tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post7985015247572707240..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Making an Omelette bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-16788163386317978152018-09-07T23:12:14.582-07:002018-09-07T23:12:14.582-07:00I will read it again, and try to look past the tre...I will read it again, and try to look past the treatment of Mises.<br /><br />Value (and the hierarchy of value) is subjective. Some of mine, I just made quite visible. bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-70507307149821915702018-09-07T20:23:32.283-07:002018-09-07T20:23:32.283-07:00I guess I didn't take it the same way you did....I guess I didn't take it the same way you did. I think part of the reason is I thought the author mixed together what would be described in this blog as liberal and left. He used them as one and the same whereas you show differences.<br /><br />The author writes about the imperial nature of liberalism as being tempered by other impulses. Mises talks about those impulses alluded to and even speaks often about minorities being allowed to secede and govern themselves.<br /><br />The author wasn't fair to Mises in his quotation and I would guess the context of the quote would prove that out.<br /><br />I thought the most interesting thing about the article was a description of the post-millenial pietist spirit of liberalism which is found on the left. Because of my other reading I didn't see it as an attack on Mises. I actually forgot he was quoted.RMBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-33959764498460795222018-09-07T19:33:44.240-07:002018-09-07T19:33:44.240-07:00I found it interesting until I got to the part whe...I found it interesting until I got to the part where Mises was quoted. The only "liberal" quoted in the entire piece, and done in the context of bringing universal liberalism to the world by force.<br /><br />It is through such subtle means that the best of classical liberalism (of which Mises is a shining example) is negated.<br /><br />So while I agree that the article was on point to our discussions in some ways, it is difficult for me to read an unwarranted attack on someone like Mises.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-81691348248352403242018-09-06T07:33:28.817-07:002018-09-06T07:33:28.817-07:00I thought this was an interesting article that was...I thought this was an interesting article that was related in some way to either this article or to the ongoing discussion around freedom, political order and history.<br /><br />https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/liberalism-as-imperialism-dogmatic-utopianism-elites-america-europe/<br />RMBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-49697879679916915942018-08-29T19:43:12.287-07:002018-08-29T19:43:12.287-07:00Yes surree! We're like Australia, except with ...Yes surree! We're like Australia, except with a lot more guns and less spectacular beaches. A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-90729410132454410082018-08-29T12:26:40.880-07:002018-08-29T12:26:40.880-07:00Bwahahahaha. Oh, wait. Was that a compliment?
Tex...Bwahahahaha. Oh, wait. Was that a compliment?<br /><br />Texas, the Australia of N. America.<br />JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-81256465975632610562018-08-29T09:59:24.590-07:002018-08-29T09:59:24.590-07:00Ahhh...that royal, murderous blood gave us the out...Ahhh...that royal, murderous blood gave us the outlaws, criminals, and fugitives that populated the Lone Star state!bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-27873262200961917842018-08-29T09:57:58.152-07:002018-08-29T09:57:58.152-07:00Eric, I'll take decentralization where I can g...Eric, I'll take decentralization where I can get it. If I am going to be oppressed, better if by my neighbor, as I know where to aim!bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-12953262587360456162018-08-29T09:00:35.207-07:002018-08-29T09:00:35.207-07:00As a descendant of Charlamagne, I must object of t...As a descendant of Charlamagne, I must object of the negative way such a magnificent unifier is portrayed. Cannot conmpletely blame Charlamagne for his childrens' failures.<br /><br />All kidding aside BM, you are doing a great work in reviewing significant historical treatises.JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-33772616162299096812018-08-29T07:36:41.103-07:002018-08-29T07:36:41.103-07:00Reading Hülsmann “The Ethics of Money Production”....Reading Hülsmann “The Ethics of Money Production”. It is so chock-full that I am reading the notes fully as well. Related to this article, Pippin the Short was the first to give himself monopoly of coinage. As the new Empire declined, this privilege was sold to underbosses, who also were not scrupulous. Therefore, libertarianism in theory is not a decentralized government-granted license system in practice!Eric Morrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-31972949633831866352018-08-29T06:12:06.709-07:002018-08-29T06:12:06.709-07:00I seem to recall a history class years ago in whic...I seem to recall a history class years ago in which a schematic argument was laid out thus: Under Merovingian law, law was used at the local level by lower level feudal flunkies such as counts, to shake down the peasants. Charlemagne reworked law such that seeking resolution for a dispute became a right of the people - while working out an equitable resolution became an obligation on the part of a learned and aristocratic class - noblesse oblige. Under Charlemagne the embryonic form of the court system emerged. With the collapse of the Carolingian Empire judgeships again became fiscalized. They became a source of wealth. It became the obligation of the people to submit to the authority of the judge and the right of the judge to coerce their submission. People write endlessly about historical figures, about political philosophies, about movements and so on but the history of the judiciary is largely neglected. Its odd because the history of the judiciary is the history of how people actually interact with state power. In fact the post Carolingian judiciary has remained largely intact and unchanged, frozen in place, the same in the America of today as it was in Europe in AD 900. People write endlessly about political metaphysics as if that is where reality plays out while tending to ignore the judiciary, the real, fundamental and actual institution and mechanism of political oppression. Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12985538497409080098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-22609104598108723642018-08-29T05:09:16.746-07:002018-08-29T05:09:16.746-07:00You've been on a roll lately, BM. I'm stil...You've been on a roll lately, BM. I'm still reading the last book you reviewed, and just added this one to the list. Now that I think about it, about half the non fiction books I've read in the last year or so I got from your posts, or from someone's comment.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14010513213569295642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-13938969487300475752018-08-28T12:22:30.480-07:002018-08-28T12:22:30.480-07:00Your recent articles are quite fascinating bionic,...Your recent articles are quite fascinating bionic, I check daily just to see where you'll go next. I'd hoped you'd write more on Charlamagne after the last piece wish granted :)Schueyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04232403843503910978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-3374906676028037792018-08-28T11:01:13.105-07:002018-08-28T11:01:13.105-07:00Historically, these families of Saxons did become ...Historically, these families of Saxons did become Christians after they fled Charlemagne to England. Was that under duress too or through evangelization in Britain?RMBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-40318518332974256342018-08-28T09:48:24.100-07:002018-08-28T09:48:24.100-07:00On the one hand, the Saxons - as much or more than...On the one hand, the Saxons - as much or more than any tribe...I believe - made medieval Europe what is ultimately became.<br /><br />On the other hand, it seems to me that if God is actually "God," He really doesn't need this kind of help - kind of like the evangelicals helping God bring on Armageddon by lusting after Zionist Israel...God can destroy the world (assuming this is the true interpretation) without our help.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-51150015677028685502018-08-28T09:30:22.081-07:002018-08-28T09:30:22.081-07:00It does make you wonder whether there would have b...It does make you wonder whether there would have been a Christendom in the later middle ages, if it weren't for the tyrannical conversions of the pagan Saxons by Charlemagne. I'd like to think there would have been. I would think conversions would work better and last longer if done by convincing rather than coercing.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.com