–“The story of [the Empire’s] ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple [the color of the robes of the Roman magistrates, ie: THE LAW]. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered [the citizens both] alike (each other,) formidable to their sovereign, and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of Constantine [Christianity]; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.”— Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West”, Chapter 38 IT ALL BEGINS AND ENDS WITH OUR MILITIA, AND OUR MILITIA BY THEIR LAW, AND THEIR LAW BY EXCEPTIONLESS INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY.
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IT’S NOT JUST ME: LISTEN TO GIBBON: IT ONLY LIVES AS LONG AS THE MILITIA –“The
IT’S NOT JUST ME: LISTEN TO GIBBON: IT ONLY LIVES AS LONG AS THE MILITIA
–“The story of [the Empire’s] ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple [the color of the robes of the Roman magistrates, ie: THE LAW]. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered [the citizens both] alike (each other,) formidable to their sovereign, and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of Constantine [Christianity]; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.”— Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West”, Chapter 38
IT ALL BEGINS AND ENDS WITH OUR MILITIA, AND OUR MILITIA BY THEIR LAW, AND THEIR LAW BY EXCEPTIONLESS INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-24 17:07:00 UTC
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RT @Outsideness: @LeftoidMind @KalishJantzen “A world of free movement” would be
RT @Outsideness: @LeftoidMind @KalishJantzen “A world of free movement” would be South Africa scaled-up to planetary size. So rather less t…
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-24 09:46:27 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/988715784938639360
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Retweeted Outsideness (@Outsideness): @LeftoidMind @KalishJantzen “A world of fr
Retweeted Outsideness (@Outsideness):
@LeftoidMind @KalishJantzen “A world of free movement” would be South Africa scaled-up to planetary size. So rather less than “$78 trillion richer” after the politics reached equilibrium.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-24 05:46:00 UTC
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Libertarianism’s Self Destruction
by Luke Weinhagen (better than I have said it) (brilliant) The way (my revelation) hit me was that libertarianism survives/exists by miscategorizing relations. Specifically libertarians interpret commons(cooperation) as commons(conflict) and use property rights(IVP) to attempt to resolve that conflict. In doing so they justify libertarianism’s parasitism of the commons(that can only be generated via cooperation) as defense and that justification requires it not suppress any parasitism of the commons(cooperation) as this would self destruct the ideology. Libertarianism self destructed for me once I recognized this categorization error. (CURT: Luke, this is, the … it’s, pricelessly stated. nice work.)
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KEY TO UNDERSTANDING PROPERTARIANISM by Luke Weinhagen Understanding this: —-“
KEY TO UNDERSTANDING PROPERTARIANISM
by Luke Weinhagen
Understanding this:
—-“There exist only three possible relations (avoidance, cooperation, conflict).”—-
… and developing the skill to accurately identify these categories, makes everything Propertarianism is exploring understandable and in context.
Where I’ve had misses in comprehension has consistently been where I’ve mis-categorized one or more of those three as another in whatever relation is being explored.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-23 13:28:00 UTC
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LIBERTARIANISM’S SELF DESTRUCTION by Luke Weinhagen (better than I have said it)
LIBERTARIANISM’S SELF DESTRUCTION
by Luke Weinhagen
(better than I have said it) (brilliant)
The way (my revelation) hit me was that libertarianism survives/exists by miscategorizing relations. Specifically libertarians interpret commons(cooperation) as commons(conflict) and use property rights(IVP) to attempt to resolve that conflict.
In doing so they justify libertarianism’s parasitism of the commons(that can only be generated via cooperation) as defense and that justification requires it not suppress any parasitism of the commons(cooperation) as this would self destruct the ideology.
Libertarianism self destructed for me once I recognized this categorization error.
(CURT: Luke, this is, the … it’s, pricelessly stated. nice work.)
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-23 13:12:00 UTC
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by Eli Harman via Brandon Hayes Libertarians have a theory of legitimate private
by Eli Harman via Brandon Hayes
Libertarians have a theory of legitimate private property originating in original appropriation and subsequent exchange. This is sometimes called “Intersubjectively Verifiable Property” (IVP) which means “property people can agree who owns” and it basically limits the scope of “legitimate” property to personal, private, property. But people will intuit assaults on or theft of common and intangible property as a loss and they will retaliate against it. So if the purpose of property rights, norms, and regimes, is to minimize conflicts by codifying who owns what, and consequently, who may do what, where, and why, then libertarian IVP fails as a property regime and a property norm, because there are whole categories of conflict it does not address nor prevent because it does not codify property rights in things that people value (with good reason) and conflict over, but actually licenses parasitism, theft, destruction, and freeriding in these domains by prohibiting retaliation against it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-23 12:42:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2018-04-22 21:35:00 UTC
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-22 21:11:00 UTC