Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

  Fusion Power is a very exciting prospect. Even if it must come contaminated by the snake of statism. It will in time escape from the snake (as space travel so largely has).   I have a personal theory about the real underlying development of fusion power in recent years. It is a conspiracy theory of sorts, and I hesitate to present it in the present climate. But by the time the lights above my writing desk are powered by commercially successful fusion I will be having a lot to say about it one way or another.  I think that may be another twenty years from now. And, yes, I have hopes of still being around then, and having people compliment the 84 year old me on how spry I am. 

Some words today from the great anarcho-capitalist historian, Murray Rothbard: A radical libertarian, MR said, is not only an abolitionist, but also refuses to think in such terms as a Four Year Plan for some sort of stately and measured procedure for reducing the State. The radical – whether he be anarchist or laissez-faire – cannot think in such terms as, e.g.: Well, the first year, we'll cut the income tax by 2%, abolish the ICC, and cut the minimum wage; the second year we'll abolish the minimum wage, cut the income tax by another 2%, and reduce welfare payments by 3%, etc. The radical cannot think in such terms, because the radical regards the State as our mortal enemy, which must be hacked away at wherever and whenever we can.