The Mindcrime Liberty Show with Dobson and Patton

Ep 147: Is saving possible? #Bitcoin #Gold

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether it is possible to save for the future outside of actual material goods. Austro-Libertarians are famous for their criticisms of government backed fiat currency as either outright criminal or just a known fraud. If that criticism is the case, what value does anything denominated in US currency, as well as other fiat currencies such as the Euro, Yen and Pound, have considering state central banks have an incentive to create inflation as a silent tax? What value do the various stock markets have considering that a good portion of its value is backed up by central bankers creating “loose” fiscal conditions through a labyrinth of complicated measures? What value do public and private pensions have considering that a good portion of its value is backed up by the stocks and bond markets which in turn are backed by the printing press? What is the alternative? Is Bitcoin or precious metals the solution for long term savings? One of the problems which gold funds have is that if you don’t own the physical gold you are basically investing in a product which is only worth as much as the gold fund certificate states. In a crunch how much would that be worth? Bitcoin maybe a solution as well but considering the fact that mainstream institutions like Coinbase are very much tied into the financial system combined with the fact it uses lots of energy it poses problems. Land maybe a solution to save for the future but state expropriation through hard and soft means remains a problem. If the state makes it illegal to build anything on your land, or mine your land, it isn’t really your land. Effectively your land has been stolen from you but you keep the title. That land isn’t any more valuable than Hans Hoppe’s parents land in Eastern Europe which was stolen by the USSR (an example of hard state expropriation). How ought one to save for the future? Is the only way to reliably save for the future in material goods?

Ep. 146: Does universal voting damage family and friendships? #democracy #oligarchy #deepstate

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether eliminating voting would make family and friendships stronger. With the growing polarization which is occurring in the major "democracies” there is a growing trend of family, friendships, churches, marriages and business relationships being broken up on the grounds of who one votes for. Is this "rational" or a good state of affairs? Are friendships and families stronger in societies where voting obviously doesn't matter as much and/or the political system is more closed? Is this an argument against democracies? Should people date/marry and make friends with those who are strong supporters of the "other team"? Ought people care less about voting considering the likelihood of affecting the system is mathematically very low combined with the iron law of bureaucratic oligarchy?

Ep. 145: Was the Covid 19 regime failure a Black Pill or a White Pill?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether the “War on Covid regime failure” is a white pill (or provided many of what Sean Gabb calls collateral benefits) or was it a black pill? All three aspects of the war on Covid including vaccine mandates, masks and social distancing are retrospectively being renounced, or walked back/distanced, by most so-called experts. To paraphrase Peter Hitchens everyone thought they were a skeptic at the time but I can clearly recall that they were not. Does the fact that “the trust the science establishment” was dealt such a rhetorical blow count as a victory or is this merely a “cope”? There was no giant victory parade through London led by Neil Ferguson, nor one in Los Angeles with Fauci. Covid, which some at the time have attempted to describe as the biggest story since WWII, is being memory holed. Is the total embarrassment of the mainstream media, pharmaceutical companies and the “pink state”, counterbalance any of the nasty things that did occur or is the black pilled/pessimistic line the more correct and sober view? What should people on the Dissident Right and Libertarian movement think about the memory holed event which occurred almost 4 years ago?

Ep.144: Are non-profits profitable for society?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether non-profits are profitable? How does one judge an organization which doesn’t have profits and losses? Are some non-profits merely front organizations for billionaires to further enrich themselves and create good PR for them? Are some non-profits merely rackets to gain further donations to keep the organization alive? Are non-profits merely holding centers for people who can’t find effective employment in a “real” job so one must work at a fake job? Do non-profits pursue goals which are in principle unable to be judged? Are non-profit organizations nobler than for profit ones? Are many effective non profit-organizations, such as Churches, really just driven by egoism?

Ep. 143: Are extremists more logical than moderates?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether the extremists are more logical and clear than moderates? On a variety of issues it seems that those with the extreme viewpoints are more clear than those who are considered moderate. Is this merely a kind of genetic horseshoe fallacy or do the extremists have a commitment to consistency and rigor that “the adults in the room” don’t have? Extremists are often painted by the mainstream as being unintelligent un-nuanced persons but based on certain research, those with higher intelligence tend to hold extreme economic views. Is this the case in most areas? Do the Taliban, Leninists, Black Panthers, Maoists, Double Predestination Calvinists, Sedevacantists, Universalists, Southern Antebellum fire eaters, Jacobins, certain Feminists and Rothbardian anarchists have a kind of intellectual clarity that the moderate representatives of the positions don’t have? Are there any virtues to holding a middle position especially if it's an unprincipled compromise as Walter Block describes? Does history only remember the extremists? Do we only ever read so called extremists? Are extremist positions unliveable for the vast majority who work for and manage the state bureaucracy, state military, mainstream church or megacorps?

Ep. 142: How would an ideal society deal with low ability persons?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses what an ideal, or libertarian, society ought to do with those of low abilities? One can dispute whether there would be as many in an ideal society with a freed market and stateless institutions; however, it seems that there would be a class of persons who aren’t competitive. Christians of the left and the right often times criticize libertarians for not caring about the poor namely not supporting welfare and various social programs. Libertarians would be quick to counter that many of the so-called programs are not effective and are probably harmful such as the mass schooling system as described by thinkers like Ivan Illich and Brian Caplan. Welfare itself is a system of warehousing the poor as Michel Foucault argues and destroys mutual aid networks by replacing it with State bureaucracy. What are some solutions for this problem and why would a libertarian society have less of them?

Ep. 141: Why do people get out of bed? What counts as coercive violence? #UBI #LeftLibs

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses why do people get out of bed in the morning and what counts as coercive violence? Would coercive violence to force people to work exist in a stateless or an ideal society? Why do people get out of bed and work in the current existing world? Is work necessary to have a society? Does work make people happier? Assuming a society of UBI welfare is possible, would it be a tyranny? Should people work less in order to get more leisure time? If people aren’t working or raising children, why do people get out of bed?

Ep. 140: Rik Storey vs David Bentley Hart & RC Sproul on Free Will & Sin.

The Mindcrime Liberty show is joined by Rik Storey to discuss whether sin exists.  One of the more common maneuvers is to state that sin exists because free will exists, thus, in order to explain sin one must explain free will. Our guest Rik Storey defends free will as being integral to his understanding of Catholic Christianity. What are the limitations of free will and who are some Christian theists who are opposed to this view? Do the so-called extremes of modern theology represented by the American Calvinists RC Sproul and universalists David Bentley Hart agree that free will doesn’t exist? Why would any free healthy creature choose anything but God?  Why does anyone purposely and freely choose evil or destructive actions?   Ignorance and love of evil?  Why would God allow this?  Is God an open theist? Does god construct a world of character building theodicies which he is uncertain of the outcome? Is God's sovereignty as defined by Aquinas and others  incompatible with creaturely free will?

Ep 139: Will Israel end up like East Prussia? Ft. Keith Preston.

The Mindcrime Liberty Show is joined by Keith Preston to discuss the long term status of Israel by using East Prussia as an analogy. East Prussia used to exist as a major port and was one of the causes of the German invasion of Poland but now is Polish/Russian Federation territory with hardly any German inhabitants. Will Israel cease to exist in this fashion? Is Israel dependent on the US for its military position and what is the long term trajectory of that support considering that the US is taking a moderate isolationist turn as Zeihan describes? Despite that support, does the US paradoxically “restrain” Israel? Is the Samson nuclear option a genuine threat? Can Israel maintain internal cohesion considering Netanyahu’s unpopularity as well as the fact that significant numbers of Orthodox practitioners view the state as incompatible with scripture and refuse to serve in the military?

Ep. 138 Professional Sports, Women and Transgenderism

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses why no thinking person of the Right should care about transmen competing in women's sports leagues. Sports themselves, and its rise, are quite important for males of all ages in developed industrialized societies as both an outlet and a venue for athletic excellence. Elite sporting leagues are a necessary Platonic ideal embodying that excellence and shouldn’t have a protected category for anyone especially woman considering that mainstream culture wants to hold them as equals. If feminists want no male spaces then women shouldn’t get any protected female spaces either. In almost no sporting league with an open draft would any team (American style football, baseball, soccer/European football, running or swimming) would the top team be made up of women. Ronda Rousy has refused to fight any top end male and within the UFC “transmen” have dominated biological females. One can criticize the existence of mass sports themselves, although that criticism we further debate, but no thinking person on the right should care about this issue.