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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      10. The heirs of these beatnik businessmen were the 1960s libertarians, led by Tom Marshall, who concocted the idea of Vonu "an invented word meaning a life outside the reach of any who could oppress you."

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      11. The followers of the Vonu ideal, embracing back to earth hippy-dom, went full-hog: giving up society & squatting out in the woods.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      12. Of the hippy-libertarians, one particularly fascinating figure was Karl Hess (1923-1994), a right-wing journalist & Goldwater speechwriter who went full New Left.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      13. Hess had always had a lawless streak. In early 1960s he & a friend tried to convince the gangster Frank Costello to use mafia goons to beat up Soviet couriers giving money to USA communist party.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      14. But by late 1960s Hess had moved to radical left and was refusing to pay taxes to protest Vietnam war. He & his wife moved to woods & supported themselves by bartering.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      15. One time Goldwater ran into Hess protesting the war. Why don't you come around anymore, Goldwater asked. You office might not like that, Hess said. "Piss on them," Goldwater responded. "You're my friend."

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      16. Anyways, Hess in 1970s got heavily involved in appropriate technology movement, running a solar-powered farm.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      17. Libertarian Zionism ("the idea that the only way to find freedom in this unfree world was to hide from or physically escape the eyes of the state" is still around in seasteading (and, in a way, Bitcoin).

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      18. Milton Friedman's recently married grandson is really into seasteading:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/fashion/weddings/a-commitment-for-more-than-one-lifetime.html …

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      19. One last thing: I feel like David Brooks & Andrew Sullivan should follow this tradition and go off the grid, as I argue here:https://newrepublic.com/article/147088/case-retreatism-trump-era …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted William Newsom

      20. Oops, I forgot to mention: Albert Jay Nock cited as influences the prophet Isaiah, Plato & Marcus Aurelius.https://twitter.com/WNewsom/status/964626989553393665 …

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      Wait, where's Marcus Aurelius?
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        1. Jeremy Hickerson‏ @seatacAtMcDnlds 16 Feb 2018
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          good save

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        1. Dan Hartung  🌹 ⚽️‏ @lakefxdan 16 Feb 2018
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          "My parents, Ayn Rand & God."

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        2. Andrew VanStee‏ @andrew_vanstee 16 Feb 2018
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          Whole Foods is a big part of this history too

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2018
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          true

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        1. Ken MacLeod‏ @amendlocke 16 Feb 2018
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          Nock is one of those writers one can disagree with and read avidly.

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