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@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

I agree here: making markets functional makes them transparent, and lets culture out to play.

@h4890 @freepatriot

The thing people do not realize about Bathory is that Quorthon was a very creative dude with mile-a-minute thinking.

I don't like all of their material but the best album for introduction is "Blood Fire Death."

@h4890 @freepatriot

Hoppe -- who I know only from third party writings -- had a point.

After the French Revolution, monarchy became taboo, and it seriously offends the egalitarians today.

But this suggests it is what they fear, too.

@h4890 @freepatriot

We are entering an age where three people can run a major manufacturing firm by overseeing AIs and robots.

Private ownership means no meddling by the shareholders, and the ability to plan for a long-term future.

For example, if you make bolts, these are not going to change, so you just keep cranking... and reduce staff to the minimum.

@h4890 @freepatriot

We really, really were. He arrested the slide into socialism and the total state.

@h4890 @freepatriot

At the very least:

* Ensure competence
* Anything done by government must benefit everyone
* Reward the good
* Remove the bad

Government should not be as complex as people make it out to be these days.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

Don't hate me, but politics is a market.

Our politicians are created by our voters.

What the voters want to buy, they vote for.

Illusion? Those are the best sellers!

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

I distrust popular movements. They are almost always lies.

The check on monarchy is always the aristocracy. This worked until the church got involved.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

For a monarch, the _only_ success that can be had is in making a stronger society for the long-term duration.

They are judged by history, and aware of it before all else.

@h4890 @freepatriot

Ultimately, culture is based on overlap of ends/goals.

Even if this is simple as trying to survive in some barren place.

@h4890 @freepatriot

"Truth" is a human symbolic token series representing a conception of what is real.

Science works because reality is real, and sometimes we can understand each other enough to pass on basic bits of wisdom about how reality operates.

@h4890 @freepatriot

The "Gothenburg sound" is legendary in underground metal.

Looks interesting, and I will keep an eye out for this on the usual... um... file archiving areas.

@h4890 @cjd @korsier @freepatriot

To enable specialization, in other words.

I am skeptical of education. Those who can benefit it tend to require only general guidance.

The rest simply use it as a step up above their actual level of competence.

@h4890 @freepatriot

I have never been able to read Neal Stephenson.

But, I like the idea of a repurposed cargo ship with a nuclear reactor, cruising the globe, maybe meeting up with even larger market and repair ships... get away from the states entirely.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

People always want more laws, but they lead to this kind of circumstance.

If you want to protect the wolves, protect their territory.

Interesting story... disturbing.