I get a colection of emails from people who prefer to click the “Contact the Gonzman” link as opposed to commenting. Some are inane, some are supportive, some are incoherent to the point of resembling the rantings of a rabid chimp high on crystal meth.

And then there are the ones that provoke thought, and the rarer ones still which provoke thought and merit a public reply.

Ernie K. writes, in part:

Sometimes you sound like a conservative, and then you write something so libertarian it makes my head hurt, and then when I get to thinking of you as a Libertarian, you come out with diatribes against cultural breakdown which put you right on the whole Family Values train. Gonzo, you can’t have it both ways.

Well, Ernie, yes I can.

You make a common mistake of assuming that all libertarians are of one mind, which any afternoon spent at a libertarian meeting will disabuse you of in short order. I’m of that breed of Libertarian known as “Neo-Libertarian.” I can believe you should be free to do something, and still judge you as a stupid asshat for doing it.

If there is one thing that pisses me off about mainstream libertarianism is that they have swallowed the leftist puke that to have values and be “judgemental” is somehow akin to fascism. And that is bloody rot; what is fascism is believing that a governmental micromanaging of the problems is the solution. Government is part of the problem, namely, that governmental interventionism that thinks it is proper to try to remove all consequence from people making stupid choices.

Free societies, or hell, any society for that matter, will tend to develop certain social values that are understood by almost anyone, and to result in stigma and social penalties for transgressions against such custom. Truer words have never been spoken in the observation that an offense against custom is often punished more harshly than an offense against law. And this is right and proper, the “social contract” is what allows people to get along, and social protocols are the means by which any group of people understand what they may or may not take offense at.

It’s just common sense to understand that the erosion, nay, the assault, on values has corrupted the culture. This is my observation, and a truth I hold dear. I agree strongly with conservatives on this point. Faith, honor, morality - these have been turned into virtual pornography by the leftist Kulturkampf. BUT - where we differ is in the fact of the proper role government plays in the resolution of this.

I’m a small-government conservative, and most of these problems we can observe have arisin from the meddling of Da Gubbmint. Big-government conservatives rightly identify the social ills, but then want to compound stupidity with idiocy by suggesting “another law.” Ernie, we don’t need another fuckin’ law. We have too many laws as it is. We need to get rid of some of the lame-brained legislation enacted by these knuckle-dragging troglodytes in Washington that not only have caused the problems they complain about, but make it worse.

Stupidity, as Bob Heinlein pointed out, is self correcting. It’s the universal death sentence, carried out swiftly and mercilessly; or as I like to say, it’s nature’s way of saying, “Hey Dumbass! Outta the Gene Pool!”

You show me any “social ill” and I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that I will be able to point out to you the government nearby, with its arm elbow deep in the cookie jar and crumbs smeared on its face, looking wide-eyed and innocent and saying, “Who, ME?!?!?!”

Yes, you.

Clearer now, Ernie?

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