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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common is their moral exaltation of the anointed above others, who are to have their very different views nullified and superseded by the views of the anointed, imposed via the power of government.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...

The War on Terror is PROVABLY Based on a Lie – Cutting the Fuse Book Summary

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

https://youtu.be/GyF5FTZv3yw (The)…first complete data set of all suicide terrorist attacks around the world from 1980 to 2009…nearly all emerged from communities resisting foreign military occupation… Pape and Feldman 2010, pg. 8 Sources in PDF format: https://odysee.com/@libertariantruther:0/Bin-Laden-Quotes:a Odysee BitChute Spotify Flote Archive Minds

The Only Police Reform That Matters

by Keith Knight | Sep 29, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

This is a partial transcript taken from an episode of the podcast Don't Treat on Anyone, hosted by Keith Knight. You can watch the entire discussion here. Keith Knight: I want to talk about your most recent work, a book called When All Else Fails: the Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, what is the “moral parity thesis”? Jason Brennan: The moral parity thesis is the claim that the conditions under which you are able to resist injustice conducted by a government official even when acting in the capacity of their office are exactly the same as the conditions under which you're allowed to...

Do You Have an Obligation to Obey the Law? – Prof. Michael Huemer, Ph.D.

by Keith Knight | Sep 27, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/guhiKm297DM ... bureaucratic opportunists and unprincipled technicians and would-be technicians find it difficult to engage in any sort of reasoned argument. Argument means principle, and principle is precisely what opportunists are always weak on. ... What bureaucrats and power elites always want is for the opposition to shut up and go away, to obey orders, to accept their assigned tasks. Murray N. Rothbard Libertarian Forum v. 2, p. 970 Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of more than seventy academic articles in...

The Most Powerful Social Influence

by Keith Knight | Sep 25, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/XYoq1FKK5_w ... an opposition or revolutionary movement, or indeed any mass movement from below, cannot be primarily guided by ordinary economic motives. For such a mass movement to form, the masses must be fired up, must be aroused to a rare and uncommon pitch of fervor against the existing system. But for that to happen, the masses must be fired up by ideology. Only ideology, guided either by a new religious conversion or by a passion for justice, can arouse the interest of the masses (in the current jargon, “raise their consciousness”) and lead them out of the morass of...

A Tribute to Great Minds. Thomas E. Woods Jr. & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Sep 22, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/LALiVLMtN2o ... while Ludwig von Mises was acknowledged as one of Europe’s most eminent economists in the 1920s and 30s, the language barrier shut off any recognition of Mises in the Anglo-American world until the mid-1930s; then, just as his business cycle theory was beginning to achieve renown as an explanation for the Great Depression, Mises’s overdue recognition was lost in the hoopla of the Keynesian Revolution. A refugee deprived of his academic or social base in Europe, Mises emigrated to the United States at the mercy of his new-found environment. But while, in the...