Nobody asked but … Wait! So you thought you won the Illinois Lottery? Sorry. You will get paid when we decide you will get paid. Are you one of those folks that believes that tributes to the oligarchy are what you pay for the bargain of civilization? Gotcha! Are you one of those minions who…
Category: Nobody Asked, But
Dollars and Dimes
Nobody asked but … Down here in Kentucky, the philosophers among us sometimes use the phrase, “why that’s like a doller waiting on a dime!” This is a colorful restatement of the even older, and folksier, “penny wise and pound foolish.” So here’s why I am referring to this ancient wisdom (I’m sure there must…
Facts
Nobody asked but … If “might” makes “rights,” then they are “privileges” not “rights.” This raises the problem that we have no concrete definition of “rights” in a statist context. I really like Skyler’s idea that might includes reason, which has as much power to create structure as does coercion. I guess I don’t really adhere…
Selfie
Nobody asked but … from my alter ego, Verbal Vol: We can only see what we now see until we devise a way to see something new. Cartesian physics gave way to Newtonian physics which led to relativity and further to probabilistic ideas from quantum physics. Butwe will never know if that which is now…
Fatal Traffic Stop
Nobody asked but … I saw a really good question come out of the recent event wherein a public university LEO (*) shot and killed an unarmed driver after a minor registration stop. How many lives of citizens and LEOs will we continue to expend for government revenue generation? It is interesting to note that…
Libertarian Tradition
Nobody asked but …I could not help but share this link with you. This is the Bob Wenzel Show podcast and the guest is Walter Block. People like Walter, and Lew Rockwell, and Bob Higgs, and Tom Woods are our remaining connections to Murray Rothbard. What I liked so much about this podcast was Walter…
Whadya Know?
Nobody asked but … This past Spring, while I was the organizer of a discussion group on philosophy, a groupmate hit me with a question for which I had an immediate answer. She asked, cordially and sincerely, “what do you know?” My fast response was, “very little.” I have done a great deal of thinking…
Expertocracy / Idiotocracy
Nobody asked but … Carl Sagan Technology Quotes The same can be said for logic, empathy, history, philosophy, spirituality, morality, … voluntaryism. The one thing that a large part of humanity can understand is self-ownership. We all have to be confronted with it. It is inevitable from birth. The better ones of us learn the…
Modern Libertarianism
Nobody asked but … I ran across this in Lew’s intro to Murray Rothbard’s For A New Liberty … … modern libertarianism, a political-ideological system that proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the trappings of left and right and their central plans for how state power should be used. Libertarianism is the radical alternative that says…
Islands
Nobody asked but … BI Southeast BI North Prison islands and kidnapper retreat islands excepted, going to an island is supremely voluntaristic. My wife and I are celebrating Mother’s Day/our 49th Anniversary on Block Island, Rhode Island. Although the range of freedoms we may take are bounded by the sea (until our return ferry sails…