sounds to me like a contradiction that can only be resolved in science fiction: that’s to say, I find great temperamental similarities between programmatic technolibertarians and 60s trots, so I dislike both. Both of them want a universe ruled by alienated young men whose spectacles cannot conceal their brilliant, penetrating gaze. In both cases, an intellectual commitment to liberty is coupled with quite extraordinary intolerance in practice.
I may have to revise this opinion a little since discovering Ken MacLeod, who is commonly described in similar terms. He’s a science fiction writer, much praised in electrolytic circles; and he can manage a mean rant.
sounds like all postmodern to me, eh.