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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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