It continues, on a reasonable time scale!
Welcome to the second part of my tutorial/study guide on Murray Rothbard’s seminal book, America’s Great Depression.
Month: June 2024
I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of consent from a political perspective. It’s easy to simply call every bit of the state evil and coercive, but it doesn’t seem to convince a lot of people.
So, the thing I’m trying to understand is, what does the average person–not a hardcore anarchist–think of when they envision political consent? Where is the line between a voluntary government and a coercive state? Where is the line between dissidence and withdrawal of consent?
In the video above, I consider a few examples that I’ve seen in popular culture as well as a few of my own devising and try to reach some conclusions.
See my notes for this video here.
I’m trying to figure out fun things to do for blog entries, and I thought it would be fun to go through books and create video notes or study guides.
I’ve been having a lot of fun lately thinking about the boundaries between a coercive state and a voluntary government. A recent article by Wanjiru Njoya over at the Mises Institute threw me into a bit of a rabbit hole and I thought I’d set down some of my thoughts in a video.
Check out my latest article over at the Tenth Amendment Center, examining the fundamental idea by Locke that “it is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases.”
This simple idea, and our failure to keep our government accountable to it, is the root of many of the problems we’re dealing with today.