From Left Liberal to FLOW Libertarian从左自由流动自由主义者.docVIP

From Left Liberal to FLOW Libertarian An Annotated Bibliography Michael Strong CEO and Chief Visionary Officer, FLOW, Inc. A Gestalt Shift  This bibliography is a tool for those who are interested in experiencing a gestalt shift. The familiar image above allows one to experience a visual gestalt shift: One can learn to shift from an old woman looking down into her fur coat to a young woman looking away and back again. Likewise, those who are interested in understanding different ways of looking at the political and economic structures of our society might be interested in learning how to make a gestalt shift from left-liberalism to libertarianism and back again. Until and unless one has understood both interpretations of the world, one doesn’t fully understand the various ways in which evidence may be interpreted in different frameworks. Unfortunately, it takes some work, some reading, some thought, and some conversation, to lead to understand a different politico-economic gestalt. For those who are interested in experiencing such a gestalt shift, this bibliography may serve as a guide. My Gestalt Shift I am a left liberal who became a libertarian strictly as a consequence of new intellectual understandings. That is, I have exactly the same ideals, morals, goals, and values as I did when I was a left liberal. But I moved away from left liberalism and towards libertarianism because I came to believe that libertarian approaches would be more effective at achieving my ideals than would left liberal approaches. Given that my goals and ideals continue to be those of a left liberal, there are many of my positions and priorities that differ from those of some mainstream libertarians. Thus my position may be better described as “left libertarian” or “communitarian libertarian” or “FLOW libertarian,” in recognition of the non-profit that I head devoted to promoting these ideas. For a general perspective on FLOW’s origins and rationale, see John Mackey, “Winning the