As a corollary to that: when you roll your eyes when playing Civilization IV and the State Property civic eliminates maintenance costs, raises production (?!), and increases food from watermills and workshops (?!?!).
Also, I found this when playing one of my favorite mods of the game, Rhyes and Fall of Civilization:
Ack, you can’t see it. Well, it says that new ways to decrease inflation was found and that if you pay some money out of your treasury and establish a Fed, you cut inflation by 25%. If you let the free market handle it, inflation is only cut by 10%. What a load of crap, huh? It’s the same mod where depressions are caused when your finances get much higher than your production (underconsumptionist theory for the lose).
when you are reading this thread trying to think of something clever but you eventually just end up posting this while stuffing your mouth with Apple Jacks.
When you end up convincing your friends, and strangers that anarcho-capitalism is the best alternative and don’t know how you started the conversation out.
When your Professor can’t help but include anarchy in every mention of systems like aristocracy, monarchy and democracy, and looks at you every single time he says Anarchy.
When you use the opinion section of a paper to try to convert your teacher over to anarchism.
When you’ve convinced all your immediate family that we ALL prohibitions are crap.
When you accuse a local talk radio station of being “shills for the regime” because they openly support ratting people out who own “illegal” firearms.
When you get cut-off from said radio station for being more “radical” than pan-Africanists and neo-Mercantilists.
When you mix in the phrase: “Of course the state loves killing people, it’s what it does best” whenever talk of politics arises. (Thanks to Mr. Rockwell for that gem)
“When your Professor can’t help but include anarchy in every mention of systems like aristocracy, monarchy and democracy, and looks at you every single time he says Anarchy”
Lol replace ‘anarchy’ with ‘Hayek’ or ‘Austrians’ and thats me and my political economy lecturer.
free market/wealth is unstoppable. if you absolutely must have a military, go for clean reactors. it won’t upset your cities when they are supporting so many troops. but I’ve never had problems with invading armies, I just buy up the poor hive soldiers and turn them on their former comrades (ah, capitalism). my division of labor between workers/supply carriers is so clean that my citizens could watch pornography all day and still have plenty of food to survive and pop out a new wonder whenever I feel like it. but if you turtle up and play the rothbardian, you you’ll be able to out tech, out defend, and out produce anyone in the game.
plus, I make that barren, ugly planet in my own image, full of thermal boreholes, condensors, forests…ah…it feels goot to be an an-cap.
“When you have Laissez Faire tattoo’d on your chest.” Now that is a tattoo I might actually get. Although i’d use the whole quote, “Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!”
…when must constantly, in class, clarify points for your professors about the New Deal or the history of the FED.
…when you just want the banks to collapse so we can have a laugh.
…when you start noticing inter-personal information asymmetries between friends. Then, when you point out the gap of misunderstanding in the opposing parties opinions, you are the one that ends up ‘in the wrong’.
…when you tell your friends that reading fiction is a waste of time. Harry Potter is bullshit; read Aliester Crowely if you want magik, n00bs.
…when reading Jefferson and Say, you confirm your prior natural estimates about things and that it is, in fact, everyone else that is crazy.
…when examples of an “Orwellian society” are no longer revelations, but trite/cliche/passe annoyances with their repetition, flagrancy, and stunning, non-sensical effectiveness on “everyone else.”
…when you automatically think that there’s a “gun in the room” when a problem in society occurs, even if you can’t find it.
…when you use, exploit, and consume public services and property as much as you can and think you’ve made a virtous effort in undermining the government.
…when you look for opportunities in using the black market even when it’s unnecessary and causes a gain loss.
…when you automatically presumes in advance that politicians and tax funded agencies and institutions always is talking bullshit, when you thank that it’s their natural state.
…when you say no to alcohol a saturday night, because you have planned to read a Murray Rothbard book the forthcoming morning, and you don’t want to spoil that experience with a hangover.
