Radical Individualism
Astrophysicist/Luthier @DrBrianMay hosts acoustic analysis of the false vocal chords & irregular vibrato of F. Bulsara: https://brianmay.com/downloads/FreddieMercury_acoustic_analysis_of_speaking_fundamental_frequency_vibrato_and_subharmonics.pdf
And how great were the vocals of failed dentist R. Taylor on the B-side to Bohemian Rhapsody:
#BestGeeksEvah
Growing up in LA in the â70s none of my friends were aware of all Queenâs differences. We thought Freddie Mercury was straight, ethnically English and just liked Fat Bottomed Girls long before Sir Mix-a-lot. Even the name Queen didnât trigger any inquiries. We were that clueless.
I watched the movie last nite. I turned 7 the day before the Live Aid show so too young to have a clue but now I am wondering how teens and adults viewed Freddie
@KrisAbdelmessih Honestly, Queen was sort of incomprehensible. Listen to songs like âSeaside Rendezvousâ or ââ39â. These guys didnât give a shit about confusing you. They were the least needy band.
They contributed to my love of radical individualism. Heroes to me really: https://www.google.com/search?q=%2739&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS718US718&oq=%2739&aqs=chrome..69i57.5293j0j9&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Why the Left is focused on Climate & Vaccines even Beyond Legitimate Interest in Climate & Vaccines.
Let me say first why I hang out with libertarians despite being anti-libertarian. I enjoy liberty. I like personal freedom and think of personal responsibility as a core virtue.
It feels to me like conservatives and libertarians are all we have defending individuals from collective force. So I enjoy their commitment to one of my core beliefs: radical individualism and liberty.
Ok. So why be anti-libertarian? Because collective action is always an issue.
In my experience, libertarians pretend that the interaction terms linking the effects of our behaviors on each other are weak. This is crazy making.
OTOH, Lefties tend to exaggerate the interaction terms as being enormous making everything they donât like into a communal issue.
So with climate and vaccines, the case for collective action is *strongest*. âIf you donât want to pollute, you go right ahead while I belch spent fossil fuels. To each his own!â Is an obviously nonsensical argument for freedom to pollute according to individual choice and taste.
So we are seeing climate & vaccines doing the job of clearing a path to authoritarian communalism:
Passports
ToS/Trust&Safety
Deplatforming
Access To Banking
And Iâm chilled. There *IS* a strong case to be made for carbon & vaccines. There isnât for office Woke indoctrination.
So I follow the following:
I tell Libertarians/Conservatives that weâre more connected than they might want to acknowledge.
I tell Communalists that they generally exaggerate our connectedness outside of a few places in order to push for *general* mechanisms of social control.
Is this fun?
No. It kinda sucks. But climate and public health, like defense or national culture needed to support a shared legal system say are *legitimate* issues of collective action. *Not* pretending woke contradictions are fine is *also* a matter of collective action.
So what am I? I believe in libertarianism most of the time & strong collective action sparingly when it matters.
This is not a good bumper sticker; itâs a bad slogan. But itâs why we are not progressing. Our positions require taste not absolutes, and this moment is not for that.
That said, we have to give each other wide room for personal liberty whether we like what our neighbors like or not.
The reason this doesnât go away is that communal action is both an essential tool for survival of free peoples as well as devilish temptation leading to tyranny.