I just listened to Episode 1047 of the Tom Woods Show, wherein Tom kicked around the ideas of property rights with Professor Gerard Casey. After listening intently, I’ve come to the notion that property rights cannot be defined in advance of actual cases.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used, Another Devil’s Dictionary #6
Tax Relief — Chump Change. A flea on the back of theft. Theft — Taxation and other scams, schemes, grifts, cons, and endless variations of misappropriation. Promise — That which disappears on or before its delivery date. There may or may not be an actual delivery.
Evolution V — Change of Politics
The definition only mentions dishonesty once, power once, and control once. Yet politics today is dominated by dishonesty about power and control.
Words Poorly Used #120 — Change
You can change a diaper, but it’s still the same baby, just as likely to soil another diaper. You can change a politician, but it’s still the same system, just as likely to take your money and leave you holding another empty promise.
Evolution IV — Elevation of Reason
We should be able to solve most problems, particularly those arising through war, poverty, irrationality, and malfeasance. But the scroll of history shows the contrary. We have little to boast of in any of these areas.
Evolution III — End to Poverty
We cannot say that our species is a positive contribution to evolution as long as poverty exists on a substantial scale. The scale will be substantial as long as we have institutionalized slavery, human trafficking, exploitation, famine, and drought.
Evolution II — End of War
Yesterday I wrote about four signs that would appear if the human species may be evolving in a positive way. Today, I will expand on the first, that there would be a substantial end to war.
Evolution I — Query
What would be counted as successes in the evolution of humans? I have often observed that I regard the human species as a failed experiment in creatures with rational tools. I believe there will be a fork for the better in some future iteration.
The Truth Comes
The truth does not break natural laws to come upon us unforeseen. If the truth is unforeseen, it is because we did not look.
Words Poorly Used #119 — Inherent vs Adherent
When dealing with possible solutions, an inherent flaw would have to be backed all the way back to the origin of the system, while an adherent flaw can be undone only to the inherent flaw that gave it rise.