After a certain point, most things simply can’t be forgotten. This is the knife that cuts both ways. Ignorance can be bliss. With knowledge comes sadness, as well as power. Would you want to know of all the suffering that goes on, even if you couldn’t do anything about it? What would be the point? … [Read more…]
Roads need only be a monopoly if you can’t think outside the box. What is a road really? It can be thought of as property used for travel. There is nothing about it that says it has to be above ground, or even on the ground. Roads run by a monopoly government are unsafe and … [Read more…]
Is the absence of something the same as failing at it? One really can’t claim that government can be efficient at a task. There simply are not the incentives for productivity and resourcefulness like there are for individuals in the free market. The real question is whether not doing something is worse than restricting it … [Read more…]
The mind of an individual can be harnessed by government through mandatory schooling to conform to the will of people in power and to reject out-of-hand the idea of a stateless society. The task at hand is not removing power structures themselves, but illuminating the hazard caused by the power structures. Help people understand the … [Read more…]
It has been said that accepting something not rightfully yours is theft. The problem with this simple is determining when something is rightfully yours. If someone loses something for 10 years and you find it, is it rightfully yours? What if they die? Ownership is a trickier subject than is usually realized. The best solution … [Read more…]
Get things done, one small step at a time. If the hurdle is motivation, you should cleanly organize a plan of action and implement it, starting now. Achieving great things is rarely made of one large step. It is many, many small steps done on a regular basis. How does this apply to the advancement … [Read more…]
The time to set up a free society is now. Unfortunately there is very little space left in the world for this to happen, so it seems we are stuck choosing certain attributes of an area, such as population size and relative size of the government, in determining where to go. There is a place … [Read more…]
Complaining about others working toward freedom in unorthodox ways is nothing new. People started new countries to get away from past governments, and this will likely happen again. However complaining accomplishes very little in the way of real change. Actually doing something to improve the situation is much appreciated. For instance, some hate on the … [Read more…]
The idea of a government being pro-liberty is strikingly absurd in the current environment. Perhaps the definition of government could be redefined, from a monopoly on force, to a provider of security. A “state” would be a monopoly on force, and “government” would be more general and mean any organization that governed the violators of … [Read more…]
The value of giving a gift is not merely the price you could get from selling it. There is also value gained by the giver and recipient in the form of good will. Gifting, while not normally seen as a capitalistic act, is definitely part of the voluntary market. Whenever two people exchange things of … [Read more…]