I suggest here another kind of razor — one which takes into account the likelihoods. If A has the power to do B, and B is desired by A, then why wouldn’t A do B? If B is the most likely outcome of A’s observable drive to power, then what mare’s nest can explain not-B?
Category: Nobody Asked, But
The Way of Change
Voluntaryism, and other well-ordered philosophies, apply from the bottom-up, whereas interventionism intrudes from the top down. Interventionism razes the residual part of town, but voluntaryism causes natural change toward the optimum.
Cognitive Gap
We are receiving cognitive input at the speed of light and sound, from an infinite number of directions. This jam of information, including filters that it must pass through, is constructive, or neutralizing, or destructive.
Ants
I intersected with a passage from Arthur C. Clarke this morning, and I thought I would share the idea. Clarke pointed out that ants have conquered the planet, Earth. They are everywhere, yet the species is no more advanced by the knowledge gained.
No Other Coin But Justice
William Faulkner wrote, in Absalom, Absalom — ” … what conscience to trade with which would have warranted you in the belief that you could have bought immunity … for no other coin but justice?” This reveals to me the greatest failure of the idea of justice — it is incomplete, indelibly so.
Finesse
As my EVC colleague and cyberfriend, Danilo Cuellar said recently on his podcast, “there are no warp zones in the real world.” In my academic world, we called the phenomenon “hand waving.”
Perpetual Youth
I have written recently that my father, who lived nearly to 94, said that he never stopped feeling like a boy — in effect a second-class citizen. I felt that way too up until about 15 years ago, when I began to study voluntaryism.
Twenty-Five Years
“If your doctor told you today, there is a new advancement that makes it possible for me to extend your life expectancy by 25 years — for a reasonable price — all I need is your OK. What would you say?”
Budget-Think
In a world where process is invented as though it were bandages and antiseptic gel, budget-think is the stopgap, short term parent process. As a good, former bureaucrat, I learned long ago to address the shortest term effects with the longest term process.
Fifty-Fifty
The paradigm has to be changed. But we must avoid the old siren song of central planning. We have had enough of trying to control from where maturity and brightness come. We only know that it doesn’t automatically come from old white guys with too much schooling and/or too much money.