This is a conversation about the book, the writer’s process, and his insights.

The questions are deliberate: they are asked from the level of ‘the initiate’. It is an early stage when one is seeking a pre-supposed gratification from wisdom, such as ‘How can it make me more money? Be more attractive? Seduce more partners?’ Some of the most profound advice is lost on ears because the seeker is only looking for pre-defined answers, thus focusing on what they want and missing what they are getting. Are we failing to get answers because our questions are flawed?

This conversation speaks to those who may realise that it is indeed the question that needs re-framing.

I selected some books, movies, and music that might not be the most typical choices. Well, let me know if you have read, seen and heard all of them

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“The intrusion of politics into the field of economics is simply an evidence of human ignorance or arrogance, and is as fatuous as an attempt to control the rise and fall of tides. Since the beginning of political institutions, there have been attempts to fix wages, control prices, and create capital, all resulting in failure.”
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“Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits” is a good case in point how the law is turned into a business driven by high level politics.
The Dunwalke-website puts it another way: “Make a law, make a business.” — Old New Jersey street saying.
See also Rothbard’s brief outlook of Wall Street, [...]

For many the government is the only option available when one is talking about defence. This does not need to be the case. Get convinced by reading an excerpt from Murray Rothbard’s Power & Market (pdf).

Tags: books, defence, Economics, ethics, freedom, liberty, links, Murray Rothbard

How do you like it when someone is exchanging nothing for something?
Kings did it in the past and we are doing it at the moment in massive scale as well.
Money and Inflation: The Tendency to Deny Reality by Frank Shostak.

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“Too many people living in democracies are lulled into believing that they are free because they have the right to vote and elections are held periodically. If you take conscription for military service as an example, I think you would find that if it was proclaimed by a sole monarch, the people would revolt and [...]

Our current societies involve a third party called government that is authorised to incur into any violent actions and force in order to protect its citizens. However just by watching the news it’s nothing new to realise that these powers are also used against the very people who give them to its agent, the state.
A [...]

From Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged:
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the [...]

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.
Read an excerpt from Ludwig von Mises’ famous book that is still very much as [...]