You can change a diaper, but it’s still the same baby, just as likely to soil another diaper. You can change a politician, but it’s still the same system, just as likely to take your money and leave you holding another empty promise.
Tag: government
Humans Have Rights
Those who claim to believe rights vary depending on the rights government recognizes are confused about what rights are.
Which Forms of Government “Work”?
The unkind truth is that government– attempting to govern anyone but yourself– doesn’t work. The reason being that statism, the fundamental belief which leads to the attempt to govern others, doesn’t work. Unless your goal is slavery, death, and destruction, in which case, they all work just fine.
Finite and Infinite Games for Liberty
If you care about human freedom, you might be playing the game of “abolish the state/this or that state agency.” After all, the collective framework we call the state is most responsible for the abuse of power in the world today. This is the game most people on the libertarian spectrum have chosen for a life end. As noble as this cause is, it suffers from the drawbacks of all finite games.
Liberty, Democracy, and the Right
I am mystified by the claim that the long-standing libertarian critique of democracy furnishes aid and comfort to conservatives who display a taste for populist authoritarianism.
The Spooner Rule
I could write on for pages without end about the present state of the ‘Net, and its so-called neutrality. But I would start by saying I am throttled for half of every metering period because I have to get the Internet by satellite in my rural getaway, and the current net neutrality rules are blamed, for the throttling, by my ISP.
Consent of the Governed, Revisited
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.” This sounds good, especially if one doesn’t think about it very hard or very long, but the harder and longer one thinks about it, the more problematic it becomes.
Net Neutrality Will Neuter The Net
Rather than letting market forces incentivize innovation, net-neutrality supporters are advocating that the state step in and force the internet to maintain a status quo that the market, in response to the increasingly high demand for a scarce resource, may or may not want to keep.
Impatience
It is understandable to be impatient with organizations such as the American Cancer Society, since they have been talking about getting rid of a disease for over half a century.
Freedom or State?
Freedom produces creativity. The state stifles creativity. Freedom has elements of want, need, and ambition. The state rewards greed.