Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Why Is Neoliberalism So Prevalent In The U.s.?

    Women voters, and the profitability of selling education that appeals to future women voters.  And the profitability of selling consumption to women voters in their role as consumers. 


    Really.  That’s the reason.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-neoliberalism-so-prevalent-in-the-U-S

  • Why Is Neoliberalism So Prevalent In The U.s.?

    Women voters, and the profitability of selling education that appeals to future women voters.  And the profitability of selling consumption to women voters in their role as consumers. 


    Really.  That’s the reason.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-neoliberalism-so-prevalent-in-the-U-S

  • What Is The Difference Between Economic Liberalism And Political Liberalism In The Context Of International Relations?

    The difference is that political liberalism produces more honest negotiations but less consistent policy. 


    For this reason political liberalism is a luxury, not a utility.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-economic-liberalism-and-political-liberalism-in-the-context-of-international-relations

  • What Is The Difference Between Economic Liberalism And Political Liberalism In The Context Of International Relations?

    The difference is that political liberalism produces more honest negotiations but less consistent policy. 


    For this reason political liberalism is a luxury, not a utility.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-economic-liberalism-and-political-liberalism-in-the-context-of-international-relations

  • HEROISM VS INDIVIDUALISM. (think about this a bit) Heroism and Sovereignty vs In

    HEROISM VS INDIVIDUALISM.

    (think about this a bit)

    Heroism and Sovereignty vs Individualism and Liberty.

    Western ethic was the former. Enlightenment expansion the latter.

    The former earned. The latter a given of nature.

    All cults require rituals and the more costly the ritual the more we adhere to the cult. (Loss aversion). The lower the cost the lower the adherence – in all walks of life.

    The pre-state people took oaths to create liberty. The post state people were to led believe they were given liberty by nature.

    But one cannot be given liberty – one can only create it.

    Liberty given is not liberty – but permission.

    Liberty by social contract has no cost – and is not protected.

    Sovereignty is constructed and defended at personal cost by heroes.

    Everyone else merely has permission – or not.

    Everyone else merely enjoys a condition of liberty by heroes’ permission.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 15:49:00 UTC

  • ON WOMEN VOTERS (from elsewhere) Only thing I tend to suggest is that women need

    ON WOMEN VOTERS

    (from elsewhere)

    Only thing I tend to suggest is that women need a separate house of government limited to short term decisions, and men to focus on the long term.

    This creates a market between the genders just as marriage and mating create a market between the genders.

    The problem with our government is that it was a market between men of different classes each who represented families and extended families and manors. It was an extension of the family.

    We violated the family by giving women power over the destruction of the family in favor of short term wants.

    No one is really at fault here. We just didn’t know and as westerners we were utopian in the first place, and secondly, we were wealthy from the new era of atlantic trade, and expanding colonies.

    Wealth makes us less risk averse. We needed to be more cautious.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 07:05:00 UTC

  • IN MODERNITY ISN”T FOR SIMPLETONS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/08/26/liberty-in-modernity-isnt-for-simpletons/LIBERTY IN MODERNITY ISN”T FOR SIMPLETONS


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 05:14:00 UTC

  • Put Ukraine in receivership. 🙂

    Put Ukraine in receivership. 🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-16 06:36:00 UTC

  • We are Coming. We are Legion.

    [W]e are coming with internet, radios, guns, molotovs, where our ancestors came with leaflets, guns, torches and nooses; and their ancestors came with letters, pitchforks, torches, and knives; and their ancestors with word of mouth, spears, torches, and knives. We are coming. They know we are coming. But we are legion.

  • We are Coming. We are Legion.

    [W]e are coming with internet, radios, guns, molotovs, where our ancestors came with leaflets, guns, torches and nooses; and their ancestors came with letters, pitchforks, torches, and knives; and their ancestors with word of mouth, spears, torches, and knives. We are coming. They know we are coming. But we are legion.