By one vote, Javier Milei got his big legislative package through the Argentinian Senate. It will be great to see this real-life experiment unfold. From Joel Bowman at joelbowman.substack.com:
Argentina celebrates victory over violence and incivility…
“The larger the government, the less efficient and productive is the economy. Slaves don’t produce with the enthusiasm, incentive, and imagination that free people do. Bureaucratic programs just don’t work as intended.”
~ Harry Browne, How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty (1973)
Joel Bowman, with today’s Note From the End of the World…
“They almost burned the guy to death in his car…”
Our amigo’s message sounded serious. More on the situation down in Argentina (and the Greatest Political Experiment of Our Time) in a second. But first…
We’ve been working on a personal project, dear reader. Perhaps you’ve noticed. Our goal, eloquently addressed by the above-quoted Harry Browne, is finding freedom in an unfree world. Spoiler alert: it ain’t easy!
This little (some might say “obsessive”) vocation has taken your editor all over the world… for more than decades. From nanny welfare states to squabbling theocracies have we roamed, faux democracies to geriatric republics, narcocracies to socialist dystopias to perennial ineptocracies and plenty more besides. Wherever we go, we examine the system, talk to the people, and try to figure out what works and (more commonly) what doesn’t.
The answers are almost never simple… and typically we leave with more questions that we arrived with. But still we wander…and wonder.
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
Live Free in Thailand or New Hampshire.
I knew Pappy loved the Asian ladies and he had a house in Thailand, now I know why.
Rousseau a scalawag? My kind of people! (s/)
Isn’t Hobbes the one behind the WAR of ALL against ALL that Marx pilfered from the intellectual collective?
Nature is at war with us? What’s with the food bounty crops and fruits, animals and biosphere?
(H/T-Vladimir Vernadsky for Biosphere)
Breaking from Carcass:
Keep On Rotting In The Free World