Showing posts with label Classical Liberalism Protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classical Liberalism Protection. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Secession Is Really Just Subsidiarity.

Balance and harmony and reciprocity are all part of the natural order. Subsidiarity is the reciprocal of federation and both are necessary for the advancement of civilization.

Federation is beneficial but when it is allowed to go beyond the bounds of moderation it is nothing but centralization which is obviously a movement towards tyranny.The rising cries for secession from the tyranny of centralization are really just the equilibrium forces at work, the appearance of moderating forces to move the order of things towards balance and harmony.

These are the early stages necessary for freedom of thought and the subsequent evolution and maturation of ethics. One of the great outcomes of ethical development will be the recognition that the ideology of statism is harmful to human civilization. 

When this arbitrary and ego-driven approach is finally relegated to the dustheap of fallacious doctrines it will be seen what wonders are possible for an unshackled humanity. The philosophy of classical liberalism provides the theoretical proof that there is not a void left behind when the State is dissolved but rather it is like a bird released from its cage.

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Classical Liberalism In The Modern Age.

A person, man or woman, who espouses the classical liberalism tradition and therefore considers himself or herself a classical liberal has the following views:

  • Human beings are understood as subjective, 
  • who use Aristotelian logic in a causal-realistic world, 
  • who are adorned with values that originated from the milieu of the interplay of ethics and religion, 
  • who recognize that law is to be discovered rather than created by fallible human minds,
  • and who recognize justice as that which causes voluntary social cooperation to flourish.

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Laissez-Faire Instead Of Ego-Driven Mixed Economies.

All versions of a 'mixed' economy are failures. Those who criticize capitalism are really criticizing cronyism and fascism (and these are unquestionably failures), not the free market.

Those who claim that the free market has been tried and cannot work 1). don't know theory and 2). have no empirical evidence and 3). ignore the fact that all of the alternatives and every type of interventionism have failed miserably.

The state-of-the art theory of laissez-faire is the divine economy theory. To everyone who doubts whether an unhampered free market can rescue humanity from oppression and injustice and bring about peace and prosperity it is incumbent upon them to do their homework and read about the divine economy theory.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Economic Intervention Morphs Government Into The State.

Governments voluntarily chosen, in diverse sizes of societies, are perfectly natural. What has been the source of the corruption of government is economic intervention by limited human minds upon an infinitely dynamic market process. The morphing of government into the State is certainly associated with economic intervention.

The tradition of classical liberalism, with the laissez-faire of the Continental economists and the unhampered market economy of the Austrian economists, provides an ample moral and scientific foundation for justifying the establishment of order without the corruption of societies that is associated with the State.

Obviously what stands in the way in these - the Dark Ages of economics - is the general nescience of true economic science and so the task ahead is to educate people as part of the process of advancing civilization. There is no better or more comprehensive tool to accomplish this than the promulgation of the divine economy theory. Consequently this is the generation that needs to acquaint themselves with the divine economy theory so that the ills associated with statism will be effaced sooner rather than later, and peacefully.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Voluntary Government Not The Coercive State.

We probably are all in agreement that if we put our faculties to use in searching for a way of governing that could be done on a purely voluntary basis, and that had none of the evils inherent in the State, and we were able to successfully find such a system then we would want to make others aware of it. Who among us is fully convinced that every rock has been overturned (that the search using our full faculties has been done already)?

We are living in a remarkable period of human history with new and exciting things being discovered all of the time. Imagine how your life is different from what it was 10 years ago because things that apparently existed all along were not yet discovered, or at least, were certainly not known by the masses. I am certain that voluntary government can and will exist; and that the coercive State will disappear from human civilization!

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Hermeneutics Is An Attack On Subjectivism.

Empiricism is hermeneutics and hermeneutics is empiricism! I will explain.

The empiricist needs data in some form to serve as the basis for proof of the specific hypothesis. In the natural sciences the data collected paints a clear picture and if it is done properly it can be repeated over and over again. This provides both a proof of and a test for the hypothesis. In the human sciences this is not what happens. The datum collected is nothing more than a random historical event captured at a specific point in time. It may or may not ever be repeated again plus the circumstances can never again be the same. Humans are constantly changing!

Well then, what can an empiricist do with the data collected that was supposedly designed to capture information about a human? Since it cannot possibly represent the human reality - which is subjective - the only other option is to interpret! It is clear then that empiricism in the human sciences is hermeneutics.

Now for the other part of the statement "Empiricism is hermeneutics and hermeneutics is empiricism!" and the accompanying explanation. In the human sciences, such as praxeology and more specifically economics, the only truly scientific methodology is subjectivism. There is no middle ground. Someone cannot come along and say that subjectivism is the proper methodology without then fully recognizing that humans make subjective decisions using their reasoning powers. If someone claims that people are irrational (some humans do have mental illnesses which may cause irrationality at least for short periods of time) then this is an attack on subjectivism.

Subjectivism fully recognizes that natural law can be used to describe the characteristics that are unique to human beings, universally. There is a logical structure that all humans operate within. For example, humans are constrained by their limited knowledge of the future. Another example - one which is foundational - is that humans use reason. For someone to say that people make irrational decisions is a clear attack on subjectivism.

Why would someone want to undermine the methodology of subjectivism? It is obvious why an empiricist would have such a goal. Subjectivism exposes the fallacies of using empiricism in the human sciences (age-old institutions are then in jeopardy). But why would an individual want to undermine the methodology of subjectivism?

If someone claims that people make irrational decisions then it creates a niche for someone to fill as the ultimate judge of what is rational and what is not. Someone may be ego-driven enough to want that privilege but just imagine the horrors. This hermeneutist takes away the right of subjectiveness for anyone who does not please this judge! How ironic it would be if such a person would claim to be a friend of liberty and justice! Ultimately this hermeneutist will make the empirical decision: "Are you rational (+) or are you irrational (-)?" and it is this binary code that fits empiricism but in no way, shape or form does it fit subjectivism.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Can Economic Equilibrium Appear Either As Latent Or Active?

There are times when economic equilibrium is invisible. Those who do not know about economic equilibrium may therefore be oblivious of its existence. Those who know it exists probably are just rest assured that it is always there, always operating.

There are many reasons why economic equilibrium may appear latent but I think there are two main reasons. When the economy is not far from its balanced path the counterbalancing force of equilibrium is not very great and so the pressures exerted on the economy are minor. To those alive during that time the force of economic equilibrium may appear latent.

Another time when it may appear latent is when the State intervention is very great and its control over information (propaganda) paints a false picture. Those unaware of economic equilibrium are easily fooled and those aware of economic equilibrium may not realize how extremely far from the balanced path the economy is and so they may misjudge the consequences to come. Those who are aware of economic equilibrium have a duty to cut through the propaganda and educate others about the consequences of interventionism.

Another point of interest with regards economic equilibrium is the significance of the change of appearance of economic equilibrium from latent to active. As I mentioned, at times it appears latent because of a relatively balanced economy and that is when the concept of laissez-faire fits well as a descriptive term. But laissez-faire is not a strong enough term to override the State, either as an argument or as an opposition force. Consequently once we entered the era of nation-building the State was able to embark on potent measures that disrupted economic equilibrium. Of course the State then uses its propaganda to hide these disruptions.

Here is where the appearance of active economic equilibrium not only becomes crucial but its reality will make its presence known. Think of a pendulum. It can be pushed so far but at some point the forces are so great that it cannot be prevented from returning to its entropy point. The reason the economic equilibrium is active is because there is no moral authority for any of the economic interventionism and the power of human action, in response, purges the corruption.

Those who are aware of the appearance of active economic equilibrium forces have a duty to educate others about the inevitable consequences of interventionism and about the complete lack of moral authority for any economic intervention. This is what a true and powerful laissez-faire concept like the divine economy theory has to offer.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Ever-Advancing Civilization Is Part Of Natural Law.

As Mises said "Conditions were much better in the past, when the peoples of Western civilization were unanimous in endorsing the values of Christian ethics." (Theory and History, Chapter Three)

There is nothing about the divine economy theory that differs from voluntaryism. If a person who is out on the ocean wants to fish - fine. If a person out on the ocean wants to live in the cabin below and watch cowboys riding horses around in arid country - fine. Neither or none of the choices made or the actions taken change the reality that the ocean is vast and in a sense unfathomable.

Regardless of what a person does it is part of the cause and effect that is part of the dynamic of the economy and the economy is a divine reality similar to the unfathomability of the ocean.

When the universal ethics of this epoch (or era or dispensation) is generally assimilated then the characteristics of a divine civilization noticed by Mises will be evident and will continually evolve as part of the ever-advancing civilization.

No where is there any need for interventionism which has no moral authority and is a corruption of the divine economy processes.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Secession Is Part Of The Tradition Of Classical Liberalism.

The best way to secede is to do it as part of the ideological change that is stirring. When it becomes acceptable it will simply be natural and peaceful. It will be acceptable when it is understood that there is no moral authority for any economic intervention, that all intervention is a corruption of a divine institution - the economy - and that these artificial and manmade boundaries are silly and obsolete since all humanity belongs to the same human family and that humans make choices subjectively. Permiting subjective decision-making removes all coercion and allows people to exercise social cooperation naturally - which also happens to be the most efficient and the most peaceful way, and the way that leads to prosperity for all.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Natural Law Deserves Your Unreserved Efforts - Now!

Listen to this great speech and the question and answers afterwards. Now is the time to do what you can to protect liberty and justice.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

A Great Classical Liberal Scholar Spoke Today At The Catholic University Of America.

How fortunate we are to be able to listen to one of the greatest classical liberal scholars of all time. The wonders of modern communication serve their proper function by connecting minds and hearts to a source of knowledge and integrity and honor, as if we were sitting there in person.


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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Classical Liberalism Does Not Need A U.S. Presidency!

I put my trust in God, which means that I still believe it is possible that Ron Paul will emerge victorious  - even if it means that all of the lies and corruption and economic terrorism has to come out into the light of the day between now and August because of an inevitable worldwide tragedy.

If not, then I still have no interest in any of the loathesome politicians and will see what new educative avenue Ron Paul pursues.

A President of a corrupt government and bankrupt nation can never surpass a truthful, humble and principled leader of righteous people. If Ron Paul is not elected President then America has simply lost a great opportunity.

When one door closes another opens!

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Classical Liberalism Is Stateless But Has Voluntary Governing.

The State and government are not necessarily the same. It is possible, I know for a certainty, to have a government that is purely voluntary in nature. The State, in contrast, is coercive and to be even more precise it is purely coercive in nature.

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

C.S. Lewis Gave The Analogy Of A Good Egg!

At the 28 minute mark Ron Paul shares the analogy of C.S. Lewis that a good egg cannot remain a good egg forever. This was his commentary about society. The good egg has to either hatch or it will rot. Those are the two end results from what was a good egg to begin with.

This analogy applies to America. If we allow (by our work to preserve liberty) the vision of our Founders to hatch, the spirit of America will be alive, but if we do not protect the shell - our Constitutional Republic - and neglect it then the eggs will become rotten. We are seeing many rotten signs. We need to nurture the good eggs towards hatching and discard the rotten ones.

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Monday, May 28, 2012

There Is A Statesman Of Peace And Prosperity!

A statesman with a clear message: To restore America to its classical liberalism traditions!

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Women & Men Equally Qualified To Study Divine Economy Theory.

It is an indisputable fact that women have been deprived of equal education throughout history and that is the only reason for the differences between the accomplishments of men and women. In a way that education gap is still a burden for women because the starting point for women generally lags behind, requiring exceptional determination and perserverence and courage to achieve equality and the associated respect.

But the divine economy theory is new upon the scientific and moral horizon. There is therefore no headstart or advantage for either man or woman.

This is extremely exciting news both in terms of justice and for the possibility of a social experiment. Will women excel and even prove to have a degree of superiority in the concepts and principles that constitute the divine economy theory? Will the societal transformation that results from the flow of knowledge that is explained in the divine economy theory demonstrate that the capacity of women is very great?

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Friday, March 30, 2012

How Long Does Ideological Change Take?

The big question is: how long does ideological change take? The genius of Ron Paul is his recognition that freedom brings people together and so what before was disjointed, disconnected, and separated can now – through the tolerance and forebearance of the belief in liberty – become as one; side by side and hand in hand the atheists and the Jews and the Muslims and the Catholics and the Protestants and the skeptics and the Mormons and the Adventists and and the agnostics and the Hindus and the Buddhists and the Baha’is and the New Agers all see that liberty is what sustains their subjective choices and justice protects those choices. The ideological change that is building – and with Godspeed may reach critical mass soon enough for an orderly transition – is the wild card!

One thing that I discovered in my research is that the inherent classical liberalism basis of human civilization is always present and so there is no need to fear a void when the State is destroyed!

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The State Is An Anti-human Institution.

The State is an anti-human institution formed by ego-driven interventionists, operated by ego-driven interpreters, and to be abolished as part of the metaphorical 'end of the world' prophesy that appears in all religions.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Classical Liberalism Is Not Hermeneutical Libertatianism.

The classically liberal misnomer: Classical liberalism has been deliberately undermined ever since the State came into existence, undermined by obvious enemies and surreptitious enemies.

Always though, the divine forces inherent in equilibrium have been significant, more or less obvious depending on the exact moment in time historically. There is little disagreement among wise observers that we are in a special time historically. For the so-called "classically liberal" to view things so narrowly as to see Iowa as a watershed to verify hermeneutical libertarianism is short-sighted to say the least.

But it probably is not simply short-sighted, it probably has more to do with the surreptitious attack on classical liberalism by the phony namesakes, the hermeneutical libertarians.

How fast are things changing in the world? What could happen tomorrow to drastically change perception? Only those who truly appreciate and understand the forces of equilibrium can perceive the long run and know that the spin doctors (no matter whether they pretend and claim to be classical liberals or not) are in some way just trying to serve themselves, oblivious of what is beyond their myopic vision.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Atheism Is Outside Of And Not Part Of Classical Liberalism.

The Golden Rule is part of classical liberalism because of natural rights but also because classical liberalism has as its roots the combination of Aristotlean logic and the meditative application of the revelations originating in the Judeo-Christian faiths (which influenced that part of the world). As Murray Rothbard said, it is absurd to try to deny the influence that religion has had on history or the history of thought.

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