Secession is the greatest evidence of the failure of the progressive utopian vision of a one-world-order.
Any such illusion is merely a luxury fantasy of temporary military strength.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-14 04:23:00 UTC
Category: Politics, Power, and Governance
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Secession is the greatest evidence of the failure of the progressive utopian vis
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Contrary to the Libertarian position the soviet union did not fail for economic
Contrary to the Libertarian position the soviet union did not fail for economic reasons, it failed because of institutional problems and systemic corruption when a coup failed and dismantled the presumption of the persistence of power. The illusion was dispelled.
Had this illusion been maintained, yes, the soviet union would have remained a poor and backward civilization but that was the price for unifying so many primitive peoples and so much territory.
The undesirable nature of living life in such poverty, under such tyranny, by so many, particularly those of talents made flight attractive. But if we view it as a proletarian government trying to control natural elites, and seeking rents from them, I think that is the most concrete positioning. The soviets were an underclass movement, and they succeeded in walling in their talent, and neutralizing the economic differences between the talent groups in the most successful large scale redistribution from producer to the peasantry in history. However, this CAN WORK. The problem is that the cost of enforcing such a system produced and always will, externalities that are much more dangerous than redistributing only that which people are HAPPY to pay for the success of their KIN.
The north sea people are as inbred as appalachian hill folk. That’s why they favor redistribution – everyone is family, and looks and acts like it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-13 08:40:00 UTC
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It’s really simple. 1000 nuclear weapons in eastern Europe. They were here befor
It’s really simple. 1000 nuclear weapons in eastern Europe. They were here before. We can put them here again. Besides Russia is a one-city country. only one or two need get thru.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-12 14:12:00 UTC
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PHILOSOPHICAL MATURITY – Childhood: Socialism – nurture and we all hold promise.
PHILOSOPHICAL MATURITY
– Childhood: Socialism – nurture and we all hold promise.
– Coming of age: Libertarianism – seek liberty and we will evolve
– Adulthood: Aristocracy – protect us from the wicked and we shall flourish
– Old age: Conservatism – skepticism, show me first – because all men are fools.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
(wrote it as humor but I think it might be true)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-10 02:45:00 UTC
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Don’t Confuse Cheating On Your Normative Taxes With Tolerance And Love.
[I]t is irrelevant what you think of other cultures, and the people in them – unless they ignore you, it is only relevant what they think of you. Thinking is no counter to competition. It is merely self-congratulatory discounting to confuse conviction with convenience, and tolerance with letting the boat sink because bailing is someone else’s job.
Tolerance and submission are no more intrinsic goods than violence and domination. The question is only whether one is suppressing parasitism and forcing each other into the market, or one is permitting parasitism and allowing others to escape the transformationary struggle to enter the market.
So before you congratulate yourself on your tolerance and morality you must determine if you are expanding parasitism or suppressing it.
Curt Doolittle ( All – This is the propertarian analysis of the problem – the only answer is what we will obtain in exchange. The only viable material anotehr has to exchange is his adoption of norms and higher trust so that he does not increase transaction costs.)
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DON’T CONFUSE CHEATING ON YOUR TAXES WITH TOLERANCE AND LOVE. It is irrelevant w
DON’T CONFUSE CHEATING ON YOUR TAXES WITH TOLERANCE AND LOVE.
It is irrelevant what you think of other cultures, and the people in them – unless they ignore you, it is only relevant what they think of you. Thinking is no counter to competition. It is merely self-congratulatory discounting to confuse conviction with convenience, and tolerance with letting the boat sink because bailing is someone else’s job.
Tolerance and submission are no more intrinsic goods than violence and domination. The question is only whether one is suppressing parasitism and forcing each other into the market, or one is permitting parasitism and allowing others to escape the transformationary struggle to enter the market.
So before you congratulate yourself on your tolerance and morality you must determine if you are expanding parasitism or suppressing it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-09 08:08:00 UTC
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(another run at it) (I am never going to get this down…) Only three means of c
(another run at it) (I am never going to get this down…)
Only three means of coercion are available to man:
1) Force (punishment): Master violence, law and War
2) Remuneration (payment): Master trade, finance, and economy
3) Gossip (ostracization): Master Moral Argument
What Remains? Artisianship and Chivalry:
Neither Craft nor Chivalry are means of coercion, they are necessary means of survival and care-taking. They improve the commons that Force makes possible.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-08 07:38:00 UTC
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ITS DONE: NOW THE ONLY SOVEREIGNTY IS NUCLEAR WEAPONS Well, it’s done. Putin has
ITS DONE: NOW THE ONLY SOVEREIGNTY IS NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Well, it’s done. Putin has managed the west and conquered eastern Ukraine, first by direct conquest of crimea, second by organizing insurrection, supplying it, holding an election and invading it. The matter appears done. What could have been accomplished by purchase was accomplished by destruction. He is, and has proven he is, one of the most powerful men in the world.
(Western fools, eastern fools, a world of fools.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-08 02:50:00 UTC
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GETTING THE ARGUMENT RIGHT – CONSTRUCTION OF COMMONS It is not that there is no
GETTING THE ARGUMENT RIGHT – CONSTRUCTION OF COMMONS
It is not that there is no common good we can know, it is that, even if we can determine a common good, the monopoly state bureaucracy cannot construct a common good without an equally or worse, damaging set of externalities – by its mere existence. If a common good is truly possible to construct, the government (a body of people negotiating a contract with one another to whom all citizens must agree), can construct it without the aid of a monopoly bureaucracy – assuming that the first common goods that have been constructed are property and rule of law – and then contract out the execution of those commons to individuals who can be fired if they fail to perform, and held accountable for those failures by restitution, punishment or even death.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-07 10:03:00 UTC
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THE OATH OF ONE Pseudoscientific Democratic Humanism and Islamism are equal part
THE OATH OF ONE
Pseudoscientific Democratic Humanism and Islamism are equal parts tyranny. Both are predicated upon lies. Both rely upon a priesthood in equally ideological academies, preaching the same content with different myths.
There is only one source of liberty: Aristocratic Egalitarianism. And there never will exist any other.
THE OATH OF ONE
There is but one source of liberty: The Militia;
One institution for sustaining it: The Law;
One rule for deciding it: Property;
One ritual for observing it: Speaking the truth;
One promise for fulfilling it: Punish the wicked.
One person required to act upon it: Me.
One method of acting upon it: violence.
One one oath to be made: “I accept it.”
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-07 06:07:00 UTC