To a voluntaryist, “settled” means voluntarily agreed upon among individuals. In the running arguments of today, in the vernacular of statists, it means a formal or informal recognition among statists, that an institutional goal is greater than voluntary agreements among individuals. Example, “settled science.” We too frequently hear that there is a consensus among scientists…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Systems
Nobody asked but … 26 Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence It all comes back down to you. You must originate, develop, operate and maintain your existence, all of your principles, your moral codes, your ethics, your education. Everything in the universe is a unique sub-system, somewhat alike to other things of its…
Words Poorly Used #59 — Flat Tax
The other day I was in a debate with an American war fanatic/statist. He posted a meme criticizing the IRS, soon after raising hosannas to the military might of ‘Murcah. It seems that jingoists have this peculiar structure of the brain where they hate taxes but at the same time want to be the ruler…
Words Poorly Used #58 — Achieving Anarchy
I do have a hangup with the idea contained in ” … should anarchism ever be achieved … ,” which I believe mischaracterizes the goals of the libertarian, anarchist, voluntaryist. My goal is to be left free from the state.I agree that general anarchy would be a dangerous affair, but I see no evidence that…
Voluntaryism II
Nobody asked but … In any dimension (and there are uncountable instances of them), there is always a clear separateness of any two entities. There is a marker where I stop and you begin. The marker is, in most practical senses, easy to observe. If you and I are standing in a room, within physical…
Voluntaryism
Nobody asked but … Actually, many people do ask, “You call yourself a voluntaryist, so what does that mean?” Good question, and the answer bears repeating! All human interactions should be voluntary — I will take no actions that I do not do willingly, nor will I coerce another to take such actions unwillingly. The…
Dead Air
Nobody asked but … There is a hole in my Dish satellite program matrix. Fox News is gone, and the dead air is more informative than what was there before. Now, if Dish would only get rid of the rest of the cable news channels … kilgore
Words Poorly Used #57 — Media
Before we started calling newsmongers by the convenient word, “media,” we called some of them “the press” and some “broadcasters,” implying that the method of delivery was the essence And they used to quarrel among themselves as to whom had a legitimate claim on the profession of journalism and to whom the label of “reporter”…
Words Poorly Used #56 — First Amendment
The First Amendment is being whipped from pillar to post again. To be sure, there is a guy who, through posting four words on the Internet, is now mouldering away in our “justice” system, while John Yoo act-alikes contravene his First Amendment claim. But that is not my major concern (not a minor one either). …
Words Poorly Used #55 — Majority
The majority hardly ever carries the day. Let’s take The USA’s torture program — there is a thing that should never exist but for an extremely small minority of government functionaries, in collusion, supported by a very small but vocal crowd of immediate gratification seekers in the populace. The thing gets off the ground before…