Forget "Constitutional Crisis" - Forget "Crisis in State Legitimacy" - and THINK: What Does It Mean When The Very Logic of Collective Action indicates "No Collective" is BEST?!

Nothing "works" in Tosh, here in the Parvati Valley - and we just got the electricity back after over 48 hours of its "collective absence"

Ditto for roads, ditto for water, and ditto for even the most "basic" of collectivistic ideations: Civic Municipal Services, the "root" of even Sidney Webb's most outrageous "Fabian Socialist" fantasies.


So, we can THINK - why not privatise everything? And let disparate businessmen and firms take disparate investment decisions about supplying electricity, roads, water, et. al. - just as they do with et. al. - and then let's et. al. get on with it - the serious business of life, that is.




And - so it seems to me - in this FUCK de India - that we might as well all holler out loud:

 

FUCK THE COLLECTIVE

Really, to me The Question we really need to ask, especially in this FUCK de India, is:

What is the "collective goal" - or "collective end" - that we are supposedly pursuing with all this overhyped "collective action" called The State (and especially its Central Managers of the Mythical National Economy)?

For, if that "collective goal" or "ultimate end" is the CHIMERA of that Growth Rate Statistic so beloved of all Keynesians as a "means" by which to "beguile the gullible public" into believing that their "collective services" are required for the pursuit of "collective economic ends" - WHERE EVEN THE LOCAL MUNICIPAL ORGANISATION FAILS! - well, Swaminomics has just concluded saying we can COLLECTIVELY FORGET about high growth rates "for the foreseeable future." He says something about THEIR "inefficient corruption," too.

So - FACE IT, dudes.

This is COLLECTIVE FAILURE - at each and every "level" of this Leviathan of a Centralised State.

This means nothing but what This Blog has been asserting for years now - that all solutions lie in The Market, in Competition, in Free International Trade all all that goes with it - like the International Gold Standard - and International Mercantile Law as well.

When it comes to the Gold Standard, I still stand by the last paragraph of my 2009 column advocating its return:

Any nation can unilaterally revert to the gold standard whenever it chooses. If we do so, our rupee, now pegged to gold, will always appreciate against the rest of the world’s fiat papers. This will help us become big importers. And cheap imports, including of capital goods and components, will make our manufactured exports competitive in terms of technology, quality and price. Our banks will attract the world’s savings, and we will possess capital, the vital ingredient of “capitalism”. All prices will steadily fall and the consumption of the poor will rise in leaps and bounds. This is the power of “sound money”.

Think about it any which way you like:


If some 6.9999 billion of the total 7 billion humans on this planet are being SCREWED by InflationISM and National Socialism financed by it - then REAL DEMAND for the planet as a whole will always fall.

It's Say's Law vs. the Keynesians - and I discussed this in a 2008 column, actually. 


Thus, when people like me assert - and keep on repeatedly asserting - that all solutions lie in the Free & Competitive Internationalised Market - it means nothing else than that the MISMANAGERS of the MYTHICAL COLLECTIVE ECONOMY must go - the way of the dodo.


Free International Trade means - what else? - that the consumptions, possessions and properties of the people will rise with open borders - just as the value of their savings will rise with sound money - and the entire planet will progress towards CIVILISATION.


Aaaaaah? Do I hear a New Word, there? This New Word called:

CIVILISATION

What does This Collective Goal require of The Collective?

Sound Municipal Organisation, for one - while keeping in mind that "Rome was not built in a day."

And NO COLLECTIVE ECONOMIC BULLCRAP.

It is to be a World of Private Economies, Private Monies, Private Law, and of PRIVACY from The State and its snoops.

Thus, it seems to me at least - that The Logic of Collective Choice in this FUCK de India says, loud and clear:

We Don't Need No Collective Actions

Of course, here in the Parvati Valley, the Total Futility of Internationalised Collective Actions geared towards the UNWINNABLE - apart from RIDICULOUS and even UNJUST - UN-US "WAR ON DRUGS" becomes even more apparent here.

It's not just the Cannabliss War that is NONSENSICAL - anti-knowledge, anti-medicine, anti-history - even if they try till the Ends of Time they cannot solve the Riddles presented to them by all the Designer Drugs like LSD, MDMA, Ecstasy, et. al. 

The only solution to Cops are TORTS.


What "good" are our COPS in this FUCK de India, anyway? They breed unlaw, if you ask me.

Yeah - we need to THINK of the LOCALism of TrueBlue RepublicanISM - coupled with an InternationalISM never seen ever before in human history - and of LAW GOVERNING instead of Silly Men & Even Sillier Women ruling arbitrarily All the Fuckin' Time.

ENOUGH!

Recommended reading: MY old column calling for A Second Republic on the Legal Grounds that COLLECTIVE PROPERTY is LEGAL FICTION.


Anyway, Mancur Olson might just be turnin' in his grave right now - for there is NOTHING LEFT for COLLECTIVE CHOICE anymore, at least not according to me.





 

On Very Heavy Fuel - In TOSH, Parvati Valley

 

I'm within kissing distance of snow-capped Himalayan peaks - and it's just an overnight bus from Dilli door ast. But there are no roads out of Dilli - and there are no roads into the Parvati Valley - and there is only the NHAI in between - the Ugliest State Monopoly Ever Seen In History.

So I call the Great Institution that Thomason, God Bless His Soul, established:

THE PUBLIC FAILS DEPARTMENT

Now, we can well imagine that if the Noble Thomason's Public Works Department has been morphed into this monstrous Public Fails Department, then what the FUCK must have happened to the EDUCATION of Macaulay, Bentinck, and Elphinstone.


Anyway, to DISTIL the essence of so many wondrous thoughts that have passed my mind over the past many days - "we live in our thoughts" - let me just note down the following:

EDUCATION IS NOT THE SOLUTION

EDUCATION IS THE PROBLEM

LEGISLATION IS NOT THE SOLUTION

LEGISLATION IS THE PROBLEM

BUREAUCRACY IS NOT THE SOLUTION

BUREAUCRACY IS THE PROBLEM

POLITICS IS NOT THE SOLUTION

POLITICS IS THE PROBLEM

To conclude, the IAS needs to WAKE UP to The Fact that its Land Policy is FUCKED UP.

A good land policy would make this sub-continent into a Great Piece of Real Estate.

Here, you have SLUMS - everywhere.

And all the Unowned Land is State-Owned.

And all the Owned Land is Titleless!

FUCK SOCIALISM!

 "Where there is no Property, there is No Justice," 
wrote John Locke in 1691.

  


 

IndividualISM - The Way to THINK - the very opposite of CollectivISM

 

My previous post talked about what my critics would call "trade policy" - 

EXPORT CHARAS

IMPORT SUVs

and so it behooves me to now demonstrate with pellucid clarity that In Reality - because only Individuals take decisions in the marketplace - that UNILATERAL FREE TRADE would be the Best Option even for a Tiny Republic of Tosh up here in the High Himalayas.

For, even if more-or-less EVERYONE became a charas farmer and exporter, they might decide to import lots of other stuff - from Timberland shoes, say - to microbrewery technology - to whatever.

Since none of these can be predicted, nothing can be "planned" - so NO TRADE POLICY is the BEST POLICY.

Trust Yourself - in The Market - and Do Not Trust the Expertise of the State - especially in matters economic.

What about POLITICS, then?

Obviously, then, the DIRECT DEMOCRACY of Swiss-style RepublicanISM - is the way out - for you TRUST only the "representative" of Your Free Republic - and NOT some one atop Laputa-on-High in Dilli door ast.

IndividualISM - is the Way of Thinking that is the Antidote to all forms of collectivism, including the most dangerous - NationalISM.

IndividualISM - InternationalISM - Catallaxies - these go together - and thereby bring about Peace, Prosperity and Civilisation.

Good Question That Gautam Adhikari Has Asked: "Does The System Need Change?": Take #2

 

Adhikari's column begins with the idea of a popularly elected President being floated around by some BJP dud - but he ends up rejecting the NONSENSE of some CEO of a Strong & Centralised LAPUTA of a State being able to do any better - and finally concludes with some ideas this blog has been professing - as PRINCIPLES.

Adhikari concludes:

Can a switch to a presidential system revive India’s prospects? Alas no. India’s managerial crisis probably has other roots. Having a directly elected CEO won’t alter anything without a root and branch overhaul of our present model of governance.

The real problem is we repose far too much authority and power in the leviathan of government, with its army of bureaucrats at both the central and state levels, to enable any truly efficient management of the nation’s affairs. We inherited the model from the British Raj. It has now passed its sell-by date.

For India to run efficiently, the size and reach of the federal government must shrink dramatically through much deeper decentralization than we have had thus far and through privatization of activities, such as running airlines or coalmines or industrial behemoths, which the government need not perform.

That’s the relevant subject we really need to debate.

Yes - True Blue RepublicanISM - let's begin with this PRINCIPLE - and proceed to SUBSIDIARITY.

Interestingly, this comes to you from a place called TOSH in the Parvati Valley - an area steeped in a Rich History of Local Sovereignty, Traditions & Customs. I am close to Manali, closer to Malana.

Study the History of this Valley, too.

EXPORT CHARAS

IMPORT SUVs

PRIVATISE ROADS, RAIL, TRAMS, HELIPADS & AIRPORTS et. al.

Those were My First Thoughts - for TOSH, and this Parvati Valley.