Wikipedia describes Libertines as being adherents to an "extreme form of hedonism." It cites the philosophies of the Marquis de Sade and John Wilmot as examples of libertines. It is more a definition qualified by their philosophical disposition and ignores the politics of their times.
Wikipedia's analysis is entirely period. It is the definition of the term as it was defined in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Its not a fair definition nor that accurate.
People today have more information than the people of centuries past and so this blog serves to actually define, to provide the contemporary definition, for Libertine thought. The "l" is capitalized like Republican or Democrat because in the 21st century libertine thought is both philosophy and politics.
This blog represents the founding of a new political party, called the Libertine Party. It is not recognized by the State of Oregon. Instead, after claiming the Libertine Party as my political party, the state calls me a member of the "other" party.
In time, with righteous progress beyond the neo-liberal "progressive" understanding, the Libertine Party would be recognized as such by the State of Oregon and federal government of the United States.
That said, the definition of what it means to be a libertine is much in dispute.
In addition to the examples of the Marquis de Sade and John Wilmot, society usually omits the best libertine thinkers as it focuses on the worst examples to define it.
In past centuries the human capacity for love was marginalized and slavery was legal, promoted and celebrated. What was then defined as hedonism today is better understood as love and especially of the romantic type so informed by the platonic.
To a pro slavery mentality, talk of love would seem hedonistic, superfluous, trivial and not important. Hedonism is a type of ignorance or how the rational mind is marginalized by the physical senses experiencing pleasure.
The Marquis de Lafayette is a better example of a political libertine, a libertine thinker with a successful political life, than the Marquis de Sade. Both are examples of a new French world type of thinking. To contemporary Libertines, Lafayette is superior to Sade. Both, however, embraced what they believed to be the romantic ideal.
For Lafayette, it was noblese oblige to rise to the greatest challenge the world had to offer--defeating the British Empire and co-creating a society founded on the principle of liberty from which follows Justice.
For Sade, it was noblese oblige to commit himself fully to the most sensual, less cerebral, challenge of loving as many people as possible. The term "sadism" was derived from his literature. The psychiatric definition of the term is a perversion of the original meaning--which spoke to the literature of the Marquis de Sade.
Like everything in psychiatry, misunderstanding is the result. It, psychiatry, is antithetical to love, liberty and freedom. It is autistic-maladroit thinking want for power in society. It is the "science" of the mentally retarded on how they might lord over the sentient--how the non sentient might dominate the sentient.
A Libertine and the Libertine Party of America, seeks to marginalize those with degrees in psychiatry and psychology as mentally retarded individuals, most likely afflicted with autism, who are themselves sadists by their own definition--as it is defined in the DSM.
Indeed, the LPA and this blog was created to begin the process of marginalizing these people in society and help the society at large understand these autistic-maladroit sociopaths do not deserve freedom to practice because their practice is indeed one of slavery, fraud and hatred.
They represent the empire of hate the United States of America represents, today. Libertines are for a modest revolution, want only to marginalize the freedoms of the mentally retarded.
Anne Bonny too, is a better example of a period Libertine than John Wilmot. She exemplifies the revolutionary spirit, more challenged the dogma of Christianity and empire and is one of the first feminists to be devoted to libertine thought.
When love is the ultimate political consideration because of philosophy, or that love must come even before wisdom as it is the cause for wisdom--that is the existential freedom libertines strive for.
Libertine thinking has been criminalized, unfairly. Although some libertarians were also and certainly criminals, such consideration is also a truism as all social and political philosophies are shared by imperfect and to some extent criminal people.
Sex and sexuality is what people who are not self described libertines often speak of when speaking about libertines; but as non libertines they miss the point of love.
Consent, sexual consent, is the standard for romantic love. To the extent one is capable to consent to love is the extent to which they can empathize with their lover and be better off for it.
If people don't have this view, as a libertine understands sex and love, within a social/political context then their politics is not sentient.
Libertines would rather be falsely defined as narcissists than pretend to be anything other than political elitists. Contemporary libertine thinking is not all people are sentient and many cannot participate in reality let alone consent to love.
There are the sentient who are few, a noble elite and so defined because their DNA afforded them the capacity to be sentient and know love. Everyone else, to some extent, is a sociopath.
Today, the libertine must believe in more than a sexual revolution as defined by a post war Anglo-Franco sexual liberalization--that sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Today is the 21st century and libertine thinking is about sentience qualifying the capacity for consent as necessary for the right to Vote. Libertine thinking, today, is as political as it is philosophical.
If a person is old enough to consent to having sex, they are old enough to Vote for elected government officials and on ballot measures. They must be able to read and comprehend what they're reading.
The primary political consideration of today, for libertines, pertains to an ongoing sexual revolution expressly purposed for love to be better realized in society.
Put another way, America is a cesspool and rape culture. Mass incarceration has produced bondage-labor and instances of rape which can only be compared to centuries past. After the second world war, autistic-maladroit imbeciles became the electorate and as a generation of Baby Boomers normalized their rape and stratification of their economy.
Libertines, today, shit on the liberals of the 1960s and urinate on the conservatives of the 1950s. Those are decades which belong to the apes who brought back slavery and rape, destroyed the potential for finding love in American society.
This is not an ordinary political consideration, let alone the primary political consideration, when libertine thought is compared to other schools of political thought. The potential for finding love is of greater importance to the libertine than the potential for finding financial affluence.
Put another way, the political enemy of Libertines is rape culture and those caught up in it--which is most everyone who isn't a libertine and even possibly some libertines.
This means Libertines are at odds with both Democrats and Republicans. They are at odds to lesser extents with other and smaller parties such as Libertarians, Greens and Independents but still at odds for the difference of primary political consideration.
Libertine thought might be confused with narcissism but can only be libeled as pedophilia and the libertine thinking of today is not tolerant of pro-slavery nor psycho-analytic thinking which would confuse and libel it so.
That dogma, psychology, be it pertaining to a sexual issue or any other type of issue is held in contempt by libertines. It is a dogma more offensive than the dogmas of the Church, which libertines have always railed against.
When used in the lower case, a libertine is someone who subscribes to libertine thought--has philosophical and therefore political agreement with such thinking but not a member/promoter of a Libertine political party.
Generally speaking, libertines are people with contempt for dogma. This contempt is necessary to be moral.
Libertines are against rape and traditionally all acts of sodomy were considered acts of rape when this has never been the case, always there have been people engaging in consensual sodomy. Sometimes teenagers engage in sex, breaking laws regarding statutory rape when informed consent was factually given despite statutory disagreement.
Rational thinking within the context of love, informed by capacity to consent, is all a libertine believes should govern a person's sex life. Libertines are left libertarians on the political compass: politicalcompass.org
Beyond these domestic and familial issues, Libertines are less concerned although entirely consumed by all political issues if and when a philosophical libertine should become a politician or come to support one in earnest as their elected representative.
Libertines prefer to be civilians who inform military service, the courts, congress and elected executives as social elites for being sworn to the purpose of love. The best Libertines, however, perform some military, legal, legislative or executive government service.
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