Reason’s Nick Gillespie replies to Jonah Goldberg in the latest round of the libertarian v. conservative internet-inspired pissing contest. A sample:

One of the defining characteristics of contemporary America and the modern world writ large is that more individuals have the means and motivation to insist on a “culture” that reflects their particular needs and sensibilities. Jonah ridicules this as underwriting such apparently clear absurdities as “Buddhists for Jesus” (as if Christianity itself had no precursor forms that violated existing categories). Dictating the limits of culture used to be the province of small, typically aristocratic elites, who could enforce their vision on the masses. Nowadays, that ability is effectively becoming decentralized, the result being a proliferation of standards, not a flight from them. This trend, which I’ve written about at length in terms of creative expression, frustrates and frightens conservatives and other gatekeepers who prize stability and hierarchy, for they mistake it as an end to standards.

Dude. You hit the back wall!

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