tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post7936357669524557028..comments2024-03-28T06:00:18.802-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Shoring up a Dissolving Societybionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-31962494807779675782020-01-20T15:05:29.499-08:002020-01-20T15:05:29.499-08:00Thank you ever so much for the link. Much apprecia...Thank you ever so much for the link. Much appreciated. Mark Stovalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06786242384416215872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-34937336822791874422020-01-20T11:03:06.312-08:002020-01-20T11:03:06.312-08:00Thank you, Mark. C Jay Engel is taking a crack at...Thank you, Mark. C Jay Engel is taking a crack at pulling on this string, via his website and magazine: Bastion. <br /><br />https://www.bastionmagazine.com/<br /><br />Depending on how he develops his thought, it has the possibility of extending the work of Lew Rockwell and the Mises Institute.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-55160885809921777842020-01-19T02:17:21.500-08:002020-01-19T02:17:21.500-08:00Great post, thanks.
I see the younger "right...Great post, thanks.<br /><br />I see the younger "right-wing" dissidents disparage "libertarians" all the time. Some think libertarians are even worse than "boomers". I think it all comes from definitions.<br /><br />For a long, long time around the world there were "liberals". Then the world changed to mean nearly the opposite of what it used to mean. So people said they were "classic liberals" to differentiate. So someone decided "libertarian" meant what "liberal" did in 1800 or thereabouts.<br /><br />But the libertarianism of we Rothbardians is far more to the right than what they are thinking of. We need a good term that shouts --- "I am very right wing and HATE the STATE". But, when you say you hate the state, they think you hate any governance at all. Sad, sad, sad. <br /><br />Keep up the good work. Mark Stovalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06786242384416215872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-43318899312651023342020-01-14T11:13:34.944-08:002020-01-14T11:13:34.944-08:00Fair enough I s'pose. So much is dependent on ...Fair enough I s'pose. So much is dependent on defining terms and using them consistently. In reading Kirk's "Conservative Mind," I'm finding that, if Kirk's characterization of Edmund Burke is accurate, Rothbard's vitriol towards Burke may have been a result of Burke's loose use of the word 'state', which to Burke (again if Kirk is to be believed) meant basically 'society'.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-70767526366130941352020-01-14T10:03:18.293-08:002020-01-14T10:03:18.293-08:00It depends on what you mean by libertarian - becau...It depends on what you mean by libertarian - because to most people I think it is defined otherwise or incompletely. <br /><br />When he writes "open borders, markets, and currency flows" I think he is defining what he means by libertarian which - while it is a subset or a result of libertarianism to many - is certainly not wholly libertarianism. It is also consistent with how many people understand libertarianism, I suspect.<br /><br />Now, I certainly disagree with the idea that "open borders" is libertarian; I also would not agree that what passes for markets today is consistent with the NAP; and currency flows involve fiat currency, but is otherwise a market or trade.<br /><br />But he gave his definition, and I agree that per his definition (and how the mainstream understands the terms) this "libertarianism" represents the economic ethos of the last several decades.<br />bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-7853520711042273352020-01-14T09:19:44.699-08:002020-01-14T09:19:44.699-08:00"It certainly is a reasonable summary of the ..."It certainly is a reasonable summary of the social and economic ethos of the years since World War II"<br /><br />Is it though? I think modern anti-libertarian writers look back on history and give the influence of libertarian thought way too much credit.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-88228603112396263632020-01-14T07:04:21.036-08:002020-01-14T07:04:21.036-08:00“But here is the challenge of our times. When I be...“But here is the challenge of our times. When I became Bishop of Durham in 2003 somebody asked me at the opening press conference to summarize the task facing the church in our day, and I said, perhaps assuming too much, that our task was in prayer and faith to lead the way through postmodernity and out into the as yet undiscovered world of post-postmodernity. . . . Postmodernity, from Nietzsche to Derrida and beyond, has blown the whistle on modernist arrogance, but it can’t stop it in its tracks. . . . We have no idea what to do because the Enlightenment worldview gave us no story, no script, for such a moment. We make things, we sell things, we vote every so often, but WE HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO LOVE. . . . But the good news is that, though there is a long way to go, the gospel of Jesus, once liberated from its cultural captivity, from the exile of ‘private religion’ to which secularism has tried to banish it, has unparalleled power to transform the world. That is why the secularists, not least the eager advocates of atheist scientism, are so keen to keep it out of sight. Our job is to bring it back again. When we really grasp this nettle, we’ll find that its roots go right down to the heart of our present dilemmas.”<br /><br />- NT Wright http://ntwrightpage.com/2016/09/05/wouldnt-you-love-to-know-towards-a-christian-view-of-reality/Natnoreply@blogger.com