While leaf­ing through the recent issue of Reason, I came upon this con­fus­ing adver­tise­ment and image:

A bit odd, no?

To be fair, the adver­tiser — “The Twelve Visions Party” — may be a vir­tu­ous troupe of hap­penin’ free­dom mongers.

But their ad cam­paign has an uncanny val­ley thing going on. Not unlike this robot inter­view.

My fel­low lib­er­tar­i­ans are by and large swell peo­ple, but ever since my visit to a Harry Browne rally in 2000, I’ve noticed that a few of them have the glazed-over “Scientologist Look” in their eyes.

It’s as if the mere men­tion of the terms “emi­nent domain” and “ease­ment” send them straight into a trance.

A com­pletely unfair char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, to be sure, but I’m throw­ing it out there for discussion.

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