The Center for Individualism reports that Hayek’s manifesto on individualism includes, “Individualism treats people equally, but does not try to make them equal.”
Author: Kilgore Forelle
The Long and the Short
I hate to be a grinch amid all this holiday cheer, but there is a hollowness to the self-congratulatory, back-slapping schmooze surrounding the tax package.
Words Poorly Used #125 — Uncanny
In an excellent article, zdnet discusses a resilient fact that confounds the robot mythology — people are creeped out by near misses on mechanical hominids.
Words Poorly Used #124 — Complex
“Complex” is not the antonym for “simple.” Something that is complex can be simply complex or confoundingly complex.
Occam and the Deep State
I suggest here another kind of razor — one which takes into account the likelihoods. If A has the power to do B, and B is desired by A, then why wouldn’t A do B? If B is the most likely outcome of A’s observable drive to power, then what mare’s nest can explain not-B?
The Way of Change
Voluntaryism, and other well-ordered philosophies, apply from the bottom-up, whereas interventionism intrudes from the top down. Interventionism razes the residual part of town, but voluntaryism causes natural change toward the optimum.
Cognitive Gap
We are receiving cognitive input at the speed of light and sound, from an infinite number of directions. This jam of information, including filters that it must pass through, is constructive, or neutralizing, or destructive.
Ants
I intersected with a passage from Arthur C. Clarke this morning, and I thought I would share the idea. Clarke pointed out that ants have conquered the planet, Earth. They are everywhere, yet the species is no more advanced by the knowledge gained.
No Other Coin But Justice
William Faulkner wrote, in Absalom, Absalom — ” … what conscience to trade with which would have warranted you in the belief that you could have bought immunity … for no other coin but justice?” This reveals to me the greatest failure of the idea of justice — it is incomplete, indelibly so.
Finesse
As my EVC colleague and cyberfriend, Danilo Cuellar said recently on his podcast, “there are no warp zones in the real world.” In my academic world, we called the phenomenon “hand waving.”