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I have not read Rothbard nor do I intend to. I came to my own conclusions based on life experience. I do not have a college degree, yet I work side by side with scientists and engineers, I also supervise a crew of grad students sometimes. I have also spent much time in the third world with limited and/or weak government apparatuses.

(Prepare for flowery language.) Academics think they are the top shit in their little kingdoms of ego. The people I work with are brilliant in their fields of study and sometimes I envy them that they care about something so much to devote their lives to it, to have something they're passionate about. That being said, get a few inches outside their field of study and they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. The professors have turned their grad students into little minions. They are not critical thinkers. We call them the professor puppets because it's like the professor has his hand up their ass controlling everything they do and say, how they think, and what information they will accept and not accept. In short, they are all theory, not enough application. The engineers are better at application, but scientists are horrendous and have terrible interpersonal skills. The people in academia are worthless, and that's why they're in academia. They can't cut it in the real world. I'm not saying you are this or have these traits, I'm just saying. Academics are just as lazy and cut corners like everyone else. Many fraudulent papers have found their way into peer-reviewed journals. I'm not saying peer review is all crap, quite the contrary, but it's not the be all end all when it comes to discussion. In my mind, I don't hold a person as being supreme just because they hold some creditiential. My experience has taught me that nobody knows what they talking about, at least not all the time. You've made a lot of good points and I noticed some of those things too, which is why I don't label my particular brand of anarchy. I don't say I am capitalist or voluntaryist or whatever, I just say anarchist. Much of your critique could be applied to 99% of all subreddits. Except r/askhistorians. Dem hoes stricter than a muthafucka. I don't disagree with you. r/Anarcho_Capitalism esteems itself as being somewhat of an intellectually elite group, I think your critique has sucker-punched them a little bit. I try not to get involved in the debates, although sometimes I do. I try to humble myself because I don't have the answers. I have my philosophy and interpret my reality through that. At the same time, I feel righteous about certain things want to believe my opinions are facts, but we'll never know as long as the state exists.

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