WHY SOUTH AMERICANS HAVE A BETTER GRASP OF LIBERTY
(quotable)
“South Americans create more or better libertarians is because we like the state the least, since we know it best, because we’ve been disappointed most.” – Helio Beltrāo.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-04 13:49:00 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward–Piven_strategyOVERWHELM THE WELFARE SYSTEM – LIBERAL STRATEGY
vs
OVERWHELM THE CREDIT SYSTEM – CONSERVATIVE STRATEGY
The point is, that the system doesn’t work. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-04 05:25:00 UTC
LIBERTARIANS “MUGGED BY REALITY?”
“The Dark Enlightenment is libertarians mugged by reality, a libertarian who realizes that the eighteenth century was right about women, and Bull Conner right about blacks..” –
LOL.. Awfully crude and working class view of the Dark Enlightenment. Certainly not my view.
D.E. :
AGAINST big government, and the equalitarianism, egalitarianism and diversity that big governments require.
FOR elitism, exceptionalism, excellence, meritocracy, proportionality and homogeneity that small states facilitate.
ACCEPTANCE of tribalism, genetic variation, cultural incommensurability and the need for inequality, the need for integration, and hard borders.
ACTIVISTS AGAINST: Totalitarian Humanism, Postmodernist, Feminism, Marxism, and any attempt to reverse the innovation that was private property and the nuclear family, organized into small states of extended families.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 12:46:00 UTC
http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htmSTAYING ON MESSAGE: MERITOCRACY MATTERS. ELITES EXIST.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 11:18:00 UTC
LIBERTARIAN TERMINOLOGY QUESTION
(Freedom vs Liberty)
Is it just my own selection bias in action, or has the term FREEDOM been sufficiently appropriated as to mean “Positive Freedom and liberty” and LIBERTY such that it currently means “Negative Freedom and liberty”?
It’s too bad we LIBERTARIANS don’t have such energetic literary activists who can put together a campaign to ‘reconstruct’ the meanings of liberty and freedom the way the marxists have, and by doing so appropriated our terminology: via editing, shaming and critique.
LIBERTY IS DETERMINED BY
1) The available means of production.
2) The impact of the means of production on reproduction (family)
3) The allocation of property rights between individual, family and commons to suit production and reproduction.
4) The Freedoms and Duties we grant each other according to those rights, and the flexibility of altering those relations in response to changes in the means of production.
5) The degree of rent-seeking (corruption) by leaders of the hierarchy or network of organizations that resolve conflicts and facilitate investments (ownership or government).
6) The degree of contribution by individuals willingly paid to the extended family (commons) in exchange for status which increases their opportunities for mating, experience, and opportunity.
THE STATUS ECONOMY – THE OTHER INVOLUNTARY APPROPRIATION
(Government members obtain status as well as compensation and earners do not obtain status OR compensation. The need is to create status signals such that the earners are willing to contribute to the commons of their extended family. If instead, high tax payers were publicly identified and given political voice, if not political vote, then the world would be a very different place. But politicians fear this fact. And to some degree, the corrupt on both sizes are protected by their anonymity. Imagine a state of the union meeting where the top 500 taxpayers instead of 500 elected politicians, were required to give their opinions on the state of the union. )
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-03 09:58:00 UTC
ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN ELECTIONS
add gender and marital status, and thats all you need to understand.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-01 03:41:00 UTC
WSJ NBC POLL.
“A majority of Americans don’t identify with **either** party.”
Never been a chance like this. But the progressive wing of libertarians would screw it up anyway.
Its time.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-31 13:01:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/glossary/AGAIN: MONOPOLY AND BUREAUCRACY
Again, there are NECESSARY functions of government.
( see http://www.propertarianism.com/glossary/#propertarian item (g) )
While the definition of property rights must, in the end, be homogenous across groups as individual property rights, there is no reason why we need a monopoly means of organizing people under those property rights. There is absolutely no material reason why we cannot have polycentric governments that vary from absolute surrender to minarchy.
Government, in the sense, that we need both a definition of property rights, and a means of common investment, as well as common insurance – and all organizations require leaders, even if they are purely judges, selected randomly by lot. (preferably so)
If you’re wandering around saying government is evil rather than bureaucracy and monopoly are evil you’re just polluting the intellectual pool.
The problem is monopoly, bureaucracy, and the sanction of various partial monopolies and rents by those in the state, to persist their control over the state.
SECRET
The chinese philosophers could not, because of the asian family structure and existing hierarchy solve the problem of politics, like the Greeks solved the system of politics PRECISELY because they were not hierarchically solidified. Confucius and Lao Tzu failed. They directed the entire civilization to operate as an extended family. (Unfortunately, Fukuyama is wrong. As usual. But at least he’s informative.)
We libertarians are making a similar mistake. ROTHBARD FAILED, and so did his ethics. Hoppe succeeded (by admittedly strange means) and solve the problem of politics at scale for us. But Rothbard failed, either by intent, or by cultural influence, or by lack of understanding. But he failed. And he continues to cause us to fail at securing our liberty.
While I would agree that violence was necessary to transform barbarians into city and farm dwellers, I would also argue that such a monopoly was necessary to conduct that transformation.
But now we need a DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION. The barbarians are converted. The problem is not how to convert barbarians. THe problem is how to prevent FEMALES from returning us to barbarism via the ballot box.
Socialism was murderous. But the threat to human prosperity is the assumption that women have the right to reproduce at the expense of others, or that all reproduction is of necessity ‘good’.
Government is not the enemy. Monopoly is. Socialism is not a problem any longer. But feminism and the totalitarian humanism that is an expression of feminine communism are.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 07:27:00 UTC
THE WAR AGAINST WHITE MARRIED PEOPLE
“93% of blacks, 70% of Latinos, 60% of those under 30, and 62% of single people, voted for Obama. And white married couples over 30 years of age voted for Romney. Not much else matters.”
–Dick Morris
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-28 14:48:00 UTC
WATCHING THE PRESIDENT : TRENCHANT NAIVE IDEALISM
Watching Bush II was kind of interesting. He sort of looked at his job and it unfolded as he expected, and he knew what the price would be, and his position was that history is the only judge of presidential actions. Now, I disagreed with him on a bunch of them. And his presidency was the last hope of restoring the republic. Demographics have made it impossible now. We have to break up the empire to preserve western civilization in any form at all.
Watching this guy is something quite different. Most of us knew he was symbolic. That he’s an empty suit elected by the media as a cure for white sins. And honestly, given the change in behavior of black males, I wish we could have elected a black man earlier, and done it with a conservative.
But this guy has a different bias. He actually believes all the nonsense he was exposed as a child, all the hate he was told, and is taking revenge on america as best as he can with his time in office. He undoubtably thinks he us undoing injustices.
He makes gaffe after gaffe, idiotic policy move after policy move, and they all fail. And he doesn’t understand why. He doesn’t understand why his is unappreciated. He doesn’t understand why they fail.
But you can see it in his face that he expects people to love and appreciate him. He doesn’t understand why we don’t agree with him. He doesn’t UNDERSTAND.
“HE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND”
It’s either that or he’s the most evil person to get into politics since Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin. Because you couldn’t screw up the world more than this if you tried. I didn’t think we could have a president worse than Carter, or more inept at execution than Bush.
But I was wrong.
You know, Clinton was a freaking genius at politics and if he hadn’t been so freaking stupid with feminizing the military, radical conservatives, and his attraction to large breasts, he’d be unassailable. I mean I loved and hated him at the same time.
People underestimate Reagan. He was brilliant. Charismatic, profoundly moral. He read Hayek and applied it. He understood it. He changed the world. He was a perfect high priest of american culture. He was the last high priest of it.
Obama is just another politically approved, symbolic fool put into a administrative job in control of the empire – an empire past its peak, purpose, and utility.
And you can see it on his face as he runs away to play golf to get away from the work load.
KINGS AND QUEENS AND GUILLOTINES
A monarch’s job is to be the high priest of civic culture. THe most envied societies are monarchies. Monarchs must have veto power, and little else. They are the representation of the people’s moral code. And their morality is guaranteed by guillotine. YOu cannot kill a bureaucracy but you can kill a king.
We need to break up the empire. We are now for to twelve different cultures and we need to break into four to twelve different countries.
The only value of the federal government is in the efficiency and power of a combined military force, and the function of an insurer of last resort. It has no value in law. No value in trade. No value in culture. No value in morality. And may in fact produce just the opposite.
Let us see how the northeast and the left coast function with a hostile and conservative farmland between them.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-28 13:04:00 UTC