tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post6340456565126270324..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Libertarian Spectrum and Governmentbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-44365258376785666592013-10-29T20:43:55.126-07:002013-10-29T20:43:55.126-07:00Good suggestion...I'll add it to the queue.Good suggestion...I'll add it to the queue. Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13561894838778546876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-69454950746630029212013-10-29T09:10:17.539-07:002013-10-29T09:10:17.539-07:00You may want to ask him about "evictionism.&q...You may want to ask him about "evictionism." It is one area where I disagree with him, and on his terms (not moral, but contractual). bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-20250647139799543062013-10-29T08:55:04.949-07:002013-10-29T08:55:04.949-07:00I'll be speaking with Dr. Block for the podcas...I'll be speaking with Dr. Block for the podcast this week. This article serves as a good primer - posting on Lions.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13561894838778546876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-52737777600108366712013-10-27T17:19:01.525-07:002013-10-27T17:19:01.525-07:00Thank you, RickThank you, Rickbionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-90397768288582173592013-10-27T14:29:55.277-07:002013-10-27T14:29:55.277-07:00Skeeter-
You are ROCKING it! I am so glad that yo...Skeeter-<br /><br />You are ROCKING it! I am so glad that your voice is getting more exposure at LRC and ECONOMICPOLICYJOURNAL.COM! Great article. RDF2https://www.blogger.com/profile/14340534647561133098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-51748516085229354222013-10-26T17:35:30.306-07:002013-10-26T17:35:30.306-07:00Very good. Thank you for these comments. Very good. Thank you for these comments. bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-15147182989380973172013-10-26T11:48:35.384-07:002013-10-26T11:48:35.384-07:00l could not agree more. Nock said it perfectly in ...l could not agree more. Nock said it perfectly in his "Our Enemy, The State", as found here at Lew Rockwell.com (this book set me straight on much that was confounding and confusing me)...<br /><br />http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig3/nock1.html<br /><br /><br />Clearly, then, we have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.<br /><br />Mr. Jefferson, for example, remarked that the hunting tribes of Indians, with which he had a good deal to do in his early days, had a highly organized and admirable social order, but were "without government". Commenting on this, he wrote Madison that "it is a problem not clear in my mind that [this] condition is not the best," but he suspected that it was "inconsistent with any great degree of population".<br /><br />--snip --<br /><br />Paine's theory of government agrees exactly with the theory set forth by Mr. Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. The doctrine of natural rights, which is explicit in the Declaration, is implicit in Common Sense; and Paine's view of the "design and end of government" is precisely the Declaration's view, that "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men"; and further, Paine's view of the origin of government is that it "derives its just powers from the consent of the governed." Now, if we apply Paine's formulas or the Declaration's formulas, it is abundantly clear that the Virginian Indians had government; Mr. Jefferson's own observations show that they had it. Their political organization, simple as it was, answered its purpose. Their code-apparatus sufficed for assuring freedom and security to the individual, and for dealing with such trespasses as in that state of society the individual might encounter – fraud, theft, assault, adultery, murder. <br /><br />--snip --<br /><br />Assuredly, if the language of the Declaration amounts to anything, all these peoples had government; and all these reporters make it appear as a government quite competent to its purpose.<br /><br />Therefore when Mr. Jefferson says his Indians were "without government," he must be taken to mean that they did not have a type of government like the one he knew; and when Schoolcraft and Spencer speak of "regular" and "definite" government, their qualifying words must be taken in the same way. This type of government, nevertheless, has always existed and still exists, answering perfectly to Paine's formulas and the Declaration's formulas; though it is a type which we also, most of us, have seldom had the chance to observe. It may not be put down as the mark of an inferior race, for institutional simplicity is in itself by no means a mark of backwardness or inferiority; and it has been sufficiently shown that in certain essential respects the peoples who have this type of government are, by comparison, in a position to say a good deal for themselves on the score of a civilized character. Mr. Jefferson's own testimony on this point is worth notice, and so is Parkman's. This type, however, even though documented by the Declaration, is fundamentally so different from the type that has always prevailed in history, and is still prevailing in the world at the moment, that for the sake of clearness the two types should be set apart by name, as they are by nature. They are so different in theory that drawing a sharp distinction between them is now probably the most important duty that civilization owes to its own safety. Hence it is by no means either an arbitrary or academic proceeding to give the one type the name of government, and to call the second type simply the State. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com