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The Marginal Non-Hermit
It's kind of fun to poke at the pronoun fetishists, and I thought something up the other day that I haven't seen anyone else suggest.
Give this a watch and tell me what you think. Have you tried this, or thought of it? Is it effective (or perhaps, what effect does it have), or not?
The time to fight mandates is now, not after they've been enacted. Defiance, boycotts, and ridicule are all valid weapons to use against this tyrannical, chilling nonsense.
Links:
5-month boosters
https://www.c-span.org/video/?514292-1/president-biden-meets-israeli-prime-minister-bennett
COVID Hypocrisy Biden
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1352092652729032704
DeBlasio
https://twitter.com/NYCMayorsOffice/status/1344897547370954753
Heritage List of COVID Hypocrisy
https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/public-health/covid-hypocrisy-policymakers-breaking-their-own-rules/
Tom Woods Ep. 1945
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1945-tom-returns-with-right-said-fred-im-too-sexy-on-covid-the-arts-and-the-future/
There are so many horribly inappropriate laws defining punishments for things that aren't crimes. Unfortunately, the state and its propagandists have managed to make the phrase "Jury Nullification" sound crankish to most people.
So we don't use the phrase--not if we can avoid it. In this video, I describe my approach to a jury summons I got several years ago where I managed to promote the spirit of jury nullification (if not the name) to the entire jury pool without (I think) looking too crankish or weird. Since then, I haven't received a single jury summons, and maybe this is why. But if promoting independent thought by juries gets one blacklisted from jury duty, then we may as well make our points on the way out as clearly and sympathetically as possible!
The events of the last few months suggest strongly to me that the goal of the Biden administration is not to leave Afghanistan, but to provoke a response from the Taliban that will be used to justify further military intervention in the region. This video I recorded without notes and without too much planning, so it's a little rough, but I wanted to get it out there.
Stay skeptical of reports and don't let the warmongers convince you they're right.
I hear this nonsense a lot, and it's generally used to paper over horrible things the state does by claiming that the supposition of "democratic control" somehow morally cleanses these actions. So I decided to put together a list of phrases to emphasize how the state is not us, and we are not them.
If you have some good ones, put them in the comments!
Seems kind of obvious as a topic, but I feel like I see it way too much. Some totalitarian will change the definition of a word to suit his or her argument and it often gets overlooked. Or they'll demand a certain word be used or even pronounced a certain way. It's a very common and very effective tactic by tyrants and would-be tyrants.
Don't ignore it--call it out whenever you see it and fight back!
I was watching random videos and the idea for this one flashed into my mind like a bolt of lightning.
I don't want to spoil it. It's short, and if you like the point of view I usually express in my videos, I think you'll like it.
I just finished Scott Horton's new book on the War on Terror and it's an encyclopedic collection of information about all of the horrible foreign policy of the U.S. in the Middle East from 2001 onward, with a bit of additional history from before that for context.
It's a solid book, but the way it's organized will be most effective for people who are already anti-war and need the raw information that Scott is known for.
See my whole review for my thoughts.
Pick it up from any of these links:
https://www.amazon.com/Enough-Already-Time-End-Terrorism/dp/1733647341/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/enough-already-scott-horton/1138638832?ean=2940164809737
https://libertarianinstitute.org/books/enough-already-time-to-end-the-war-on-terrorism/
If you're familiar with Lysander Spooner and you've heard my reading of his "No Treason," you might guess that I'm a far bigger fan of the Declaration of Independence than the Constitution. While there are some good ideas expressed in the Constitution, it has been powerless to prevent our current government from growing to a dangerous size. The Declaration of Independence, however, is a declaration of secession, and, as such, is much more important from the perspective of an anarchist. Like the Constitution, the DoI has a few problems in it, but the basic idea, that a subset of some political organization can choose to dissolve its connections to that organization when their purposes are no longer being served, is extremely important and may be the last hope for peaceful dissolution of the coercive state apparatus.
In this video, I don't read through the whole thing, but I highlight various parts and give my thoughts. Hope you enjoy.
The word "competition" gets thrown around a lot, and anti-market people get a huge benefit from the fact that competition, in plain English, encompasses many more things than it does in economic theory. This difference in definition allows socialists and authoritarians to include all kinds of nasty behavior when they refer to competition, when in economic theory the effects of competition are voluntary and almost entirely positive. So here is my attempt to differentiate between the two and improve the reputation of economic competition.
I heard about a really good article on Lenin and his methods of thought, I think from somebody in the Reason comments. It's called Leninthink, by Gary Saul Morson. In addition to enumerating a bunch of Lenin's most horrible statements and acts, Morson gives a good, clear description of several of Lenin's methods, which is extremely useful for any libery-minded person. Lenin is definitely one of history's most terrible monsters, and this article is a good jumping-off point for further study.
See the article here:
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/10/leninthink
The word "marginal" is in my name, so here's a really nice little article on what it means to think "on the margins," by the great Dr. Robert P. Murphy.
The article is published at https://mises.org/library/what-does-marginality-mean and is covered by a Creative Commons license (which this performance inherits) that allows me to publicly perform it for non-commercial purposes. The license is here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Many corporations these days are poorly-behaved and certainly deserve criticism. However, it is important to remember that much of this bad behavior is due to, or at least exacerbated by, the presence of the state. The ability to use coercive force is a powerful tool that corporations can view as a tool to engineer their gains, and the state itself often seeks to bend otherwise benign corporations to its unscrupulous ends.
Just saw a great video from the LP Mises Caucus, trying to turn the LP into less of a joke and more of a serious contender.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find native links on new tech, so with that caveat:
https://www.facebook.com/GoulashFilms/videos/538229143853502/
-or-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPGjXBFA1Y
(you don't need to be logged in to watch them).
Support the LP Mises Caucus if you can!
https://lpmisescaucus.com/
https://lpmisescaucus.com/take-human-action/
Some thoughts on the concept of Civil Libertarianism, brought about by my reading of a detective story.
Not getting out of Afghanistan on time might have more consequences than a lot of people are talking about. There's a lot of fairly obvious problems on the surface, but if you dig a little bit deeper, things look even worse.
Being anti-war is extremely important. Keynesian idiocy aside, mass murder and destruction are generally unnecessary and counterproductive.
Scott Horton is a good source on the Middle East especially. Check him out at the Libertarian Institute and Anti-war.com.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/
https://antiwar.com/
I've heard this phrase used by people arguing about market economics, especially people I'd call concern trolls. This term seems to be used to explain bad behavior by firms, but as I'll explain here, practically every element of what makes the phenomenon people call "late-stage capitalism" is based on some kind of error in reasoning.
Slight correction: I talk about the evenly rotating economy (ERE) and profits. Conventionally, it is said that there are no profits nor losses in the ERE, but I was a little sloppy and used a definition where some part of wages is called profits. In my example, the shoemaker produces shoes and sells the shoes for more than the factors of production to make exactly enough money to cover his consumption. Technically, this extra money needed to cover his consumption is the wage he pays himself and thus is not technically profit. See discussions about the ERE in Human Action and Man, Economy, and State.
A nice article about a similar topic:
https://mises.org/library/myth-nazi-capitalism
Human Action, by Ludwig von Mises:
https://mises.org/library/human-action-0
Man, Economy, and State, by Murray Rothbard:
https://mises.org/library/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market
Just a quick reading. This is a section from MIses's book "The Anti-capitalistic Mentality," which is one of his shorter ones, published in the mid-50s. Still very applicable today.
Available on the Mises Institute website:
https://mises.org/library/anti-capitalistic-mentality
As the forces of censorship pound on the doors of civilization, the worry that they'll get in someday isn't too crazy, I hope.
But seriously, writers and content producers are under attack from a variety of directions and I have a few thoughts on the topic of keeping good books and other media safe and common.
Because you don't wait for the book burners to knock on your door before you take action against them.
Link to Tom Woods podcast episode referenced (specifically at around 34:15):
https://www.tomwoods.com/1816
I've been hearing a lot of arguments that basically boil down to "Unions are a free-market institution" recently, and the fact is that the unionists in the U.S. aren't telling you the whole story. Labor unions in the U.S. have massive, long-standing state-imposed privileges and in today's video I'll talk about a few of them.
The thing to remember is that whenever someone tells you something is due to the free market, always be sure to look behind the curtain of laws around it.
Links for more info:
Forgotten Facts of American Labor History, by Tom Woods
https://mises.org/library/forgotten-facts-american-labor-history
Paper by Morgan O. Reynolds in J. Libertarian Studies
https://cdn.mises.org/6_3_3_0.pdf
Episode 1019 of the Tom Woods Show:
https://www.tomwoods.com/1019
Somewhat different from my usual economic/political stuff, but I saw this article and observed a sad situation being turned into exactly the wrong lesson.
Victimhood is not a positive.
The Article: https://thewalrus.ca/ocd-is-not-a-joke/
The Ph.D. Video I mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUG1kUoVV2M
Apparently Senator Warren doesn't believe multi-billion dollar corporations should be permitted to heckle her.
I'm here to prove that it doesn't take a big corporation to heckle a sitting senator.
The whole COVID situation has me quite dispirited. It might have been expected that fools and tyrants would capitalize on the opportunity, but I had no idea the rest of humanity would be so willing to march to Hell on their orders.
Here's a little rant I composed about my thoughts regarding this most recent plague (the empowered fools and tyrants, not the virus).
I think the first half is a little rough but the second half is pretty good.
It turns out writing and recording a rant is actually pretty tough. I tried to avoid reading from my notes and had to do quite a bit of editing to cut out all the pauses and mistakes. Maybe I'll make a "making of" video just to talk about that.
Anyway, hope you enjoy.
It's not as funny as I thought it would be, but at least I didn't ramble for five minutes like I did the last time I tried to make this video.
This time I only ramble for three minutes.
Reattempting this upload because it didn't seem to work yesterday...
Just a short video because I realized yesterday that Murray Rothbard's birthday is today, March 2nd!
So I wanted to talk about him and his legacy a little bit and also some good books!
Featured books are:
Betrayal of the American Right https://mises.org/library/betrayal-american-right-0
and
Conceived in Liberty Vol. I-IV https://mises.org/library/conceived-liberty-2
Discussions on economics and (against) politics from a man on the edge of hermitage. I'm an ancap with a penchant for books and thoughtful analysis.
I try to produce a lot of evergreen content rather than focusing on current events, so check out my older videos.
I also frequently guest on the Acolytes of Chaos channel.
https://www.bitchute.com/channel/pQmm4p3CmaWA/