The Mindcrime Liberty Show with Dobson and Patton

Ep. 23 Does Tyrannicide solve David Friedman's hard problem/cryto currencey with Jim Bell.

The Mindcrime Libertyshow interviews the somewhat infamous, depending on ones worldview, Jim Bell the creator of AP politics.  Now of course the show doesn't endorse or advocating killing anyone but the state itself if you take the emprical work of RJ Hummel seriously has assassinated a huge number of people.  Would this system lead lead to the French revolution committee of public safety scenario with the execution of anyone and everyone? We discuss Bob Murphy's objection in his article entitled the politics of destruction.  Would it be better or no different then the current system? As intellectuals ranging from Noam Chomsky to Hans Hoppe would say:

  "If the Nuremberg Laws were applied, every postwar president would have been hanged" -Noam Chomsky

."If measured by the standards of natural law and justice, all politicians, of all parties and virtually without any exception, are guilty, whether directly or indirectly, of murder, homicide, trespass, invasion, expropriation, theft, fraud, and the fencing of stolen goods on a massive and ongoing scale. And every new generation of politicians and parties appears to be worse, and piles even more atrocities and perversions on top of the already existing mountain, so that one feels almost nostalgic about the past. They all should be hung, or put in jail to rot, or set to making compensation."-Hans Hoppe

Again the Mindcrime libertyshow does not advocate the killing of anyone but currently the state is the number one killer and kidnapper in all likelihood or is it?  

 

Politics of destruction. https://news.bitcoin.com/the-politics-of-destruction/

Bell's work.

https://cryptome.org/ap.htm 

Overview of Hummel's empirical work entitled death by government.

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM

 

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Ep 22. Will Megacorps dominate the Freed market/Rothbard-istan. Is Kevin Carson a third worldist?

The Mindcrime liberty show discusses whether megacorps would dominate the freed market/Rothbardistan/ancapistan/private law society (or whatever parlance one wants to use).  Is certain libertarian critiques of the megacorps, in particular Kevin Carson illustrated in his book Organizational Theory, ultimately become the kind of almost third world Maoist style critique of capitalism?  Would large corporations be able to form without intellectual property, a large labyrinth of legal regulations, and the backing of a large monopolistic state as both a creditor of last resort and buyer of its products? Aren't progressives, (as well as Kevin Carson), ironically the biggest friend of  the megacorps especially when it comes to culture?  Would a private law society/ancapistan  be more "traditional" socially and family/small business centered? 

Ep 21: Does "free" state healthcare and education increase freedom with Keith Preston.

The mindcrime liberty show is joined with guest Keith Preston to discuss the topic of whether free state healthcare and education increased the cause of freedom.   Two of the biggest areas where state power has grown is in the fields of education and healthcare  both of which have been center pieces of much of the left's platform throughout the world.  Has the Labor/Social democratic program of "free" nationalized healthcare as well as programs like medicare and ACA (different societies have different names but they are fairly comparable) increased human freedom?  Has 
"free" and compulsory  government  education improved the cause of freedom as well?  Isn't expecting the state to educate and take care of you a  dangerous and dodgy idea? Was Michel Foucault right, channeling many moderate libertarians like Milton Friedman and Hayek, in that it has created situations of dependency and control? Has the "progressive" state programs crowded out mutual aid societies, private institutions, and the family as well as  other possible forms of alternative healthcare and education?  Has the progressive state served as a barrier to both better, cheaper, and more humane forms of education?  Is state healthcare and education really that enlightened and "progressive" after-all?    

Episode 20: Is the family in Decline with Rik Storey?

The Mindcrime liberty show is joined today with guest Rik Storey on whether the family is getting better or worse? Has modernity destroyed or strengthened the family? What role does the state play in strengthening or harming the family? Was the past as good as many paleocons like a Peter Hitchens or Roger Scruton argue it was?   What caused the change in both marriage formation, out of wedlock births, and the rise in cohabitation/singleness? Was it technology, culture, or something else? What will be the effects be on society? 

Episode 19: Word Salad

The mindcrime liberty show discusses buzzwords such as the various isms and phobias which routinely get thrown out and whether they actually mean anything.  Later we discuss if words such as democracy mean something or is more akin to the other "word salad" words. 

Episode 18: Coronavirus part 2 or why Nassim Taleb is wrong.

The Mindcrimeliberty show revisits the topic of our very first episode: the corona-virus pandemic and the policies various states have enacted.  We discuss Nassim Taleb's and others work on the pandemic and update our earlier take on the pandemic.  Taleb  has consistently held the same alarmist position even when it was unpopular to do so unlike the mainstream.  Taleb praised Trump for closing the border of the US with China which the then "anti alarmist" mainstream criticized.  The biggest problem we have with corona-virus measures in particular stemming from Taleb's precautionary principle is if true they prove too much.  The measures the state is suggesting are merely band aids at best and at worst have no effect. What the state is asking the population to do we think is akin to the duck and cover drills which is more about calming panic which they the state created over a virus which hasn't been as deadly as the various models in particular the imperial model predicted. 

Ep. 17: Philosophy of Suicide including Camus, Christ, and Socrates.

The Mindcrime liberty show discusses suicide and its legitimacy. Is suicide a wicked form of self murder or is it something honorable?  Should it be legal or illegal? What are Albert Camus, Jesus Christ, or even Socrates (Plato) views on suicide and its legitimacy.   What exactly is a suicide attempt? Does dangerous behavior count as a form of self harm.  Why should a person continue living especially if life itself in a crass utilitarian way has much misery and no atheist (or for that matter theist) utopia is coming to alleviate the misery? Is Camus right that the only important question is whether life is worth living? 

Episode 16. Has Music Declined with Right Ruminations

Today the Mindcrime liberty show is joined by guest Right Ruminations, who has composed some music compositions which are linked below, on whether music has declined.  We discuss two pieces by Roger Scruton as a quintessential example of what conservatives in general say about the decline of music.  Is popular music in particular "pop" or "rock" as bad as conservatives like a Roger  Scruton say it is. Is popular or modern music in general tyrannical or polluting. Do we really want that being played in shopping malls or would silence be preferable? Is there any instrumental music today such as movie scores which compares against the past. Did the past that Scruton and many conservatives imagine ever really exist as gloriously as they claim.   

 

Our guest today Right Ruminations has a youtube channel and here is his musical compositions.  

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7uTbD5YUXfEOEW4shVNsBoXa3SpyXdKD

 

Two pieces by Scruton

 

Cultural Significance of Pop.  

https://www.roger-scruton.com/about/music/understanding-music/175-the-cultural-significance-of-pop

 

Tyranny of Pop Music 

https://youtu.be/eYua80VEcBk?t=4

Episode 15. Was Aristotle right about slavery?

With the recent murmurs about cancel Aristotle the mindcrime liberty discusses what this great Greek thinker thought on the topic.  Aristotle argues that a natural slave exists and its actually in the slaves interest to be ruled by the master.  Is this the case? Do these classes of persons exist or is Aristotle analyzing the contents of an empty box? What would be the historical/universal definition of slavery if one would want to postulate it in general. Would taxation or wage slavery be included as thinkers like a Hans Hoppe or Marx would argue respectively?  What about serfdom or even voluntary slavery? Is voluntary slavery an oxymoron?  Does slavery of any kind,  including the voluntary kind if it does exist, actually benefit either party.  Depending on the definition were most humans ever really free from slavery of some kind?  If slavery is so bad who today is actually enslaved and why don't we discuss that or all the other historical slave trades? We finally discuss whether paternalistic policies work and whether they are advisable to either parties in the relationship.  

Episode 14: Have Films and TV got better or worse in the past 100 years?

The mindcrime libertyshow discusses films and television shows and whether there has been a decline, improvement, or no change in various areas ranging from story telling and effects to the ideas and morals behind the stories.  Was there ever a "golden age" in films and TV?  Have movies become more crass and violent with bad morals and cursing? Were older movies superior in terms of what is called traditional morality or is this just a rose colored glasses version of the past?  Has this change mirrored society and if so does it matter?