Throughout history, the state has justified itself on the grounds that it is necessary to protect us from others whose habits and beliefs – we are meant to believe – are dangerous. For millennia, this fiction was easy to maintain because most people interacted so little with people outside their nearly autarkic – and therefore impoverished – communities.
But, with the rise of industrialization and international trade in recent centuries, the state’s claim that it is necessary to keep us ‘safe’ from outsiders has become increasingly undermined.
Much of this is thanks to the fact that in order to benefit from the market, one must engage in activities designed to serve others and anticipate their needs. As a result, trade increases our understanding for both members of our community and even the stranger; it also makes us realize that other people are much like us. Even if they speak strange languages or have odd customs and traditions.
The Market Order and Civilization This is in essence Say’s Law, or the Law of Markets, which states that in the market we produce in order to trade with others so that we can thereby, indirectly, satisfy our own wants: our demand for goods in the market is constituted by our supply of goods to it. In order to effectively satisfy other people’s wants we need to not only communicate with them, but understand them. If we don’t, then we’re wasting our productive efforts for a random result. Obviously, we’d benefit personally from learning what other people want, both their present wants and anticipated future wants, and then produce it for them.

This post was published at Ludwig von Mises Institute on August 17, 2017.

You probably have never heard a friend or loved one wax poetic on the exciting deals offered by an unsolicited telemarketing call – and for good reason – considering the folks on the other end of the line collectively possess an uncanny talent for interrupting dinner.
In fact, aggressive robocalls led to a class action settlement – one which you may be able to claim.
Philip Charvat originally filed the lawsuit, contending Resort Marketing Group breached the Telephone Consumer Protection Act with its robotic calls he had not agreed in advance to receive.

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on AUGUST 16, 2017.

‘It’s always some force external to the individual that people cling to. Some fairy tale, some myth, some system, some piece of cosmology, some convergence or shift or program that will swoop down and make things better, far better. The more complex the program is, the more attractive it is. It’s a wave, a particle, a mysterious magnetism, and it stands in and substitutes for the individual’s own imagination and creative power. But after the myth-enthusiasm wanes, things return to normal, until the next attractive myth arises…’ (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)
This piece has everything to do with the notion of Rescue and the intervention of forces that ‘liberate the individual.’
Huge numbers of people have always looked for ‘rescue’ coming from the outside, like a magic horse that trots up to your house and waits for you to climb on, at which point he and you take off and fly away…
This is standard operating procedure for the psychology of most of the human race, in whatever myth it is cloaked.
This is also why quite mad technocrats assert that a human brain-computer hookup will result in an enormous leap in IQ, talent, and consciousness.
It’s a rescue operation. Plug in and fly.
Consider this statement from the late philosopher, Terence McKenna: ‘When the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears… I predict that the concrescence [‘everything is flowing together’] will occur soon – around 2012 AD. It will be the entry of our species into hyperspace, but it will appear to be the end of physical laws accompanied by the release of the mind into the imagination.’
The mind will become imagination. As a consequence of rapid evolution. All by itself.

This post was published at Jon Rappoport on August 13, 2017.