Who's running the "Libertarians Posting their L's" account?
Charles is among my favorite living thinkers, so it's odd to see him turn statist in the foxhole of COVID hysteria
His book "Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission" argued for mass disobedience of regulation, and "What It Means To Be A Libertarian" argued for a minimal state
Here he calls for deregulating health care "at all levels of government". I'm not sure how you do that while still having POTUS bully airlines into creating a medical apartheid:
He considers epidemics to be an exception. But what counts as an epidemic?
Surely not a virus whose average victim is 80 years old and obese, and which only raised mortality to levels we all lived through a decade or two ago
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Last summer our local PD had dune buggies that I could *just* outrun at a moderate sprint. Every day they'd chase me down the beach, every day I'd elude them
Red faced, they sprung for a fleet of giant fast expensive ATVs, and I had to stop running
1\ A fair amount of Woke liturgy is correct, but for based reasons that the Woke don't perceive
E.g. the notion that we should stop teaching Western history is correct, but only because you can't appreciate the miracle of the West by studying it directly
2\ For most kids, "history" is a couple of weirdos nailing things to Church doors, followed by more weirdos in silly hats and buckled shoes who enslaved noble savages to grow some crop that nobody alive has ever seen
It all has the feel of a bad oil painting
3\ On the other hand, imagine approaching the West from the other direction, from pre-history and from non-Western modernity
Imagine really internalizing that putrid meat was a staple food in most places until recently:
The magic ritual of lockdown would have fit right in among the Pueblo Indians
Plains Indians Pledge Week was lit:
Coase was right: the initial allocation of resources is irrelevant if transaction costs are small enough to allow unimpeded trade. If necessary, in dog meat:
And especially provocative given how much of cooperation (or morality, if you want to call it that) requires thinking through iterative prisoners' dilemmas (see author's comments about "recursion")