You are assuming that the means and the ends are not the same. But they are the same, they HAVE to be, both for directional improvement and for the ultimate goal of libertarianism. Every iterative improvement towards liberty comes from recognition of the fact that there is no legitimate authority and that one is morally obligated to minimize the initiation of aggression. Once one understands that, every rational thing one does will bring about changes in the right direction, whether big or small.
Years of experience and thinking about this has shown me that. You are dismissing this stuff on whim and "truthy" feelings. Fallacy.
Blind support of democracy without a thoroughly considered and inspected reason for it obfuscates the true nature of the problem and the solution for yourself and those who listen to you, and though you think you are doing this out of pragmatism, you don't actually have a logical reason to believe that it is more beneficial to society to support democracy.
One would be wise not to discard an idea merely because a child would find it attractive. Childish ideas are often the most realistic and untainted.
Nah, anarcho-capitalism is actually more attainable and more sustainable than minarchism.
Lol!
I'd probably define woke as radical inconsistency with a special focus on an external locus of control. More specifically, cultural Marxism and its associated madness.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I feel like venting about it, so lemme break down where my problem with woke gender pseudoscience lies as if speaking to one of its hardcore adherents, and we can all vent together:
I love freedom of expression, and I don't even mind too much if you mess with the language and say "no, gender is subjective; it's defined as the thing you pick for yourself or whatever you think it is." That's all ok to me, personally, and it's also perfectly legal and should be from a libertarian standpoint.
But then you say "no, actually gender self-assignment is the objective determinant of what gender is in all cases for all purposes, and everyone should recognize that this person is what they say they are, else everyone who dissents is clearly objectively incorrect by virtue of having an opinion contradicting the individual in question's opinion." Yeah, ok dumbass. Contradiction in bold defiance of the very nature of subjectivity, but I'll play along. Maybe you can chalk that up to a MAJOR change to the definition of the word (though a very deleterious change to the language) and still remain logically consistent, if we're giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Then you say "we need to force everyone to comply with the language." In 3 steps we're practically at 1984 already.
Then you say "it's not enough for a genderqueer person to believe they are something in particular, but they also have to conform to the stereotype of the gender they pick." Uhmmmm... yeah you just threw away your original premise of individually determined subjective gender identity COMPLETELY. What the fuck is the point at this point?
Oh but there's more??
Then you say, "also all of society has a moral obligation to fund any transformations they may undertake to become more of the appropriate gender stereotype." This coerces those having money stolen from them AS WELL AS some of those who would otherwise have given the procedure a second thought, through price distortion. Many people waste their time and their bodily health pursuing this operation, because it is artificially made cheap and being touted as a panacea.
Then you say, "no wait, children are not in charge of their own gender identity at all; they are what we push them to believe they are, according to our subjective inclination based on foggy mental heuristics! We should 'educate' children about this new pseudoscience immediately and catch them while they're young and easily malleable! It's ok, Jennifer, if you're upset, it's probably because old white men are telling you that you are just a girl. But I can make you more than just a girl. Try my eight week program and see results almost instantly! You have nothing to lose but your entire natural development that was developed through a million years of evolutionary refinement! **nonrefundable - the woke corporatocracy hereby disclaims all responsibility and washes its hands of this experiment on children**"
Wow so now you're contradicting yourself, destroying language, coercing taxpayers, AND coercing children into butchering their bodies before they know what they are doing. You're so compassionate, and sensible, you woke dipshit.
That is woke. It's Marxism. It's an insidiously rapey religious cult, and it has failed every goddamn time it was ever materialized in full, including before Marx and before Adam Smith's unfortunate Calvinist labor theory of value. Murray Rothbard's history of economic thought explains the early Christian communalism (tyrants and criminals wear many masks, none more dangerous than the mask of virtue). That experiment was a statist smorgasborg of rape, theft, murder, and more rape, where neither women nor men were recognized to have any ownership over their bodies whatsoever, while the heads of this unholy city piled up the gold and what little production was made for themselves, and proclaimed the head of all of this to be a god. In the name of this god, under his divine right to make binding decrees, and for the collective good, mandatory rape was the law of the land.
People are so busy listening to the government and corporate lies that they don't listen to their own bodies. Don't eat the #fiatfood, folks. It's poisonous. Eat protein and fat, minus the soybean oil.
#keto #paleodiet #carnivore #lowcarb #highsatiety
Woke insanity is just statist insanity, and that is the status quo, to a large extent.
well, that can happen anyway. but I think they are arbitrarily picking some of the winners.
Honestly, yeah, it's very likely.
Wow, just discovered this short film. I love it!! #Bitcoin
Doesn't want to go through. You might want to get a lightning address next, maybe from Alby or Zeus.
I mean... if they're talking about the government agents then yeah. That's what I'm doing as an American lol
Taoism teaches us that the prosperity of the group depends upon the individual just as the prosperity of the individual depends upon the group. For the group to coerce the individual is a waste of potential, and a grevious harm simultaneously to one and to all.
#taoism #daoism #individualism #voluntarism
Bit of wisdom from #Taoism / #Daoism and #Economics
Pretense, arbitrary decisions, and willful ignorance introduce friction into a market, as these impose information costs on both parties to transactions as well as on would-be transactors who must gather information to make an informed decision, and end up not transacting as a result of incorrect or unavailable data. This reduces the information available to make informed decisions and increases both external and internal costs, which in turn reduces wealth creation and creative experimentation.
This is especially pernicious in a centralized political market, where external costs already fundamentally require far more information to account for than the external costs of private transactions on a decentralized market, since the costs are more universally imposed and the effects of this are beyond the comprehension of most individual actors. It is also the case with any other criminal, liar, or teller of falsehoods: these too increase information costs and result in misdirection of the creative energies of individuals and of society.
Most people don't value learning about things that go against the grain. Most people don't observe the cracks in the seams and think anything of it, until the leak has caused a flood, and even then they fail to diagnose the cause, until the leak has become a gushing, tremendous hemorrhage.
That is why most people don't use #Bitcoin #lightning, #Monero, or the goofy hybrid of the two, #Wownero as currency yet. That is why they defer to popular opinion or to ostensible experts for most political or practical issues, like what the role for government is, or where to store your wealth. They don't care to inspect things deeply, not usually, until they are desperate. That is the job of sensitive, research-driven people and people who have woken up to the truth: to show them the alternatives, to direct their eyes and ears to it. We have to be vocal. We have to find people who can communicate to normies, who understand both perspectives.
Art is always generated. Just usually by people's minds and arms and stuff.