Followup to GOD is a Libertarian.
This morning while doing some research, quite by accident, I stumbled across a website that housed a collection of animal calls. Clicking the audio buttons, I played a hyena, a cougar, a toucan and a handful of other exotics. It was not until listened to the call of a coyote that my dog, initially asleep at my feet, instantly sprung to all fours and full-attention with the sounds of the wild howling. In that instant any signs of his slumber were erased by the yelping of his distant, wild cousins. I thought back to a book I read in my youth, Jack London’s The Call of the Wild. “He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.” Great line, returning to “the womb of Time.” Asleep at my feet, my dog recalled the “deeps of his nature” reawakened by an ancient Canine call.
I wonder what call human beings would re-cognize if they would only listen to “the deeps of (their) nature.” If you could drop a stone into the very bottom of your soul, what noise would echo back to you? Rousseau offered “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” Not to be outdone, James Joyce countered, “When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight.” Minus the “chains” and “nets” and the drone and din of modern life, what call sits deep in you, temporarily drowned by the static of the 21st Century? If one could escape to their Edin, “the wild uncultivated lands at the edge of civilization”, what natural rumblings would you uncover?
What would you hear?
With all the time I’ve spent in Nature, in all the extremes in temperature and terrain, I can tell you that Mother Nature has but a few rules and laws. Gravity, Thermodynamics, a couple that deal with the weather and a rule or two about the ultimate survival of the smartest, strongest, fastest and luckiest. Mother Nature, in all her wilderness, is not a micro-manager or a control freak nor is she a nanny or a nursemaid. With all she is capable of, she most certainly is not a legislative leviathan. She is however, a Libertarian.
If we could travel back in the “womb of Time” we would find our inner-voice, the wild, unalienable still, small voice sparking our very soul is a Libertarian whisper.
Plumbing the depths of who you are, tapping into your primordial, prior to all the ornamentation you hoist and carry today, trapped beneath the commonplace and habitual you currently choose to shoulder, what would you hear?
Our “call of the wild” is Liberty.
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In my oppinion, Libertarians support the 10 commandments not because they are commandments from God, but because the freedom they believe in guides them to be that way naturally. Pure individual freedom brings about peace, love, and happiness within the individual, which is the perfect recipe for being the kind of person most religions ask you to be anyway. The difference is it comes from within the individual rather than from religious texts and leaders who support only their own dogma.
Hey Myrna, Not unlike LIbertarians believe in the enumerated rights in our Constitution, they also support the 10 Commandments. Libertarians are not anarchists, and not certainly not anti-christs. LIbertarians are not anti government, they are anti BIG government.
I definately agree that there is that call from within us to be free, but I’m curious about why you think God is a Libertarian. I can see Mother Nature as Libertarian since everything in nature grows wild, and animals simply live by their natural instincts without any laws to restrict them from self-expression. But how do you explain why God gave Moses the Ten Commandments if he wanted mankind to be free to live by their wild unalienable voice within, like animals? I’m just curious is all!
Thank you.
I have to argee with you 100% on this one…. =)