All the ‘idiotarians‘, Left and Right, both subscribe to the same fallacy: violence is the greatest evil, the state has a monopoly of violence, the USA is the most powerful state, therefore the USA is the home of evil, and all evil events have their roots in USA policy. The idiotarians stand to the responsible anti-statists (such as our host) as the Ku Klux Klan stood to the sensible American patriots. They are what happens when a principled objection to force hardens into a reflexive aversion. They end up condoning the worst crimes a state can commit, provided the state in question is not their own, and if the alternative is inflicting violence themselves.
– Michael Brazier, in a comment on a post at Armed and Dangerous
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February 2nd, 2004 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
 State funding of abortions is, however, a completely different matter. The pro-choicers say it’s a matter of choice. Let it stay that way, then, without forcing people who oppose infanticide to fund it. January 30th, 2004 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
“God made the 20th Century to teach us that the notion that things work better when experts plan them is a fallacy. It’s a pity that a hundred-million or so had to die to illustrate the lesson. But now we got it. Right?” January 29th, 2004 | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)
He’s a shark in wolf’s clothing! (I’d love to tell you the context… but alas I dare not) January 28th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
There are two possible political morals to this. One is, don’t have schools. Children in large groups behave like troops of baboons. The other is, if you are going to have schools, have discipline. January 15th, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
I’m not really all that interested in what Hollywood does with its stuff. I mean, they’re only the size of the porn industry. I think the real revolution is in industrial production. It’s about manipulating factory processes, it’s about mass customization, it’s about a revolution in industry that gets the toxins out of the air and is more efficient by, say, a factor of four than what we had. When that happens we’ll have a genuinely new world. Playing movies off handhelds, that’s not really that big of a deal. – Bruce Sterling, interviewed in Reason. (Link via slashdot). January 6th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
The state is something different from society; it is ultimately the servant not the master of individual human beings; its potential for inflicting horrors remains as great as ever. January 6th, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Give me dusky capitalism over Aryan socialism/fascism any day January 4th, 2004 | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)
“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool’s paradise.” – Winston Churchill, quoted in this review of Ripples of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson December 30th, 2003 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
December 26th, 2003 | 40 comments - (Comments are closed)
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. December 25th, 2003 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
The cost of gathering information determines the size of organizations. December 15th, 2003 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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