The main reason being that political psychopaths recognize no limit on protecting themselves from you. The government is not for you, it is for them, the parasites.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Road Test
Here is a good way to check your latent tendencies on the voluntaryist/interventionist scale.
Teletrouble
I do not tolerate police fund drives, much less those that are conducted by mercenaries (paid fundraisers). In particular, I don’t tolerate fund drives that purport to be for the benefit of some underprivileged set.
Not My President
Those who really care have left the building, they just haven’t abandoned the panacea — voting — yet. They haven’t put 2 and 2 together. The political madhouse has been taken over by the country club set and the crackers and cheese set. How else could a reality show host and a wild-eyed old man from Vermont have stolen the march?
Keeping Score
Remember when POTUS took credit for the commercial airline safety record? POTUS is an instinctive storyteller. The process is called controlling the narrative. It consists of cherry picking the factoids, and to a lesser degree, the facts — or re-arranging the frame.
Memento Mori
Memorial Day has come and gone. Now we can retreat to normal levels of hypocrisy for most of the rest of the year. But we will also have to live with the remorse that arises when we miss out on the better mattress sales.
No Country for Old Men
I’m reading The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness by John Prados. The narrative references a CIA operative who admired Tommy Lee Jones, particularly his character, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, in the movie, No Country for Old Men.
Sundowner
Maybe when we become superannuated, we should have reversed our trajectory a la Benjamin Button. Our competencies are not so easily misperceived when we are wet behind the ears. Although the spirit is still willing, the body becomes weaker everyday … and the spirit begins to follow.
Trial and Error
Almost two months ago, I wrote a blog article in which I felt gratified that my teen granddaughters were experimenting with civil disobedience. They participated in the worldwide climate strike. It is OK if they took the wrong side, because they were right to speak out. Experimenting is good. The worst thing that can happen is that they might favor a wrong philosophy, but never re-examine that decision.
Underwear in a Wad
I don’t even want to hear my opinion on the outcome of the Kentucky Derby, but here it is anyway. There are rules for voluntary participation. And sometimes the rules may be misapplied. But the basic rules of voluntary behavior are 1) end it, and 2) move on. Nobody wants to recontend the Derby, except those who have direct skin in the game.