If there is any profit in this wordly market
It is with the contented Sufi-
Lord bestow on me the blessing o Sufism
and Contentment.-Hafiz
Touba Mosque, Senegal
I’m revamping this baby.
Well it was never even “vamped.” Totally ignoring the fact that I made this blog in an attempt to throw a bunch of quotes and articles only to return to it now with a desire to simply log my passing thoughts on politics, debate and other matters of discourse.
A formerly semi-pretentious blog, I think it will now become my retreat from the drone of typical rhetoric that moves sluggishly across my Dashboard daily. I need a place to focus on my own views without scaring away the people who follow me for pictures of Islamic art.
Cheers. Entertainment me. Its not my personal blog, but its more personal on a basis of thought.
"The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that — however bloody — can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave."
— Lysander Spooner
"Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them."
— Lysander Spooner (via cityboycountrytunes)
(Source: cowboy-robot, via lalibertarienne)
"The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians."
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-George Orwell
(via a-petro-manifesto)
"Because the woman’s spheres were largely removed from contact with the outside market economy, she had little leverage upon her husband. … The roles she was obliged to perform in relation to him and the outside world were all inferior, subjugated, in which the autonomy she enjoyed within the domestic sphere did her no good. Only when wives gained direct contact with the market economy—by means of cottage industry and later by means of factory work—did they seize hold of a solid lever with which to pry themselves loose from these subordinate roles."
— E. Shorter, The Making of the Modern Family (1977)
(Source: whakatikatika)
FA Hayek on the origin of large, centralized corporations in modern economies
…the whole matter is one of extreme complexity and difficulty, and I cannot say, that I have definitely made up my mind. My main doubt is whether it really is the corporate law which has given rise to corporations bigger than they would become under the … free market, or whether it is not largely the greater influence on the political machine, which the great corporation exerts, which has favoured its growth.
Friedrich Hayek, in a 1937 letter to Walter Lippmann, cited in Ben Jackson, “Freedom, the Common Good and the Rule of Law: Lippmann and Hayek on Economic Planning,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 73 (2012), forthcoming.
(Source: whakatikatika)
“It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other.
But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: “Your money, or your life.” And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a “protector,” and that he takes men’s money against their will, merely to enable him to “protect” those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you. He does not keep “protecting” you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villainies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.”
(Source: libertyidaho, via libertyidaho-deactivated2011122)
