Gross Intellectual Incompetence

It’s important for everyone in the neoliberal community to take note of the abject failure of the leading Objectivist and libertarian thinkers in the current Communist Chinese Coronavirus (CCC) pandemic. This medical issue commands the center of attention of practically everybody in the world. Now is the time for the Objectivist and libertarian leaders to offer a superior intellectual alternative and shine. And yet the best Objectivists and libertarians are failing to correctly diagnose and prescribe for it.

First, evidently nobody in the Objectivist and libertarian movement is calling for the termination of diplomatic, social, and economic relations with the West’s tyrannical enemies such as China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Morally and strategically, this is the right thing to do to undercut these slave societies and their dictators. It’s also what would have mostly or entirely prevented China from importing this pandemic into the West in the first place.

Second, virtually nobody in the Objectivist and libertarian intelligentsia is demanding the complete and immediate termination of coercive quarantining of businesses and social gatherings. And yet free people have the absolute moral and political right to decide the proper way to react to, and behave, in a pandemic – not mindless, coercive, government bureaucrats. And those free choices are, for the most part, likely to be both clever and wise, thus bringing the pandemic to a speedier and less deadly conclusion.

Third, seemingly nobody in the Objectivist and libertarian leadership is calling upon the West to wreak terrible revenge upon China, which has clearly devastated the West’s health and wealth. Justice and simple human decency demand a massive counter-attack upon this evil, tyrannical enemy. So why do the top Objectivist and libertarian thinkers say essentially nothing?

Fourth, not a single top Objectivist or libertarian intellectual seems to be calling for the end of all government regulation, especially medical regulation. By its nature, regulation is coercion: it either forbids people from doing what they want, or it commands them to do what they don’t want. It’s an especially bad thing to do during a medical disaster like the CCC epidemic. And yet where are the leading thinkers demanding an end to medical regulatory agencies like America's FDA, CDC, and NIH? They have no right to exist, they serve no valid function, and their tyrannical rules and regulations leave them with an ocean of blood on their hands. They need to be eliminated.

Fifth, not a single damn top intellectual in the Objectivist and libertarian community is calling for the elimination of the various, humongous, financial, relief packages which are so much not the province of government. The deficit they create is sure to damage the West economically for years, if not decades. People need tot deal with this mostly government-created horror thru their savings and/or borrow from their family, friends, and banks. But as Objectivists and libertarians should know, government is never allowed to just hand out money to its citizens. Any such act is highly unjust to most, and sure to have wildly destructive economic consequences overall.

These are five stunning intellectual failures on the part of the Objectivist and libertarian intellectuals. These hapless clowns don’t seem to understand or support liberal politics and individual liberty at all.