Lo, yet another case of cops assaulting the person they had supposedly come to to help – in this case, because a person they knew was deaf was unable to understand their verbal commands.
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Power Trip
Guizot reaching for his revolver
The following passage from the end of Guizot’s General History of Civilization in Europe reminds me of both Proudhon and Foucault:
It is the duty, and will be, I believe, the peculiar event of our time, to acknowledge that all power, whether intellectual or temporal, whether belonging to governments or peoples, to philosophers or ministers, in whatever cause it may be exercised – that all human power, I say, bears within itself a natural vice, a principle of feebleness and abuse, which renders it necessary that it should be limited. Now, there is nothing but the general freedom of every right, interest, and opinion, the free manifestation and legal existence of all these forces – there is nothing, I say, but a system which insures all this, can restrain every particular force or power within its legitimate bounds, and prevent it from encroaching on the others, so as to produce the real and beneficial subsistence of free inquiry.
And the Bowl of Petunias Thought, “Oh No, Not Again”
This is supposed to happen tomorrow (CHT Reed Richter):
It looks a tad tricky.
If it succeeds, we can go into Randian rhapsodies about the triumph of human reason.
If it fails, we can go into Hayekian jeremiads about the fatal conceit of top-down planning.
So it’s all good.
The Sign of Three
A friend recently sent me this postcard from Germany:
The phrase at the top means “times are changing.”
My friend’s comments:
The age of anarchy is over. Remember all that anarchy back in ’91? Phew! Crazy times. Now we know where it’s @. … This was a free postcard, and in no way do I vouch for the product/service advertised.
In addition to the silliness about 1991 being the heyday of anarchism (though, come to think of it, 1991 was the year I became an anarchist, so I guess it was the age of anarchy for me; I think I got onto the internet before 2011, though), there’s the implied silliness of thinking of these three symbols as competing rather than complementary. (In fact the third is often used online as a way of representing the second.)
Universally Preferable Announcement
I am happy – well, not happy so much as rationally compelled – to announce that the Molinari Institute is changing its name to the Molyneux Institute.
We plan to host a series of lengthy video monologues on such topics as “Libertarian Antifeminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved?” and “Why College Larnin’ Rots Yer Brain.”
The Molyneux Institute has broken all ties with its previous, differently named incarnation, in a triumphant act of fourth-dimensional self-de-fooing.
Our first affiliated scholar, Dr. David Gordon, will hold the Molyneux Chair and End Table in Apodictic Universology.
R.I.P. Alexander Cockburn and Gore Vidal
Farewell to two great pioneers of left/libertarian reunification.