The 34th question is 'Why hasn't this been purchased and read yet?'
The good doctor strikes again! This was one of his earlier works that led him to become, IMHO -- and that of many others -- 'the' face of libertarianism, at the very least in America in the last decade as this user writes this, perhaps only second to Dr. Ron Paul at-worst! He is a true credit-to-humanity and it shows through in his works such as this one, entitled '33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed To Ask' in which he takes down, as only he can, mainstream narratives instilled into the minds of the youth in public 'education'! For example, many would believe -- or have others believe -- that the American frontier before the early 20th Century was a desolate wasteland of crime and corruption, with backstabbing and mistrust sewn across its plains and through its prairies, only to be 'saved' by State actors. In reality, however, it was the sainted State actors who massacred the natives for railroad tycoons they were in-bed with and whenever a problem arose in the not-so-wild-wild-west, a posse would get together -- via 'spontaneous order' that F.A. Hayek wrote about humanity having the capability of -- remove the aggressor from their mark and then disband, but the State came along and wanted a permanent, singular, centrally-planned construct to remain in place and paid for by stolen funds called 'taxes', even by those who did not ask for, do not need nor wish to patronize such a 'service'; a 'service' that falls prey to the 'Shirky Principle', in which an entity becomes the producer and/or perpetuates the very problem it was contracted to solve in order to stay in business! It downstream of an Objectivization of Value, which basic Austrian Economics (the one, TRUE economic theory) says is subjective. Anyone who disagreed with how a given society conducted trade, with prices in certain forms and not set by the market of voluntary human action, were driven out and such assets were seized and 'redistributed'....to other thieves and those not worthy of receiving such assets in what H.L. Mencken called an 'advance auction sale of stolen goods'. Where the natives were more efficient and used up all parts of a given resource, the State actors only used what they wanted and discarded the rest, even salting and burning the earth behind them to screw over competition! Didn't like it? Graves got turned over! Abraham Lincoln? Not-so-honest. He did not wish to actually free the slaves, and did not in all places, and only did so for 'shock value', whereas Jefferson Davis had a five-year plan to free the slaves and was only beaten to the punch, as it were. World War Two got America out of 'The Great Depression'? Nope! Sorry, 'Captain Picard', but inflation only grew and financial woes passed on or hidden since the contracting of the Central Bank falsely called 'The Federal' Reserve in 1913, and the Roosevelts only made things worse, as did Woodrow Wilson, and no, Herbert Hoover was not the bringer of 'unbridled capitalism' and showed how it failed and why socialism/big government is needed after all, because in their respective campaign speeches, FDR called out the failures of HH's socialistic policies, and then proceeded to expand upon them once in office himself by STEALING American's immutable gold to replace with linen bills at-will, when money is a token-of-faith, and all faith is fleeting as far as mortal man is concerned, and to say the State can print tokens-of-faith ad nauseam can be construed as blasphemous, because the State is not eternal. IMHO, even gold is nary more than a side-step better than fiat on the road to sound money, which is needed now more than ever before, because if one does not have sound money, they will not have sound arbitration nor defense, and a monopoly on all three of those things over a given region via coercion is the definition of the State! If the people's faith in the 'gang of men' called government (from the ancient tongues, govern = control, mente = mind; government = mind-control, etymologically) ever wavered, then their token-of-faith would decrease in value, as it has, yet, more could be printed to try -- and fail -- to off-set that and forced use of it over other currencies that dare try to compete with it in the market occurs through wars, usually 'sold' to the public for humanitarian purposes, of course (like how the Russian Federation is not the 'evil empire' -- at least any semblance of what Ronald Reagan warned against decades ago -- but is indeed the target of ArmandHammer and the neocons/globalists to be asset-stripped for relics and resources and blood, as well as, IMHO, control over the northern polar region and entrance to an alleged 'hollow-Earth' civilization Euler/Haley/Symms/Herbert Read wrote about and potential future alien invasion). No nukes in Iraq, either. The crash of '08 was NOT due to free markets, it was, however, due to unrealistic speculating and predatory loans and 'bail-outs' were merely backroom deals for 'seats-at-the-table'!Read full review
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