Sublime

Network Effects

“A man must be a very great genius to make up for being such a loathsome human being.” (I guess she would know.)

The life appropriate to a human being—the life appropriate to a rational being—is not a luxury above the basic requirements of survival. It is the basic requirement of survival. On the individual level, the person who refuses to think, to act, to pursue values, either perishes outright or exists as a parasite on the efforts of persons more rational

Cantwell’s strongest philosophical influences were Mises, Rothbard, and Rand—Jews one and all.

No tirades against “individualism” and “the ivory tower,” no pious platitudes to the effect that “true individuality is only attained through identification with the community,” can get over the fact that a bought mind is a spoiled mind.

RUTHLESS PEOPLE

Any individual in the General Market can give to the poor, pay for someone else’s schooling, donate money to foreign governments, or hire protection. It isn’t his choice he’s concerned about when he wants the government to do those things. It’s someone else’s choice that he’s trying to overrule.