To speak of any kind of “paternalism” justly smacks of “parentalism,” of treating others like children, and that brings us to the third problem, the cultivation of self-command.
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Notable Quote – When Someone Treats You Like a Child
Notable Quote – Who Decides?
To develop one’s judgment properly, one first needs the freedom to make decisions for oneself, because judgment, like other skills, must be practiced to develop. But one must also be held responsible for one’s decisions, because it is through feedback – negative or positive, as the case may be – that one learns to correct, … Read more
Notable Quote – Where is the Courage to be Fearless and DO something!
Reformatted, emphasis mine: The conservative establishment, its politicians, and its media, don’t lack ideas or people. But too many of its leaders do lack determination and endurance and fearlessness. The people can tell. As it is said, “Men don’t follow titles, they follow courage.” The conservative movement in D.C. has too often been engaged in … Read more
Notable Quote: It’s All about the Controlling with Democrats
Upon the news that President Asterisk and the self-appointed Ambassadors from the Federal Government to New Hampshire known as Jeanne “Granny” Shaheen, Maggie “The Red” Hassan, Annie “Let me attach myself to AOC” Kuster, and Chris “I smile a lot, don’t I?” Pappas) support the IRS data mining our personal banking accounts over $600.
Notable Quotes – A Repartee Response-a-Thon
I came across a post with a number of quick-witted repartees (‘ll reveal it later so as not to spoil it). I like these so I’ll be putting them up over the next few days.
Notable Quote – Have Progressives already beat the Free Market into submission? Have we moved into Fascism controlled markets?
Reformatted, emphasis mine: In the interventionist state it is no longer of crucial importance for the success of an enterprise that operations be run in such a way that the needs of the consumer are satisfied in the best and least expensive way; it is much more important that one has “good relations” with the … Read more
Notable Quote – Manmade Crisis That Only Those that “Recognize” It Can Fix It
What they [the media and politicians] want to hear are things that make for excitement, crusades, and a chance to be on the side of the angels. They want statistics or anything else that blames our whole way of life for creating catastrophic dangers that only the wise and noble few can save us from. … Read more
Notable Quote – No, we’re “not all that” as some think they are
“So the great lesson of humility which science teaches us, that we can never be omnipotent and omniscient, is the same as the lesson of all great religions: man is not and never will be the god before whom we must bow down.”
Notable Quote – When you get down to the root of the matter, Custom reigns supreme
Reformatted just a bit as our current writing customs want shorter sentences: Had they [ancient Roman legal theorists] studied the facts of consciousness, and learned that conduct was necessarily exhibited in the form of habit and custom. They would have seen that the origin of law rested in a self-governing principle of society (i.e., Customs … Read more
Notable Quote – Another Buttress for the Great Mind Fallacy
The vast disparity in knowledge and understanding between intellectuals and the population at large assumed by the intelligentsia is crucial to the vision of the anointed, whether in discussions of law, economics, race, war or innumerable other issues. But, if the knowledge that is consequential includes a range of mundane information too vast to be … Read more
The Left Has No Humility
“Our default assumption should instead be that people who make choices different from what we make or would have made must have their reasons, even if we do not know what they are.” …
Notable Quote – Make Sure You Can Do You First!
There’s a lot in that short sentence to unpack. I am perfectly fine in stating that I can generally govern myself properly but who amongst us can say we can do so ALL the time and do it well?
Notable Quote – No, it wasn’t Slavery that broke Black families; it was White Progressives with “good intentions” that did
Empirical evidence has likewise seldom been mentioned by those who make a common claim, advanced by [Nicholas] Kristof among many others, that “Slavery and post-slavery oppression left a legacy of broken families” among blacks. But the plain fact is that the proportion of black children living with only one parent was never as great during … Read more
Notable Quote – He’s Not Wrong, You Know. In Fact, Very Right!
Take Jan Schmidt, David Meuse, Deb Stevens, and Debra Altschiller for examples:
Notable Quote – “Property Is a “Powerful Antidote to Unfettered Selfishness.”
One of the Pillars of our American Constitutional Republic is that of the Right of Private Property. What is mine, IS mine – and not yours. Nor is it yours to take or to lay claim to it in any way.
Notable Quote: Just Leave Us Alone, We Can Figure Out What’s Best for Ourselves
Emphasis mine: “The belief that processes which are consciously directed are necessarily superior to any spontaneous process is an unfounded superstition.”
Heavily Subsidised Sloth vs. Free Market ‘Price Signals’
Price Point – not only is it a signal of relative value in which the producer thinks what an offer is worth but also signals back to the producer what the consumer thinks about it (too high, or too low).
Don’t Use the Language of the Left
Don’t use the language of the left. It just emboldens them and makes us lose: “Today, on the political left, we’re making up new norms all the time: calling people “Latinx,” announcing our pronouns, capitalizing ‘Black.’ “
If You Want the Poor to be Richer, Socialism Can’t do That!
Do you want to be in charge of your own economic choices, or are you in favor of others making those choices without your input? That’s really what’s at stake and what Friedman points out here.
Notable Quote – Minimum Wage Laws are Raaacist!
Prof Sowell points out yet again the same phrase that Conservatives bring out over and over – Progressives believe in good intentions but care less about actual results.