Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:
"Don’t socialists love to chant 'seize the means of production' and 'redistribute the wealth' without ever comprehending that they can’t seize or redistribute anything if nobody creates anything to seize and redistribute? Note from libertarians: Those who create things and produce wealth are capitalists! Those who seize and forcibly redistribute are socialists!"
Garry Reed
"The difference in lifestyle between you and someone in Zimbabwe seems as great to Zimbabweans as the difference between the 1% and you seems to you.
By what consistent moral principle are the American 1% to be expropriated, but you are not?
If you earn even $32,400, then you belong to the global 1%.
Why should only the 1% within an arbitrary set of borders be targeted for demonization and redistribution, but not 1% of the whole world?
In other words, when can we expect you to write your check?"
Tom Woods
"Socialism in the U.S. is unlikely. Governments have found it’s much more efficient to simply have the State control capital, as opposed to owning and operating it. It’s so much easier to just take as much as they want of the profits, then blame the capitalists if something goes wrong with delivery of the goods."
Doug Casey
"Discrimination has become a four-letter word.
To have any preference at all, it seems, is to be a bigot.
Noise music, we’re told to believe, is just as good as Mozart.
It’s just a different expression of art.
B.S.
According to Gautama Buddha, the greatest essential human virtue is discrimination.
It is necessary, he said, to progress and to the advancement of civilization.
And, no, not superficial discrimination... judging people by things they can’t control… which the vast majority of people agree is wrong.
I’m talking about discriminating between things that are generative and life-affirming…
And things that suck us into despair, chaos, and suck out our energy.
It’s in our nature.
The body responds to beauty. It opens up. It becomes energized.
And it cringes in the face of senseless chaos. It closes down. It sinks into despair.
If you don’t allow yourself to discriminate, you stop listening to your body… your soul…
Your being."
Chris Campbell
"All government is based solely on hitting and stealing and rationalizing all forms of anti-social behavior and legalizing piracy and plunder and calling it an enterprise for your own good. I always find it hypocritical when the communist can view taxes as just while at the same time ranting about keeping the full product on one’s labor. Go figure."
Bill Buppert
"In my view, the illusion that there is a choice in voting is more dangerous than living in a society where you are told you have no right to vote. At least in the latter situation you are not participating in your own enslavement.
The illusion of choice is a powerful weapon for the elitist class; it gives the populace false hope and a false sense that they have a say in their own futures. This is why it is likely that even in the event that the elites gain the complete totalitarian centralization they ultimately want, they will still allow voting to continue in one form or another, as long as they are certain they can control the outcome."
Brandon Smith
"According to Identity Politics, white people are in charge, but the evidence is to the contrary. There are no quotas for whites in university admissions, hiring, and promotion. It is the allegedly victimized 'preferred minorities' who get to go to the front of the line. There are no hate speech or hate crime protections for whites. Whites can be called every hurtful and offensive name in the book and have no right or power to demand apologies or the firing of the offender. White DNA has been declared to be 'an abomination,' and white people 'shouldn’t exist.' In America today, the way to get ahead is to claim victim-hood. Jews are experts at this, and blacks, women, and illegal immigrants have learned the same trick."
Paul Craig Roberts
"Many Americans admire America for being strong, not for being American. For them America has to be 'the greatest country on Earth' in order to be worthy of their devotion. If it were only the second greatest, or the 19th greatest, or, heaven forbid, “a third-rate power,” it would be virtually worthless… Maybe the poor Finns or Peruvians love their countries too, but heaven knows why — they have so little to be proud of, so few 'reasons'."
Joe Sobran
"When George Washington said 'government is force,' he meant that government is force against its own people.
Since by definition government is force, then it follows that government will use any ruse imaginable to increase its power. Increased use of government force or power could backfire unless skillfully handled and justified in the public mind. Therefore, governments rarely take action unless accompanied by skillful propaganda."
Bob Livingston
"Whether Western Civilization can be considered extinct, in a terminal state, or simply on a downhill course, is subject to differing interpretations. Suffice it to say that our culture is beset by rigor mortis, including its organizational systems; its creative vibrancy is gone; it no longer produces the values necessary for its survival; nor does it continue to meet the expectations of those who have embraced its qualities or purposes in benefitting human beings. Clarity in thought or vision that drives men and women to discover or create ways in which human well-being can be advanced, is being sacrificed to political or ideological ends. The Animal Farm mantra 'four legs good, two legs bad,' has been transformed into divisive slogans such as 'black lives matter,' and an insistence upon a multitude of subdivided gender identities."
Butler Shaffer
"Only with democracy, however, i.e., the free and unrestricted entry into the State, are all moral restraints and inhibitions against the taking of others’ lawful property removed. Everyone is free to indulge in such temptations and propose and promote every conceivable measure of legislation and taxation to gain advantages at other people’s expense. That is, whereas in a natural order everyone is expected to spend his time exclusively on production or consumption, under democratic conditions, increasingly more time is spent instead on politics, i.e., on the advocacy and promotion of activities that are neither productive nor consumptive, but exploitative and parasitic of and on the property of others."
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
"The fact is that there is no difference in principle between religious liberty and educational liberty. Just as people shouldn’t be forced to send their children to church, they shouldn’t be forced to send their children to a state-approved organization for secular education and training. Families have the natural, God-given right to make educational decisions for their children without state interference or meddling, just as they do with respect to religious decisions.
No one should be forced to attend church. By the same token, no one should be force to submit to a state-approved education. For that matter, no one should be forced to fund a state-approved school any more than he should be forced to fund a state-approved church. The state has no more business in education than it does in religion."
Jacob Hornberger
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