Philosophy is not enough. Reason tells me that the ancient sages missed the point in naming the highest of human arts. Philos + sophos, love + wisdom; is philosophy just the relationship of love and wisdom? I intuit that both are necessary, but not sufficient. The two in isolation allow for far too much dilettantism.…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #62 — High Definition
In this age of “High Definition,” it is extremely ironic that people engage in voting, “democracy,” and politics, because there is no well-defined product. And even if there is a lumpy, stinking, shadowy by-product such as corruption, what means is there for an individual to withhold consent for this process? To paraphrase Sheldon Richman, if…
Natural Law
Nobody asked but … If there were no natural law, if orderliness mandates human intervention, by force if necessary, then how has the rest of the Universe managed? Even if the Universe is full of sentient beings, demanding order, their efforts are undetectable. Maybe, that is why immorality and amorality hold such popular sway, as…
RE: Profits
Nobody asked but … Government interference in the market is just like daylight savings time. At best it can only create the appearance of change, even if it were a friction free manipulation. Since the government never needs to justify adequately their intervention with a fair evaluation according to Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson —…
RE: Hierarchy II
Nobody asked but … Hierarchy in its self-ordering occurrence in nature is no more ruler-dominated than any other relationship among people, places, things (including relationships), and events (all objects fall into one of these categories). The food chain is an anarchical hierarchy. The trouble is, in part, a failure of language. The root suffix “-archy”…
Words Poorly Used #61 — Consensus
Saturday I was so fortunate as to score a seat next to my cousin at the University of Kentucky men’s basketball season closer against the Florida Gators. It was a privilege to see the Wildcats put the finishing touches on a 31-0 regular season. But I mention this here to make a point about consensus. …
Civilization
Nobody asked but … Kilgore from Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes
Anarchy Is!
Nobody asked but … There is only one miniscule scenario in the universe, that we know of, where there is pushback against anarchy. The very lowest population of mammals on Earth is primates, and only a fraction of them can even conceive of constructed laws. Mammals are the least populace (with the possible exception of…
Rentseeking a la Migrational Purity
Nobody asked but … Let me get this straight. We like paying taxes, we just want to control which rathole the money goes down? We don’t want illegals to get any of the spillage from our graft and corruption system. We want to improve the efficiency of the graft system by insisting that the government…
Rentseeking
Nobody asked but … The first people to seek state assistance are those who have acquired more property than they can handle. So they go rentseeking. The rest of us are stuck with both the state and the tab. The next to seek state assistance are those who don’t even want to manage their self-ownership.…