Not enough brave men with guns.
They don’t own society.
So they dont act like it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 13:58:00 UTC
Not enough brave men with guns.
They don’t own society.
So they dont act like it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 13:58:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 13:38:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 13:37:00 UTC
http://mangans.blogspot.com/2014/11/russia-is-not-in-demographic-decline.htmlThe end of Russia’s demographic decline is partly related to alcoholism
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 11:38:00 UTC
THE CONSPIRACY OF TRUST
[satire]
There’s a conspiracy going on in this world, and it is secretly plotting to take over the world. Like any good conspiracy it abides by a ridiculously positive name, which may confuse the reader into thinking they’re doing good:
***The High Trust Society.***
As I was able to have a closer look into the conspiracy (through means of subversion, lying, deluding and others long-learned traditions and knowledge of left revolutionaries), it seems that the core members all follow the same code, which includes certain features I would like to shed lights on.
Members are expected to be honest with each other at all times. It seems that honesty here acts not only as social lubricant, but also as aligner of incentives, and reducer of transaction costs.
Along with this comes the seeming necessity to speak truthfully with one another, however costly that may be. Liars (like yours truly, as it were) are expected to be discovered, ostracized and shoo’ed off the Land.
On the note of costliness, members are expected to keep their word at all times. I’m not quite sure how this came into being, given Machiavelli’s writings about how one should only keep it when it’s to your own advantage, but for whatever reason it seems to work for them, which makes them all the more dangerous.
Members seem to be highly trusting of one another (due to above shared values), and will not hesitate to certify their member’s high social capital.
Your diligent reporter has learned a few secrets in due time, and deems this a bright moment to rat out on core members of the conspiracy.
Roman Skaskiw, Curt Doolittle, Andriy Drozda and others try to get away with all of this mumbo-jumbo in Ukraine. Don Finnegan, Johannes Meixner, Ben Schonle, Osku Raunio, Jonathan Starkas, Paul Vahur, Haver Järveoja, Erik Bhullar form the Estonian arm. James Santagata promotes all of the above in Japan. I’m not sure why he does that, the Japanese seem to be deluded into thinking this is how the world should be run in the first place. The same can be said for Marco de Wit — Finnish people seem equally deluded into trusting one another!! A few stray people reside in Middle Europe, where Germany stands out with Sandro Lemmen and Christoph Widenhorn. Another cluster appears all over the Commonwealth, around Andy Duncan Robyn Harte-Bunting, Eli Harman, Sean Ring, Michael Pattinson, Michael Philip, David Mondrus.
Beware.
They’re all dangerous, and their missionary diligence seems unstoppable.
[I may have forgotten folks. My bad. Let me know, and I’ll add everyone.]
Johannes Meixner
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 07:51:00 UTC
“#Fergadishu” OMG THAT IS FREAKING HYSTERICAL!!!!
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 07:25:00 UTC
The men post publicly. The women PM me. And I am very lucky that I have so many female friends – who I could not survive without.
You know who you are. Thank you. Very much. Always.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 03:33:00 UTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_titleSO HAS HANS HOPPE COME AROUND TO ACCEPTING VIOLENCE AS THE SOURCE OF PROPERTY?
One of the central arguments of libertarianism that I am trying to reframe, is the origin of property (violence), and the need for ongoing violence. But it has been difficult battling libertine and german rationalism’s hold on people.
Hoppe comes around. I think?
A militia organizes violence.
Violence creates property.
We embody property in law.
We adjudicate that law with judges and juries.
All organizations need leaders to resolve deductively undecidable propositions.
Kings provide such decision making.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 03:32:00 UTC
LAUNDERING THE ENLIGHTENMENT
(worth repeating)
**I see myself as rescuing ALL of the Misesian/Hoppeian program from the fruitcake fringe: by laundering German, Jewish and British enlightenment fallacies – the attempt to universalize local evolutionary strategy – rather than simply adopt scientific epistemology (operationalism) as the only neutral tool for the use of studying group evolutionary strategies.**
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 03:29:00 UTC
http://mises.org/library/aristocracy-monarchy-democracyHOPPE’S NEW (EXCELLENT) ESSAY
Aside from David Gordon’s use of Critique (heaping hyperbolic praise), the 8900 words restate the central proposition of Hoppe’s work. And not only has he composed it in nearly poetic prose, but this is Hoppe at his intellectual best – without his early tendency to descend into kantian or cosmopolitan rationalism – and arguing entirely in history, economy, and incentives. Clearly written – flawlessly actually. This is the Hoppe that taught all of us the technique of theorizing and explaining man, using the constructivist method that we call praxeological analysis of incentives.
VIOLENCE -> PROPERTY -> LAW -> CONTRACT -> PROSPERITY
Favorite quote:
—“no wonder Rawls reached so perverse a premise”—
(I have converted it to machine-read audio using mac if anyone wants to PM me. I listen to a lot of books this way so I am very comfortable with the mac voice.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-26 02:27:00 UTC