Theme: Governance

  • How Will The United States Look In 2027?

    We will be entering a period of civil war with the conflict over how to devolve into regional nation states while preserving the military and social security apparatus.

    https://www.quora.com/How-will-the-United-States-look-in-2027

  • Market Demand for an insurer of last resort creates demand for the state. Market

    Market Demand for an insurer of last resort creates demand for the state. Market demand for sovereignty constrains the state. In the end result, it is the Militia that purchases either insurance or sovereignty. And it is the militia who bears responsibility for its purchases.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-06 06:32:00 UTC

  • A CORPORATION IS PRODUCED THROUGH LIMITED LIABILITY REQUIRING A MONOPOLY INSURER

    A CORPORATION IS PRODUCED THROUGH LIMITED LIABILITY REQUIRING A MONOPOLY INSURER OF LAST RESORT: STATE.

    A corporation CAN only occur in a state, because a corporation obtains limited liability from the state.

    One can form a partnership, and one can issue shares to distribute ownership in a partnership, and one can create all sorts of different shareholder agreements, but a corporation of any of the three popular types (llc, S, C) differ in the method of taxation, the means of management, and the extent of limited liability.

    in a private law society lacking a constitution, and lacking a state as an insurer of last resort, there is no such possibilty of limited liabiilty. The solutoin is to obtain insurers, and pay insurers fees instead of taxes in order to limit your liabilities.

    This is another example of how libertarian thinkers take advantage of the ignorance of individuals as to the nature of the state: it is an insurer of last resort.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-05 22:44:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIANS ARE JUST COMMON PROPERTY MARXISTS. (from elsewhere) Libertarians ge

    LIBERTARIANS ARE JUST COMMON PROPERTY MARXISTS.

    (from elsewhere)

    Libertarians get it wrong every day, multiple times a day.

    If you’re objective is an anarchic polity, you must eliminate demand for the state – wishing it away is not only ineffective but childish.

    The judicial state as we understand it, evolved everywhere, to suppress retaliation cycles between individuals, families, clans, and tribes by standardizing punishments, and prohibiting further cycles of retaliation. The universality of this historical fact contradicts all libertarian dogma both about the nature of man, the state of man, and the process of resolving disputes.

    To eliminate demand for the state, one must eliminate demand for aggression (suppress opportunity) AND, eliminate demand for retaliation (provide a means of resolution of differences) and eliminate retaliation cycles from forming (insure against retaliation). People are never happy with the outcome of court cases, they merely fear retaliation by the insurers.

    Whenever we have used competing insurers, they have devolved into feuding insurers. Feuding insurers are more dangerous than individual, family and clan feuds because they profit from it. Organizations seek dominance (a monopoly) and this is where states of all sizes originate: as monopoly insurers of last resort sufficient to hold other insurers (states) at bay.

    This is the historical narrative and counters the private-property-marxist dogma (socialism), and the common-property-marxist dogma (libertarianism).

    (I hope you saw what I said just then. Because that is the uncomfortable truth.)

    Libertarians opine (give opinions) on what constitutes aggression, and despite *decades* of hot air failing to define it, they never seem to determine that it is not the actor who determines but the victim who will sense a violation of his investments and retaliate and therefore determine the scope of property. And it is the community of insurers (the polity) that prevent retaliation cycles (feuds). And it is a monopoly insurer (the state however organized) that prevents it.

    The state overreach arises from discretionary regulatory power (legislation), discretionary tax power, and discretionary rent seeking power, rather than from it’s function as a monopoly insurer. So, the problems of the state originate in discretion and in full time employment of services organizations, rather than direct economic democracy, and subcontracted employment.

    As far as I know rule of law eliminates regulatory discretion. As far as I know direct democracy eliminates discretionary taxation. As far as I know subcontractors delivering services are superior to bureaucrats. As far as I know a judiciary can function independently. And all that is necessary is a monarchy as a judge of last resort, and a military as an insurer of last resort. In other words, the ancient monarchies ran the best ‘companies’: private estates. As far as I know there is no model superior to rule of natural common law, an independent judiciary, a hereditary monarch as judge of last resort, a set of houses for each class with differing interests used as a market for the production of commons, and direct economic democracy such that individuals who are enfranchised and contributing to the taxes make choices as to their allocations.

    Conversely, Libertarianism (jewish diasporic separatism) is another product of marxism and marxist history. And it does nothing but license immorality while prohibiting retaliatory violence against it.

    There is only one source of liberty: an armed militia, an independent judiciary, a monarch as judge of last resort, and the natural, common, judge discovered law, as the sacred political religion of all of them.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-05 07:04:00 UTC

  • “Success expands acquisitions, which increases the phenomena to track, which all

    “Success expands acquisitions, which increases the phenomena to track, which allows for un-meritocratic creep into social and governmental institutions.”

    “The aristocracy gradually gets infected by the petty bourgeoisie who desire the material comforts and status gained, but who reject the virtue trials that grant warrior-aristocrats their moral indisputability.”

    “As the social and governmental institutions come to be stocked with mere bureaucrats, demands of virtue and competence decline. It becomes a downward spiral of the weak and incompetent struggling to cheaply profit how their petty vision and ability allow them.”

    “The republican ideal necessitates selling two products: liberty and security, the former for the virtuous and hungry who want enfranchisement and are willing to accept the rigors and the latter for the plebs who will otherwise ally with a Caesarian-Machiavellian figure against the aristocracy if they aren’t granted their petty needs (and with their subsequent constraints of influence).”


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-04 11:04:00 UTC

  • The USA no longer has the financial means of by which to influence the expansion

    The USA no longer has the financial means of by which to influence the expansion of human (property) rights. The USA no longer has the means of using economic and trade incentives to advance human (property) rights. The USA no longer has diplomatic means of providing incentives to advance human (property) rights. The USA has demonstrated that they cannot use force to advance human (property) rights.

    The Russians broke the postwar peace when they invaded ukraine. The muslims have broken the peace of westphalia by sponsoring and using non-state actors across borders. The world will not tolerate iran as the nuclear core state of islam. Turkey would be tolerated but has been engaged in recidivism. And western hopes that islamic nations would be able to evolve to modern states has been abandoned.

    China now leads the world in diplomacy, credit, and trade policy, and both russian and chinese powers favor the preservation of totalitarian governments precisely for this reason: they already must confront demographically problematic underclasses at great scale on a daily basis.

    Furthermore, the world has observed that while the market economy is the only possible means of providing prosperity, that the totalitarian state is better suited to do so until well after a middle class has reached majority status. In other words, democracy is seen as a luxury good unique to western civilization.

    Reading philosophy is like reading fantasy literature. Adults read military, economic, and demographic data, and seek to understand rational incentives.

    So no, the USA will remain an major influence upon world affairs trough at least the first half of this century, provided the USA does not balkanize as I suspect it will. At which point the worldwide attempt to fill the power vacuum will likely lead to the first great wars of the 21st century.

    It’s economics and demographics.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-04 08:06:00 UTC

  • Terror requires the deliberate targeting of non-combatants as a means of alterin

    Terror requires the deliberate targeting of non-combatants as a means of altering policy. Sovereignty requires one’s government control non-state actors. Democracy requires one’s people control one’s government such that it controls non-state actors, such that it does not break the westphalian peace, nor the postwar peace. Justice visited upon the muslims to contain them just as the west tried to contain the communists in the twentieth century and the Islamic empires, for it’s thousand years of warfare against the west. And so apparently we must unify china, india, russia, and america to contain islam until it respects the peaces of westphalia (containing non state actors), and of the postwar consensus (maintian borders, develop human rights, and develop consumer economies).

    No people yet has transformed from the medieval to the modern without a reformation, and some sort of civil war.

    Islam is the only backward civilization remaining. The problem it faces, and south america faces, is that the demographics throughout the muslim world make a rational secular state nearly impossible without the promise of ever-expanding growth under fiat money capitalism.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-04 08:04:00 UTC

  • SOVEREIGNTY VERSUS SERVILITY One can hire an administrator of contracts. If that

    SOVEREIGNTY VERSUS SERVILITY

    One can hire an administrator of contracts. If that’s what you mean by ‘governor’ then that kind of “government” is something I am comfortable with.

    But I won’t give up my Sovereignty (My “rights as an anglo saxon”) in the choice of contracts I will prefer to pay for; which choices of contracts I prefer not to pay for; and which choice of contracts I will not tolerate.

    This is the difference between Sovereigns investing in Commons (Anglo Saxons) by vote and hiring project managers, and Subjects choosing their rulers by vote, who will then choose the commons they produce for those who chose them.

    We have had our rights for thousands of years.

    It took those thousands of years to preserve them.

    It took those thousands of years to capture them in draft form the US Constitution.

    And today we can capture them perfectly in a new one.

    So will you choose the Sovereignty of the Warrior, or the Servility of a Subject?


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-03 08:10:00 UTC

  • ( my mother, a solid catholic conservative democrat, watching the news, spontane

    ( my mother, a solid catholic conservative democrat, watching the news, spontaneously says “We have four countries: the northeast, the south, the farmland in the middle, and the west coast. And we all have different values. And … I don’t wanna live through … I dont want to live through what’s coming.” )


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-03 07:50:00 UTC

  • I’ve been back in the USA since just before the election – and angry the entire

    I’ve been back in the USA since just before the election – and angry the entire time. I Hate The State
    #Conservative #Libertarian #Trump


    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-02 15:52:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/837329650649038848