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Tertium Datur

By on July 10, 2012 10

So what moral defect and/or lack of political imagination do these two songs (or the imagined narrators thereof) have in common?

The nations not so blest as thee
must in their turns to tyrants fall
while thou shalt flourish great and free,
the dread and envy of them all:
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves:
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

So I’m picking ’em up and I’m laying ’em down
I believe he’s going to work me into the ground
I pull to the left, I heave to the right
I ought to kill him but it wouldn’t be right
’cause I’m working for the man
I’m working for the man ….
So I slave all day without much pay
’cause I’m just biding my time
’cause the company and the daughter you see
they’re both going to be all mine
yeah, I’m going to be the man
I’m going to be the man ….

I’m a Mack, and I’m PC

By on June 30, 2012 3

I partly agree with this and partly disagree with it, being more sympathetic to PC than Jeremy is; and I don’t think putting pressure on bigots is automatically “oppressive” in the negative sense, let alone “totalitarian.” (By analogy, defensive violence is not on the same moral level as aggressive violence.) But this is still one of the more thoughtful discussions of the issue I’ve seen.

My sincere apologies for the title of this post.

Obama, Betray America!

By on June 28, 2012 19

A state-liberal friend tells me that if you google “Obama betray* America,” you’ll get no fewer than 46,300,000 hits. I tried it just now and actually got 61,600,000 hits.

Regrettably, however, most of these hits seem to be accusing Obama of betraying America. None of them seem to be imperatives calling for Obama to betray America.

So let this be the first. After all, at his inauguration Obama vowed to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,” which is an unjust job, and to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” which is an unjust document. Like his predecessors, he is morally obligated to repudiate these vows (thus betraying “America,”considered as a state entity), make restitution for his crimes, and work to establish a stateless society.

Anarchy Is Coming!

By on June 26, 2012 7

Here’s the cool cover for Gary Chartier’s excellent forthcoming book Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society (originally titled Anarchy Under Law):

Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society

Check out the publisher page and Amazon page. And start saving your pennies! (Saving 55 pennies per day between now and the publication date should do it.)

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