Editing my glossary. Today it’s letter “C”. Class, Culture, Calculation etc. Came across Coercion (which is a common word in my world), and got to work on the Power spectrum: POWER / COERCION / PERSUASION / INFLUENCE / INCENTIVE. Fascinating topic when you combine it with social classes in which each form of coercion produces elites that serve the different social classes. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 06:35:00 UTC
http://disq.us/8jb0c9YES IT WILL HELP. IT WILL HELP A LOT. IF WE SEND BACK THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS WE STOLE FROM UKRAINE IN THE FIRST PLACE. )
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 21:45:00 UTC
THREE OPTIONS FOR GOVERNMENT FREE OF CORRUPTION
The only way to avoid the principle-agent problem in politics is simply NOT to use agents. In order to avoid using agents, we have three choices:
1) Anarchic Contractual Government (no commons)
2) Direct Democracy (auctions to fund proposals for commons)
3) Demarchy / Lottocracy (randomly selected juries that judge policy proposals).
THe problem of politics is not the production of commons. It’s politicians, bureaucracy, and the inability to secede.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:01:00 UTC
Property rights defined by aggression are necessary and sufficient for limiting the state, sure. But they aren’t necessary and sufficient for limiting each other in a voluntary polity.
If you want a voluntary polity in the absence of a state then you must provide a means of resolving all conflicts with each other.
We don’t have the privilege of determining what causes conflict – evolution mandated it: we can cooperate if and only if we cannot parasite or prey on each other by doing so. Otherwise evolution will punish us for it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 15:28:00 UTC
ALWAYS HAVE WEAPONS
The law that is enforced is determined by the men with weapons.
Therefore, always have weapons.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 06:38:00 UTC
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/382333/dont-put-terrorists-trial-daniel-pipesTERRORISM IS WARFARE NOT CRIME
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 15:20:00 UTC
THEFT IS ANYTHING BUT LIBERTARIAN
Freedom is evidently obtained and perpetuated at the point of a sword or the barrel of a gun.
The cosmopolitan myth is that man desires to be free, and the state is his oppressor.
And true, some of us do desire freedom.
But the vast majority prefer to free ride and rent seek to their maximum ability, and happily confuse freedom with the possibility of increases in consumption.
Aristocracy requires property; property requires liberty; liberty requires violence.
Attempts to obtain liberty otherwise are both futile and all too obviously seeking to obtain liberty at a discount on the efforts of others: theft.
And theft is anything but libertarian.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-13 08:34:00 UTC
WORST PRESIDENT -> LAST PRESIDENT?
It would be very nice, given that Obama is the worst president, if we could also make him the last president. And maybe the invasion and conquest we are experiencing from Latin America is the catalyst.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-05 01:43:00 UTC
ZB MIRRORS MY POSITION, ON UKRAINE
But I extend it to a general rule: a well trained militia with RPGs and man portable anti armor missiles can neither be conquered, nor can conquer others. If you possess nuclear weapons and a well armed and trained militia consisting of every able bodied soul then you are a threat to your own government alone, not to any other; and you are unconquerable by both your government and others.
One is free only if he not require permission.
—“I feel that we should make it clear to the Ukrainians that if they are determined to resist, as they say they are and seemingly they are trying to do so (albeit not very effectively), we will provide them with anti-tank weapons, hand-held anti-tank weapons, hand-held rockets—weapons capable for use in urban short range fighting. This is not an arming of Ukraine for some invasion of Russia. You don’t invade a country as large as Russia with defensive weaponry. But if you have defensive weaponry and you have access to it and know it’s arriving, you’re more likely to resist.”—
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-30 08:25:00 UTC
https://twitter.com/steve_sailer/status/483497920092581888BLACKWATER: AN EXAMPLE Of PRIVATIZATION OF THE MILITARY
http://www.unz.com/isteve/great-moments-in-privatization-blackwater/
https://twitter.com/steve_sailer/status/483497920092581888
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-30 05:49:00 UTC