Hello one and all. I'm taking a little time out of my otherwise busy schedule to post in respond to Brad Spangler's tagging of me in an anarchist/libertarian meme. His question (or the meme's, rather):

What motivated you to start looking into Anarchist/Libertarian thought?”

Well Brad . . .

First, growing up, I was really into American history. Really into American history. And from there I became interested in history, period. I don't really know how or why (memory is like that), but I got into "alternative history." Search my name sometime on soc.history.what-if, but don't hold me responsible for anything I said. I was still in middle school and high school.

You can also check out my old website. Which I also claim no resemblance to.

My experiences on Usenet exposed me to libertarianism really early on. Like most non-libertarian inhabitants of the internet, I generally rolled my eyes. There were a lot of Objectivists on Usenet when I frequented there.

One day, I picked up Michael Lind's book Hamilton's Republic. A political book that was disguised as history. Devious! Lind is a former neo-con who is now a "radical centrist" or "communitarian." That's when I started to get into politics . . .

I was also very interested in the environment, for a while I wanted a career in environmental preservation/protection. Maybe a lawyer, I'm not sure. Despite their general statism, a lot of radical centrist types embrace a free market-lite approach to environmentalism. And that quickly lead to exposure to geolibertarianism and Henry George.

And even though Objectivists made me roll my eyes, and often still do, that clicked with me.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Now, to continue the meme . . .

I tag you.