I
have read a lot of libertarian science fiction through the years and in
them the individual often seems to have very little actual freedom.
It's instead the group that the individual belongs to - struggling
against it at some point, at but eventually being reconciled and
becoming one of it's leaders - that (theoretically) has the freedom.
The
individual is tightly tied to specific roles as a member of the
group - who often are family or clan based. The group itself is also
tied to it's founding idea and role, not wanting to change it, so it's
own freedom is also very much illusory one.
In it's core, it's very much
Plato's utopia once more, not about liberty, but creating a supposedly
perfect society and then "protecting" it from change. No liberty for
libertarians in their own visions.
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