What sorcery is this essay?
Kevin McFarlane was too critical about Mr. Schwartz; all he says is on point not only for his time but also for today, when you think about it. “Libertarians”, or LINOs, as I will now call those kind of people, are just Potemkin Populists who abuse
the name to cover their whiny rants about “cultural Marxism”, “Antifa” and whatever they associate with Leftism, regardless of whether it's just the practitioners' business and no-one else's or not. Those people disregard the idea of Freedom and Liberty to accelerate the right-
winged populist agenda. I can only recall that one book men like Hoppe already admitted to right a foreword for until the author released the cover for it, bringing up the “Helicopter Ride” meme, overlayed with symbols from Antifa, Feminism, Islam, etc. That's what we see “Liber-
tarianism” called today. It's a shame, a pity, but maybe, we could also use it as an onset to now call the actually Libertarian philosophy Objectivism altogether, thus separating the two branches and harmonise any debate referring to it.
Not only does this show how easily #pressfreedom can be erupted and diminished, but it also shows how crucial a prudent but minimal government is in order to limit the market from becoming a bestial predator: washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/…
We could assume that the NSO group consciously
sold its #PegasusSpyware software to gov'ts with a more than questionable rate on freedom and liberties. Speaking particularly of India, this was far from unknowable, given the recent Freedom House rating: freedomhouse.org/country/india/…
You do not even need to be a politics buff to know
under Narendra Modi (BJP), India's ratio of freedom and liberty has continuously deteriorated. To consequently think that selling spyware software that would inevitably be used to target “the state's 'enemies'” brands you as either dangerously dumb or willfully ignorant. Both at-
I finished Ayn Rand's “The Virtue of Selfishness” the day before and will thus seal this chapter in my reading list firstly. “The Fountainhead” will follow someday else. Attached to this post you see, piled up next to this last book of mine I read, the books of hers I read so far
(Books in the background unrelated)
And because I am not going to share the “essay” on her separately on Blogpost because the Mises one was already one hell of a workload I do not need to experience again. Wait until I am ready to present it to you.
Instead, I will write a
short thread on what I now thing of #AynRand and her #Objectivism, although I do not warrant definitiveness even on my own views. It'll just be a pile of thoughts and opinions.
So, many say that her views are blunt, juvenile, populist, even misanthropic and fascist. Prior to
Just heard another three-way interview on the global #freemarket and it was mind-bogglingly asinine, not only because no “economic representative was invited but also because it was thus so easy to forecast what was going to be said.
I do agree that we need labels to indicate which products were manufactured through child labour, to boost consumers' independence of choice, especially the capability of informed choices. When products are unknown whether they have been produced through child labour or note, how
can I make a choice I can approve of? Of course many apologetics would either say: “Let consumers decide through their purchases whether they want to have more or fewer (or maybe no) labels” or “Tell producers to examine their supply chains and attach labels on their products”.
Kürzlich (gestern) habe ich auch wieder gelesen, dass es noch immer Menschen gibt, die plädieren, dass auch sonntags Geschäfte öffnen dürfen sollten. Diesen Menschen würde ich empfehlen, doch einfach einen Arbeitgeber zu suchen, der ihnen ein Gleitzeitmodell eröffnet, damit sie
auch unter der Woche einkaufen gehen können. Ich sehe keinen Grund, warum dafür mitunter Menschen an ihrem (teilweise) einzigen freien Tag in der Woche zur Arbeit gerufen werden sollten, unter dem Vorwand, dass sie doch entweder etwas Richtiges hätten lernen sollen oder sich
einen neuen job direkt suchen sollten, wenn ihnen eine sieben-Tage-Woche stinke. Wie gesagt, diesen Ball kann man den Bewerben des Sonntagseinkaufs entgegenwerfen: Dasselbe Prinzip, nur auf links gedreht.
Es ist halt die gewisse universelle Albernheit im freiheitlich-ökonomi-
Gestern noch einen recht interessanten Text über die verschiedene Aussprache des NL in den Niederlanden selbst und in Flandern gelesen, dessen stark verkürzte Konklusion mich leider herb enttäuscht hat. (Zitat hierunter)
Zitat: Hout, Roeland & Schutter, Georges & Crom, Erika & Huinck, Wendy & Kloots, Hanne & Velde, H.. (1999). De uitspraak van het Standaard-Nederlands. Variatie en varianten in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Artikelen Van de Derde Sociolinguïstische Conferentie.
Abgesehen davon: Kann mir irgendjemand allgemein bildende Texte zur Frage nach der Phonetik im Niederländischen empfehlen? An sich ist es für einen Deutschen natürlich übersichtlich und nachvollziehbar vom bloßen Zuhören, dennoch wäre es einfach ganz hilfreich. Nicht unbedingt
To think that nullifying the rural states by abolishing the #ElectoralCollege was going to solve anything other than manifesting a liberal leadership for decades (as Trump did by nominating #ACB for #SupremeCourt), is to ignore the consquences of the urban-rural migration. 1/X
As all the jobs like in the great cities, people move to the cities. The first consequence: Cities bloat, ready to implode because space is finite. The only action is to expand outwards, while prices downtown skyrocket. In the meantime, the | 2/X
rural areas decay because there are too few people to hire, while everyone is pilgrimaging to the cities. Without jobs, people seek relief elsewhere, such as in drugs, or otherwise become unemployed or criminal. For most, though, they just turn citywards too, leaving behind | 3/X