If you're wearing rose-colored glasses, the Kool-Aid man is invisible.
You should spend some time looking into natural human biases that we all have to deal with, and that we deal with when talking to people about our ideas.
It's hard for others to grok even the basis of our ideas and ideals. Instead they try to interpret ancap and austrianism
through their premises and viewpoints, and the whole thing then looks to them therefore ridiculous.
If you accept the premises upon which the Keynesian system is built, then everything follows from there and Austrianism looks not only wrong but laughable.
If you accept the state as necessary, then Libertarianism looks worse than wrong, it looks laughable.
In short, when an idea is
so different from your own that it challenges your very essential assumptions within that topic, rational judgment goes out the window due to confirmation bias and status quo bias and emotional defenses take over.
They don't want to even interface with an idea that attacks their root assumptions. So they strawman it and avoid it intellectually.
This is in part a short-cut because we don't have time or ability to deal with every idea that comes our way, so we rely on the perceptions of others, what we hear about an idea from others.
This is how Keynesianism became an orthodoxy--not because it was a better theory that Austrianism, but because it
became fashionable in intellectual circles. The state promoted it among intellectuals.
Similarly, Austrianism and libertarianism are not interfaced with rationally or seriously, instead the defense of ridicule is invoked, which allows casual observes to dismiss an idea since the experts dismiss it, etc.
As for dealing with it, once you know the theory is rock solid, who the fuck cares what some Marxists think. We don't need their consent or assent at all or in any way.
We are right about bitcoin, and we're quietly moving forward with promoting bitcoin in every conceivable way. Activist ancaps and libertarians aren't pontificating about bitcoin necessarily and trying to prove so-called "mainstream" economists wrong about bitcoin--instead they're starting bitcoin companies.
Similarly, we don't need to prove anyone wrong about ancap political ideas, we just need to build an ancap society and watch it fluorish. If our ideas are good, that's enough.
It's amazing that Marxist communism has so widely failed, yet they cling to it. Because they think the only alternative would be to become conservatives who accept the injustices they've identified.
Ancap represents a third way, continued outrage with tyrannical state injustice combined with an economic system that actually works.
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