memories of singing this tune on trips with the family.

Listening to oldies music is one of my greatest pleasures so a pick from legend Al Green called Look What You Done For Me graces the blog today.

The beginnings of my preface, poke holes in it!

The libertarian ethos is sometimes criticized as being too atomistic with not enough emphasis on the non-political or economic aspects of human existence. Surely, there is a need to examine issues from other vantage points while still keeping in mind the above. There would be an appreciation of the wider context that questions can be placed in. In the process, connections among the elements making up this totality could be made. A dialectical method “stresses the necessity of context,the “totality” of systemic and dynamic connections among social problems…”1 and I’ll make use of it to consider important issues. The first part of this work defines my perception on the meaning of libertarianism according to several levels of generality. Introductory material of this kind serves as a prelude to a number of case studies. A fleshing out of these cases will provide the basis for the meat of the book. These studies will be followed by the final part that ties the connections between my own broad preferences together in dialectical fashion. Let me clarify that libertarianism is used to encompass both the left and right varieties in this text. In doing this, I am sidestepping the exclusive claim often made to the label libertarian by aficionados of the right and left variants alike. I operate on Roderick Long’s definition of libertarianism as “any political position that advocates a radical redistribution of power from the coercive state to voluntary associations of free individuals.”2. An attention to drawing from wherever I can, regardless of ideological label, is paid while still maintaining the commitment to a libertarian perspective.

Footnotes
1.Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Total Freedom: Towards A Dialectical Libertarianism, (Pennsylvania,2000), pg. 1
2.Roderick T. Long, “Toward A Libertarian Theory Of Class” Social Philosophy & Policy 15:2 (1998).

This will be revised and expanded over time.

Jazz has attracted many talented musicians and Miles Davis is certainly one of them with his soothing sounds.

-So What

-Pharaoh’s Dance

-Move

Let’s keep promoting the sweet melodies of Queen by listing more of their best work.

-Bohemian Rhapsody

-Don’t Stop Me Now

I plan on having the first draft of a preface for the book up on the blog this weekend to garner critical feedback. It’s been tough to really sit down with a clear head to write because of college catch up but I’ve got some time now. I’ll also try to track down the journal that Kevin was kind enough to remind me of.

Thanks! I’m sure it’ll be a helpful read if I can locate it.

Let’s give Martha Reeves And The Vandellas another listen with Quicksand and Jimmey Mack. Their oldie sound has been a delight so a heartfelt thanks to my family for getting me one of their albums.

My first exposure to Bonnie Tyler was her beautiful voice in Total Eclipse Of The Heart but I sampled some other good sounds of hers.

-Here She Comes

-Take Me Back

-Faster Than The Speed Of Light

-Holding Out For A Hero