There are things you dont want to be right about. Sigh.
Like the scion of your movement investing half his effort in an error.
I set out to prove him right. He is mostly right. But only mostly.
At least he is right about the important things.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 08:09:00 UTC
So, why is the liberty movement moving from the states as the central point if advocacy, to the UK?
(Part of me blames the damage done by MI.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 08:03:00 UTC
I agree to cooperate with you as long as it is not harmful to do so. I dont even require that it is profitable. It just cannot subject me to effort, expenditure or loss.
But parasitism is not something I agree to.
And progressivism is parasitism.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 07:51:00 UTC
Yesterday, Yulia, Suliko, and Amanda had Roman and I over for a wonderful home cooked meal. It was beautiful. It’s hard to explain to Ukrainians that Americans don’t talk to their neighbors. Usually we live very far from the rest of our family. And we live in these physical as well as mental ‘boxes’ we rarely see out of. New England, or at least what’s left of it, still has a concept of family. So does the south – or what’s left of it. But that’s what I love about this country, Ukraine (and their cousins the lovable insanely crazy russians). It’s extremely genuine. I’m incredibly cognizant now of the constant status-warfare that’s the central ambition of american life. And I want nothing at all to do with it. I don’t like the countries that were fully brought into orthodoxy and dominion of the turks. Too much low trust. But you don’t see that here in Ukraine. Both the Catholics, Protestants, and the Orthodox ethics are here. and they tended to protect the value of each other somehow.
It’s also helped me understand myself. I am really happy with a backpack, some technology, some nice clothes and a sports car. As a child I felt the same way. I used to think of it as ‘traveling light’ (freedom.) But something happened in college. I felt the need to become wealthy as a status symbol. But the truth is that, after all those serious illnesses, and selling pretty much all my ‘material burdens’, I’m a hell of a lot happier. Of course, being healthy is probably most of it. 🙂
Because i’m free.
I know it sounds trite. Because before I actually HAD all the things people dream of, i wanted them. But AFTER I had them all, I realized that all that matters is the people you spend time with. And that to have good friends you must supply something to the friendship. And if you need ‘things’ to get their attention, then you should probably work on your character and love instead. Because all money did for me is attract parasites and free riders that you must protect your ‘stuff’ from.
Everyone should feel safe. And comfortable. But the data shows that after you make 60K a year, increases in wealth do not bring you happiness. Now, for me, just ’cause I’m an information junkie, it’s more expensive to feed the machine in my head. So that number appears to be about twice as high before I feel ‘comfortable’.
And I really would just laugh at myself ten years ago. But it’s the truth. This is where I ended up. Material shit is a boatanchor. Money is freedom.
Make money. Collect experiences. Collect friends. Collect accomplishments. And leave the ‘stuff’ to the people who only CAN collect stuff.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:57:00 UTC
I look like a junkie. Both my arms have black and blue ‘tracks’ in them from these freaking IV’s. But at least I can breathe. It’s awesome. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:41:00 UTC
PROPERTY RIGHTS QUESTION?
Can anyone explain to me why we assume that we have a right to anticipated natural rates of interest? In other words, why is non-diluted money-proper (commodity money, private money or fiat money), and the expansion of purchasing power of such money, due to increases in demand, a property right?
(Smart people only please. ie: no empty moralisms.)
I might be loopy on asthma meds right now but I am trying to resolve this question once and for all. And I can’t find a reason, stated as property rights, why we have the right to privatize increases in value of money, or to profit from the shortage of money.
Thanks
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:27:00 UTC
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3381.pdfTHE SIMPLE ARGUMENT WHY WE APPEAR TO BE ALONE
—“This cosmic time scale for the evolution of life has important consequences: (1) life took a long time (ca. 5 billion years) to reach the complexity of bacteria; (2) the environments in which life originated and evolved to the prokaryote stage may have been quite different from those envisaged on Earth; (3) there was no intelligent life in our universe prior to the origin of Earth, thus Earth could not have been deliberately seeded with life by intelligent aliens; (4) Earth was seeded by panspermia; (5) experimental replication of the origin of life from scratch may have to emulate many cumulative rare events; and (6) the Drake equation for guesstimating the number of civilizations in the universe is likely wrong, as intelligent life has just begun appearing in our universe.”—
The “We might be the first” argument isn’t irrational.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could become ‘the ancients”?
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:09:00 UTC
http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-s-top-20-lies-about-ukraineRUSSIAN PROPAGANDA NOW MAINSTREAM
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 12:11:00 UTC
Next is negative interest rates.
After that we’ll hear mainstream modern monetary.
I’m all for MMT if we bypass the banks.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 12:01:00 UTC
SPLIT CURRENCIES
—“A poster writes: Split the currency.
1. International Trade Dollars
2. National Dollars
3. State Dollars.
That way the success of a State is for the Benefit of the State. International Money Giveaway schemes do not crash the National Dollar. Those who want to inflate their Dollar, will not take others down with them.”—
You know, the amount of economic knowledge that the average libertarian has is utterly amazing. I don’t mean the “moral NAPpers” but the rest.
I get so buried that I take it for granted. And I forget that for most people simple economics is indistinguishable from chemistry, formal logic, or some other symbolic language.
But it’s the one they most depend upon. And they’re ignorant of it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 11:49:00 UTC