2009 was an eventful year for me. I have been planning, for some time, to write this post to recap some of what happened, and what the outlook for 2010 looks like, with me and with NoTreason.com
Coming into 2009, I was blogging semi-regularly at NoTreason, participating at the Mises Community forums and generally trying to educate myself as much as possible on libertarian and market anarchist theory, while working on my own projects of entrepreneurship.
Since that time, I’ve had to trim back some of the time I had been using for debate and education as a matter of necessity and sanity. Necessity that I should maximize my productive capacity during this lull in the economic storm, and sanity, to get away from petty and self-indulgent arguments which can be soul sapping.
Continue reading 2009 in Retrospect
I am so turned off on watching violence, but this one sequence of dialog from Rambo 4 sums up how I feel half of the time.
“There isn’t one of us that doesn’t wanna be someplace else. But this is what we do, this is who we are. Live for nothing, or die for something.”
Here is another good one, this time from Aaron Russo,
“You have to stand up for what is right in life, unless you do that, you’re a nothing.”
I believe that the calling of everyone with a conscience, is to leave the world better than they found it. YMMV
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This post was originally made at Praxeology.net, as part of a “To Paul or not to Paul” series about Ron Paul. I think it’s interesting that 18 months ago, Rod Long defined his position as such (emphasis mine),
I don’t support Ron Paul’s candidacy, then, because my own talents, proclivities, and commitments lie with the Agorist and left-libertarian projects, and I value the promotion of those projects over the short-term benefits that Paul’s candidacy might gain at the expense of those projects. But I can’t see that this preference is compulsory for everybody. Even if every libertarian ought to be an Agorist and a cultural lefty (and so they ought! – there are limits to my Aristotelean pluralism), it seems to me that it does not follow that every libertarian ought to make the trade-off between those long-run projects and the possible short-run gains from Paul’s candidacy the same way I do.
I’m all for people changing their mind or revising their assessments, but in light of Rod Long declaring that he will run for the LP Chair in Alabama, I can’t help wondering if he no longer values agorist and left-libertarian projects over politics.
A shift in time preference may be afoot. Perhaps the left-libertarian capital stock has been depleted, and long term projects have to be abandoned by the master builder.
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This article originally appeared in Liberty, Volume 3 Number 4 (March 1990), pp. 11–12.
The Lomasky review is an interesting example of what is getting to be a fairly common phenomenon: Hoppephobia. Although he is an amiable man personally, Hoppe’s written work seems to have the remarkable capacity to send some readers up the wall, blood pressure soaring, muttering and chewing the carpet. It is not impolite attacks on critics that does it. Perhaps the answer is Hoppe’s logical and deductive mode of thought and writing, demonstrating the truth of his propositions and showing that those who differ are often trapped in self-contradiction and self-refutation.
Hoppe is my hero in this regard. It’s great to win a debate on the merit of your ideas, on the clarity of your argument, and the sincerity of your values. But it is also fun to watch your counterpart disqualify himself as he resorts to ad hominem and lies while you avoid getting dirty, and don’t break a sweat.
h/t Stephan Kinsella
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