The Good
In the film “Lord of War,” a great many true statements are provided. The five permanent veto powers on the United Nations security council are the five largest arms exporting countries in the world. When they want a war, or more than one war, there is no human power in the world able to stand up to all five of them. When they want guns provided to people in some unpleasant place in the developing world, those guns are provided. At the beginning of the film, the protagonist, played by Nicholas Cage, says that there are enough guns in circulation to arm one out of every twelve people on Earth. Then he says, “Our job is to arm the other eleven.”
I believe that’s actually true, by the way. If all people took seriously what Jesus says in Luke 22:36 and bought arms to defend themselves and their families, there would be a better world around us. To that end, a great many people I know, some of whom I have met in real life, have developed technologies for making guns. The zero percent upper, for example, is a block of metal that can be machined using an inexpensive 3D milling machine that is controlled by computer, known as a computer numerically controlled (CNC) milling machine. The 3D printed parts can be produced using files that are widely available online.
On account of the work of entrepreneurs and gun enthusiasts, the American people include about 250 million men, women, and children who will wake up tomorrow in a house that has at least one gun in it. When I left there in 2005, the average person in Texas had 5 firearms and an unknown number of guns. (You see, the nationalist socialists of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives, killing family dogs, and urinating on the second amendment don’t include a large number of working guns in their carefully defined term “firearms.” So quite a few million guns exist that the BATFEKFDUOSA doesn’t include in their published statistics. They would like you to believe that guns are not nearly as popular as they are.) I’ve written before about the topics of poor people needing guns and about the slavery industrial complex that was dramatically advanced by Biden’s 1994 “crime” act.
Gold Goats ‘n’ Guns
I was intrigued by a recent essay by
that my old friend Lew Rockwell re-published. You can go to Tom’s eponymous site https://tomluongo.me/ or read the essay at Lew’s web site. I prefer Lew’s page because he includes links to a lot of books and those links go through Lew’s Amazon affiliate account and benefit someone who has always done good things for the freedom community, especially those of us who advocate for free markets.Tom quotes a tweet from the evil demon worshipper and psychophant (hat tip to
for that coinage) of evil Yuval Harari who says that anyone who opposes the liberal socialist disorder of the mass murdering child raping cannibals of the World Economic Forum is necessarily advocating for violence and chaos. It isn’t true, of course, as Tom goes on to point out. In fact, the “Great Reset” is itself violent and chaotic, an attempt to destroy Christendom and what has been passing for Western civilisation for the last few centuries.Then Tom does an excellent job of looking at the market life cycle graphic from business school that is drilled into entrepreneurs who want to build something useful, especially if they want to do anything new. A very small percentage of the world’s population are innovators, and if you capture their attention, you have a chance at getting your product or service to be used by the early adopters. Early adopters, you see, look at innovators and try to emulate them, but not right away.
For example, in 1971, a friend of my dad’s bought a pocket calculator for $1,500. My dad thought he was insane. My dad had a desktop mechanical calculator at his office in the physics department which did more types of calculations. It could calculate cube roots, whereas his buddy’s electronic calculator was only good for the main arithmetic functions and square roots. Plus the mechanical calculator was much less expensive. Within five years, though, my dad was buying a Hewlett Packard calculator for about $200. Early adopter. Only a very few years later I bought one for $80. And today I can get the same functions, without programmability, for about $18. It’s a market life cycle. Access to the mainstream of the market, beyond that first sixteen percent, is where success for entrepreneurs is found.
In his essay, Tom explains how the innovators and early adopters have already taken to “radical centrism” with great enthusiasm. But so far the early majority is not convinced. Yes, the early majority looks to the early adopters in the same way that the early adopters look at the innovators to see what to think about next. And the late majority looks at the early majority, and the laggards look at the late majority. Mind you, some people are innovators in one thing and laggards in another. So it can be complex.
Radical Centrism De-bunked
For my own part, I think radical centrism is a losing proposition. It is a very poor alternative for the kinds of futures that I want. It is better than watching the World Diseconomic Forum maniacs slaughter seven billion people and enslave the rest. But it doesn’t really have much going for it. It is a diet cola version of the same thing, but with mElon playing the part of Klaus Schwab and Linda Yaccarino in charge of which social media accounts are eliminated under her authority to protect the spokesthings which advocate for advertisers. Yes, mElon never stopped nuking accounts, never discouraged report monkeys. He wants to neuralink human brains because he wants a dog shock collar with control software he designs.
So, of course, although intrigued by Tom’s analysis, I am ultimately disappointed in his conclusions. He’s going to vote for Trump. He’s against libertarians and therefore necessarily for authoritarians because he favours the view that libertarians are afraid of roads. And he thinks “radical centrism” is something besides a grift for billionaire welfare queen mElon to scam defence contracts and NASA contracts and subsidies galore for his coal-fired “electric” cars and pollution-maximising solar battery houses.
I know that it is unpopular to point out, but Trump pushed for the vaxxajabs. Trump was as recently as 2022 very proud of his “operation warp speed” to encourage the jab makers and keep them from facing product liability consequences. He was still requiring proof of vaxxajab for admission to Trump tower in late 2021. Trump loves the military industrial pharmaceutical financial complex and the grifts and the racket. He gave the cia and fbi everything they wanted. Trump gushed enthusiastically about building twice as much torture camp at Guantánamo. And after four years, he hadn’t worked out how to put Hillary in prison, or even charge her with any of the numerous crimes to which she’s been linked. Trump is an authoritarian. Of course, he’s a different brand of authoritarian, but so what? Do I care if it is the left boot or the right boot that is breaking ten of my ribs, damaging my left lung, and gashing my face? Nope.
The Future
However, Tom and Yuval are correct in one sense. It’s not enough to tell people that we don’t want a dystopia of authoritarianism and obedience. It is essential to show people the future we do want, the open skies, the bright stars, the distant planets, the freedom of prosperity, the prosperity of freedom, the cathedrals to possibility, the flying cars, personal sovereignty, joy, hope, decency, Godliness, purity, salvation, good tidings, great blessings. Which is why I wrote about the future we choose.
In that essay, I talk about longevity, freedom, the planets, the stars, flying cars, no more wars, prosperity, humanity, decency, goodness. I understand that Tom will find these concepts adorable, and find ways to mock the fact that I’m in favour of them. Then he and perhaps
can have a nice podcast making fun of it all. Since I stopped voting after what was done to me in 1991, none of the things I advocate can be practical. Only finding some way to change the colour of the trolley matters to such minds. They’ll never agree that it matters, at all, whether we try to untie the people who are being run over on the tracks.
Lenin supposedly said that you cannot make omelettes without breaking some eggs. My old friend Amos Vaden said, “I cannot make more chickens if you keep breaking all the eggs.” But, you see, there is a grift for the killing sprees. War is a racket, Smedley Butler pointed out, and as Aldo the Apache says, “Brother, bidness is booming.”
The Ways Forward
It’s not my job to find your path. That’s your job. Which means that if you are willing to think about it, it also isn’t Trump’s job, it isn’t Biden/Obama’s job, it isn’t whatever pathetic grifter the Libertarian party runs for office.
By writing the things that I write, I’m not asking for you to follow me. I’m holding up a light, so you can see some ways ahead. In a few instances, I have reason to believe that I have provided enough illumination that people contemplating suicide have chosen to keep living.
Perhaps that’s not enough for the political salvation seekers who want a Milei or a Bukele or a Trump. I know that I wasn’t asked to come into this life to run for political office nor to accept appointed office. As much as it would be fun to be NASA Administrator for three months, put together the sale of everything useful NASA has in inventory, and set the explosive charges to blow the rest to smithereens, it isn’t going to happen. The fools and the grifters would get together and put it all back in place.
I have pointed out the possibilities of Systeme D. The parallel economies that can be built on the tools that I’ve worked with and worked on for decades. Anonymous remailers. Open source public key cryptography. Open source software and operating systems and hardware. Factories that can run away. Cryptocurrencies.
You don’t need to delegate your power and individual sovereignty to the government. You cannot do so and expect the government to ever limit itself, no matter what sort of parchment you think guarantees your rights. But radical free market anarchism is beyond the scope of “people [who] must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have,” as Henry David Thoreau wrote for his 1848 speech “On Civil Disobedience.”
Thus, even at this point in history, at this time when authoritarianism has been laid bare, when the nasty little creatures behind the curtain have been exposed by the little dog pulling back the curtain, when everyone can see the road ahead leads to ruin, there won’t be any meaningful change. The hopium is strong with the election year. The grifters will find a way to keep grifting. The can kickers will kick the economic can a little bit further around the cul-de-sac. And the eight million plus children who are stolen off the streets of the world to be raped, tortured, mutilated, murdered, and sold into slavery will keep being taken. Because not enough people want to do anything about it.
The paths ahead? There are billions of paths, and no amount of central planning by humans, or human devised software, is going to tell you how to live your life. I’m not here to walk your path. You are.
I am here, in part, to warn you of what is coming if you persist in letting mass murderers and child rapists run your country. I’ll keep blowing the trumpet, and people will keep denying that it is possible to run their own lives without some machinery of government. And on the day of destruction, when the towers fall, when the fires burn, when the people mourn, I will also mourn. For I have seen what might have been, and what a waste you’ve made of the world you were given.
After that, there will be time for rebuilding. And perhaps with the enemies of humanity ashes under our feet we’ll be able to do something lasting and worthwhile. In any event, we’ll soon see.
That’s all I’ve got for today. Come back next time when I’ll have something new. Or old.