If you feel like it's a grind, then you can always shift to Rothbard's lecture recordings in which he examines various retarded economic policies and their consequences. He's pretty funny.
Curious though, what other challenging topics are you exploring?
I'm an Indian and Bitcoin, Nostr and freedom tech, Libertarianism and Austrian economics are on my mind 24/7/365
Instagram is huge in India. Like incredibly huge. Think hundreds of millions of people easily over half a billion. Besides multiple organic ecosystems of businesses, freelancers and artists, there's also a lot of political content over there making fun of, memeing and criticising all sides of the political spectrum.
And people speak multiple languages, lot of them with over tens of millions of native and exclusive speakers, so they likely wouldn't understand things in the first place to be able to know what to censor.
They can't censor all of it simply because of the sheer numbers and diversity 😂
Adoption-wise, the ability to make accounts private is a big deal for people like me who aren't public personalities and just want people in my circles alone to see my posts.
Nationalism wants to appropriate what you own for the sake of a group with common cultural roots.
Socialism wants to appropriate what you own for the sake of a group with common income levels.
Monarchy wants to appropriate what you own for the sake of one person.
Etatism wants to appropriate what you own for the sake of one group or entity.
Every system of 'government' we have right now wants to appropriate what you own. They do not and cannot for the sake of survival, like that you own things.
If such entities were indeed the source of order in society, the very least they would do is not steal.
That this is considered a utopian expectation is a great sign of the times we live in.
Reason is a fascinating thing.
You can use it to challenge both traditional conservatism and modern liberalism.
You'll be deemed a utopian romantic by the former and a dogmatic thickhead by the latter when you do so.
It's a position that holds that tradition in and of itself cannot be accepted, and rebellion for the sake of rebellion cannot be accepted as well.
You do not accept whatever has been widely accepted unless Reason permits you to. And you do not seek to challenge what is being widely challenged unless Reason permits you to.
You're not an independent thinker, but a grounded one.
You're not a genius, but a humble student standing on the shoulders of intellectual giants.
Religion becomes exciting.
Economics becomes sound.
Politics becomes realistic.
Morality becomes accessible.
The future becomes undetermined.
The past becomes a teacher.
Society becomes an ally.
Nature becomes an edifice.
Excerpt from Hoppe's 'The Theory of Socialism and Capitalism':
'And in response to the various disincentives to work, and in particular to work in the “officially” controlled economy, there is also a tendency among East Germans to withdraw from public life and to stress the importance of privacy, the family, relatives, and personal friends and connections, significantly exceeding what is seen in the West.'