Form: Aphorism

  • Natural Law: A Career for Aspies 😉

    You know, where Legislative Law demands a lot from your memory, Propertarianism (Natural Law) demands a lot from your autism. We finally have a career for aspies. 🙂

    —“ROFL” — David Mondrus —“It’s very difficult to speak in it. It’s like Latin for me: I can only read and write it.” —William Butchman

  • We Use The Rule We Can Afford

    —“most governments have been oligarchies – ruled by a minority, chosen either by birth, as in aristocracies, or by a religious organization, as in theocracies, or by wealth, as in democracies”— Will Durant

    CheapReligion: Theocracy. Socialism -> Poverty ExpensiveLaw: Aristocracy, Corporatism -> Market Capitalism – Wealth. Very ExpensiveCommerce: Democracy -> Totalitarian socialism -> Poverty The iron rule of oligarchy prevails.  Why?  Because a market for leadership will produce those leaders best able to control that market.

  • We Use The Rule We Can Afford

    —“most governments have been oligarchies – ruled by a minority, chosen either by birth, as in aristocracies, or by a religious organization, as in theocracies, or by wealth, as in democracies”— Will Durant

    CheapReligion: Theocracy. Socialism -> Poverty ExpensiveLaw: Aristocracy, Corporatism -> Market Capitalism – Wealth. Very ExpensiveCommerce: Democracy -> Totalitarian socialism -> Poverty The iron rule of oligarchy prevails.  Why?  Because a market for leadership will produce those leaders best able to control that market.

  • Knowledge vs Imagination

    —“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”— -Albert Einstein

    This isn’t quite right. It’s that knowledge is a form of consumption while imagination is a form of production.

  • Knowledge vs Imagination

    —“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”— -Albert Einstein

    This isn’t quite right. It’s that knowledge is a form of consumption while imagination is a form of production.

  • Scientists, Wishful Thinkers, Illusionists, and Liars

    Most (western) judges are scientists Most politicians are wishful thinkers. Most philosophers are verbal illusionists. All prophets are liars.

  • Scientists, Wishful Thinkers, Illusionists, and Liars

    Most (western) judges are scientists Most politicians are wishful thinkers. Most philosophers are verbal illusionists. All prophets are liars.

  • Monarchy Limits Demand for Power

    Under monarchy, without access to political power, those who sought power by market means, sought to limit the monarchy’s every encroachment. Under democracy, with access to power, everyone seeks it and to expand it.

  • Monarchy Limits Demand for Power

    Under monarchy, without access to political power, those who sought power by market means, sought to limit the monarchy’s every encroachment. Under democracy, with access to power, everyone seeks it and to expand it.

  • Why Choose Right vs Libertarian?

    Because, “Capital”. Tilting right limits your market but preserves your capital. Tilting left or libertarian increases your market but loses your capital CAPITAL:

    • Genetic
    • Normative
    • Institutional
    • Informational
    • Territorial
    • Monumental
    • Infrastructural
    • Built
    • Private-Personal