Messonomics

In today’s epoch of uncertain economies, messonomics is a revision of old discipline. It’s an un-scientific discipline celebrated by the unaccountable and unquestionable political class to procure and create primary “economical” decisions with an intent to generate and sustain mess. In simple words, messonomics is an art of doing economics by creating mess out of simplicity. Power of it is dependent upon abundant supply of nescience in the economy. Anything that is scientific or logical should be deemed as “illegal” because moral sense is a threat to the grammar of messonomics. If few dissents arrive at a conclusion that “your economic thinking is factually incorrect” then it becomes a parliamentary duty to judge their propaganda a.k.a approach as “voodoo economics”. Basically, the mess created due to governmental failure is always constitutional, right, logical and legitimate.

 To refer Indian economy as a modern example of messonomics, demonetisation could be considered as a perfect illustration. The process was more political than economical, in nature. If it were economical, information asymmetry could have been avoided. But, unfortunately, the government led by PM Narendra Modi opted to mess with the property rights of its own citizens or voters. Messonomics of demonetisation would tell you that PM Modi simply nationalized the personal cash holdings, just like how late “socialist” Nehru nationalised industries and his late daughter Indira nationalised the banks. The government is such an institution, in our society, that enjoys unchecked power on monopoly on laws, rules, force and violence. Consent is another threat to the grammar of messonomics. If the economics of choice and consent is taken into being, messonomics would lose its coercive power and credibility. Basically, messonomics is not a manifestation of rocket science but a reflection of various logical fallacies in the subject of economics.

On academic level, using gibberish words and Keynesian school of thought, selling messonomics to students is quite easier than it was. Most of them don’t understand economics, in general, and most of them don’t have to understand economics, in peculiar. The reason is that messonomics is a norm in academic as well as public sphere. Many messonomic journals or research papers deal with the volume of pages (that nobody reads), followed by “interdisciplinary” prolusion of mathematics, anthropology and sociology…which led to further devolution of economics. If this is not how you master the art of messing with logic and knowledge, then what else is?

The lesser I refer to the IQ of mainstream media, the better for you. All these predictions and anticipations on economy comes with statistical education on messonomics. If you are not subscribed to the pool of it, you cannot be a famous astrologer on “prime time news hour debate” discussing about uncertainty of the certainty. Your popularity in media life is dependent upon abundant distribution of incoherent narratives. Recently, I was stunned to listen to a “renowned journalist” who believes that government should be given more powers to clear the mess in our economy. In this case, the law of messonomics is cyclical and highly fragile. I have not understood: How would government clear the mess with more powers, when it created the mess, in the first place, with the same standard of powers?

The think-tanks got to comply with the theme of mainstream economics too. If they transcend the geography of armchair analysis, they don’t receive proper funding. They are liable to repeat the same mistake in their “analysis” by expecting different outcome or else they would be quite insipid in their own echo chamber “intellectually masturbating” seminars. Their understanding of messonomics is completely in tangent with the global ministries of economics, trade, commerce and finance. Not just that they suffer from schizophrenia (fear of reality), cognitive dissonance (fear of new information/logic), eleutherophobia (fear of liberty) and apoplithorismosphobia (love for inflation), but they would not mind hiding their mercantilism traits. In India, they believe in “strict regulation” of blockchain technology and crytocurrencies. Plus, on the domain of tariffs and fiscal deficit, they are vociferously loud on expanding the size of government interventionism. There is a direct relationship between government interference and messonomics, and that is because “market success” hurts the ego of messonomists. Messonomics believes in organizing chaos and disorderliness without realizing the implications of such actions. Conclusively speaking, messonomics has overtaken economics. It is simply about confusing the knowledge of economics by messing with a basic axiom: Human Action.
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Prof. Jaimine Vaishnav is an anarcho-capitalist based in Mumbai, India. His hobbies are about defending the liberties of all his dissents without charging any fee at the cost of nobody.

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Episode 90 – Office Space (56:47)

Oh hey listeners, what’s happening. We need to talk about your flair. I’m going to need you to go ahead and give this episode about Office Space a listen. Take this job and shove it.

When layoffs affect his two best friends at work, mad-as-hell Peter Gibbons conspires to plant a computer virus in the company’s system that will embezzle corporate funds into a secret account.

A self-serving boss, petty annoyances and unbroken monotony dishearten a computer programmer and his co-workers. Written and directed by Mike Judge.


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Corporate drone Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) hates his soul-killing job at software company Initech. While undergoing hypnotherapy, Peter is left in a blissful state when his therapist dies in the middle of their session. He refuses to work overtime, plays games at his desk and unintentionally charms two consultants into putting him on the management fast-track. When Peter’s friends learn they’re about to be downsized, they hatch a revenge plot against the company inspired by “Superman III.”

A one Amazon reviewer put it:

Office Space NEVER gets old! It almost seems as if it becomes more poignant over time. And this quote from the main character Peter Gibbons should be tweeted/shared always and forever:

“Michael, we don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.”


Here is a link to the ClimateRight Air Conditioner that I ‘brojected’ into my office with two old chairs, 6-4×4’s, an old garden hose, and 5 socks:

It works like a dream and took care of the humidity and heat problem I’ve been fighting in my office.  Highly recommended.


If you can’t get enough of us talking about Mike Judge films, check out our episode on Idiocracy with Adam Kokesh from last year:

Episode 30 – Idiocracy: 4th of July Special w/Adam Kokesh (1:52:59)

During the show we got into some of the promises and socialism and how and why they fail. If you’d like to read a solid series of articles debunking the claims of socialism and what the necessary effects are, please check out the XYZ’s of Socialism of at FEE:  https://fee.org/resources/the-xyz-s-of-socialism/

With the new school year fast approaching we’ll be back next week with a review of Schooling the World with a special guest, Jack V Lloyd of the Voluntaryist Comic series and the Honest Teacher.  I hope you’ll join us!

And finally, as promised, here are the memes that we discussed during the episode. There is some high-quality work here:

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Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Impeach Donald Trump

Ever since Donald Trump became the Republican presidential nominee in 2016, there has been a concerted effort by the establishment to do whatever they can to stop him. Publicizing scandalous materials, weaponizing intelligence agencies, voting, marching, protesting, and political violence were all tried, and none managed to keep him from gaining the Presidency. As such, the focus of the leftist vanguard has shifted to impeachment as a means to remove Trump from office, regardless of the facts of the case. Though the Democratic Party leadership has sought to distance itself from such efforts thus far,[1,2] more ardent leftist activists are pushing the idea in growing numbers. Let us see why this strategy is likely to backfire in such a way that the federal government itself will be damaged, and thus why one should agree with statists for the wrong reasons. The Attempt Before they can impeach Trump, Democrats (and a few cuckservative Republicans[3,4]) will have to mobilize greater support, given that the most recent attempt to bring the measure to the Congressional floor was defeated by a 66–355 margin.[5] The effort to drum up support for impeachment will anger Trump’s base, bringing them to the polls in greater numbers than would otherwise occur in a mid-term election. In the American system of government, an incumbent president does not stand for re-election in singly even years. But if impeachment is to be the result of Democrats winning control of the House of Representatives in 2018, Trump can argue with merit that he actually is on the ballot, even if informally so. Later, attempting impeachment going into the 2020 election will be seen as redundant, as the electorate will wonder why the decision should not be left up to them. Should Trump win re-election, the same argument for the 2018 mid-term voter turnout would apply again in 2022, and an impeachment effort against a lame duck president after that will be viewed as wasteful and needlessly divisive. It is also worth mentioning that impeachment proceedings would occupy the news cycle in the legacy media to the exclusion of other important events. This could both allow the Trump administration a freer hand in performing unsightly but necessary tasks and provide more fodder for mobilizing Trump’s base against Fake News. Throughout his presidential campaign and ensuing administration, Trump’s signature move in the political arena has been to do unto others as they have done unto him. He counterattacks anyone who attacks him and defends whoever defends him. However, there is much more that Trump could do with the powers of the Presidency, such as pardoning people to remove leverage that the investigation led by Robert Mueller may have, unilaterally declassifying information that would be damaging to the Cathedral, issuing sweeping executive orders, and firing executive branch officials who serve at the pleasure of the President. He seems to be taking a relatively passive approach, perhaps sensing that Mueller could interpret the aforementioned maneuvers as obstruction of justice. But if Trump were to be charged and impeached, he would have nothing to lose by engaging in such vigorous countermeasures. The result of this is likely to be a revelation of massive amounts of criminal activity by government agents at all levels in all agencies which are currently hidden behind a veil of secrecy. In other words, if Trump goes down, he can probably take half of D.C. with him. Read the entire article at ZerothPosition.com References: DeBonis, Mike (2017, Dec. 6). “House votes to kill Texas lawmaker’s Trump impeachment effort”. Washington Post. Martin, Jonathan; Burns, Alexander (2017, May 18). “Democratic Leaders Try to Slow Calls to Impeach Trump”. New York Times. Smilowitz, Elliot (2017, May 17). “First Republicans talk possibility of impeachment for Trump”. The Hill. Seipel, Brooke (2017, May 16). “McCain: Trump scandals reaching ‘Watergate size and scale’”. The Hill. “Final Vote Results For Roll Call 35”. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. Jan. 19, 2018. “Memorial Regarding the Abolition of the Presidency”. National Archives Catalog. Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. Gibson, C. Robert (2013, Mar. 4). “Abolish It: It’s Our Right”. Huffington Post. Copple, Roger (2013, June 25). “Why a New Constitution is Our Best Hope”. Dissident Voice. Day, Meagan; Sunkara, Bhaskar (2018, Aug. 9). “Think the Constitution Will Save Us? Think Again”. New York Times. “Abolish the Constitution”. Sydiot, Jan. 25, 2017. Kliff, Sarah (2011, Feb. 16). “Pence’s war on Planned Parenthood”. Politico. (2016, July 15). “Donald Trump’s Running Mate Has Some Truly Strange Views on Modern Science”. Fortune. Ring, Trudy (2015, Apr. 1). “Mike Pence ‘Abhors’ Discrimination? His Record Shows Otherwise”. The Advocate. Drabold, Will (2016, July 15). “Here’s What Mike Pence Said on LGBT Issues Over the Years”. Time. Yglesias, Matthew (2009, Feb. 25). “Mike Pence Calls for Massive Anti-Stimulus”. ThinkProgress. Sahadi, Jeanne (2016, July 15). “On Social Security, Trump and Pence couldn’t be more different”. CNN Money. Heinz, Katie (2015, Aug. 26). “As congressman, Gov. Pence co-sponsored change to birthright citizenship rules”. WRTV. Hirji, Zahra (2016, July 15). “Trump’s Choice of Pence Adds a Conservative Fossil Fuel Backer to GOP Ticket”. InsideClimate News. Carden, Dan (3016, Mar. 21). “Pence reinstates mandatory minimum prison terms for some drug crimes”. The Times of Northwest Indiana. Mount, Steve. “Constitutional Topic: Presidential Line of Succession”. ussconstitution.net. 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Feierhard, German; Lupu, Noam; Stokes, Susan (2018, Feb. 16). “A significant minority of Americans say they could support a military takeover of the U.S. government”. Washington Post. Bell, Brandon. “When Do High Levels of Corruption Justify a Military Coup?”. AmericasBarometer Insights 2012, number 79. Vanderbilt University.

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Quit Conflating Socialism With Big-Government Welfarism

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A pet peeve of mine.

Yes, “Socialism” is bad, yes it’s failed, yes it’s caused millions to perish in mass starvation. Yes anyone can look at its report card and with intellectual honesty report its demerits.
But what people are calling socialism today on your Facebook timeline is actually just Big State Welfarism. 

It’s another example of words being taken over and misrepresented to mean something they don’t.

Socialism means the workers control the means of production (more Venezuela-ish than Nordic model) not just Big-State-steal-from-everyone-to-give-to-those-less-fortunate-than-yourself-you-bigot!

What people are actually pushing for today is more big government running charity vice private non-profit operations. Who do you think is more efficient?

As a resident expert (self-appointed, of course) with a first-hand view in how the government spends money… YOUR money, let’s just say that ‘wanting government primacy in any entity whose mission is to increase the public good’ is shortsighted.

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On Hiatus

Regular readers of this site (bless you) may have discerned a pattern in my last few articles of reconsidering positions I have formerly taken or considering questions from new perspectives. This is not to say that my basic beliefs have…
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Allen Armentrout, part 3: Humility and hope

One year ago today, Allen Armentrout took a rebel stand in Charlottesville, Virginia (see part 1). The world deemed his peaceful and principled actions as racist and traitorous. Like cultural-Marxist clockwork, the politically correct ramifications (see part 2) immediately began unfolding for the unReconstructed Southerner.

“Sad thoughts … are necessary and good for us. They cause us to reflect. Do not yield to them, but use them as a medium through which to view life correctly.”
— Robert E. Lee

Armentrout knew he couldn’t overcome these trials and tribulations by himself. So he leaned on the cornerstone of his life: Jesus Christ.

“What got me through it all, honestly, was I knew what I had done was the light of the Lord,” the 22-year-old said during our recent two-hour chat. “If God has a will for our life, we better do it.”

“In the end, God’s got a bigger plan and something way better for us. And if we don’t receive rewards or blessings … in this life, we will in the next.” Wise words from such a young man.

The rebel remnant

God’s favors did begin to manifest for Armentrout in the here and now. He experienced an outpouring of support, monetary and otherwise, from a slew of Southern-without-apology compatriots and even a few Northerners.

One of his favorite correspondence (as well as a generous donation to his college fund) came from a lawyer in New York City. “Good job, young man,” the letter read. “Even though I’m a Yankee, I respect your integrity and your character.”

The tremendous encouragement of like-minded folks who dare to oppose the cultural genocide was a feeling reminiscent to his days flagging overpasses in Pensacola, said Armentrout. Sure, there were always a few loud and belligerent people, who castigated him from their sense of self-appointed moral superiority.

“But at the same time, you’ve probably got four or five as many people going under the bridge, giving you salutes and thumbs up and honking their horns,” he recalled of his early activist days. “I’m telling you, it makes you feel free.”

He also got the backing of numerous SCV camps, received an award from the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, and was flown around the country for pro-Southern speaking engagements. The accolades were greatly appreciated and spurred in him hope for the Southern cause.

To defy the status quo is a rarity these days. But to do so in such a gallant and solitary way is almost unheard of. It struck a nerve with Southerners and non-leftists of all stripes. People who said, “It’s about damn time somebody stood up!”

Armentrout’s act of allegiance to ancestry, real history, and patriotic principles was even immortalized in a music video and his image made into pop art (as seen above). We “I’m very thankful there’s a remnant of people still left that respect the old-time way,” he said humbly.

From Russia with love

Armentrout’s blessings continued when he was contacted on Instagram by a woman from Moscow, Russia. “’You’re a hero,’ she wrote. ‘You’re a celebrity in Russia.’”

At first, he was distrustful and thought the message was some sort of publicity stunt. But as it turned out, she worked for the largest non-government-controlled media in Russia, Armentrout told me, and this free-press news channel wanted to interview him.

“For an American to actively stand up against the liberal movement and to experience what I experienced, to them, I’m a folk hero,” Armentrout commented. “I don’t consider myself a hero … but that’s how they saw me.”

So, he prayed about it and finally agreed to the offer. A Los Angeles correspondent and news team from Moscow flew into North Carolina, and Armentrout met them at a park near his house.

He specifically chose a public meeting place. “Last thing I want to do is get abducted, thrown into a van, and wake up in Russia somewhere,” he remarked with a chuckle.

When The Last Patriot of America segment aired, “I had hundreds of people from [former] Eastern Bloc countries and Russia contact me, and telling me, ‘We’re proud of you. Russia backs you up!’”

“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.”
— Robert E. Lee

”People who lived under communism know how precious freedom is and they see the leftist direction America is going,” Armentrout assessed. “They’re screaming … ‘Don’t give up your rights! Why are you giving in to these liberals? Why are you letting them take over this country? We’ve been there, done that. It doesn’t work!’”

Still today, some in the the Russian press and alternative media will refer to Armentrout as “one of the few traditionalists” left in America. Funny that the most honest assessment he got from any TV news network or newspaper came from people who once lived under Bolshevism.

“It showed me the condition of America,” he said matter-of-factly. “The truth in American journalism is just dying out. It’s all fake.”

Triumph over tragedy

Another happy point for Armentrout was that he and Pensacola State University came to an amicable agreement, and he eventually got accepted to a new school. All his college credits transferred, and he’ll be graduating in May 2019, just one year late and debt-free.

“Shake off those gloomy feelings. … Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them, turn them to your advantage.”
— Robert E. Lee

During the interim, Armentrout got a job with a tree company, which offered him a short-term but adventurous opportunity to work out in California with the sequoias. He also bought a house in North Carolina, which he’s now subleasing, so he could accept a career-advancing position out of state.

This Proverbs reference was recently tagged on Charlottesville’s Beta Bridge, which serves as a “tradition of expression” for locals and UVA students. The verse is “Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set” and was painted along with the words “Love thy neighbor as thyself” from Mark 12:31. This display of humility and hope covered Antifa’s message, “Still here, still fighting,” as well as their socialist-paramilitary symbols. Guess what, comrades? We rebels are still here and fighting, too.

“The reason that good things happen in my life is because the Lord’s good to me,” Armentrout affirmed. “I don’t take a bit of credit for any of it. It’s all Him.”

He sees too how God used his seeming misfortune to open other doors. “I was able to witness to some people that the Lord put in my life through this ‘set back.’ I know that ultimately through my suffering … I was able to share the Gospel.”

When asked if he’d do Charlottesville all over again, Armentrout replied with an adamant “yes.” He’s simply not consumed by the rage and the debasement that so defines the leftist mob and their sinister “social justice.”

He holds no animus toward the people who screamed obscenities at him or lied about him. He’s not angry about the disruptions that were needlessly caused in his life. 

“As Southerners, we invest emotionally in what we do. When we believe, we put our heart and soul into it. When people attack us … it hurts,” Armentrout admitted. Yet this Southern son overcame. He perseveres by holding tight to his faith, praying for his enemies, and clinging to heritage.

“You can’t change history,” he said. “You can rewrite it. You can author it. You can brainwash millions of people, but it doesn’t change what actually happened. And people that stand up for the truth are always and will always be in the right.”

“Duty … is the sublimest word in the our language. Do your duty in all things … You cannot do more, and you should never do less.”
—Robert E. Lee

See, we unReconstructed folk understand that the Confederacy fought to preserve decentralization: an ideology, a way of life, a civilization-building, liberty-enhancing political, cultural, and societal belief system that took more than 500 years to develop and foster, improve upon and establish. A blessing of the boldest sort, but a delicate one no less.

That is at the heart of Dixie. It’s a heart for the small and local, the familial and the neighborly, the tried and traditional, the minimally governmental and exponentially private. Southerners understand perfectly well that the centralizers, meddlers, expansionists, and progressive enforcers seek the opposite. They always have.

After all, Southern rebels been living under their iron thumb for 150 years; it is our coerced, ugly reality. And we don’t like what we see, nor do we like that we must subsidize our own demise.

So we resist this “progress” in any way that we can, but we need to do it more. Unafraid and unapologetic. Just like Armentrout did. And just like so many before us have done.


“I’m a Good Ol’ Rebel”

One such person was Maj. James Innes Randolph, who wrote the poem “I’m a Good Ol’ Rebel” and also happened to be topographical engineer to General J.E.B. Stuart during the War of Northern Aggression. His poem evolved into a folk song and has since become an unReconstructed anthem, expressing poignantly both Southerners’ deadly War experiences and raw emotions post-War.

Author and historian Dr. Boyd D. Cathey recently penned three new verses “to reflect what has happened over the past 150 years and what we are facing today.” Above is the updated version as performed by Braden Harwood, Sons of Confederate Veterans member of the James-Younger Camp in Norwood, North Carolina.

Dr. Cathey concludes with the words “Victory, it is our goal and heaven is our fate.” But he has no illusions and admits that “we go to fight a large and vicious foe. Our chances are not great and that is what we know.”

But this isn’t a conflict of our own making. It is one for survival. It’s the mob who has chosen to ramp up their revolution. They aren’t interested in reconciliation. They want to dominate.

So our monuments and our past are on the chopping block, being sent wholesale to the “social justice” guillotines. “Off with their heads” till not another statue or Confederate remains, dead or alive.

Gotta purge Johnny Reb so the alt-Marxist metamorphosis can really take hold. His downfall is justified in order to obtain new, better America. If only he would shut up or just go away.

Yet, he keeps on fighting. Head held high, faith abounding, and against the tide. It’s in his blood.

“How it will all end, I cannot say but will trust to a kind providence, who will, I believe, order all things for the best.”
— Robert E. Lee

History is filled with ordinary people who sometimes do extraordinary things. Individuals who are called because of time and place, because of circumstances beyond their control, to do fearless acts. To do what is right, no matter what.

Such is the story of Allen Armentrout – a Christian who lives in this world, but not of it. He’s not defined by it, and he’s certainly not going lose sight of Heaven because of it.

Instead, he stays focused and unremitting, and filled with humility and hope, like his hero Lee. Just like Christ called him to be. “Just be proud of God … and He can do the same thing in your life like he’s done in mine.” Indeed, what a way to view life correctly.

Source: Dissident Mama – Allen Armentrout, part 3: Humility and hope

Why is India not so rich?


When your parents are conservative and rigid, you are likely to commit more personal and inconsequential mistakes because you cannot imagine living your life without experiencing and experimenting the unconventional aspect of life. Curiosity within you is something that cannot be intrinsically controlled at any cost. You wish as well as aspire for more freedom, when your parents display tyrannical tendencies against you or your controlled behavior. In this saga, you’re least likely to accept personal responsibility after committing some error. The outcome of this setting would be that, your parents might end up compelling you for some uninvited or unexpected decision. Which means that, you do not enjoy a proper standard of living, freedom of choice, consent and individual liberty.
In par with the above prolusion, our economy is almost like a rigid parent. When your economy is liberal, free and flexible, you possess a better ambiance to try and experiment something with a sense of onus and belonging-ness. Yes, you will undoubtedly make mistakes, but you’re likely to learn from it since the environment would be in a way of establishing and incentivizing individual responsibility as well as personal accountability. Don’t we feel good, when our parents understand us and our personal liberties/choices? Similarly, it feels great to endorse when government acts as a watch-man in the system. When government acts like a nanny state, people enjoy less freedom and indecent lifestyle. It’s simple. Therefore, the burden of proof isn’t on me to prove the caliber of freedom. It’s on the proponents of government to tell us “How does maximizing the power of statism benefit the standard of freedom for all?

Today, India celebrates her Independence day. As usual it’s a routine to publicly celebrate this day, without introspecting the modern character of independence. This blog does not question the credibility of independence. It simply endeavors to examine the status of independence. Hope I am not judged as “anti-national” for bothering a bit more about the quality of freedom. To begin with, Indian economy – since 1947 – has been celebrating “license raaj” through the mode of socialism. Followed with “Hindu rate of growth” wherein economic fatalism played a huge role in shaping the social cognition of India; development didn’t really trickled down till the year 1991. The year 1991 experienced a great transitional stage, as Indian economy liberalized, privatized and globalized herself. It also proved, to our inutile comrades, how socialist model or soviet model is/was coherently unfit to govern the socioeconomic structures of India. LPG stands for liberalization, privatization and globalization, which is not antithetical to the axioms of capitalist model. But, in our parallel-cum-real universe, I see India redoing socialism by using different euphemisms at different levels to fool different people differently. Take the example of government’s populism over the economics of fiscal spending: [the] total government expenditure has increased from ₹20,144 billion (for the financial year, 2016-17) to ₹21,467 billion (for the financial year 2017-18) – an increase of almost ₹1.32 trillion. Breaking news, isn’t it? Get this straight: “The more the spending, the lesser the economic freedom. Lesser the economic freedom, higher the dependency.”

Do not you think that the celebrators of ‘Independence Day’ should judge the relation between fiscal spending and economic freedom, in order to realize how much their government loves to keep people fiscally dependent than financially independent?

On the other hand, India’s PM Narendra Modi once called MGNREGA prog. “a living monument of UPA’s failure”. MGNREGA is a keynesian policy started by UPA govt., a decade ago, to employ the conscience of broken window fallacy. The prog. does not add any value to the people who are employed under the socialist scheme. It is just about digging the road and reconstructing the road, with an intent to keep unskilled laborers ’employed’. The current govt. led by PM Modi has impudently allocated 480 billion rupees to the prog. Isn’t this a trait of maximum government and minimum governance? Plus, in the name of re-capitalisation and other banking-related nonsense, Modi government has infused 2 trillion rupees into the system. Privatizing the public banks would be a coherent decision, but the government suffers from apoplithorismosphobia and to liberate it from the chains of slavery which it radically reveres would be a dangerous idea.

Keeping it straight: Capital-ism is an essential feature to determine the growth and development of land, labor and entrepreneurship. Any placement of uncontrollable feature above the spirit of capital can lead to systematic destruction of the economy. Unfortunately, the political fraternity is usually and continuously interested to place its “national” interests over the functions of capital and intends to also replace the spatial zone with more unchecked political power. My logic 101 states that power cannot coexist with capitalism. Either you believe in the power of politics or else in the catallactic dynamics of economy. To have both at the same time is a dangerous idea.
Using the PPP (purchasing power parity) of 2011 to determine the contemporary ratiocination of poverty in India, World Bank (WB) estimates India’s poor population to be around 172 million. Total population of India is around 1.34 billion, which constitutes 18% of the global population. You may believe that average income for many Indians is between $1.90 – $2.30 per day. Followed by systematic statism of India’s government on the organized sector, informal economy constituting 80-85% seems more lucrative. Actually speaking, India grows at night because day time is peculiarly a slot of the regulated activities. Regulations may or may not help the economy to grow, but however, it is vital to learn that minimum regulations can vouch maximum governance. Otherwise, maximum regulatory frames simply end up enlarging the size of government interventionism. So, what is stopping India to grow quickly? The answer is deficiency of economic liberty. Now, assuming that regulations do “greater good”, Indian economy should not shy from confessing the following details:
Ease of doing business: 100 / 190 nations
Economic freedom: 130 / 190
Free speech: 138 / 190
Ease of obtaining construction permit: 181 / 190
Life expectancy: 125 / 190
Education index: 141 / 190
Happiness Index: 133 / 190
Human Development index: 131 / 190
Gender Inequality index: 125 / 190
The above rankings generally give an impression of periphery status of Indian economy. I opted to specially focus on the given rankings because they are the essential parameters of economic growth and development. Yes, we don’t discourse about it in our public sphere because the government and its media complex intends to sell “peaceful lies” than “dangerous facts” to the people of India.

Considering that governmental committees commissioned by the India’s parliament focus more on the school of poverty from the outlook of salt-water economic thought, which virtually does not benefit the poverty line at large because populism and demagogy incentivize the political willingness in this nation. India is not so rich, like Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Japan or Hong Kong, because the so-called economics committees formed to solve poverty are inured to adopt conventional methodologies. It is not coherent to repeat the same model/approach and expect a very different outcome. Only when the government limits the political zone of power interests, capitalism shall rescue more poor Indians from poverty. Say, the richest 10% Indians own 80% of wealth because regulations have been framed in a way that does not mobilize others to grow. From the perspective of “public choice theory (economics)”, the rich grow richer because Indian economy is biased towards its own people. You cannot compel a man to stand in a bucket and tell him to lift the bucket, right? In this thought, laffer curve can do its prolusion to mobilize more decentralization or else centralization of economy will iterate “permission raaj” system.

To ratiocinate, it would make sense to cherish “Independence Day” when India legitimizes “right to deviate”. Independence is not about depending upon your master. It’s about “freedom from master’s coercion”. When an individual is censored and condemned at the various levels of socialization, for preferring “dangerous truth” over “peaceful lies”, the society – as a whole – is weakening the foundation of independence without realizing the implications of abhorring individualism. When people are dependent upon government to legalize sexual orientation and other privacy-related matters, the society is debauching the state of liberty. In my opinion, it would also make sense by linking the status of economic freedom with the Independence Day celebrations…so that our society would get to organically know its own “intellectual honesty”. Ending this blog with a direct question to introspect upon Independence Day celebration: “Who is more safer at 2 am on our public roads: Cows or Girls?

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About the author

Prof. Jaimine Vaishnav is an anarcho-capitalist prof. based in Mumbai, India. His hobbies are about defending the liberties of all his dissents without charging any fee at the cost of nobody.

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Episode 89 – Barefoot Gen (1:06:33)

Based on a suggestion by a listener and to highlight the recent anniversary of the atom bombs being dropped on Japan, we cover “Barefoot Gen” and also briefly contrast it with “Grave of the Fireflies”.

Demanding unconditional surrender and using the pretense of invasion as political maneuvering while showing the destructive capacity now wielded to brewing adversaries, an entire generation of innocent civilians are murdered in cold blood with the wrong answer to the philosophical trolley problem.

The movies both show the horror of war at home that is then amplified at the dawn of the nuclear age.


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Hiroshima, August 1945. Gen is a cheerful elementary school student living in Japan during World War II. After years of living with difficult wartime rationing and impoverished conditions, Gen and his family have managed to maintain a relatively normal and happy life. All that is about to change when an atomic bomb destroys their city in an instant.

While Gen and his mother manage to survive the attack, the rest of their family is not so lucky. In the face of adversity, Gen manages to maintain his cheerful spirit and never loses hope that things will get better for him, and for the entire nation of Japan.

Based on the world renowned manga ‘Barefoot Gen’ by Keiji Nakazawa, Barefoot Gen captures the spirit of a nation struggling to redefine itself and gives us encouragement to overcome strategy and cherish human life. – Amazon Editor

As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources.

Forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities from the face of the earth, their doomed struggle is both a tribute to the human spirit and the stuff of nightmares. Beautiful, yet at times brutal and horrifying.

The stark fact is that the Japanese leaders, both military and civilian, including the Emperor, were willing to surrender in May of 1945 if the Emperor could remain in place and not be subjected to a war crimes trial after the war. This fact became known to President Truman as early as May of 1945. The Japanese monarchy was one of the oldest in all of history dating back to 660 B.C. The Japanese religion added the belief that all the Emperors were the direct descendants of the sun goddess, Amaterasu. The reigning Emperor Hirohito was the 124th in the direct line of descent. After the bombs were dropped on August 6 and 9 of 1945, and their surrender soon thereafter, the Japanese were allowed to keep their Emperor on the throne and he was not subjected to any war crimes trial. The Emperor, Hirohito, came on the throne in 1926 and continued in his position until his death in 1989. Since President Truman, in effect, accepted the conditional surrender offered by the Japanese as early as May of 1945, the question is posed, “Why then were the bombs dropped?”

https://mises.org/library/hiroshima-myth


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Here is the episode we did a few years ago on V is for Vendetta, it’s good fun back when we were all intellectual and smart sounding:

We’ll be back next week with a review of Office Space to help lighten the mood.  I hope you’ll join us!

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Allen Armentrout, part 2: Take my stand

“There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.”
— Robert E. Lee

In the final paragraph of part 1, Allen Armentrout told me how honoring the sacrifice of the Confederate dead “completes” him, giving him a sense of identity and peace spiritually. But is also serves a purpose ideologically, resisting the cultural cleansing to which his ancestors and Southern history are subject.

“Just put a foot down. This is your blood.”

Armentrout’s activism is steeped in liberty and in rebuking the poisonous nature of progressive dogma. “Exercising your rights is another thing that makes me feel complete in my life … (and) knowing that I can do something controversial and unpopular, and there’s nothing anyone legally can do to me.”

To the willfully uninformed, Armentrout was some loony kid who wanted to play dress-up on that fateful day Charlottesville last August. Or perhaps a “Nazi” who aimed to stir up trouble. Or maybe just a backwoods yahoo with bad timing.

Charlottesville was “not my first rodeo,” Armentrout said. In fact, ever since he took that life-changing ancestral pilgrimage to Keezletown and witnessed those unkept veterans’ graves, he had become a quiet but confident Dixie activist.

It first began with Armentrout attending city council meetings and tending to a Confederate cemetery in his hometown of High Point, North Carolina, where he’d clean the markers, rake pine needles, and fly his Battle Flag. Then “I would play Dixie on my phone and I would stand there and salute.”

“I didn’t care who was watching,” he explained. “I just knew that what I was doing was right.”

CSA veterans memorial in Pensacola.

By the time he moved to Pensacola, Florida, to attend college, Armentrout had grown bolder. He started flagging overpasses, which he described as a “piece of the puzzle” for him. Just a gray-uniformed man on a highly traveled road, holding a flag and saluting for hours.

“I would do it by myself, unfortunately,” he remarked, adding that there were always people who’d promise him they’d be there next time. But they never showed. “I’m not waiting on any other person.”

“Part of being Southern is being able to lead yourself, being able to govern yourself. Being able to say, ‘This is important to me, and I’m going to make it a point to go out and do something for what I believe and love.’”

Proving grounds of a patriot

When he saw an uptick in the bludgeoning of his heritage by Obama, the corporate press, the corrupt race-baiters, and self-loathing whites in the aftermath of the Charleston shooting in 2015, Armentrout joined a Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) chapter near his university.

The camp’s membership were “older gentlemen, who were not as zealous and, in my opinion, were kinda burned out,” he said. Armentrout was told on several occasions that if he kept flagging, he needed to represent himself as an individual, clearly distinguishing himself from the local SCV.

“Isn’t that what I joined this camp for?” he asked rhetorically. “I broke out my suit and started going to city council meetings as an ‘individual.’ I got super-active.”

His Dixie advocacy was well known in the Florida Panhandle. He was asked to lead the re-dedication ceremony (photo seen at top) of a once-public Confederate statue and flag, which had been returned to a local by the City of Crestview.

The Pensacola SCV “came after me and even attacked me, saying I was capitulating” to the Southern-symbol removers. Armentrout said. “I had had about enough of it.”

“There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man’s face and another behind his back.”
— Robert E. Lee

Fortunately, an Alabama SCV division defended him, offering him the organizational support he’d been needing. Armentrout became a member and the camp helped him with the Crestview dedication.

Although an SCV member in good standing, Armentrout understands the struggles of “Southern heritage” organizations trying to exist and do battle in our prickly post-modern world. Many Confederate descendants aren’t even willing to try to take the hill, much less die on it.

The Big Sleezy

It was this compliant attitude among some old-schoolers that ultimately led Armentrout to New Orleans. The Crescent City was ground zero of the Dixie-cide by the spring of 2017.

Monuments to three of the Confederacy’s most notable heroes – Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Louisiana’s own P.G.T. Beauregard – were under threat by quisling extraordinaire, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, a sinister Soros-backed band of carpetbaggers known as Take ‘Em Down NOLA, and all the usual suspects. These statues have all since come down.

]Antifa “want to see the destruction of this country,” Armentrout affirmed. “I saw them disgracing and tagging the monuments … and I said, ‘Where are the good guys?’”

“The only opposition the TV shows is people making fools of themselves … some guy doing something stupid with a Confederate Flag or saying something that makes him sound idiotic.” He wanted to counter that narrative and be a good guy.

The Lee statue is removed from atop the once-preeminent locale of New Orleans’ Lee Circle.

Armentrout told me he’d read that New Orleans SCV camps had advised their members to “stand down” and “restricted members from any way defending the monuments.” Needless to say, he was disappointed and thusly motivated.

“The SCV is a very valuable asset … (but) some members are not at good at actively taking up a Battle Flag and marching into a threat.” He was, so he did. And did so solo yet again.

Up to now, Armentrout had been received his share of disapproving looks when caring for tombstones in High Point. In Pensacola, the full-time student and employee and part-time activist had been told to “get a job,” called a “dumb ass,” and given pretentious lectures by guilt-obsessed people who claimed to have Confederate lineage.

He had even had a jar of peanut butter thrown at him while on a Florida overpass. So, when a black preacher cursed at him in New Orleans, it wasn’t that shocking – just another step in the social devolution he was experiencing firsthand as a resistor against it.

But seeing the stunning statues doused in red paint and covered with sticky foam did take him aback. And the city’s foot soldiers was even more jarring.

“I saw a fire truck roll by and a fireman got off the truck wearing a mask and a riot helmet, got a crowbar, ripped the plaque off of this monument … and threw it in the back of the truck and sped off.” The “goons” flabbergasted Armentrout.

“So many people are not natural leaders, they’re natural followers.”

So by the time Armentrout opted to go to Charlottesville, he’d seen some stuff, learned some lessons, and knew exactly what he was doing. He planned it precisely as to avoid bodily harm by the crazed hive-mind thugs he knew would challenge his legal and peaceful self-expression.

“In the South today, you have to understand, the Reconstruction and living under 150 years of Yankee occupation is going to have an effect on the inhabitants,” Armentrout said of anti-Confederate groupthink. “150 years of deluded history and eventually rewritten history, the implication of apathy in schools, where kids are taught not to care, is going to take its toll.”

“They’re just a product of the environment that the Yankees created.” It’s a gracious stance that many people, including some fellow Christians, would have a hard time taking: Lord forgive them for they know not what they do.

“I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.”
— Robert E. Lee

As a preemptive measure, Armentrout called the police department three times before driving up to Virginia as to notify them of his intent to salute the Lee statue and open-carry weapons for self-defense. “If you ever want to do something that by the world’s standard is crazy, call your local police department.”

He continued, “It gives the police dispatcher a forewarning and the police officer a prelude to understanding what’s going on before he pulls up to the scene.” It can help to dispel misinformation and fabricated claims of violence, as well.

Armentrout also had close friends of the family act as his advocates, phoning the police third-party, simply communicating that he’s “on point and not crazy.” All necessary precautions when entering as hostile an environment as Charlottesville.

Armentrout talks with Charlottesville police, one of whom asked the mob, “You want another day like Saturday, don’t you?”

At the previous weekend’s Unite the Right (UTR) rally, the Charlottesville Police had stood down, enabling the harsh brutality and consequent wreckage that needlessly befell people and property to unfold, so this measure was huge a gamble for Armentrout. But it paid off.

He told me the cops were utterly professional, both the ones who talked with him en route to Lee Park and once on site. “The police sergeant came up to me and was like, ‘Sir, you have every right to be here. We are here for you public safety because we know what can happen.”

The officer told Armentrout they had other things going on in the city and that his being there was tying up law enforcement resources. He added, “But we don’t expect you to leave.”

“Sir, I definitely respect other people’s public safety,” responded Armentrout. “I just came up here to respect my ancestors and pay my respects to Lee, and I just wanted to see this monument in the event it was taken down.”

Armentrout also noted that he’d driven far to honor Lee and needed a few more minutes, but did request a police escort back to his vehicle. “I wouldn’t feel comfortable walking out of here,” he said. So he whistled “Dixie” in his head, gave a final salute, and then nodded to the police.

“We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.”
— Robert E. Lee

The lying media made it seem as if Armentrout was forced to leave the park and that the righteous social-justice warriors had succeeded in chasing off the big, bad rebel. The fact that he wasn’t disarmed prove the fabricated plotline.

Armentrout’s .45 remained holstered while he rode in the front of the police cruiser, and his AR-15 just laid in the backseat. “‘This guy has a handgun on his side in my patrol car’ was probably the last of [the cop’s] concerns. He was probably like ‘I need to get this guy out of my town before another Saturday happens.”

Media madness

News crews and reporters were still lurking around Charlottesville because of the UTR event, so they arrived on the scene quickly. “They thought, ‘Here is this guy. He’s gotta be nuts,’” Armentrout said.

“He’s by himself with an AR at a Confederate monument that’s been at the seat of controversy. He’s going to do something … and we’re going to get it on camera.”

But “I didn’t, and it blew their minds. That’s what made those people yelling at me even madder,” he added. “I hope that me doing that … maybe they could see what Christ was like in that small moment. I had faith.”

It made no difference that Armentrout wasn’t the ignorant, redneck, belligerent cartoon character the Lincoln cultists have created as their perpetual scapegoat for all of society’s ills. Just as he had drawn the ire of the alt-Marxist hordes in Lee Park, the progressive press went after him with a vengeance.

“It’s the loneliest feeling in the world – to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, ‘What’s the matter with him?’ I know.”
— Robert E. Lee

Armentrout was portrayed as a “white supremacist” and a “racist protester,” who was carrying an emblem of “racial terror” say “historians.” The hyperbolic headlines and bombastic articles fed into the purposeful media manipulation that there are Nazis abounding in AmeriKKKa.

Wanting to set the record straight, Armentrout answered questions from a few newspapers, but the so-called journalists turned out to be hacks who wrote predictable hit pieces. Of course.

He said an English reporter wrote article with “a huge slant, basically saying I was condescending of women because I would pay for their dates or hold doors for them. I said, ‘I’m proud of that. I’m a gentleman.” So he stopped giving interviews.

The aftermath

Despite Armentrout’s self-imposed media-blackout, he still got hate mail. He even received a few death threats.

Unfortunately, Armentrout was also “released” from his upcoming senior year at Pensacola State University, which was supposed to be free. Not a good place for a young college kid to be, especially one who believes that “debt enslaves a person.”

Armentrout used GoFundMe to try to raise money for finishing up his undergraduate degree. But the website shut him down – twice! – due to alleged “hate speech” violations.

“You’ve got to be a man, you gotta take command of your own life, you gotta make choices that are tough,” he tells compatriots who may find themselves in these same dire straights. “You gotta decide what you want for you and your family, you gotta be willing to protect them.”

It takes earnest labor and unremitting perseverance, just like Lee wrote. “One day the Lord might call them to take a stand,” Armentrout said. “It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.”

Part 3, “Hope and humility,” will be published on Tuesday. Pinky promise!

Source: Dissident Mama – Allen Armentrout, part 2: Take my stand

The Myth of Tremendous Government: A Reply to Mark Christensen

By Darien Sumner

On July 23, Social Matter published an article by Mark Christensen titled “We Need Tremendous Government: Why Conservative Mythology Must Be Disrupted”.

His contention is that modern conservatism has long been dominated by libertarians who want to shrink government purely for its own sake, with no attention paid to the costs or consequences. Conservatives, therefore, should rebel against this negative influence and get back to what he contends is the root of conservative thought: Making America Great Again.

To do so, it is necessary to embrace the power of the state as a tool for advancing conservative interests. Unfortunately for Christensen, his quest to disrupt conservative mythology runs aground on three major flaws, which we will explore below. What Christensen Gets Right Christensen is far from wrong about everything.

Indeed, he is highly perceptive on the subject of President Trump. He writes: “The political leader of Republican America is a man with a very different message. In his journey to the White House, the words from Donald Trump’s mouth rang very different. Something like this: ‘I am a successful businessman. I have built great things and hired great people. The U.S. government is not successful and does not build things right now, but it used to. When I am in charge, I will use my tremendous ability to make it a success which builds great things once more. I will Make America Great Again.’”

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