Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog

Which Hollywood Movies Guide US Policy?

Mike Benz shocked more than a few followers with his instantaneous reaction to the “just in time” B-2 bombing operation in the so-called “12 Day War.”  After each Israeli mass ejection, each sigmoidal burst of unstable energy, every solar flare, the world simply shrugs and moves on.

The squashing function used in machine learning is not dissimilar to the squashing function of our policy leadership, each minute categorizing every state action as all or nothing, this or that, rendering contemplati...

6 Hacks To a Better Government

Antisocial people run in packs.  They exert concentrated power, but they are decidedly in the minority.

Prosocial people operate individualistically, but in the aggregate, they have much-greater power.  Prosocial people can be defeated only by themselves.

Many familiar practices don’t utilize power effectively.  Some new practices also wouldn’t.

Use power effectively these 6 ways:

1. Worship, love, and save. 

Individual faith in Christ limits the envy that stymies economic growth.  Individual fa...

Who Ultimately Benefits From the Obamacare Subsidies?

The ‘news’-media hide — not expose — the ultimate beneficiaries of the taxpayer-funded Obamacare subsidies that were the source and cause of the longest U.S. Government shut-down in history, and which subsidies congressional Republicans are now trying to redirect to their big donors.

First, the ‘news’-media’s lies (pretending that the beneficiaries were the people who purchased Obamacare insurance policies) will be reported and explained here; and, then, the truth will be reported, which was rep...

Groypers, Quo Vadis: The Race Question

It is seemingly impossible to engage in a conversation about conservative politics, or even the intersection of religion and politics, without the topic of “Groypers” rearing its head. If you know what a Groyper is, or what “groyperism” is, then I will not have to define what it is. If you do not know what it is, I will try to explain it, although that is difficult.

A Groyper is someone who adheres—generally speaking—to the political and socio-cultural beliefs of the growing Groyper Movement. Th...

Did Donald Trump Score a Couple of ‘Wins’?

President Donald Trump and his merry menagerie that inhabit the White House have had a couple of exciting weeks bringing “peace or pieces” to half the world while also pulling back the curtain on what that naughty character Jeffrey Epstein just might have been up to while spending hundreds of millions of dollars setting up venues for screwing and filming fifteen year old girls being sexually abused. And it was all funded by Jewish billionaires and plausibly Mossad to benefit Epstein and his “cli...

Is Global Technocracy Inevitable or Dangerously Delusional?

The bewildering truth behind human technological enslavement is that it is impossible without the voluntary participation of the intended slaves. People must welcome technocracy into their lives in order for it to succeed. The populace has to believe, blindly, that they cannot live without it, or that authoritarianism by algorithmic consensus is “inevitable.”

For example, the average person living in a first world economy voluntarily carries a cell phone everywhere they go at all times without f...

Is AI a Catalyst for Growth–or for Collapse?

Yes, AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable.

The current narrative holds that the big problem we need to solve is conjuring up cheap energy to power AI data centers. Fortunately for us, the solutions are at hand: building modular nuclear power plants at scale and tapping North America’s vast reserves of cheap natural gas.

Problem solved! With cheap energy to power all the AI data centers, we’re on a trajectory of fantastic growth of all the good things in life.

Let’s consider the imp...

Where Does the CDC’s Dishonesty Come From?

One of my major questions in life is whether the bad things that happen are a result of a secretive group of bad actors or are simply a naturally emergent phenomenon that would occur regardless of which group was in power behind the scenes.

On one hand, I frequently see policies be enacted in a coordinated fashion that lead to a clear outcome, and then watch as the years play out, that every institution works in unison to ensure that outcome comes to pass, and as such, when I see the opening mov...

Legal Nonsense To Justify Non-Judicial Killings

Many years ago, when I was practicing law in Texas, I learned that there were, generally speaking, two types of lawyers when it came to being asked for a legal opinion by a client who wished to pursue a certain course of action.

The first type of lawyer would carefully research the issue and give his honest, independent-minded opinion as to the legality of the proposed action, even if it wasn’t what the client wanted to hear. That type of lawyer had integrity and would not compromise his legal j...

The National Security Threat Government Can’t Defeat

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
― quoted in Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Government as we know it likely won’t be around when artificial super intelligence (ASI) arrives. As I’ve argued elsewhere, states are fading fast from war, fiat money, debt and corruption, and ...