Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Aristocratice Egalitarianism vs The Central Libertarian Fallacies

    (worth repeating) –Aristocratic Egalitarianism is a replacement for the fallacy of immaculate conception we call natural law. And High trust society is a replacement for the fallacy of aggression as sufficient for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of a state. Propertarianism is the explanation why.—

  • REFORMING EDUCATION AGAINST THE WILL OF THE STATISTS Court case in California. S

    http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/06/california-judge-rules-tenure-laws.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis+%28Mish%27s+Global+Economic+Trend+Analysis%29ENTREPRENEURS REFORMING EDUCATION AGAINST THE WILL OF THE STATISTS

    Court case in California. Strangely a win. Ending tenure in the public interest.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-11 10:58:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRACY IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE MEANS OF EQUALITY

    ARISTOCRACY IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE MEANS OF EQUALITY


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-11 05:58:00 UTC

  • SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEM —“As long as there is market demand for statism it w

    SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEM

    —“As long as there is market demand for statism it will exist. It doesn’t matter how many bodies you throw into the volcano..”— Jamin.

    What conditions are necessary to eliminate demand for the state?

    Libertarians love to demonize the state while conveniently denying that historically it was a market good – at least in the west, if not center or east.

    The state evolved out of demand, from partnerships, just as corporations evolved from partnerships, for exactly the same reasons.

    Market towns were made.

    To eliminate the state we must eliminate demand for the state.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 10:42:00 UTC

  • There is a vast difference between minimum liberty necessary for the market and

    There is a vast difference between minimum liberty necessary for the market and maximum liberty for our personal desires.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 07:26:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476263998963580928

    Reply addressees: @LibertarianMike

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224


    IN REPLY TO:

    @LibertarianMike

    “We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most mora… http://t.co/sjOxDz3kQl

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224

  • Unfortnately Hayek fails to state that others prefer the minimum liberty to secu

    Unfortnately Hayek fails to state that others prefer the minimum liberty to secure predictability, while we the maximum.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 07:24:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476263567952723968

    Reply addressees: @LibertarianMike

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224


    IN REPLY TO:

    @LibertarianMike

    “We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most mora… http://t.co/sjOxDz3kQl

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/476254956362932224

  • LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY (worth repeating) —“So whethe

    LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY

    (worth repeating)

    —“So whether one chooses the necessary and sufficient arguments of Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism (Aristocracy), or the luxuries of humanitarian libertarianism (Classical Liberalism), that is merely a preference, not a question of possibility. While the choice of rothbardian ‘thin’ libertarianism (Libertinism) is just the opposite: it’s impossible.”—

    We do not get to choose the incentives that will produce a voluntary anarchic polity. We can estimate them. Wet can test them. We can demonstrate them. We can measure them. But we cannot choose them.

    Transaction costs determine the desirability of different polities. The rational choice of a voluntary, anarchic polity over a statist polity requires a high trust society.

    Once one possesses a voluntary, high trust society, one can also engage in the production and consumption of luxuries – commons. But luxuries are not the same as necessities.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 02:29:00 UTC

  • Eli On Monarchy As The Golden Mean —“Ancap in theory resolves to monarchy in p

    Eli On Monarchy As The Golden Mean

    —“Ancap in theory resolves to monarchy in practice, because you can’t prevent property from becoming unequally distributed. My property, my rules: equals monarchy.

    The only question is one of scale, and when economies of scale are likely to be balanced by the diseconomies. Large landlords are able to suppress free-riding among their tenants and provide them with public goods that they can’t produce as independent, sovereign, small landowners. But very large landlords are subject to knowledge and incentive problems that make it increasingly unlikely that they actually will.

    There’s not really a “legitimacy” issue. All property originates in conquest. Original appropriation, expropriation, they’re just variations on a theme. Fencing off unowned land, formerly free for use by all, and announcing, henceforth, any trespass will be subject to retaliatory violence is inherently an act of aggression.

    Once property is owned, and markets for its transfer exist, there’s no reason not to expect it to be consolidated into relatively few hands, and many reasons to suppose that it will be. The market will demand lords. And the market will provide.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 11:54:00 UTC

  • So, why is the liberty movement moving from the states as the central point if a

    So, why is the liberty movement moving from the states as the central point if advocacy, to the UK?

    (Part of me blames the damage done by MI.)


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 08:03:00 UTC

  • PROPAGANDA NOW MAINSTREAM

    http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-s-top-20-lies-about-ukraineRUSSIAN PROPAGANDA NOW MAINSTREAM


    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-07 12:11:00 UTC