Property is not so much a relation between a person and a thing as it is a relationship between the will of one person and the will of others.

#Bitcoin is the social extension of a natural power.

In ancient Greece, to be free meant first of all to be a citizen, that is, a participating member of the polis. This membership entailed certain powers, but freedom was not reducible to having these powers. Instead, they followed from freedom as its implication. In other words, freedom was an identity or a mode of being, an actuality, rather than a power or potency. View quoted note →

Freedom is not most fundamentally, a means by which one achieves an external goal. It is not first a power or choice. Instead, it is itself an end. Freedom is ultimately what we are set free for. In this understanding, the aspect of power or choice which has dominated the discussion of the nature of freedom is derivative. View quoted note →

While Marxism began the goal of providing justice to the working class, it in fact ended with a capitulation to the very capitalist culture it meant to subvert View quoted note →

This purely revolutionary character of Marxism proved to be paradoxical: its very form implied the overturning, eventually, of its own aims precisely to the extent that they became established. View quoted note →

Very interesting point from Augustine Del Noce on Marxism: Marxism represents the culmination of modernity, because it represents revolution in a pure form, and so the overturning of all inherited values, institutions and traditions.

血矿，人矿，不忍卒听

Apple Podcasts

忽左忽右

Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · 「忽左忽右」是一档文化沙龙类播客节目，试图为中文播客听众提供基于...

宋朝宫斗史，脑洞大开的一期

Apple Podcasts

忽左忽右

Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · 「忽左忽右」是一档文化沙龙类播客节目，试图为中文播客听众提供基于...

“Augustine sees this liberation decisively in historical terms, as an event that unfolds in time … The history of the soul’s enslavement, which is at a profound level an enslavement to itself as much as to some foreign ruler, belongs to the story of its freedom. The self-enslavement is that from which the soul is liberated, and the deed of liberation occurs as a particular event. “ — D.C. Schindler

#Bitcoin is a creative realization. The deed accomplished is not a sheer invention or fabrication but a making-good on a pledge already given.

致敬白纸运动中站出来的人

Political judgment are necessarily value judgments, political philosophy is necessarily ethical. View quoted note →

“Because man cannot NOT act as long as he is alive, and he must use scarce means to do so, he must also permanently choose between right and wrong conduct. The fundamental question of ethics — what am I here and now rightfully allowed to do and what no — is thus the most permanent, important, and pressing intellectual concern confronting man” —— HH Hoppe

Money is the means to an end, goods with utility for instance. There is potency to the means and there is actuality to the end. When value is stored in the means, i.e. money, more potency is enabled, ends is thus more attainable. Conversely if value is stored in the utility goods, it makes the ends less affordable. You want the means to be potent, not vice versa. #Bitcoin View quoted note →

Every affirmation is also a negation, much like every “free-to” is also a “free-from”.

恶的事物倾向于自我毁灭

“Sword will be drawn to prove that leaves are green. “

A state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only

A potency can be actualized only by what is already actual. It cannot produce its own actualization merely from inside itself. Your contribution to #Bitcoin counts.