Robby Soave: The Libertarian Lesson of Lost

Exactly ten years ago today, Oceanic Airlines
Flight 815 broke apart mid-air en route from Sydney to Los Angeles.
The plane crash-landed on a sprawling desert island in the Pacific
Ocean, stranding several dozen of the surviving passengers.

If you don’t know what that means, then you must have missed out
on ABC’s Lost, a defining cultural zeitgeist show of
the previous decade. The show, which ran from 2004 to 2010,
celebrates its 10th birthday today.

The show has never been claimed by libertarians as a
libertarian-friendly viewing experience. That’s a mistake,
according to Robby Soave.

Lost is all about challenging authority and
seeking a non-coercive way to live together. Libertarians don’t
need to claim the show as theirs exclusively, but they should at
least recognize it as friendly to their views. Soave explains
why.

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