I can point to the beginning of the business cycle and the federal reserve expanding the money supply, and say “look at the state, the state did that.”. I can point to the war profiteers and say, “the state led the war, and war is unprofitable otherwise”. I can point to obscene profits in the banking and oil industries and say, “banks and oil have a special relationship with the state, which is why they can get things at the expense of everyone else”. The anarcho-communist looks at me and goes, “oh great, so now I’m sure, for the sake of co… 続きを読む

One thing that helps me, and can be theraputic, is to take what I call a “4th person view”. There’s first person, which is to view the world from your position, the second person, which is to view the world from your contemporarie’s position, and the third person, the view of an uninvolved contemporary observer. Mario is a third person game. Because there’s mario - the first person, the goomba - the second person, and you play as an observer controlling mario - the third person. A first person game is where you see the game from the point of view of the charact… 続きを読む

Something problematic about this BP stuff is how people assume firms are independent actors or that companies behave in some non-deterministic fashion. BP is a firm. A firm exists to earn profit. BP will do what it must do to earn a profit. This is not designed, commanded, or decreed, but evolved. Firms evolve to best fit their environment, and in an environment where they can buy off government officials to grant them categorical exclusion and then cut corners on safety, they will do so. To blame BP is like blaming a plant for not growing “correctly”, it is retarded. The dep… 続きを読む

I like to read history, and when I saw “Indoctrinate U” I could help but establish a paradigm. Maybe it’s a pattern-seeking mania, but I thought this: The Universities epitomize “institutional thought”. Through license, the state limits entry into television and radio, and so television and radio can be considered the “institutional media”. Almost everyone in the institutional media has gone through the universities. And high academics at universities are in turn often cited by the institutional media. Then there are the lower level education cam… 続きを読む