Being Pissed-Off Is Not Enough

We should all become what we want, not just fight what we don't.

Every day I go to work and serve my clients, who have voluntarily chosen to engage me. I'm going to keep doing it no matter what. Knowing the system is corrupt is no excuse to be lazy.

which is pretty much the opposite of what we have now. It puts major limitations on bigness ... big government, big corporations, chain stores, etc. so that all the people in a given community are needed to do some part of the job that society needs. In this society, most people get to work in their own communities. No one gets filthy rich, everybody gets to earn a decent living, raise a family, start a business, whatever they are capable of. Seems to me creativity would abound. Men are always happier when they work for themselves.

Subsidiarity is the idea that whatever can be done locally, should be done locally ... especially where government is concerned. The more remote the government, the smaller it should be.

Is it perfect, no! But it's about as just a system as we can hope for on earth. Perfect only happens in heaven.

Thanks for this article.
I agree that complaints need to be followed by action, and good examples of future action.

And the Democrats make the same point...

Maybe some introspection is in order here...

There is WAY to much partisanship going on among the Ron Paul people... joining in with the Bushy Neo Con republicans trying to make Obama look like the BEGINNING of all that is wrong in America... NOT! In fact there is nothing all that unusual about Obama compared to the rest of the Presidents we have had lately.

Ron Paul does NOT bash Obama. Just listen to his own words.

Ron Paul needs to lead in this however. Ron Paul is against govenment health care? Fine. I am listening... not for the reasons NOT to... but for his vision of what a TRUE free market solution should be. And NO you cant just say Free Markets will take care of it. We have all seen lately how greedy Capitalists can be just as anti Free Market as power crazy federal government people.

Ron Paul has convinced me and many Democrats and Independants that indeed the central government has gotten WAY out of control.

Ron Paul needs to move beyond this. I get it. We get it. NOW WHAT? Is he suggesting all of Americas Liberty Loving rich people start a nonprofit to replace the insurance companies? Because I sure dont trust the insurance companies on the basis of "free markets" alone.

If not central government to take care of these problems then what kind of system DOES he invision for replacing the current "anti-free market" Captialist system we have today? Because it isnt all being caused by the federal government... it is these companies in conjunction with the federal government that is the problem.

So what is the change that must occur in the current capitalist system? Tell us not only what the government must NOT do, but also tell us what the government SHOULD be doing. And not just tell us the government should enforce contracts... tell us what this modern world would look like in details we can understand in everyday life... how would getting health care be different? Getting a drivers license? How would public services be paid for? I sure dont want a smaller government while the greedy anti-free market capitalists run hog wild....

for living well in liberty!

"Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world."

Long live the Republic of Lakotah.
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/

That's one of the strengths of Stefan Molyneux's approach - treating personal liberty as first class, instead of focusing exclusively on arguing history and economics with people. His effort to integrate the philosophy of liberty with psychology is really bringing in the last missing pieces to complete the puzzle.

and take it to work today...gonna share this marvelous insight with my liberty-minded co-workers. One fella keeps telling me that I am so angry all the time....that he spent a decade working on The Hill and was angry all the time too....but, he learned to say, "F*** it" and not let it eat at him anymore. He has a much more logical approach to preparedness than I do...gonna share this with him and change my own attitude, too!!
Thanks, xntryk1...you may have just saved me an embolism!

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Silence isn't always golden....sometimes it's yellow.

keep them coming X. lol

Thanks Xntryk for posting this. What a find.

You see this so often on this site. SO MUCH to complain and bicker about in the effort to preserve freedom.... but so little said about the fullness of living. So many arguments over what people think or believe OUTSIDE of the core belief in "freedom" .... and very little understanding that whatever it is that gives value and meaning and expression to someone's life - as long as it doesn't impose force on others - should, in fact be celebrated rather than criticized.

WOAH, this one is a keeper.
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"Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world."