There’s nothing like viciously defending civility… When I first saw this cartoon, my mind raced with examples of intolerance demonstrated by political groups and politically minded people who share differing positions and world views to what I do. And the more I contemplated the image, the more I started to contemplate that reaction. I think…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Welcome to the age of outrage where all who disagree with me are absolute idiots and morons, and I could never be in the wrong on anything… Isn’t that the premise of just about all internet forums these days? Maybe the problem isn’t the stupidity of others but rather our own inflated…
An abstract from an upcoming essay. The main problem with most economic theorists isn’t that they fail to produce plausible theories to continue infinite growth on a finite planet, it isn’t that so many of them promise wealth and riches above the masses, to the masses. No, the primary problem with the majority of the economic…
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” Thomas Jefferson Democracy is projected by many as the pinup boy of a truly liberated society. While the notion of the people ruling themselves often results in…
This is my philosophical rant for the week. Slightly off topic from the usual local or national economic issues that I like to discuss but every so often you need to get your philosophy on especially when it seems to be a field so often neglected. I also apologise for this article is a little longer…
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made…