Keith Knight | The Libertarian Institute

Natural Resources Make Countries Rich – DEBUNKED

by Keith Knight | Oct 29, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/NUjIIBjxQAE Indeed, even the capacity to discover natural resources depends upon institutions; countries with market-oriented institutions are far better at discovering their natural resources than countries with non-market institutions. Jason Brennan, Ph.D., Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich (2021, Routledge) p. 115 Jason Brennan, Ph.D., is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of 14 books, including In Defense of Openness (2018)...

Imperialism Made the West Rich – DEBUNKED

by Keith Knight | Oct 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/COc7hvB8TpE ...nations are made up of different people with different levels of power and different interests. The benefits of the empire-building were concentrated among the politically well-connected few, such as weapons makers, certain monopoly trade companies, the military, and the kings and queens. The costs—which exceeded the benefits—were in turn passed onto and spread among the helpless, hapless many, among the taxpayers forced to pay for the wars, the conscripts forced to fight and die, and the consumers forced to pay what were in many cases artificially high...

How Not to Suck at Life. Connor Boyack & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Oct 24, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/oCOCTSu82no In a nutshell, people who are scared are more easily controlled. We can be manipulated by those who want power over us if we’re worried and they have a supposed solution to our perceived problems. Connor Boyack, How Not to Suck at Life: 89 Tips for Teens (2021) p. 91 Connor Boyack is president of Libertas Institute, a public policy think tank in Utah. Book discussed: How Not to Suck at Life: 89 Tips for Teens Odysee BitChute Spotify Minds Flote Archive

Democratic Socialists STILL Believe This Debunked Conspiracy Theory! | Thomas Sowell

by Keith Knight | Oct 23, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/CNKHDifCOc0 The only viable definition of monopoly is a grant of privilege from the government. It therefore becomes quite clear that it is impossible for the government to decrease monopoly by passing punitive laws. Th e only way for the government to decrease monopoly, if that is the desideratum, is to remove its own monopoly grants. The antitrust laws, therefore, do not in the least “diminish monopoly.” What they do accomplish is to impose a continual, capricious harassment of efficient business enterprise. Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market,...

DEBATE: Libertarian v. NeoConservative on Foreign Policy

by Keith Knight | Oct 15, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/D01d0j9rLkg It has often been said that war is the health of the State – but the argument could also be made that the reverse is more true: that the State is the health of war. In other words, that war – the greatest of all human evils – is impossible without the State. Practical Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux, p. 61 Odysee BitChute Flote Minds Spotify Archive

A Tribute to Great Minds – Walter Block, Ph.D.

by Keith Knight | Oct 12, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/f7q_dNJoaw4 The egalitarian revolt against biological reality, as significant as it is, is only a subset of a deeper revolt: against the ontological structure of reality itself, against the “very organization of nature”; against the universe as such. At the heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise of human will — in short, that reality can be instantly transformed by the mere wish or whim of human beings....

The Most Despicable Profession – Michael Huemer, Ph.D.

by Keith Knight | Oct 8, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/vrzreDsVgMI Excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Credulity Humans are born credulous – we instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no corroboration. We are especially credulous about statistics or other information that sounds like objective facts. Unfortunately, we are not so scrupulous when it comes to accurately and non-misleadingly reporting facts. There is an enormous amount of disinformation in the world, particularly about politics and other matters of public interest. If the public...

Thomas Sowell | The Government Propaganda Formula

by Keith Knight | Oct 3, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/shCHqEaE6J4 What all these moral crusades have in common is their moral exaltation of the anointed above others, who are to have their very different views nullified and superseded by the views of the anointed, imposed via the power of government. Despite the great variety of issues in a series of crusading movements among the intelligentsia during the twentieth century, several key elements have been common to most of them: Assertions of a great danger to the whole of society, a danger to which the masses of people are oblivious. An urgent need for action to avert impending...