All the amazing nonsense I’ve been lucky to see in my lifetime.
The only thing I want to see now, is the failure of the EU project, and the dissolution of the united states federal government, and a return of power to the states.
I’ll trust science to accomplish the rest.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 15:05:00 UTC
JUST SAW A REPORTER GET A CRACKED SKULL AND LOSE HIS CAMERA
#euromaidan #kiev #ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 14:11:00 UTC
I THINK MY EXPLANATION FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE STATE IS MORE ACCURATE:
THe state centralizes free riding, and transforms it into rent seeking. This forces the multitudes to resort to the market alone.
If this is true, and I am fairly sure it is, then the state is less relevant than is the expurgation of free riding. (And that makes a lot more sense than any argument to efficiency.)
This may be one of the better ideas I’ve had.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 13:30:00 UTC
OSTRUM VS PROPERTARIANISM : THE GRAMMAR OF POLITICS
(I HAVE’T READ OSTROM UNTIL TODAY – SADLY)
(this part paraphrased)
“Ostrom presents a grammar that has five elements:
1) the attributes that qualify someone as a participant in the system;
2) whether actions are permitted, required, or forbidden (may, must, must not);
3) the covered actions;
4) the conditions under which the rules apply; and
5) the consequences of not following the rule.
These components can be used to describe rules, norms and shared strategies. “
(end)
RULES: Rules have all 5 components,
NORMS: Norms specify all but the consequences, and
SHARED STRATEGIES: Shared strategies are statements that only contain the first three components.
(Paraphrased)
“When using this framework, you have to be aware that most rules can be rephrased between prohibitions and compulsions without changing their sense. When comparing two institutions, a little care is usually enough to penetrate this surface distinction. For example “Actor X is forbidden to take action Y” could be written as “X must perform a non-Y action” or “X does not have the option of doing Y”.
(end)
PROPERTY RIGHTS
I suppose it’s only clear to a libertarian, that these five are the criteria for a shareholder’s agreement, and the property rights of shareholders.
At least, that’s the GRAMMAR I am using. And PROPERTARIAN GRAMMAR grammar is more useful since propertarianism is a prohibition against involuntary transfer vie other than virtuous competition.
Ostrom is correct but didn’t take it far enough. Nor did she make the connection between rules, and rights, nor between rights and morality, nor between morality and reproductive strategy.
What we should learn from Rothbard, from Ostrom, from Hayek, from Mises, is that GRAMMARS (languages) are necessary for the development and articulation of commensurability between moral codes.
The problem is, that none of these people was able to produce the entire grammar. None of them took it far enough. I suspect that’s only because it’s taken so long for us to produce enough data to make those connections.
Standing on the shoulders of others makes doing the previously impossible a lot easier. 🙂
PROPERTARIANISM IS A GRAMMAR FOR POLITICS
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 13:12:00 UTC
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2358701MUST READ ON ORIGIN OF STATES
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2358701
(via Peter Boettke)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 12:43:00 UTC
CALL TO DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT – CALL TO IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT
I mean this isnt all college kids. Pudgy, middle-aged, russian faced moms are out in the street. In America we have a class of ‘professional protesters’. And you can’t take them seriously. These people, you take seriously.
When moms get on TV and say that they weren’t ” … against russia, but if the difference is between the euro and russia then we want nothing to do with russia”
#ukraine #euromaidan #kiev
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 12:01:00 UTC
ADMINISTRATION HAS JUST THREATENED ‘MARTIAL LAW’.
“This is worse than orange revolution”
I dunno. I wasn’t here. I can tell you that the cops are not using violence to move people, they’re just grabbing and beating the hell out of anyone that they can get their hands on.
In the states they’re trained to isolate and subdue the violent, but ignore the pacifist. No such limits here.
I am so glad I came to Ukraine. I love these people. And I’m lucky to see real decent people seeking freedom instead of leftists seeking statism.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 11:51:00 UTC
I MEAN, IF YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE MARK (Euro) AND THE RUBLE, THAT’S ENOUGH FOR A DECISION.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 11:28:00 UTC
ANOTHER EXPLOSION (FLASHBANG?) – SIRENS (AMBULANCE)
Very strange to watch the difference between these people (calm, rational and articulate) versus the arab revolutionaries (emotive, irrational and inarticulate)
CONTEXT: The arabs, russians, ukrainians, and balkans were heavily influenced by the byzantines and the ottomans. The problems of this world are largely a product of middle eastern influence on the east and west. The eastern europeans are like us a bit (christian, slightly outbred) but unlike us a bit ( low trust, requiring strong government to suppress criminality, and easily corruptible out of mere convenience.)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 10:44:00 UTC
REPORTER SAYS THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS GONE INTO HIDING
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 10:36:00 UTC