DISPELLING THE ILLUSION
–“The Iraqi government vanished when it came under attack by a few thousand competent well trained well armed men employing only personal weapons striking in areas far away from the centers of government power.”– jim
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-22 22:54:00 UTC
http://t.co/i0XzCKreWGUSA IS WORTHLESS OR WORSE
I told ya’. Not backing Ukraine told every nation on earth that they either have nuclear weapons or they do not have sovereignty.
Thanks. Obama is now the leading cause of the proliferation of nuclear arms.
Idiot. Worst president in history.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-22 11:40:00 UTC
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/06/president_rand_paul_what_would_happen_if_the_tea_party_controlled_american.single.htmlSLATE ON WHY PROGRESSIVES SHOULD SUPPORT THE TEA PARTY AGENDA
You can have your own utopia, and let others have theirs.
If you won’t let others have theirs, why should they let you have yours?
If the colonial period was so wrong, why should progressives in dense cities colonize the rural and suburban areas?
Colonization is immoral. Haven’t we learned that already?
(good meme)
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-22 05:02:00 UTC
OBAMA HAS KILLED THE PRESIDENCY
Obama has killed the presidency.
More so than nixon.
More so than FDR.
He has destroyed the office.
Unless he is impeached.
Which is not possible under current ratios.
We will have to convert to a prime minster model.
Leave the presidency as a weak head of state.
Otherwise obama has created dictatorship.
The end of the american experiment.
That was it.
It’s done.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-21 15:12:00 UTC
DEMOCRACY AS THE CAUSE OF NONSENSE OPINION
(cross posted)
Some people will work very hard to justify their intuitions as a source of knowledge, rather than to hypothesize, discover and decide what operational statements are necessary and sufficient for the most parsimonious definition of any idea despite what they intuit. It takes great courage to accept that our intuitions tell us little, and what they do tell us is most often false. And it requires sufficient intelligence and general knowledge to replace intuition as a means of decidability. So for many people, for the vast majority of people, intuition must suffice; since otherwise they would be unable to decide and act. Unfortunately, under social democracy and universal education we have convinced the average person that his opinions can and must have merit, in order to justify the popular vote. Whereas in prior eras people would have correctly said “I don’t know enough about such things”, the average person today forwards and intuitionistic opinion consisting of randomly constructed nonsense, for no other reason than he was told to, in order to justify the legitimacy of the democratic state by inflating support with artificial numbers.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-21 03:25:00 UTC
LIBERTY IS UNNATURAL
—“THE THIRST for liberty does not seem to be natural to man. Most people want security in this world, not liberty. Liberty puts them on their own, and so exposes them to the natural consequences of their congenital stupidity and incompetence. Historically, it has always been forced upon the masses from above. Whenever they have formulated demands of their own, it has been demands for privileges, not for liberty.”— H. L. Mencken
(thx Thomas J. Flannery) 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-21 00:17:00 UTC
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/06/president_rand_paul_what_would_happen_if_the_tea_party_controlled_american.single.htmlPOSITIVE ARTICLE ON DEVOLUTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 14:41:00 UTC
1) THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT IS A CRITICISM.
2) PROPERTARIANISM IS AN EXPLANATION.
3) ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM IS A SOLUTION.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 05:21:00 UTC
Kleptocratic Progressivism : “It’s perfectly ok to lie cheat and steal for a good cause.”
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 03:43:00 UTC
LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIME
Aphoristic arguments, programmatic as they may be, are ideologically utilitarian, and place limited burden on the speaker. They teach the intuition through use and repetition, better than verbose and detailed arguments.
Conservatives (aristocratic egalitarians) understand this. Or at least intuit it. That is why they win the moral battle for votes, despite inferior intellectuals, and arational arguments.
One may not see it, but look at how fast the work I have done, just since December, is spreading across the internet. My terminology alone is working its way into dialog.
Thanks to the internet, we live in a new order, with new distribution channels. In the current order, the market for information is not controlled by the paradigm of the prior generation.
One need not seek approval or permission from the establishment – only provide the market with product it demands. 🙂
One can sell an idea, or, one can create demand for an idea.
One can attempt to create demand for inadequate libertarianism, or one can satisfy demand for an adequate libertarianism.
Liberty that satisfies demand.
Liberty in our lifetimes.
Aristocratic Egalitarianism. Aristocracy (liberty) of the willing.
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 03:31:00 UTC