At a time when many are advocating possible military intervention in Libya by U.S. and Western European Powers, I have posted a piece on, “Practicing the Principles of Non-Intervention — At Home and Abroad.
I explain and defend the principles of non-intervention in foreign affairs on both moral and practical grounds, and on the same basis that the classical liberal argues against political intervention in the affairs of one’s own countrymen at home.
Instead, I call for the de-politicization, the privatization of foreign policy, with the free individual at liberty to support foreign causes that he may consider deserving of his assistance in various ways. But the State should not be involved in such foreign affairs.
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Fostering Reason Is Not Part Of ‘Education’ By The State.
One of the differences between living now, in the Dark Ages of economics, and in the future will be the ability of people to think logically. Not that people do not have the capacity, it is just that the indoctrination of the State which has been passed off as ‘education’ does not polish the gem of reason.
To those of us who are polishing the gem of reason these wise words of Richard Ebeling cannot be more clear and concise.
Again, all interventionism interferes with the flow of knowledge and so it necessarily follows that until interventionism is purged completely education will suffer. Yet, information flows around the obstacles created by the State and so there are two processes at work. One is the slow (unless the irresistable economic equilibrium force surges and wipes it out in one fell swoop) dissolution of institutionalized interventionism and the other is the accelerating search for knowledge and the means of attaining knowledge.
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