It is one of the great tragedies of the production of the recent past that it has resulted in such excess that production feels or seems unnecessary. So “we” make all kinds of demands on producers when we can find and identify them. We hang weights around their necks in the form of restriction and …
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4, A Series Begins
Here at Puritanical Libertarianism we find ourselves in the awkward position of mostly talking to ourselves. The Puritanical Libertarian writes to remind himself. The reminding is necessary because the distractions are many. Reminding is a form of repetition. And repetition is the temporal being’s way of getting at reality. That which is most regular is …
Overhearing the exorcism
I was a fly on a wall recently at a coffee shop and overheard a conversation between something like a counselor and a counseled. The counseled, it seemed, had initiated the meeting and was thrusting a series of questions at the counselor. In this coffee shop there are small tables and bars, but then there …
Coercion, Public Opinion, Response
How does a small group (a) maintain coercive control over a much larger group (b)? First, there is public opinion. (a) cannot treat (b) uniformly. (a) must decipher within (b) sub-classes. If (a) can create animosity or division between sub-classes in (b), we will call them (b1), (b2) and (b3), then (a) can divide the …
Thanksgiving Cometh
Oh gratitude. When I began to find her I found a living water. She never stops giving. She overwhelms. She is the real Santa Claus. Oh gratitude. All she asks of me is that I turn my gaze of attention. It is but the most minimal request, and that which she could not do for …
What am I? We’ll see.
I am not. But I am becoming. What am I becoming? That is up to me. What is not up to me is not me. I am what I make myself. And you dear reader… It is easy to become in one direction and hard in another. But the way that is easy results in …
A Conclusion on Action
Let it be known. One does not see action. One interprets physical changing events as actions. To interpret as action requires the bringing to bear on those physical changing events the elements which must always be found in any action: ends, means, values, preferences, choice, time, cost, loss, profit. The attempt to invalidate such a …
3.9.3, The centrality of labor as cost of action
3.9.2, On Cost of action as allocated means
Once choice is made action cannot commence without means. We have already examined means as an apriori condition of action. It comes in the form of stored energy or capital. There cannot be action without means. The body and its available energy, the savings account and its money, the character and its virtue, the mind …
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3.9.1, On Costs of action as lost opportunity
The apriori of action is what makes possible the analysis of action in experience and in particular. If I want to understand any particular action it must be from an understanding of the elements of action. Ever action presupposes ends, means, values, preferences, choice, time, and now we come to costs. Cost is almost necessarily …
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