Nobody asked but … I share an informed suspicion of the open market. Everything has friction. Statist offers of solution are offerings in the open market of ideas, also having frictions. To me, the crippling friction of government is the combined necessities of making it mandatory, not voluntary, making it arbitrarily applicable in a controlled…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
The Singularity
Nobody asked but … I have very recently been reading The Information: History, Theory, Flood by James Gleick. After having absorbed twice the section on the Turing Machine, the coin has finally dropped after more than a quarter century. I will not attempt to explain the Turing Machine to you, referring instead to a starting…
Voluntary Polycentrism
Nobody asked but … This may take some explaining. I am not an anarchist, but a voluntaryist polycentrist. I feel that people will group spontaneously to meet true needs, and that these groups, to be successful must remain limited to a focused objective — AND must remain voluntary — AND must disband when the need…
Words Poorly Used #72 — Law Enforcement
How might a collective arrive at a perfectly regulated law? Well, it would by whatever decision making process it had devised (let’s say it is a perfect process, discovered somewhat as a blind hog occasionally finds an acorn) to decide on one law. Then assuming that a perfect law requires perfect enforcement, the collective would…
Words Poorly Used #71 — Compromise
Compromise always fails because self-perpetuating institutions always demand a place at the table where compromise is made, squeezing out unaffiliated individual people. Compromise thus is about the status quo and its preservation. Pretending that these institutional tablegrabbers have interests consonant with real people is a deadly form of collective self-deception. — Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #70 — Communication
You know, it occurred to me today that if we (all of us humans) weren’t so poor at communication we would never learn anything new, we would be stuck on the same page all the time. kilgore
Rural Filter
Nobody asked but … Speaking of Plato’s Cave allegory, what if we perceived of reality through country music lyrics? Would tractors and trucks be sex objects? Would we think that the things that happen under the influence are all good? Would we all be unsuccessful at love, particularly when we have reached the so-called objectives…
Who Will Build the Roads?
Nobody Asked But … Isn’t it grand what a fine job the USDOT is doing, together with their little tag-along state DOTs? I am on the road again, exercising my freedom to move about voluntarily. And once again I wonder who will build the roads? I am not asking who will have the existing, outmoded…
Words Poorly Used #69a — Fear, II
You will often hear various people say, “fear is a great motivator.” And that is eminently true. Granted. Let’s look at a great motivator (however misguided), Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR famously spoke, “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed…
Words Poorly Used #69 — Fear
Now I learn today, through Jason Stapleton, that some European politico is playing the Fear Card. I paraphrase, “If this refugee crisis continues it will mean the collapse of the European Union!” My first reaction? Please don’t throw us in that briar patch. There are two basic human tendencies, buried in our genetics, fear leading…