Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

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    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigrant-welfare-use-report/71517072/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigrant-welfare-use-report/71517072/


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-21 15:12:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigrant-welfare-use-report/71517072/

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-21 15:12:00 UTC

  • He who can destroy a thing, owns a thing- all else is permission

    Why do you deserve to share this world with us? He who can destroy a thing, owns a thing- all else is permission. The first question of politics is why I and mine (if we can) do not kill you and yours and take your stuff. The only answer is that it is more beneficial to cooperate. Until it is no longer more beneficial to cooperate.

  • He who can destroy a thing, owns a thing- all else is permission

    Why do you deserve to share this world with us? He who can destroy a thing, owns a thing- all else is permission. The first question of politics is why I and mine (if we can) do not kill you and yours and take your stuff. The only answer is that it is more beneficial to cooperate. Until it is no longer more beneficial to cooperate.

  • The Evolution of Movements

    Every movement starts as fringe, and edgy, attracting novelty junkies, dysfunctionals, rebels, and malcontents. And if it has any meat to it, increasingly upgrades from edge cases to some position in the hierarchy of argumentative structures that we call ideologies, philosophies, and institutional models. What we should expect to see, as we move up this hierarchy, is the exit of early entrants, and expansion of late entrants increasingly closer to the mainstream. The edge does the research but stays the edge. Utility is obtained, and as a consequence power is either obtained or not.

  • The Evolution of Movements

    Every movement starts as fringe, and edgy, attracting novelty junkies, dysfunctionals, rebels, and malcontents. And if it has any meat to it, increasingly upgrades from edge cases to some position in the hierarchy of argumentative structures that we call ideologies, philosophies, and institutional models. What we should expect to see, as we move up this hierarchy, is the exit of early entrants, and expansion of late entrants increasingly closer to the mainstream. The edge does the research but stays the edge. Utility is obtained, and as a consequence power is either obtained or not.

  • Sovereignty is something you practice.

    —“Sovereignty is not something you give away to others, it’s something you practice. If peers practice equivalent sovereignty, institutions emerge between you so that in practice, you respect the sovereignty of others. But nobody rides for free.”—Simon Ström

  • Sovereignty is something you practice.

    —“Sovereignty is not something you give away to others, it’s something you practice. If peers practice equivalent sovereignty, institutions emerge between you so that in practice, you respect the sovereignty of others. But nobody rides for free.”—Simon Ström