Vacuous Vocation

Vacuous Vocation

By Matthew James GeigerNewsPolitics
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Vacuous Vocation episodes

  • PRESENTATION - Utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham & the Panopticon
    This Presentation is on the chapter in the book “Classical Economics - An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought Volume II”, titled “Jeremy Bentham: the utilitarian as big brother” written by Murray Rothbard.  This presentation was delivered at the Universidad de Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, to the Master's program in economics of the Austrian School.  
    0:00 Intro 
    0:18 Jeremy Bentham 
    1:28 Writings and Publications 
    9:00 The Benthamite Virus  
    9:13 Personal Utilitarianism 
    13:37 Social Utilitarianism 
    15:48 The Panopticon 
    21:03 Late Life
    23 min
  • PRESENTATION - Free Market Defense Production
    This Presentation is on the chapter in the book “The Myth of National Defense”, titled “War, Peace, and the State” written by Murray Rothbard.  This presentation was delivered at the Universidad de Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, to the Master's program in economics of the Austrian School.  
    0:00 Intro  
    0:39 Libertarian Theory 
    5:00 Punishment Theory 
    8:48 The Production of Defense 
    13:48 Why do States make war? 
    15:30 Weaponry 
    16:14 The Myth of War
    18 min
  • The Word "Should"

    The word "should" is a value judgment and as all values are subjective, I am in no position to tell someone what they should do because I do not know what anyone else values, nor should anyone tell me what I should value.

    6 min
  • Bitcoin Philosophy

    Bitcoin is a digital service to fulfill the medium of exchange as the hardest asset to ever come into existence thanks to the technological revolution.

    7 min
  • Freedom is Inevitable

    The history of mankind is on a trajectory towards the maximum individual human freedom the world has ever seen. It helps to think in these concepts not necessarily annually but in terms of decades.

    16 min
  • Power & Property - An Anarchist's Perspective

    Power and Property have gone hand in hand since the dawn of empires. Property does not necessarily have to be physical, there are forms of digital and intellectual property as well. As we enter the new century of freedom, we shall try to understand how it is that property has gone from being something discarded as bourgeois to becoming something that is veneered.

    21 min
  • Some Thoughts on Democracy

    Democracy is the movement of the masses. When the waves take you, you can either go with the flow or consider the possibility that there are other streams you would like to travel in your life. How can an individualist ever support an ideology solely on the basis that the majority of the people support it. The opinions and ideas of the majority are irrelevant, they are just like trees in a forest, nice, but in time will become obsolete.

    22 min
  • Heroin - An Anarchist's Perspective
    (I am not advocating drug use) Drugs are already legal, just the ones approved by pharmaceutical companies and the State. End the war on drugs, end victimless crimes, end the imprisonment of people for using drugs. Drugs do not have to be stigmatized as something negative, some doctors use heroine.
    9 min

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An anarchist trying to find his way in the world.