It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.