Visiting my parents, a conversation came up that moved the post I was thinking of doing on why I consider those who call taxation theft, theives themselves forward in my mental queue. The world is going through a major conflict right now; arguably conflicts, the most prominent is globalists vs populists or fascists vs anti fascists, or even conservative vs liberal. And none of them are quite right. I am not going to spend time explaining what those six words really mean, but provide a link that at least gets the process started. The inciting conversation really came about why China was facing problems now due to its very limited thinking during the population limit that were popular in the world mindset during the 1970's and are slowly kiling them now. That lead to a discussion over people who are willing to easily accept authoritarian solutions to problems, even people who are in favor of small government.
I think the best way to distill this to the real world is, why is the worlds richest liberatian; Charles Koch, willing to fund the worlds most dangerous fascist; Ron Desantis. After all, a small government advocate should be the most virulent anti fascist of all, since on their lovely little world view chart they put themselves at opposite of statism. And yet, this is just babbling. Time and time again, libertarians are just as willing to use authoritarian means to achieve their ends as anyone else; more so I would argue. My step father summed it up rather well as Zero Sum vs Growth. And it was perfect, except for memetic purposes.
The best summary of the issue I can think of is why so many gold standard advocates, who are now reincarnated into bitcoin advocates; which I summarize in my critique of twitter. To take a very complicated concept and distill it down as much as possible; people who like the gold standard like it because there is only so much gold. People who like bitcoin mainly like it because there is only so many bitcoins. They hate inflation, they hate inflationary currencies, and they want the world to exist the same way forever. Never mind, that entropy is the greatest force in the universe and change even more constant than death itself; this is the mindview of people who dont understand abstract concepts very well.
