The Hot Air Machine

  SOMETHING I’ve seen socialists groan and complain about repeatedly, one of many things they find an issue with, is wage labor. They consider it coercion, theft, or slavery for someone to render their manpower to another in exchange for money. In the most recent iteration of this complaint that I have laid eyes on it went something like this: “Having to work for hours every week to barely make ends meet is slavery!” Now, there is a lot that could be said. First, we could attack the umbrella that these types of complaints fall under. That umbrella is a general abhorrence of having to work for one’s living. They are desperate for Marx’s post-scarcity society wherein we see “[t]he free development of individualities…which then corresponds to the artistic, scientific etc. development of the individuals in the time set free, and with the means created, for all of them[,]” or, i.e., a bunch of free time for people to sit around and fart around. The psychological drawbacks of excess ...

          YET another shooting has occurred and taken over the airways. 19 innocent children and two teachers have been killed in cold blood. This is by all means a tragedy, and even the people with the most depraved and politicized responses to this event acknowledge that deep down. One of the most disturbing details is how the oh-so-noble “Thin Blue Line” dilly-daddled for nearly an hour before an exasperated Border Patrol agent went in and ended it . However, just as with all tragedies, the Establishment media has not taken long to contort this one and use it to advance the abridgement of our property rights ( which justifies self-defense ). Social media is positively blowing up in response to this, and I feel obliged to make a statement regarding such a significant event.           What I feel most compelled to speak about is the root of this crime. While so many left-wing pundits and politicians are already...

          THE day that I first sat down to write this article I was scrolling Twitter and came across a tweet that read, “Why are there so many sexual deviants in Parliament?” I, of course, gave my two cents and went along my merry way. However, soon after, I paused and realized this was a very important question. To those willing to pay attention we can realize that history is littered with immoral, deviant elites, such as the Late Romans (see Miller 2004), the Habsburgs , and the numerous ones since the 20 th century who have operated sex trafficking rings that have involved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children. Why must it be that so frequently the people in charge end up being fiends?           I, therefore, want to take the time in this article to discuss, as I understand it, why our oligarchs tend towards such backwards behavior. What motivates them? What entices them? While some might have the theory t...

          RECENTLY , the Libertarian Party of the United States posted a tweet commenting on the ongoing controversy surrounding Roe v. Wade . What they said was, “Whether it is a choice about vaccines or reproduction, healthcare decisions belong between an individual and their doctor — not the government.” Attached to this tweet is an image of the mascots of the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian Parties (the donkey, elephant, and porcupine, respectively) titled “Bodily Autonomy”. With regards to this issue the Democrats are caricatured as believing “You own your uterus but not your immune system,” the Republicans as believing “You own your immune system but not your uterus,” and the Libertarians as believing “You own yourself.”           The Party did not receive many positive responses, however. The anarcho-capitalist Internet commentator LiquidZulu replied , “Do hitman-hiring decisions also belong solely ...

  DEMOCRACY , oh how we love it! Practically everyone knows this word, especially in the West. Democracy is synonymous with freedom, and the form of government common in the West is referred to as “liberal democracy” . In America, we are told we live in a representative democracy (i.e., a republic) and this is what makes us awesome. The American Left rallies behind the Democratic Party, or the Democratic Socialists of America. It seems everyone acknowledges that democracy is cool. Rule by the people, as it literally means in Greek, is the most logical because every individual has their rights, and every individual deserves their voice in government. Even from a collectivist perspective, the whole collective – which “the people”, a collective noun, represents – deserves to be involved in matters of administration/political deliberation. However, not everyone is on board with this political system, to many’s surprise. Indeed, democracy has been criticized for as long as it has ex...