Why rich smart attractive males avoid marriage? Why religions teach you to get married? Why feminazis prevent consenting females from accepting high paying jobs and escaping patriarchal oppression? Why force and deceit are often more politically correct than consent in getting a mate? What should you do to help your self?
That’s correct Mama. What I learn recently is that not looking at what might go right (I am not saying in government, they almost never go right, but in situation in general), is as wrong, if not more wrong than not looking at what might go wrong.
It’s so often we get screwed and choose not to trust or do biz with anyone. Before we know it, we’re not as rich as we should have been.
Anyway, my optimist attitude in your situation will be shooting down the rapists. My pessimistic just in case attitude would be to call 911 just in case I missed my first 6 shots.
I don’t trust government either. Not my government. And well, your government is not that different, to my surprise.
However, I sort of learn that things do go up. Not in government, and not for government. Actually government will get less. Things do go up because I have high hope with the market, not only being the best system, but sort of “defend” itself as life goes on.
Think it this way. It’s not a coincidence that socialist countries are ruled by dictators. It’s not a coincidence that mass murderers often have high risk of dying themselves when their political calculation went wrong.
When societies choose not to be fair, people will fine ways to maximize their profit through unproductive means. Everybody get screwed. Everybody then has interest to embrace a system that’s more fair. I am not saying a perfect libertarian ideal. That’s far ahead. But slowly and surely, better system works out. Also things that do go wrong, often address some greater wrong in the past, like in Karma. Karl Marx bitch about capitalism because in ancient time, wealth means land and land is seized through power. Of course, nowadays it’s not true. People doing Karl’s idea went broke. They all are following US footstep, which is better. Not perfect, but better. We’re not an idiot. All humans want to get rich too.
I am not saying that things will just go right by itself. Of course if you’re an idiot that just say aye to all false accusation against you then you’ll still be death. Here, by just being selfish (and not in objectivist sense, maybe more in Machiavelli sense), you sort of self balance the world. I am not a satanic by the way. I am more of an semi agnostic christian.
Also if you ignore illusions of fairness, legal, illegal, morality, prohibited, etc. You’ll see that there is some practical aspects that’s more real on that. And if you really see what you can actually do, you see that you are actually far more powerful and free than what others would ever allow.
If you believe emperor’s is God’s chosen, then you’ll be stuck in the mentality of doing what government’s said. However, if you see that governments are humans, just like you. You too can stab them in the back. You too can break their laws and not getting caught. You too have huge bargaining position. Then, as Jesus said, “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Your government know you can do that. That’s why they “moderate” their laws on those they know are already enlightened.
Sometimes, huge amount of freedom is to just see things the way it really is.
In my countries, drug and porn is illegal. Everybody are told not to go to night club because bad people go there. You guess it. So what? We’re not free? The fruit of knowledge is the one’s forbidden. Go to any night club in Indonesia, and you’ll never watch striptease in US again.
Who says you don’t have a choice? Recently a guy that help companies avoid taxes are put in jail. So? He’s traveling to Bali watching Tennis after “permission”. I can only wonder why he doesn’t go to another country instead. I bet he can. Many suggested Suharto to be declared hero, after using his power to extract a lot of money from the population. Hell, you can even kill a judge in Indonesia, and get away within 5 years for good behavior if you’re as rich as Tommy.
Tax too high? Well, if you do it right, then all your expensive lunch is biz lunch. What about if you’re not consumptive? Say you own a land. The value of the land go up. Do you pay tax on that? Say you spend money on advertising, your expected value of future cash flow go up. Do you pay tax on that?
Government knows that if there is no “steam” valve, the kettle would explode. For those who are enlightened the deal is sweeter.
If government demand too much against foreign investors, those investors would just leave. Or what about those that know that they too can harm others through politically correct means? Yea… Those dictators, corruptors, are getting sweet deals.
Jesus is quite right when he said that we have to pay what we have to pay. The question is, do we really have to? Quite often no. If anything, we can be paid rather than paying. It’s a choice too.
So who do we fight for? For ourself? No need. We can be the dictator himself, if we want to. For the world? Well, it’s the population that’s stupid enough demanding bigger government. Me, I just help my self, my family, my friends, and perhaps, fellow libertarian. The rest are just vermin to me.
Perhaps the problem with libertarians is that we are too good we do not want to harm others. The truth is, in the world full with evil, you’ll just get screwed offer if you’re the only sheep, or hedgehog. Open our eyes. See how everything is part of the game. Government cannot prohibits anything. Government can only provides intensives not to do things too often, and too openly.
We under estimate our politicians’ intelligence. We fail to realize that the people themselves are corrupt too.
As times goes by, I see that the market self enforce it self through less violent means. In Europe, people can vote with their foot. That’s the main, if not only, reason why europes get so advance. The other cause is they don’t get fucked over by mongols.
Globalization will mean that. Anyone gets screwed by their government can move somewhere else. Of course, if all government in the world is too bad for your standard, maybe your standard is the one too high? It’s like trying to buy apple for 1 cents. If no body is selling it for 1 cents, maybe the price is indeed 50 cents. The same way, no government is perfect just like no private biz is perfect. But competition among government will force each government to get more and more streamlined. Tax will drop. Marriage institution will go away. Prostitution will be legal. Porn will be more common.
At the end, people will be some form of customers, or stock holders of governments. The inefficient government will see their most talented businessmen, and most beautiful women moving out somewhere else. It’s happening.
Israel, for example, is a sample of a “relatively libertarian” countries. Jews got fucked over everywhere so they make their own country. I bet they don’t complain a lot as you guys when their so called country has income tax, for example. Just make more money and have fun.
As for rand paul. I like his attitude of rejecting the 2nd part of civil right movement. Yea he backed down. So what? It’s still a positive step compared to the rest.
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genepool, sorry – I was being pretty flippant there.
But I think it goes a lot deeper than “positive” or “negative” thinking, important as that is.
First requirement for liberty and prosperity is self ownership and self responsibility. Without that, you’re a sitting duck for every snake oil salesman who comes along or gets “elected.”
Then, you MUST look at what doesn’t work, the down side, the negative… in order to learn and remember what happened and avoid doing it again. Don’t know about you, but I don’t want to relearn about hot stoves by putting my hand on it, each and every day. We must learn from experience, both good and bad.
Which isn’t to say that we must dwell on it and moan about it and flail around in our guilt for bad decisions. Not at all. The people who do that are actually those who think someone else should be responsible and “fix it,” rather than being self responsible and saying, “what next? Let’s try….” …as you did.
There is a thin line, often, between self confidence and arrogance, assertion and imposition, aggression and self defense. We’d all like to think of these things as pure and easily determined, but 64 years of life has taught me it’s not that simple. We must examine those things and our actions/responses often, and many times agree to disagree.
So yes… prepare for the worst and expect the best. Just be prepared to accept the fact that the worst actually does still happen sometimes. Far too many people THINK they’ve prepared for bad things and times, but it was all superficial and they were fooling themselves.
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