If you speak – if you make any sound, if your existence, you living your life, you merely being or breathing – broadcasts any kind of signal that disturbs the lurking devourers, you get killed. This is speech. This is expression. This is living out loud. This is being your beliefs.
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Let Rich Give Humanity New Frontier
After Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos both went to space — depending on how you define “space” — within days of each other, in rockets built by their respective companies, outrage activists got upset. Were people angry when Henry Ford first rode in a Ford automobile, or when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call?
Obeying Experts is More Dangerous Than Questioning Them
“Expert” implies some kind of institutional expert-conferring apparatus. Such intuitions are subject to Public Choice dynamics. They will always inevitably reward group loyalty and conformity and become cartelized and myopic. Always. Every time. You cannot prevent it with good people or good intentions.
That’s Not Fear
It’s odd how everything related to dislike, or even just a preference that doesn’t include something, has been relabeled as “fear”.
How Science Becomes Religion
My purpose here is not to defend or deny any particular scientific position but to question the model of science that the loudest self-declared believers in science seem to work from. Their model makes science seem almost identical to what they mean by, and attack as, religion. If that’s the case, we ought not to listen to them when they lecture the rest of us about heeding science.
State Governments Are Creating Their Own Drug Cartels
Politicians just don’t learn. People die as police fight drug dealers. Marijuana dealers form gangs and fight among themselves. It’s so stupid. Especially because marijuana is relatively harmless. Finally, some states legalized it, hoping to put an end to the black market. But legalization hasn’t ended the violence.
More in Common Than You Think
Even when we seem to disagree, we have more in common than you might think. I probably want many of the same things you want.
How to Get Around Outrageous Back-to-School Mask Mandates
Mandates are emerging even though children are, thankfully, not at severe risk from the coronavirus.
Tough Minded Optimism
My friend TK Coleman coined the term tough minded optimism a decade or so ago. The idea is to recapture […]
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Why Support Cops?
Why do so many people have blind spots where cops are concerned? Even otherwise liberty-loving people. I don’t get it at all.