This blog was created a few years ago with the idea of it being a kind of private academic journal and with each entry I fought myself trying to make it both very casual and very informative and I pulled myself in two different ways at the same time. This resulted in something that I mainly ignored and did not enjoy even looking at so I am here today in the midst of a global hysteria to revamp and reBoot the entire project.
Originally this was to focus on the archaeology of Japan and Greater East Asia but I quickly realized that I was getting too caught up on making this an academic journal when it is most clearly not.
What was once an over cautious attempt to push research is now a casual exploration of the past with a key interest in exploring what we can learn about the past from an economic and Liberty faced lens. This applies not only to the work of archaeology but also to the general state of affairs in the nation states of the world.
The development of the COVID-19 hysteria and power grab by state governments has made me realize how little the average person cares about freedom and prosperity. There seems to be a blindness to the reality of the situation masked from an inability or unwillingness to see the apparatus of the State impeding people’s lives and livelihoods. So, in that respect we will be exploring the past here but at the same time, I will be using the events and dispositions of the past to highlight the coercive nature of the state and the immoral violence that the existence of states bring to life upon the earth.
As a Rothbardian Libertarian, I am naively surprised that there are not more people who share this position. The idea that people have the right to control their own lives should not be a radical position in any time period. Historically speaking any allegiance to the kind of statism that pervades throughout the globe is relatively modern but the attempts of states and governments to implement it are not.
Most libertarians are political and US based:
Myself on the other hand am more focused on the ways in which societies of the past organized themselves and prospered. The relationship between economic growth and development in relation to the presence and nature of states and governments is a particularly interesting aspect to me and I imagine that it is a topic other libertarians or history enthusiasts may find appealing as well.
Either way here’s whats on the menu coming up. in the Fall of 2020.
Guests: none 😦
Topics: a whole bunch.
Big Projects: 3
1. Building the Courts of a Stateless Society.
2. Book on early Japan
3. Confucianism and Libertarianism
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