Walking around America. Looking at what they have done to us. We need more than a revolution. We need a ‘correction’ on the scale of the French Revolution.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-13 14:57:00 UTC
Walking around America. Looking at what they have done to us. We need more than a revolution. We need a ‘correction’ on the scale of the French Revolution.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-13 14:57:00 UTC
Rothbardian Libertinism is an attempt to circumvent the high cost of the violence necessary to domesticate the government, by means of gossip, rallying, and shaming. nothing more. The philosophy of free ridership: a fraud.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-13 09:26:00 UTC
There is no point in conversing. Less point in persuading. But there some value in threatening. And much more in acting.
We are going to kill enough of you that we return at least to peerage if not to dominance.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-12 14:07:00 UTC
Women lie to each other to bond. Men trash talk.
Both are demonstrations of loyalty.
All communication consists of signaling, negotiation, and deception. With scarce facts serving as only minor currency.
Truth and science are alien to man.
That is why we must work so hard at them.
We evolved to negotiate not to testify.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-12 14:03:00 UTC
Violence alone (command) is an expensive method of rule.
Religion is a cheap method of rule.
Credit is a very profitable method of rule.
Rule by Religion can degrade rule of law.
Rule by philosophy can ease rule of law.
Credit requires Rule of law.
Rule of law requires only Violence.
Rule of law
Educated by Philosophy.
Incentivised by credit.
Enforced by violence.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-12 13:51:00 UTC
STRATEGY: DISCOVER > CONQUER > RULE > DOMESTICATE > TRANSCEND
White man’s burden was just the most recent excuse for profiting from domesticating and then evolving man.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-11 09:52:00 UTC
THE OBJECT OF LAW, POLICY, AND COMMONS
The Object of Law: The Individual
The Object of Policy: The Family
The Object of Commons: The Economy
Then Society Will Take Care of Itself.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-10 13:43:00 UTC
There is no alternative to the use of violence to secure dominion over territory, resources, trade routes, laws and institutions. The incentive to exit is not high enough to compensate for the incentives to bear costs in high investment commons communities. period.
Sovereignty, Liberty, Freedom, and Prosperity(consumption) are the product of the organized use of violence to obtain, hold, and construct a sovereign order in competition with nonsovereign orders.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-09 21:53:00 UTC
He who can kill people and destroy things controls people and controls things. He merely chooses to exercise control or not exercise control.
We must merely choose to control.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-09 20:13:00 UTC
The more sensible you are (a) the more questions people ask you, and (b) the more stuff they ask you to do. Yet the more sense you make, (c) the greater the number of people are intimidated by and (d) avoid you. Once you start to make enough sense that you’re not providing discounts, but imposing costs, they quickly learn to be careful around you, and will only selectively employ your abilities.
(h/t Josh Jeppeson)
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-08 07:42:00 UTC