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Reacting to bdoran’s militia theory: Can Distributism go leagile? Is panpherohoplocracy a sign of high-trust communities?

Of course panpherohoplocracy was natural enough when Tom Paine and Patrick Henry put it into practice, starting some time before 1770. They were living in a frontier situation; the adversity of the environment stimulated even the very lazy and very … Continue reading

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The philosophers of panpherohoplocracy must resemble Arduino more than CGI Federal

At http://esoterictrad.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/responsibility-and-technology/ the following post raised a hue and a cry: Advanced technological projects and processes diffuse roles and responsibility. What was outside the scope of one man becomes possible with the help of many. Eventually there will be a … Continue reading

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Buddha was pretty bad at predicting unintended consequences

Henry Hazlitt summarized all of economics by the notion that most people are bad at predicting unintended consequences. That idea is so important that I will link to a PDF of his book, and I will put that PDF in … Continue reading

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Stop professionalizing state service! It attracts Crow T. Robot style psychopaths!

Crow T. Robot was famous because he wanted to decide who lives and who dies. Everyone knows I hate Moldbug’s ideas, right? Good. Let’s criticize his ideas. It’s too bad Anomaly UK isn’t blogging any more, because he kicked off … Continue reading

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Minarchy Wears A Cowboy Duster (or, the racial whiteness of panpherohoplocracy)

In order to answer 1irradiatedwatson, I need to talk about minarchism with reference to Tom Paine and Patrick Henry. “Minarchism” is actually a very recent term – apparently coined in 1971. In order to respond in a roundabout way to … Continue reading

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