Nobody asked but … Statists fear that some morning they may wake up in a cold, dreary world, an utopian anarchia like the worlds in The Walking Dead, or Falling Skies, or The Last Ship. Not to fear. Anarchy in a society would at best be a flash in a pan. In fact, all of…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Election Results
Nobody asked but … Every commentator who has any credibility left for a voluntaryist has said literally the same thing. To wit — congratulations, a whole 1/3rd of you voted, congratulations, in very, very rare instances did a winning candidate garner even 20% of the American vote, congratulations, you provided cable news with their periodic…
Anxiety Voluntaryist-Style II
Nobody asked but … The earlier post on this topic may be a legitimate use of Russell’s Teapot. In tomorrow’s column, Verbal Vol will explore the logic fallacy known as Russell’s Teapot in some quarters. I have suggested that we at least consider that this voting question may be an appropriate exception to the illogic. …
Anxiety Voluntaryist-Style
Nobody asked but … I am anxious to see a single example of voting proving to be a solution to any problem. Kilgore
Popular Impression
Nobody asked but … I am watching a vintage film of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, and all of a sudden I encountered in the script the most wonderful exchange — Nanki-Poo: Who says twenty-four hours make a day?Pitti-Sing: There’s a popular impression to that effect. What a wit W. S. Gilbert was! This explains…
Lifeboat Scenaria
Nobody asked but … Voluntaryism is really pretty simple. Let me quote Skyler’s latest column, The Ethics of Voluntaryism — “We who value morality and doing the right thing have an obligation – self-imposed – to find a philosophy compatible with moral living. Voluntaryism is that philosophy.” Here is an answer for those who want…
Words Poorly Used #52 — Minarchism
There are actually at least two kinds of minarchist. The first is the libertarian who sees a small but appropriate role for a little bit of a state. Some people see this as approving of acorns but disliking oaks. I suppose this is through a confusion among the words stasis, meaning an unchanging condition, and…
Human Nature Has a Past, Present, and Future
Nobody asked but … I will grant you that homo sapiens as currently constituted is an unambitious evolutionary experiment in higher order thinking hampered by lower order instinct. The truth that human nature is natural, however, is incomplete. It is also natural to optimize adaptation. It is also natural to aspire to a higher level.…
It’s More Complicated Than That
Nobody asked but … Today, the organization, Police the Police, posted the graphic below on Facebook: along with the caption, “It’s no secret institutionalized racism exists and is prevalent within ‘law’ enforcement. What can we do to stop it?” It’s More Complicated Than That. I would say that economic determinants play a major role here…
Words Poorly Used #51 — Reciprocity
Wow! I was at a discussion group meeting today where the topic was energy independence (another set of words used poorly), where the question was begged, is reciprocity even possible between states? We were discussing whether the US should demand give and take with other oil producing nations. Whenever the word demand is included in…