Statues generally were put up by somebody who is not around anymore, and who probably had a way of thinking that is now outmoded. It is not erasing history to either dismantle a monument or just not put one up in the first place.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Markets II
I live in a Kentucky community through which passes US Highway 127. Decades ago, folks who live along this way, from Grayling MI to Chattanooga TN, decided to have one big yard sale, from stem to stern along this road. It is a spectacle!
Cognitive Dissonance
Today I saw a pickup truck that had a front plate that messaged “Don’t Tread on Me!” Then, when he passed I noticed the driver had an American flag decal on his back window. I wondered just who he thought was treading on him, if not the government that has usurped that flag as its avatar.
Markets
A trip to a local food market will tell you more about a geographic spot than I could possibly relate in a blog entry. I love supermarkets, new and used book stalls, flea markets, art galleries, sidewalk vendors, newsstands, tradesperson workplaces, restaurants, fairs, craft shows, auctions, theaters (movie, stage, concert, and opera).
Words Poorly Used #98 — Culture
Throughout the life sciences, “culture” is a flowering, while degradation is a rotting. Why are we using the one word where the other should be?
Charlottesville
The Charlottesville demonstrations got out-of-hand; they were non-peaceable. But is anybody surprised? Part of the baggage of a free republic is that it gets out-of-hand sometimes.
Words Poorly Used #97 — Market Failure
If you see what looks like a market failure, it is, in fact, the failure of a previously attempted market intervention.
Delegation/Relegation
A truth of government is that things are disposed of at the next level down, where the incentive is to lay blame but to preserve the process. This is called relegation.
Intervention
The conditioned citizen, when confronted with a problem, will hasten to ask “how will the government handle this?” The thoughtful individual voluntaryist will ask instead “what is the problem?”
If A Doesn’t Get You, Then B Will
When one argues that of two mutually exclusive cases, one choice is better than the other, it can never be empirically validated. If you can measure one, it is precluding the other, which therefore cannot generate real data.