Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:
"The Opposition Media ignores the fact that citizen parents are held to a higher standard than illegal parents. For that matter, Walmart shoplifters are held to a higher standard. The first action the police take after arresting the parent is to separate the children.
None of the OpMedia, leftist politicians or spineless Republicans ever ask the obvious question: What kind of parent lets their child travel hundreds of miles with strangers? What parent brings the kids along when they break the law? And how is society served by leaving children with abusive or criminally stupid parents?"
Michael Shannon
"Our lizard brains see the world in black and white. It’s either going to kill us or feed us and there’s no in between.
But life is so much more vast and varied.
We’ve already destroyed 95% of the jobs multiple times in history and we’re about to do it again.
Each and every time those jobs were replaced by a wealth of new jobs and opportunities.
Life progresses in stages."
Daniel Jeffries
"Historically division of labor originates in two facts of nature: the inequality of human abilities and the variety of the external conditions of human life on the earth. These two facts are really one: the diversity of Nature, which does not repeat itself but creates the universe in infinite, inexhaustible variety. ...
These two conditions … are indeed such as almost to force the division of labor on mankind. Old and young, men and women cooperate by making appropriate use of their various abilities. Here also is the germ of the geographical division of labor; man goes to the hunt and woman to the spring to fetch water. Had the strength and abilities of all individuals and the external conditions of production been everywhere equal the idea of division of labor could never have arisen. … No social life could have arisen among men of equal natural capacity in a world which was geographically uniform."
Ludwig von Mises
"Critics of libertarians like to ridicule us for taking seriously our beliefs: the 'absolute' sanctity of the individual, the right to live free of another’s rule, and the principle of self-ownership. But there is a belief system implicit in that ridicule, and it is an insidious one. For if the belief that no-one may rule over another is laughable, then what is the contradictory belief that is not?"
Bretigne Shaffer
"The people who use propaganda to persuade the populace against their best interests create myths and sell them as benefits.
And how do they accomplish this right under our noses, you might ask? The answer to that question, dear reader, is the reason why the elites want to control the Internet and shut down alternative media.
The esoteric purpose of propaganda is to extract wealth and labor illegally as concealed involuntary servitude. This truth is in plain sight for those who seek it. And the truth is that while some people are mildly alarmed, few would ever suspect the progression pattern and how propaganda finally evolves into law.
By the time laws are enacted, the people will have been prepared to accept them as desirable and 'for the good of the country' and the community by the politicians and the mass media."
Bob Livingston
"Neither the United States nor the European Union are so free of protectionist 'sin' to cast retaliatory tariff stones at the other. In addition, the harm to all that would result from trade wars means that neither America nor the Europeans should throw the next punch at the other. Each should lower their interventionist fists, and open their hands in market peace and economic friendship by simply doing away with their, respective, existing trade barriers currently in place and allow, instead, for their citizens to freely trade with whomever they desire on the competitive terms they mutually find beneficial."
Richard Ebeling
"Freedom to trade—the freedom to exchange goods and services openly with others—is as fundamental to human well-being as any right guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. Indeed, the freedom to trade is the foundation of America’s modern economic system that provides historically unprecedented opportunities for individuals to achieve greater economic freedom and prosperity.
In a free market, there is no right to a job. There is no right to work. There is no right to another person's wallet. There is no right to tell somebody else what the terms of exchange must be.
Nobody has a right to a job in a free society. This is because nobody has a right to compel somebody else to accept his offer. The company does not own the job; the employee does not own the job. The job is a word that we give to a continuing exchange relationship. This relationship can end at any time unless a contract says otherwise.
There is no right to work. There is only a right to make a bid."
Gary North
"What I imagine and want to see is an emergent system in which as much as possible is privatized, on the basis of both moral and pragmatic understanding. Experience accumulates and we wean ourselves away from state dependency and thinking of the state as a solution to problems. We would be so far ahead of any other country that they couldn’t possibly think of attacking us. The primitives would be left in the dust. The primitives outside this country cannot be defeated by us becoming more like them. We have a growth of primitives within this country too, and they need to grow out of it."
Michael Rozeff
"Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success."
Mark Skousen
"Every form of paternalism, from the most restrictive to the least, from leftwing democratic socialism to rightwing mixed-economy capitalism, is nothing less than paternalism—some adults forcibly treating other adults like children."
Gary Reed
"This is a country supposedly on ‘orange alert'.Over half of the illegal aliens present broke into a country on orange alert - that is to say, they’ve come here since 9-11.
Americans shuffle like a bovine herd through security that demands to know the consistency of their pumpkin pie if they’re flying home to Thanksgiving from New York to Cleveland, but the rest of the world is entitled to walk across the Rio Grande if they happen to have a little moppet in tow with them.
Right now Americans are living on orange alert if they make a domestic flight, but their borders are open - you’re the chumps of the planet for going along with it. We’re bifurcating into a society where the law-abiding are subject to evermore onerous constraints, while the avowedly lawless are somehow venerated and fetishized."
Mark Steyn
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