It is snowing in Texas!
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
The Tide in the Affairs of Men
We know that new ideas do not take hold until an intellectual shift stirs the tide of opinion. Copernicus first discovered the heliocentric view of the world yet the Catholic Church would not recognize this as the major idea since it would create "disruption" in the world of man. Economics also shows this trend as it took centuries for man to adopt Laissez Faire economics after Adam Smith pubished The Wealth of Nations in 1776. Present day we find that collectivism seems to take hold and we see Government creating expensive departments with no improvements in our daily life. When will we see the implementation of a more freedom loving society promoted by Milton Friedman or Frédéric Bastiat?
Related Links:
The Tide in the Affairs of Men - by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman
Related Quotes:
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. - Milton Friedman
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. - Milton Friedman
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. - Frédéric Bastiat
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Do what you want...when you want to.
I'm sitting here at an Airport pissed off. Why? Because of my parents request of making me do something that I did not want to do. Doing so has caused me stress to no end and also stress to my family and other people...why do they do this? Good question, because simply they do not care about what I want but what they want. I'm sick and tired of playing this game. This makes me not want to come home in a very, very, very long time. (I can't stay away too long as I would miss my nieces too much.)
I'm trying to keep this in perspective as I blog... But you have your own life to live...nobody controls that. I have no idea why I agreed to this situation and I will NEVER again let this happen. I always did what I wanted to do in the past...why should this change? I wanted to create harmony and make my parents happy...but quite frankly to do that is either to lose a part of yourself and eventually have them live your life for you. Fuck that! I can NOT please them but I can definitely continue to do things that make me happy and successful.
What a learning lesson this has been for me this trip. Now I have to go home and start mending things for myself and to continue to get back on track.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Blogging and the future
I was driving to Pappasitos with someone very special to me and I realized that I have been blogging since before it went BIG on the Internet. Don't believe me...try going here: http://www.geocities.com/Genghis1227. If you go to My Links > Archives you will find a bunch of articles I wrote in the past...so it brings me to why am I complaining about this... I made a pretty successful attempt to create a larger based community when PromoteLiberty.org went with PostNuke but the hosting server crashed without a backup. I was pissed...who knows, my site could have been the myspace of the political realm (I can only dream.)
Nevertheless...I chose Myspace/Blogger to start blogging again...here I can keep up with friends and not worry about the webhosting bit. Maybe in the future I can make another "revolutionary" attempt on the web. Right now I will settle to rant & rave about issues.
Notable Quotes:
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. - Gerald Ford
It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it. - James Brown
Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life. - Saddam Hussein
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