The Origin Story of the State

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Origin Story of The State
00:12:12 Toward a Theory of Strategy for Liberty
00:17:00 Liberty is the Highest Political End
00:20:32 Libertarianism: The Philosophical Bedrock of the Cypherpunks
00:24:00 Liberty: A Moral Principle of Justice
00:27:20 Instantaneous Abolition of Statism is Ideal
00:30:17 “Gradualism in Theory is Perpetuity in Practice”
00:34:15 A Strategy Must Never Undercut its End
00:37:33 A Thought Experiment on Ends and Means
00:41:29 Liberty as the Ultimate Aim of Human Action
00:43:02 Bitcoin as a Force Multiplier for Liberty
00:47:49 Human Reason Zeroes-In on Self-Sovereignty
00:49:51 NYDIG
00:50:59 Accepting All Reductions of Statism with Alacrity
00:55:04 An Absolutist Approach Toward Liberty
00:57:20 Education is a Necessary Condition for the Victory of Liberty
01:04:00 Education is the Ultimate Psychotechnological Tool
01:09:59 Bitcoin Incentivizes the “Living Out” of Liberty
01:13:50 Right Opportunism vs. Left Sectarianism
01:20:46 A Free Mind Never Concludes
01:24:24 The Transjectivity of Adaptation, Price, and Fitness
01:28:16 Reasons for the Optimism of Libertarianism
01:32:02 Equilibrated vs. Disequilibriated Structures
01:37:21 “Once You Get Bitcoin, You Can’t Un-get It”
01:40:32 Did Digital Technology and Globalization Extend the Run of Statism?
01:43:00 What is There Left to Try But Freedom?
01:46:11 The De-Sanctification of The State
01:53:39 Bitcoin: The Libertarian “Ace in the Hole”
01:56:21 Bitcoin: The Ultimate Weapon of Individual Liberty

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