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Salvador Dalí - The Colossus of Rhodes, 1954

It’s easy to lose track of the massive scale of the philosophical error that surrounds us. Contradictions do not exist in reality, but core contradictory beliefs always result in catastrophe when people attempt to apply them to the real world. One example of this is the belief that the application of aggressive violence can result in an increase in peace and stability.

What are these bailout packages about? It’s certainly not guided by reason, but it is designed to uphold the nonsense principles upon which the state rests. If the government rests upon the assumption that violence solves social problems, it makes sense that they will continue to operate on that principle until they are out of a job.

Economic growth is an increase in the level of peaceful exchange in society. Trade is expressly peaceful. Transfers of wealth that involve violence are defined as theft, not as trade. An increase in the level of violent wealth redistribution therefore causes economic contraction, by definition, as theft of productive resources neccessarily crowds out peaceful trade. Philosophical corruption leads to the corruption of language.

It is pointless to attempt to convince others of conclusions without rapidly addressing core issues such as the definition of truth and the nature of morality as a description of universally preferable behavior.

Utilizing the argument from effect in an attempt to spread truth is like trying to repair a computer program with a looping error by commenting on the code. It just confuses things and accomplishes nothing.

Wealth seized by force cannot be spent productively because of the socialist calculation problem. Money is a tool of calculation representing units of productive labor. When it is stolen rather than earned, the conceptual meaning of money is corrupted. In turn, because thieves do not need to answer to the demands of customers, they have no incentive whatsoever to make intelligent choices with their money. Risk is essential to economic calculation. Any money taken from theft that is spent in turn creates significant price distortions, corrupting the workings of the market.

The only way, funadmentally, for businesses to make decisions is to evaluate price. The further that the concept of money is corrupted, the more impossible it becomes to conduct market calculation. The fact that the money supply itself is continually being dickered with makes it even more challenging for the economy to function efficiently.

Right now, the world has larger and more economically intrusive governments than at any time in history. The managed capitalism of the modern state is collapsing because of the corruption of the concept of the economy, and because of the evasion of the truth that taxation is force. It has nothing to do with “greed” – which is an innate human drive. You might as well blame hunger or flatulence.

Corrupt people fear exposure. The simple truth that we live in a society founded on moral lies is strenuously avoided. Building life on a foundation of faulty principles is akin to building a house in the wintertime with a foundation made out of frozen butter. When the sun of truth rises, the entire structure collapses.

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