I was at the last Melbourne dinner. It was a good night. We’ll hopefully do another one again soon too. Feel free to PM me.
Heey kangaroo people, when will you have your Mises Institute too?
Maybe someday when there’s Institutes in all English-speaking countries, we can tell that LvMI isn’t the best, it’s top 5 like Kinsella said! And yes you were quite lucky with your version of socialdemocracy.
I like the Socrates method (Mäeutik) of asking the right questions to help people testing their own beliefs and reach right conclusions their self’s. It gives them a better feeling and definitely works. But I am still not good at it, I often end up talking nonstop, and losing my vis-à-vis somewhere. At least I won’t have any problem to find new people for practicing in the foreseeable future.
BTW: I am not from , but from a country some Americans mistakenly believe to have Kangaroos as well. Although it is an odd thing to wish for, considering my citizenship, I’d wish we had more “Austrians” in !
Ok I’m not Australian neither but I write still. I think that Ron Paul has used perfect strategy - he is as radical as possible and uses his popularity to make people interested in libertarianism rather than trying to actually change the US. He backs his opinions with constitution, which is libertarian(well, minarchist actually). This strategy could be used in other parts of the globe too - a politican(minarchist maybe), who uses some historical figure/constitution/whatever to justify his libertarianism, so people could not refute him straigthly. This won’t turn the country into a stateless paradise, but will rise the number of libertarians.
Just a heads up for all Australians: there’s a Mises Seminar in Sydney featuring Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Buy your tickets now and avoid missing out: http://mises.org.au
This is mostly just for a bump, since there really isn’t anything written at this blog entry, it’s just a plug (although someone might wish to leave a comment)
Thanks JJ.
Where abouts do you reside exactly?
I reside in the US. Just figured it is good to publicize. Especially since there aren’t many opportunities like this in other countries…and the rest of the world needs this exposure at least as much (if not more) than the US.
Too right. Thanks.