In an anarchism (libertarian) world where the people must protect themselves, those heinous crimes meet their fate at the hands of men, e.g. the vigilantes here in Davao City have nearly entirely eliminated drug dealing.
The State can't protect you against most crime, e.g. the police arrive too late to stop the murderer. Recently the police arrived 7 hours too late to stop the young guys who slashed my $200 diesel SUV tires (sidewall repair isn't really viable). The solution to that is talking to my local community about why they aren't scolding the young men about mutual respect, else moving from the community to one where the elders educate correctly the youth. This notion of the State disincentivizing crime with high levels of enforcement is proven to be false with the USA having 99% conviction rate and 7X higher incarceration rate than rest of the world, yet also having one of the highest crime rates. Some claim this is because of the negro population which has a 20X higher propensity to murder, but yet we see from Howard Katz's research that before 1940 and the New Deal, negros had the same unemployment rate as whites, and now it is double. The causal relationship between large government collectives and the opposite of the intended results is patently clear in all the statistics and history of mankind. The whites in the USA are doing a more subtle but much more harmful crime and it is called Marxism. Europeans argue they have suppressed crime since Hitler with their vast socialism, but this was just a bribe "to love each other" and when that debt illusion collapses, we will see the true hate in Europe explode with vengeance and the apathetic cows will once again be mowed into the dirt. Read my quotes of Howard Katz for the history that will soon repeat.
In short, I trust nature to deal with threats to nature. And the data on crime supports my view.
Collectivism is only beneficial and necessary where it was impossible to otherwise get economies-of-scale to accomplish necessary actions such as military protection and building roads.
If via technology we can
eliminate the need for those economies-of-scale, then we no longer need large-scale collectivism.
Note I didn't say we won't have a multitude of leaders with smaller communities of top-down organization. Contrast this against large morass collectives that do nothing but destroy mankind. Don't equate this with warlords in the feudal middle age, because in the Knowledge Age the capital is held by the workers, not exclusively by the leaders. We no longer have this huge fixed capital inertias to sustain warlords. Workers can change affiliations on a whim if necessary and take all their knowledge capital with them.
We will always have communities within the scale of our Dunbar number limit, because humans thrive on social interaction. Knowledge is spawned from trade of ideas. I entirely agreed with your point about diversity of views and the ability for us to express our views with differing local communities that compete and trade with each other. This is mother nature at work. What a glorious system of justice and freedom to experiment and compete.
http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/02/when-do-we-decide-that-europe-must-restructure-much-of-its-debt/#comment-123054...Innovation was just as valuable in the Industrial world as it is in the Post-Industrial...
I already refuted that. If you don’t understand that all by myself (where the cost of my computer and living expenses were insignificant), I generated roughly a $million in revenues when I programmed CoolPage, then you don’t understand the transformation underway. In the Industrial Age, I would have needed to build a factory to produce a product to sell. Now one only needs to send off a design to a 3D printer. Tangible costs are becoming irrelevant. It is all mental now costs now.
Suvy I am dumbfounded by your stubborn unwillingness to comprehend a simple concept.In the Industrial Age, the fixed capital costs were the majority of the cost of production. In the Knowledge Age, innovation is the majority of the cost of production.
CoinCube, I want to work and I don't work when I am here writing. I am doing this because I genuinely want to see if I could change even just one Marxist to a libertarian (and I realize you think you are a libertarian but I don't think there are but a few westerners who actually libertarians, i.e. even Eric S Raymond appears to be a Marxist apologist with totalitarian outbursts masquerading as an anarchist, because it is what you feel in your heart about nature and tolerating discord, diversity, imperfection, and random shit that determines your true philosophical affiliation). I don't think I can do it, but you are my guinea pig. And because I really care about you and yours. I hope you can lead your family in direction of the Private wave. You've had a start to life which has thrust you deep in the dying Public wave. You have time to adjust and I hope you don't waste that scarce time.
I hope you support my efforts. As Howard Katz wrote, I know the justice of mother nature will bring humans great prosperity as it did when the Pilgrims learned to abandon their Marxism to survive starvation. And from that transformation all the greatness of the USA was spawned. I believe just maybe you can make this transformation. Maybe.
At a young age I resisted the indoctrination. Eventually this caused me to break free from the addictions to the deal with the pain that westerners are dealing with by being indoctrinated (mind programmed) that they must have perfect love and ideological nirvana. I ended up in the Philippines at age 26. And it was Herculean adjustment process, but it was my destiny. I arrived now at age 50 (recovering from a debilitating disease Multiple Sclerosis which robbed me of 9 years of my life (i.e. all of my 40s), and a blinding incident in 1999 which robbed me of my mid-30s) to be a different person than I was in the USA, but found the core values I was fighting for but didn't entirely understand with all the Marxist noise interfering with me while I was living in the West.
Note curing MS appears to be a long process (months?). My body wants to sleep all the time (and I want to force myself to work!), but when I do some sports I am functioning at a much higher energy level. And my fatigue is more on sleep instead of insomnia effect. My head has dull itchiness, dizziness, and sensations. Yeah the body is healing but it is not an instant transformation into perfect energy. I had one day which was absolutely phenomenal and I expect those days will become more frequent in the near future. My MS clearly worsened since I successfully got temporally cured from high dose vitamin D3 in 2012. Well I knew that, remember I was commenting how I felt like I was getting brain cancer, and I could clearly feel the decline had accelerated. When I couldn't jump off my left leg in basketball and my bench press faltered in past several months, I was starting to feel desperate.
Now I have a lot of catching up to do. Luckily nature blessed me with a resilient, athletic and youthful body. I get a nice ego high when a younger person says I am 28. Maybe it was because I looked like I was 16 when I was age 26 as shown below. I believe I only had to shave once every 2 weeks back then.
So maybe the only way to make the transition is to leave the comfort zone. I dunno.
Yeah sorry I think you need to entirely abandon that core value you are hanging on to. Specifically thinking that somethings just won't be fair or correct without doing something. That ideological itch has been planted in your brain and I don't think you can remove it.
OROBTC, I believe that Marxists such as I3352 talk too much about fear and self-help nonsense, and can't really get to pragmaticism because they are too mired down in feeling sorry for themselves and others. This again is this Marxist ideological disease that Katz wrote about where the medieval folks were unable to fight. Michael Jordan's "Just Do It" and
"maybe you are making excuses", applies here.
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