(Wow. Intravenous Asthma treatment at Boris clinic in Kiev. I can breathe. Is this what normal people feel like? It’s wonderful. Never had anything like this in the states. Ever. …. Cash cost, including MRI’s, EKG’s, two hours of consultations, with two different doctors, plus one hour of IV drips with, three different cocktails? $240. Private clinics outside the states. Whoot! )
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-04 05:49:00 UTC
(sick again. bronchitis. time for clinic. not able to get this virus or bacteria or whatever out of my lungs. was doing pretty well there for a while. but can’t kick this. so my immune system is just not coming back again. )
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-02 17:38:00 UTC
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Now I know what immigrants to american feel like when they get their green card. It’s awesome. lol… To know I can call Ukraine one of my homes is an awesome feeling.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-29 05:59:00 UTC
GREAT LIBERTARIANS: RON MANNERS (MEETING)
Thanks to Yuliya Kocherhan I had a wonderful meting with Ron Manners this morning, and we covered everything from his think tanks progress at educating young people, to how resource-rich countries fund a totalitarian state, to Ukraine’s future and its problem of rule of law, to my work on Propertarianism.
Ron is a very special man.
www.mannkal.org
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-27 08:42:00 UTC
REVELATIONS
There are revelations that you are glad you had, and revelations that you’re sad you’ve had. I’ve had a lot of great revelations that filled me with awe. And a small number that have filled me with …. depression.
Most of us remember when we realized our parents are not people we really should listen to any longer.
The hard one for me was realizing just how dim most people were. They weren’t evil really. The just don’t know better. The idea of going through life like that, as an ordinary person, was terrifying. I was depressed for months.
Today was just one of those days where you realize that the number of ‘human’ humans is actually very, very small. And the rest are just trained apes that we hope don’t do too much damage.
How do you know you’re talking to a human? You know when you cross disciplinary boundaries and someone can follow you, and you them. Because the ultimate wisdom is in how we know what we can know, and how to go about the possibility of knowing it. Regardless of discipline.
Everyone else is just imitating some behavior or other, like a well trained pet.
I know why Socrates tried to walk out of athens, and why Lao Tzu and St Patrick did. It seems completely hopeless.
Sigh. Bad day.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 16:54:00 UTC
Scotland.
The rain.
A small farm.
A few highland cattle.
A couple of woolly pigs.
Silly exotic chickens.
Pheasants.
A pair of retrievers.
And a goose to keep everyone in line.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-15 03:31:00 UTC
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Went to work. Big mistake. Not up to it yet. Too likely to spread the bug. Went sulking home like a schoolboy.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-07 10:43:00 UTC
(still sick as a dog. can’t go into the office. can barely walk around. pretty much drinking from my inhalers. managed to walk across the street for bottled water. bought some cookies. decided I didn’t need them. gave some of them to two workmen doing wall-repairs, who were surprised but pleased. gave the rest to the girls when I got home – who were surprised and pleased. then fell hard and fast back to bed. seems like I’m just catching a bunch of bugs in serial. plus I’m not crazy about our new neighborhood. its too far from the office, and doesn’t have nice yuppy coffee shops. but at least it’s out of downtown if the crisis goes like I think it will. right now i miss the west coast. not the predatory government that i hate with every fiber in me. but the people. the silly oblivious, naive, egoistic, ignorant americans and all the irrelevant nonsense that they talk about and do. all their selfish moronic status seeking. but you know, at least there aren’t tanks on the border, even if there are even more thugs in the streets.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-05 08:32:00 UTC
ILLNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY
I’ve been sick since, what, the 27th? Maybe 26th? But damn. It’s been a productive period. I think it’s because the UK trip was so important for me.
Want to thank a few people for seriously improving my thinking while in the UK:
Don Finnegan and Andy Curzon. They have strategic intuitions I know how to give voice to. I would not have done this work as I have without something Don said to me a few years ago in Bodrum. I’m sure he didn’t know what impact it had on me. Andy confirmed it and gave me a brilliant strategic direction to work in last year.
Want to again than Sean Gabb for helping me understand the current state of libertarian thought from his perspective.
And of course Ayelam Valentine Agaliba for giving me homework assignments on how to improve my arguments. 🙂
A apologize to Jan Lester who was kind enough to fit me in, but I somehow fouled communications and missed him. London is big and it takes longer to do everything, and I could not get my phone working reliably.
Forever in your debt.
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-04 09:28:00 UTC
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g295377-d4187431-Reviews-Lvivski_pljacky-Lviv_Lviv_Oblast.htmlTHE WORLD’S BEST WORK SPACE? 😉
OK. Off to the coffee shop. “The Lviv Strudel and Galacian Cheesecake Bakery” Which has a branch near the Metro in Kontractova Plaza. About 500 yards from the apartment. Amazing food. Great staff. Good wireless. Good music. Not too loud.
Today’s work? I have to break down each of the moral biases and give references to the research in support of each. Then describe it in property rights. This isn’t all that difficult, it’s just tedious. I’ve been putting it off since last summer. (because it’s tedious).
Moscow in my jaded, and not terribly humble opinion has the best coffee and pastry shops of any major city that I’ve been to. Vienna of course has the best cakes. But here in Kiev we have some pretty darn good shops. Lots of little shops with great coffee, great pastry, good FREE wireless. A lot like seattle really. Except the people are nicer, better looking, and the pastries are better.
So when you either write or program for a living, coffee shops are the most awesome – if expensive – part time work space
(NOTE: Our instinct for liberty comes from three sources: controlling alphas, the awareness of the undiscovered valley, and our openness to and desire for new stimulation. Evolution is AWESOME.)
🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-27 05:04:00 UTC