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 ...

  IN political science there is a concept known as “Conquest’s laws of politics.” It is named after Robert Conquest, a conservative British historian best known for his books on the Soviet Union . Similar to Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics,” Conquest’s laws define three principles of political action that can be considered reliably accurate. These three laws are: Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. All these laws have interesting implications and can be looked at one by one. However, today the one law that I want us to focus on in particular is the second law, that, “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.” It certainly sounds interesting and can have broad implications for political strategy. For libertarians in ...

          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...

  I’VE been thinking of how to introduce this article for some time now. The concept at the center of this is a very unique one, one that only I have ventured to cover in detail, as far as I know. That being said, this means there is no clear precedent for me to take from in order to structure this text. However, I will try my best. To anyone even slightly cognizant of the outside world it is clear that the political climate has changed quite drastically over the last half-century. Once a welcomed and expected civic duty in which civilians hatched out the course of their country, politics is now met with apathy and despair. Although, that is more so the political process , if anything. The political system is met directly by the citizenry via the new art of activism/civil unrest that has caught the World by storm . Politics has certainly changed. Its rules, its ways, its etiquette, all these things have undergone a shift. Society has been impacted by these changes similarly a...