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Libertarian Economics And Lunar Ice Scarcity

by | Aug 22, 2018 |

This will sound weird, but it has been almost completely confirmed that there is a lot of water ice on the Moon.  So what? Consider the biggest infrastructure elements of an economic system: energy and transportation (followed by the overhead of managing transactions).  Space has unlimited, easy energy in the form of solar power.  What about transportation? A difficulty NASA had in developing a space transportation infrastructure was that any fuel needed to traverse great distances had to be carried with you from Earth.  No, seriously, space travel and habitation isn't that difficult - in a...

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Christian Cold-Warriors’ Faustian Bargain

by | Aug 19, 2018 |

What motivated the legions of bureaucrats in the US Gov during the Cold War?  As a child of the 90s, and former Boy Scout, I can tell you that the answer is incredibly clear in the minds of that generation: defeating evangelical atheism.  I wouldn't discount the notion that in the 50s and 60s, countless immoral acts were rationalized by American bureaucrats on the basis that such acts were necessary to preserve religion. Ironically, the immorality and hypocrisy of the Cold War soured the milk of America's moral teet for her children. The Red Army didn't turn America's next generations into...

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The 2d Amendment Isn’t There To Protect You From Gov

by | Aug 18, 2018 |

The gun rights discussion often misses a point, which I feel is the most important.  Government isn't the only entity in society that can threaten people's safety with violence.  The Second Amendment exists to give people the means to protect themselves from the spectrum of threats to personal safety. The idea is that a person doesn't have to depend on government to protect themselves.  Imagine what would happen if you had to rely on government when a lynch mob showed up, and the cops chose not to come? That's the purpose of the Second Amendment. Rights aren't just about protecting people...

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What Finally Brought America To Its Knees

by | Aug 8, 2018 |

Imagine a toothless granpa talkin' to kids 'round a fire: "Boys and girls now listen.  America was a tough country.  England, the most powerful empire on Earth sent all its armies and navies against us, but we beat 'em back.  When the civil war happened, brother fought brother and thousands died, but the nation held together.  And when Hitler took over, well, we whupped him by giving our blood and guts at Normandy.  But then, bygum, Russia sent teenagers to post taunts on Facebook, and that finally did us in.  If only we'd have put those restrictions on the internet."

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America’s Curse Is Calvinism, But Its Hope Lies With Renegades

America’s Curse Is Calvinism, But Its Hope Lies With Renegades

by | Aug 7, 2018 | ,

One issue which motivates me substantially is war. War serves the powerful, and the powerful use ideas and norms to enlist the public in their preferred causes. I firmly believe that independent thought, and democratized moral reasoning, is completely essential in preventing war. America used to be a place where free thought helped suppress possible wars, but the powerful have changed how we think. To suppress what's good about American morality, the powerful have exploited the parts which are bad. America is the best, and the worst the world has. If we could only free the good parts from...

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Alex Jones Banned

by | Aug 6, 2018 |

Alex Jones was banned on YouTube, Facebook, Apple, etc. I have two questions: 1) How does it work out that he was banned all on the same day?  Do these companies share a censorship office?  Is banning Jones a political statement which they coordinated?  Think about that, hm. 2) Anyone who says it's good to kill and die for America, you know because of freedom of speech, remember to look closer at how censorship is subtly imposed in America.  Why is Jones banned now, after all these years?  He helped get the wrong people elected, and hey midterms are coming up. Elections are free in America. ...

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Neocons Suck

by | Jul 26, 2018 |

I just finished listening to Scott's interview with David P. Goldman.  Man, the zionist/neocon worldview is such a mess! What I noticed about Goldman was the border between his worldview and Scott's.  Both pushed each other to that border, thankfully.  It was a good and amicable discussion, and both participants were widely read and thoughtful.  Probably, Goldman is sincere. However, Goldman stuck up on two issues.  He hit a wall, and he couldn't cross it.  These walls, incidentally, are where his ideological perspective stands or falls. On Israel, Goldman kept repeating that Arafat never...

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Fool's Errand – A Late Review

by | Jul 2, 2018 | ,

When Scott Horton first published Fool’s Errand, I immediate bought and read about three quarters of it.  Then I stalled.  My excitement for this wonderful book soared, and I remember reading it so enthusiastically that I brought it with me into the wilds of an Oregon national forest, during the 2017 solar eclipse.  That enthusiasm didn’t last, and not because it's a bad book.  The problem with Fool’s Errand is that it’s too good. The challenge Fool’s Errand presented to me has an analogue in how the book was received among my close friends and family, as I bought copies for, and recommended...

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