Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • popularity is traceable to the fact that he rejects the moral authority of the m

    http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/why-liberal-media-hate-trump/#saFSgiS1VgRA3Tvo.99—“His popularity is traceable to the fact that he rejects the moral authority of the media, breaks their commandments and mocks their condemnations. His contempt for the norms of political correctness is daily on display.

    What the Trump campaign reveals is that … the political establishment and its media arm are looked upon the way the commons and peasantry of 1789 looked upon the ancien regime and the king’s courtiers at Versailles.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-04 10:15:00 UTC

  • LETS KEEP PRAISE OF PUTIN TO WHAT HE’S ACTUALLY DOING WELL (from Elsewhere) Well

    LETS KEEP PRAISE OF PUTIN TO WHAT HE’S ACTUALLY DOING WELL

    (from Elsewhere)

    Well, lets just say that American Utopianism is a failed experiment because only Protestants have been able to construct a high trust society. The Anglo mythos is that oppressed people need to be free, rather than strong government and strong institutions are require in low trust societies in order to maintain any semblance of order.

    American (and Anglo) utopianism has worked where it spread consumer capitalism (property rights, contracts, rule of law, fiat money and credit). But the Democratic experiment has been a catastrophe. Democratic utopianism has failed because only Germanic peoples have been able to construct a high trust society reasonably free of corruption.

    Other societies cannot do this without generations of a functional middle class, and as aggressive a campaign to suppress the rates of reproduction of the lower classes, and prohibition on cousin marriage. The west hung 1% of people a year for most of its history. They starved those who were unproductive over harsh winters.

    So it is disingenuous for westerners to criticize the harsh punishment of developing societies. It was only since 1900 that the west stopped aggressive use of hanging, and it has led to vast numbers of incarcerated peoples.

    Most other polities cannot imagine a society with as little small crime as america has. This is because of aggressive prosecution in order to preserve their high trust society and the economic velocity that results from it. America has much violent crime among its minorities, but about the same violent crime as Europe among whites.

    So american high trust society is dying from aggressive immigration of underclasses that reverse 3000 years of history – it was started in the 1960s by our ‘left’ (socialists) as a means to seize power by immigration where they could not achieve it in a predominantly germanic country by persuasion and propaganda.

    Putin is a reasonably good Czar who has managed to seize most of the heavy industry in the country for personal purposes. Most of those personal purposes are designed to restore Russia to what he considers its history (despite the rather murderous history of the Soviets, Ivan the Terrible, and the Mongols.)

    If Putin were simply HONEST and said “I must do this to change my society” most of the world would agree with him.

    If Putin had purchased Crimea from Ukraine (by asking the west to force the deal – they would have) for discounted oil and gas, he would not have caused the entire western world to pivot to contain Russia again in fear that another group of soviet lunatics had seized power. Instead eastern Europe is simply waiting for the ability to acquire nuclear weapons to keep Moscow at bay. This was foolish.

    If Putin simply stated why he was doing what he does the world would agree with him because westerners KNOW that democracy has failed us. We KNOW that decadence has been spread by our left and its alliance with feminism.

    If Putin would stop the RT propaganda that is totally fabricated then the western conservatives would support the growth of Russian power as the SAVIOR of the west rather than anther lunatic they need to contain.

    If Putin stayed on message that the western liberal model has been a failure he would lead the world, not by fear of lunacy, but by being THE ONLY RATIONAL MAN STANDING.

    There is no need to LIE when you are RIGHT, and when everyone AGREES with you. It’s ridiculous.

    Thankfully Syria has provided a means for Russia to obtain a Pipeline south, and taken responsibility from the states for policing the muslim world. Also this lets Putin demonstrate wisdom and strength to his people, and allow Russian warriors to gain some experience, without scaring neighbors further and causing more damage to the Russian economy.

    The Russian empire can never expand into the east again. it was a disaster the last time. Soviet Occupation was intolerable and the people of eastern Europe fear Russians more than they ever feared nazis.

    However, all of the islamic world needs adult supervision and Russia is the only adult in the neighborhood. And pretty clearly, utopian westerners are unfit to parent primitive peoples into modernity.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-02 09:42:00 UTC

  • Liberalism Isn’t Intellectual – It’s An Excuse For An Impulse

    —“Liberalism isn’t intellectual. It is merely the rabbit’s r-selected Reproductive Strategy, intellectualized in humans who exhibit it instinctually. Its only purpose is to exploit a resource excess in our society. This information kills Liberals, if you point it out to them, because it strips Liberalism of any intellectual justification, leaving it as merely a conglomeration of r-selected urges that K-selected humans oppose instinctually. This work is what we were waiting for, and it will alter our political debates forever.”—Anon Conservative.

    [I]n other words “all human language is negotiation on behalf of our reproductive strategies.” Humans start out rather androgenous, and we grow either male or female – from a lighter to a stronger version of each, in a spectrum from one end to the other. From r to k. From solipsistic to autistic.

  • Liberalism Isn’t Intellectual – It’s An Excuse For An Impulse

    —“Liberalism isn’t intellectual. It is merely the rabbit’s r-selected Reproductive Strategy, intellectualized in humans who exhibit it instinctually. Its only purpose is to exploit a resource excess in our society. This information kills Liberals, if you point it out to them, because it strips Liberalism of any intellectual justification, leaving it as merely a conglomeration of r-selected urges that K-selected humans oppose instinctually. This work is what we were waiting for, and it will alter our political debates forever.”—Anon Conservative.

    [I]n other words “all human language is negotiation on behalf of our reproductive strategies.” Humans start out rather androgenous, and we grow either male or female – from a lighter to a stronger version of each, in a spectrum from one end to the other. From r to k. From solipsistic to autistic.

  • A RUSSIAN CRITIC OF PUTIN ADVISES PRO PUTIN LIBERTARIANS The thing that bothers

    A RUSSIAN CRITIC OF PUTIN ADVISES PRO PUTIN LIBERTARIANS

    The thing that bothers me is the theft of your business if you build one. The Putin Oligarchs are fine for the poor, but not for the entrepreneurial class. And therefore not eventually for anyone.

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    Vera Kichanova shared Tatiana Moroz’s post — feeling angry.

    November 22 at 3:51pm · Kyiv ·

    I am mad as hell. A friend of mine and a libertarian star Tatiana Moroz asked her fb friends (mostly American libertarians) what they think about Putin https://www.facebook.com/tatiana.moroz/posts/10153258040193595. Many answered they “trust him 100%” because he is “anti-communist” and “opposing New World Order”. As a person who has lived under Putin most of my life (I was 9 when he came to power for the first time) I have a lot to say in response to this:

    “Modern Russia is much less socialist than the US and Putin is blantly anti communist.”

    Some westerners admire Putin for being “not openly a communist”. Well, I fondly hoped that whenever statism changes its name libertarians can still recognize it. Half of Russian economy is officially owned by state, and all the big monopolies that are de jure private actually belong to Putin’s friends, relatives or judo sparring partners—and now their children are already being appointed executives, thus, half of Russian economy is ruled by few dynasties.

    At the same time, when someone creates a successful business and refuses to play by their rules, they find a way to take it away in favor of someone more loyal. See the story of Pavel Durov, a libertarian hero who created a “Russian Facebook”, the major IT-company in Russia, and was forced to sell it to Putin’s friend after he refused to show the personal data of some Ukrainian activists (he is in exile now) http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandcu…/…/24279/1/pavel-durov

    A very popular argument for Putin being “anti-communist” is a flat taxation in Russia. Yes, that was a great improvement made during his first term, and it was implemented by his former economic advisor Andrei Illarionov, now a Cato Senior Fellow and a prominent Putin’s critic. Ten years ago (!) he resigned declaring that “Russia has become a different country. It is no longer a democratic country. It is no longer a free country”. There are no free market supporters in Putin’s administration now.

    But even if you prefer symbols to actions, a modern Russian ideology is still a mix of Stalinism and Orthodoxy. Other post-communist countries (like Baltic states and now Ukraine) have gone through decommunization process, but not Russia. The main street in almost every town is still called Lenin Street. Moscow authorities are planning to rebuild a monument of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police and the most bloody person in our history. The head of state is a former KGB officer, and there is no such thing as a “former KGB man”. None of the top officials who were Communist Party members in Soviet times (and most of them were) ever renounced the communist ideology.

    At the same time, the Russian Orthodox Church has become an influential political force. The Cossacks were allowed to “patrol the morals” in the streets. The construction of 200 (!) new churches in Moscow was sponsored by the Moscow government. One can receive a prison term for offending “religious feelings” of other people http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/Russia-introduces-jail-terms-f… Further, religious education is mandatory in all Russian schools. The Russian Patriarch calls Putin’s reign a “miracle of God”.

    As you probably know, two years ago a famous “gay propaganda law” was enacted making it illegal to equate straight and gay relationships and to show public affection. Soon after I and my fellows were beaten for “looking gay” in a bar owned by a representative of Moscow’s mayor. Three months later, my friend from Petersburg was attacked by two masked men at the meeting for the LGBT community. He sustained serious damage in one eye after being shot with a pneumatic pistol http://www.politico.com/…/03/russia-putin-lgbt-violence-116… Do I have to mention that Russian investigators refused to search for the thugs in both cases?

    Russia is a de-facto single-party state, just like the USSR. The laws on the majority of issues are being passed unanimously, since, as the State Duma speaker famously said, the “parliament is no place for discussions.” Independent parties are not allowed to participate in elections. Last summer, I was attacked by unknown criminals who broke my street booth and tore all the signatures I had collected in support of myself as a candidate for Moscow City Council.

    “The media will always demonize Putin because they work for “The Man” whose agenda is complete world dominance. Putin is one of a few remaining leaders who is standing in the way. The people of Russia, for the most part, are very happy with him. Not the brainwashed ones who are all for “globalism”.”

    Not brainwashed, right? The first thing Putin did when he became president was taking control over the media. Every country-wide channel now is controlled by the government, including your favorite Russia Today, which receives $300 million dollars from the Russian government every year. The opposition blogs are routinely blacklisted and online news outlets censored. For instance, Russian Wikipedia was temporarily blocked because of the article “Cannabis smoking”, a number of Bitcoin-related websites were blacklisted because “it contributes to shadow economy”, and my article on Siberia was blocked as promoting separatism http://studentsforliberty.org/…/journalist-vera-kichanova-…/

    As for anti-Putin movement, in 2011, we had the biggest civil uprising since the 1990s. As a result, 28 demonstrators were accused of inciting a riot and violence against the police—not celebrated opposition leaders but a random selection of the 100,000 protesters. In fact, Russian government set up this lottery to make us all afraid. “For an injured policeman, the liver of demonstrators should be smeared on the asphalt”, said Putin’s spokesman.

    Now, if a protester is detained for the second time, he or she risks receiving up to five years in prison. By the way, I have been arrested six times for peacefully protesting and once as a reporter http://www.forbes.com/…/ive-been-arrested-at-six-anti-puti…/ Despite that, 50,000 of my fellow countrymen went out in the streets of Moscow last year in protest of our government’s aggressive actions in Crimea. Have you seen it on Russia Today? No need to ask.

    “[Putin] seems to be the only head of state in power that uses common sense.. .also seems like he actually cares for the well being of humanity…”

    “He’s for restoring and preserving his nation. That’s more than I can say for our leader!”

    “Surely Russia’s wealth has increased and he’s not exactly imposing his footprint that much, although there are certainly some questionable issues on his foreign policy I’m sure

    Questionable issues, really?!

    Putin admitted that Russian troops took over Crimea, removing any doubt that it was an occupation and not a popular uprising. (The same kind of referendum is illegal in Russia: public calls for actions violating the territorial integrity of country are punishable by 4 years in prison.) Many separatists fighting in Ukraine are Russian citizens, some of their commanders formerly served for Russian special services. If you need more facts on Russia’s regime comparing to Ukraine I recommend you to read this: http://libertarian-party.ru/…/an-appeal-to-western-libertar…

    In addition, Russian military budget is the second largest in the world. Russia, by the way, still has a conscription army, and many those fighting in Ukraine and Syria are subject to a military draft. Journalists who investigated secret burials of Russians paratroopers killed in Ukraine were severely attacked

    http://www.rferl.org/…/russia-pskov-politicia…/26558191.html Russian officials, however, finally admitted there were regular army soldiers in Ukraine, but said they were fighting voluntarily while being “on vacation.”

    “Anytime the US media demonizes someone there’s something good about them.”

    Would you join ISIS just because Obama said it’s evil? The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. I don’t want to spend my whole life proving this obvious thing, and I’d appreciate if you help me to spread the truth.

    Don’t be Confused Pro-Putin Libertarians, please.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-02 08:33:00 UTC

  • Red, Purple, and Blue America: Is There A Divide?

    [T]he most honest answer is not to start with a false frame of ‘we’ and instead examine the country by voting patterns that demonstrate those preferences (see Pew Research) for an empirical analysis not one of confirming existing priors by guessing correlations. Roughly speaking, the north-south divide present since the civil war remains. Primarily, people vote by two criteria: Race, Religion and Marital status. White men vote red and always have voted as such. White married women vote predominantly red and have voted as such. White single women vote predominantly blue by the largest margin (again obvious) Everyone else votes by race (blue) against the white absolute nuclear family. In other words, people vote their reproductive strategies. Which should be obvious. Ever since the South abandoned it’s post-reconstruction prohibition on the Republican party (the party of Lincoln, and the party against slavery, and against the expansion of the southern alliance into the western territories), the parties have increasingly shifted demographically to reflect white absolute nuclear families – with the family as the central unit of reproduction, production, and education that preserve capital (red) – against the traditional, serial-marriage, and single mother (fatherless) families that cannot preserve capital in the homestead. People retain their reproductive strategies, family structures, moral codes and norms across many generations. It takes about 400 years to rotate a family upward in social and economic class. (yep. sorry.) The four waves of British Isle immigrants still use the family structures, norms, and values that they did prior to migration. The Germans still use theirs. The Italians theirs. The French theirs. Et al. No one assimilates morally or normatively at all. We assimilate commercially, and commercialism is America’s cultural tradition. But politically we never assimilate at all. Why? Because political action by nature of its imprecision is a demonstrated preference of a moral, not empirical, not commercial bias. And when we call upon our intuitions in the face of overwhelming choices, we do what nature evolved us to do: decide by our reproductive strategies. Why? For impolitic reasons: largely speaking northern Europeans eradicated their lower classes through a combination of manorialism, delayed reproduction, and aggressive hanging of 1/2-1% of the troublemakers per year. And anyone who understands the theory of compound interest will likely understand the tremendous genetic impact of that process over the 1000 years of hanging, and the 3500 years of agrarianism. Effectively, all northern Europeans are members of the middle class, and protestant – what is called ‘the Hanjal line’. The Catholics represent largely the unmodified natural distribution of the classes, practicing traditional families. The Africans that came as slaves have returned (thanks to 60’s progressives) to their traditional serial marriages (70% of all births to single mothers). Correlation is not causation. Humans are unequal. We carry our tribal histories with us in our genes, in our family structures, in our morals and norms, because these were and remain, reproductive strategies. As such all votes are demographic votes. No one assimilates. No one changes. Some reproduce more, some reproduce less, and he who reproduces more than others eventually wins. No one is converted. No one is persuaded. No one is convinced. At least no one sufficiently convince to alter his political action sufficiently to affect outcomes. Net is, all our political debate is a Victorian parlor game. Nothing more. We are, in matters beyond our direct perception, such as political choice, mere puppets to our genes. If that doesn’t sour you on the irrelevance of democratic choice nothing will: in the end, over time, the class that reproduces most wins. And because majoritarian rule forces a monopoly of control, the lower classes with greatest reproduction win. And under redistribution, we transfer rates of reproduction from the middle class to the lower. And therefore transfer our future to the most numerous of the lower classes. Diversity decreases trust, decreases economic velocity, increases political conflict and increases demand for a totalitarian state as arbiter of differences. Americans, Canadians, and Australians have a higher standard of living for the sole reason that the anglos used advanced weaponry (including germs) to conquer primitive peoples and sell of the land and unexploited resources to generations of immigrants. It has absolutely nothing to do with our way of life other than the initial immigrants from Britain practiced common law (which is empirical), and were almost entirely from the genetic middle classes (the french in Quebec are from the lower class, hence aside from their Catholicism and french love of authority, their difference with english Canada). The germans were not a problem to integrate, and so we never hear about the challenge of german immigration despite the fact that the majority of white america is of german ancestry not British. That is because they were not a problem. Everyone else was. If you trace supreme court decisions they reflect the religion and class of the person voting. It hurts. It’s true. That’s all there is to it. The only thing that melts in our non-existent melting pot, is rule of law. Everything else is just an expression of the ongoing battle between our genes that we call class, race, and religious competition. Democracy is sufficient means of deciding how to make use of scarce resources among multiple priorities. It is an insufficient means of deciding how to make use of scarce or plentiful resource of any kind between competing interests. Science very often tells us what we don’t want to hear. The democratic era, in the future, will be seen as a pseudoscientific one. Just as the Religious era is seen as a mystical one. They’re both networks of falsehoods. Comfortable lies. The truth is quite simple. We are super-predators that have found that competition through economics productivity is superior to competition through direct violence. Western utopianism ended with the abandonment of communism that had held the rest of the world in regressive poverty. We were able to enjoy luxury goods because of privileges granted to us by our predecessors. The spoils of democracy (and any r-selected behavior) are luxury goods, not beneficial goods. Time to give up pseudoscience, the same way we gave up mysticism. As painful as it may be. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Red, Purple, and Blue America: Is There A Divide?

    [T]he most honest answer is not to start with a false frame of ‘we’ and instead examine the country by voting patterns that demonstrate those preferences (see Pew Research) for an empirical analysis not one of confirming existing priors by guessing correlations. Roughly speaking, the north-south divide present since the civil war remains. Primarily, people vote by two criteria: Race, Religion and Marital status. White men vote red and always have voted as such. White married women vote predominantly red and have voted as such. White single women vote predominantly blue by the largest margin (again obvious) Everyone else votes by race (blue) against the white absolute nuclear family. In other words, people vote their reproductive strategies. Which should be obvious. Ever since the South abandoned it’s post-reconstruction prohibition on the Republican party (the party of Lincoln, and the party against slavery, and against the expansion of the southern alliance into the western territories), the parties have increasingly shifted demographically to reflect white absolute nuclear families – with the family as the central unit of reproduction, production, and education that preserve capital (red) – against the traditional, serial-marriage, and single mother (fatherless) families that cannot preserve capital in the homestead. People retain their reproductive strategies, family structures, moral codes and norms across many generations. It takes about 400 years to rotate a family upward in social and economic class. (yep. sorry.) The four waves of British Isle immigrants still use the family structures, norms, and values that they did prior to migration. The Germans still use theirs. The Italians theirs. The French theirs. Et al. No one assimilates morally or normatively at all. We assimilate commercially, and commercialism is America’s cultural tradition. But politically we never assimilate at all. Why? Because political action by nature of its imprecision is a demonstrated preference of a moral, not empirical, not commercial bias. And when we call upon our intuitions in the face of overwhelming choices, we do what nature evolved us to do: decide by our reproductive strategies. Why? For impolitic reasons: largely speaking northern Europeans eradicated their lower classes through a combination of manorialism, delayed reproduction, and aggressive hanging of 1/2-1% of the troublemakers per year. And anyone who understands the theory of compound interest will likely understand the tremendous genetic impact of that process over the 1000 years of hanging, and the 3500 years of agrarianism. Effectively, all northern Europeans are members of the middle class, and protestant – what is called ‘the Hanjal line’. The Catholics represent largely the unmodified natural distribution of the classes, practicing traditional families. The Africans that came as slaves have returned (thanks to 60’s progressives) to their traditional serial marriages (70% of all births to single mothers). Correlation is not causation. Humans are unequal. We carry our tribal histories with us in our genes, in our family structures, in our morals and norms, because these were and remain, reproductive strategies. As such all votes are demographic votes. No one assimilates. No one changes. Some reproduce more, some reproduce less, and he who reproduces more than others eventually wins. No one is converted. No one is persuaded. No one is convinced. At least no one sufficiently convince to alter his political action sufficiently to affect outcomes. Net is, all our political debate is a Victorian parlor game. Nothing more. We are, in matters beyond our direct perception, such as political choice, mere puppets to our genes. If that doesn’t sour you on the irrelevance of democratic choice nothing will: in the end, over time, the class that reproduces most wins. And because majoritarian rule forces a monopoly of control, the lower classes with greatest reproduction win. And under redistribution, we transfer rates of reproduction from the middle class to the lower. And therefore transfer our future to the most numerous of the lower classes. Diversity decreases trust, decreases economic velocity, increases political conflict and increases demand for a totalitarian state as arbiter of differences. Americans, Canadians, and Australians have a higher standard of living for the sole reason that the anglos used advanced weaponry (including germs) to conquer primitive peoples and sell of the land and unexploited resources to generations of immigrants. It has absolutely nothing to do with our way of life other than the initial immigrants from Britain practiced common law (which is empirical), and were almost entirely from the genetic middle classes (the french in Quebec are from the lower class, hence aside from their Catholicism and french love of authority, their difference with english Canada). The germans were not a problem to integrate, and so we never hear about the challenge of german immigration despite the fact that the majority of white america is of german ancestry not British. That is because they were not a problem. Everyone else was. If you trace supreme court decisions they reflect the religion and class of the person voting. It hurts. It’s true. That’s all there is to it. The only thing that melts in our non-existent melting pot, is rule of law. Everything else is just an expression of the ongoing battle between our genes that we call class, race, and religious competition. Democracy is sufficient means of deciding how to make use of scarce resources among multiple priorities. It is an insufficient means of deciding how to make use of scarce or plentiful resource of any kind between competing interests. Science very often tells us what we don’t want to hear. The democratic era, in the future, will be seen as a pseudoscientific one. Just as the Religious era is seen as a mystical one. They’re both networks of falsehoods. Comfortable lies. The truth is quite simple. We are super-predators that have found that competition through economics productivity is superior to competition through direct violence. Western utopianism ended with the abandonment of communism that had held the rest of the world in regressive poverty. We were able to enjoy luxury goods because of privileges granted to us by our predecessors. The spoils of democracy (and any r-selected behavior) are luxury goods, not beneficial goods. Time to give up pseudoscience, the same way we gave up mysticism. As painful as it may be. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Defense vs Rule vs Government

    [I] have no problem defending or ruling other peoples. These are both moral and costly. I have a problem with governing other people. And profiting from it. Why? Because defense and rule of law are universal truths. Governing: producing commons, are preferences and strategies. I consider that none of even the most enlightened people’s business. And worse, beyond their capacity.

  • The Purpose of Forming A Polity? Discounts.

    [C]ommons produce opportunities (lower opportunity costs) and reduce risk (reduce transaction costs), the purpose of which is to incentivize people to seize opportunities. In other words, it is not that the externalities are non-excludable (because many are) but that ***the purpose of forming a polity is the production of discounts on opportunity costs, transaction costs, and switching costs.*** This is the source of wealth. we are not wealthier in time and effort, we have used time and effort to decrease costs such that everything is cheaper in time and effort. Externalities may be non excludable, but the creation of negative externalities is open to prohibition, and universally prohibited. That’s what distinguishes ‘moral’ (external) and ‘ethical’ (internal). We prohibit both internal (unethical) and external (immoral) actions all the time in all cultures in all civilizations. (and we likewise fail to for that matter.) Lets define ‘underproduced’ as referring to a structure of production of a good or service that is impossible to construct under the voluntary organization of production. The method of producing such ‘underproduced’ goods then is subsidy. Which is exactly how we do it. We take money from other structures of production (distort them), and we instead buy (incentivize) people to produce the ‘underproduced’ good or service. This is called a mixed economy. And everywhere I know of practices a mixed economy. The question I think at hand, is not whether a mixed economy in fact produces greater wealth for all members, it is whether acts of parasitism and genetic warfare are employed within this mixed economy because of the consequences of reliance upon monopoly government. And I think the vote is in: yes. Democracy is used by the worst people to prey upon the best. There is no value in burning middle and upper class genes to increase lower middle and lower class genes. And that is what we are doing. That is all we are doing, when we engage in producing ‘unproducables’. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • The Purpose of Forming A Polity? Discounts.

    [C]ommons produce opportunities (lower opportunity costs) and reduce risk (reduce transaction costs), the purpose of which is to incentivize people to seize opportunities. In other words, it is not that the externalities are non-excludable (because many are) but that ***the purpose of forming a polity is the production of discounts on opportunity costs, transaction costs, and switching costs.*** This is the source of wealth. we are not wealthier in time and effort, we have used time and effort to decrease costs such that everything is cheaper in time and effort. Externalities may be non excludable, but the creation of negative externalities is open to prohibition, and universally prohibited. That’s what distinguishes ‘moral’ (external) and ‘ethical’ (internal). We prohibit both internal (unethical) and external (immoral) actions all the time in all cultures in all civilizations. (and we likewise fail to for that matter.) Lets define ‘underproduced’ as referring to a structure of production of a good or service that is impossible to construct under the voluntary organization of production. The method of producing such ‘underproduced’ goods then is subsidy. Which is exactly how we do it. We take money from other structures of production (distort them), and we instead buy (incentivize) people to produce the ‘underproduced’ good or service. This is called a mixed economy. And everywhere I know of practices a mixed economy. The question I think at hand, is not whether a mixed economy in fact produces greater wealth for all members, it is whether acts of parasitism and genetic warfare are employed within this mixed economy because of the consequences of reliance upon monopoly government. And I think the vote is in: yes. Democracy is used by the worst people to prey upon the best. There is no value in burning middle and upper class genes to increase lower middle and lower class genes. And that is what we are doing. That is all we are doing, when we engage in producing ‘unproducables’. Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine