13. The Nation: Community of Language and Values
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.78
– FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
With the help of the logic of human action we can explain the origin and meaning of nation and the nationality principle.
There has been a noticeable decline in the percentage of Americans identifying as religious. Some perceive this seismic shift as evidence of a secularizing culture. In some quarters, the secularization of America is viewed favorably as an agent of modernization.
A report from Gallup and the Knight Foundation released Wednesday highlights Americans’ plummeting trust in the news media.
According to the poll, half of Americans believe the mass media intends to misinform with its reporting. It’s evident in the data uncovered that Americans are trying to square an imaginary civic vision of the media with the realities of the industry.
12. The Progression Theorem: Toward a World Government
All nations must come together to build a stronger global regime.
– BARACK OBAMA
11. Impact Assessment: A Case For the A Priori Theory
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.66
– ALDOUS HUXLEY
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10. A Destructive Ideology: Democratic Socialism
In socialist ideas, the most daring idealism has always met the most covetous materialism.
– HEINRICH VON TREITSCHKE
9. Anatomy of a Disruption: What Fiat Money Causes
Paper money appears at first sight to be a great saving, or rather that it costs nothing; but it is the dearest money there is.51
– THOMAS PAINE
8. The State and the Deterioration of Money: From Commodity Money to Fiat Money
[H]istory … provides the most vivid illustration of the direct link between a state’s internal powers of counterfeiting and its policy of external aggression, as well as the banking and business elite’s conspiracy with the state in its expansionary desires.
– HANS-HERMANN HOPPE
7. The Decivilizing Force: The State
The State in and of itself is the most moral whole, the realization of freedom; and it is the absolute purpose of reason that freedom be real.
– GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
