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✵ 7. décembre 1951
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“How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? How do you keep a wave upon the sand?' These words from The Sound of Music bring out the elusive nature of chaos. In life, most things cannot be captured for long. It is like trying to encapsulate time itself.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. vii.

“Governments are terrorists, but they hide their actions behind the label of nationalism and patriotism: war becomes defense; theft becomes “taxation”; slavery becomes 'conscription'; terrorism becomes 'defense.' Few people question the violations; rather, if they do protest, it is because the government is oppressing the 'wrong' group of people, and not because they regard coercion itself as wrong.”

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Source: Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, (1985), pp. 139-140. (Chapter 17: “Who’s Afraid of No Government?”)

“Without precise predictability, control is impotent and almost meaningless. In other words, the lesser the predictability, the harder the entity or system is to control, and vice versa. If our universe actually operated on linear causality, with no surprises, uncertainty, or abrupt changes, all future events would be absolutely predictable in a sort of waveless orderliness.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 280

“The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict.”

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Speech at the Libertopia Festival, San Diego, CA (August 30, 2013)

“Complexity has always been difficult to resolve and to understand. Evolutionary biologists were among the first scientists to recognize this problem, when they dug their way toward new theories about evolution. They discovered that matter does not lack purpose.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 129

“Government succeeds by failing: the more incompetence, the greater the potential reward in the arena of the public sector.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 246

“Disorder is more exacting, arising when coercion is substituted for coordination—preventing members in a system from determining their own destiny. History is littered with examples of excluded parts rising up to confront those exclusive few who claim they are representing the whole.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 130

“The politics of control and manipulation can only have a degenerative effect on civilization and stability. When larger systems dominate smaller ones, society and its members must face a host of bad choices, debilitating harm, and dicey outcomes. Once the leviathan has been released, few can really control its movements. So once the damage has become visible, historians can point to the inevitable source of the criminality: the ‘structured order’ of politics, rather than an ‘unstructured order’ of the people. To the gullible, this is a shocking revelation. How could any system entrusted with maintaining order destroy the very thing it had sworn to uphold?”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 91

“True change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is futile for political systems to force human beings to cooperate or construct social bonding structures. People already do that, naturally; it is evident in our evolutionary history.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 348

“Simplicity in a system tends to increase that system’s efficiency. Because less can go wrong with fewer parts, less will. Complexity in a system tends to increase that system’s inefficiency; the greater the number of variables, the greater the probability of those variables clashing, and in turn, the greater the potential for conflict and disarray. Because more can go wrong, more will. That is why centralized systems are inclined to break down quickly and become enmeshed in greater unintended consequences.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 191

“When it comes right down to physical war and bloodshed, governments don’t protect people; people protect governments.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 180

“Because information is often biased, outdated, or inadequate, command-based systems rely on obtuse information to produce blunt solutions. Wielding force like drunken revelers, political systems gamble on the singularity of direction to fix a multiplicity of problems, woefully ignorant that one size does not fit all. Blinded by political ideologies, they rarely act to solve underlying problems. Karl Hess (1923-1994), a former presidential speech writer, noted this condition, observing, ‘Politicians occasionally do the right thing—but only after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 17

“The economics of Italian Fascism is often ignored or trivialized because so much of it is found in today's world economies.”

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“The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism,” Library of Economics and Liberty, July 6, 2015 http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2015/Samuelsfascism.html

“Despite the absence of physical equality in nature, political systems engage in grand endeavors to dictate perfection and equality in a universe devoid of both. In their egalitarian and quixotic quest to redistribute wealth, they rob Peter to pay Paul, which only creates a state of dependency, not of equality. Any attempt to impose equality can only bring about more inequality. Rev. William J. H. Boetcker expressed this same insight in 1916, writing, 'You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 72

“Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 301

“Under complexity science, the more interacting factors, the more unpredictable and irregular the outcome. To be succinct, the greater the complexity, the greater the unpredictability.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 40

“Things evolve to evolve. Evolutionary processes are the linchpin of change. These processes of discovery represent a complexity of simple systems that flux in perpetual tension as they teeter at the edge of chaos. This whirlwind of emergence is responsible for the spontaneous order and higher, organized complexity so noticeable in biological evolution—one–celled critters beefing up to become multicellular organisms.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 335

“Without chaos there would be no creation, no structure and no existence. After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the process that establishes those patterns. Without this creative self-organizing force, the universe would be devoid of biological life, the birth of stars and galaxies—everything we have come to know.”

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"Chaos Gets a Bad Rap: Importance of Chaology to Liberty", Strike-The-Root (Feb. 18, 2015) http://www.strike-the-root.com/chaos-gets-bad-rap-importance-of-chaology-to-liberty

“Order is not universal. In fact, many chaologists and physicists posit that universal laws are more flexible than first realized, and less rigid—operating in spurts, jumps, and leaps, instead of like clockwork. Chaos prevails over rules and systems because it has the freedom of infinite complexity over the known, unknown, and the unknowable.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 9

“Decentralized systems are the quintessential patrons of simplicity. They allow complexity to rise to a level at which it is sustainable, and no higher.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 221

“Chaos provides order. Chaotic agitation and motion are needed to create overall, repetitive order. This ‘order through fluctuations’ keeps dynamic markets stable and evolutionary processes robust. In essence, chaos is a phase transition that gives spontaneous energy the means to achieve repetitive and structural order.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 135

“The revelation that systems organize on their own sat poorly with the apostles of social sciences—especially political scientists who base their theories on imposing external controls to achieve selected political goals. They are accustomed to thinking about government-produced certainties, not ambiguous probabilities. In their linear calculations, humanity must be physically forced to follow the guiding light of political leaders or flavor-of-the-month ideologies. The economy and human actions must march in step with legislative or dictated law, no matter what the outcome. Yet natural systems do not operate this way.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 10-11

“To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.”

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"Iraq and the Roots of War," California Freedom (June 2007).

“The field of economics is not exempt from the consequences of chaos and complexity. Marketplaces are indeterminate; value is subjective; and outcomes are subject to interpretation. Economic forecasting is just as nebulous, being based on the probability of statistical information that may or may not be accurate.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 16

“The inherent nature of complexity is to doubt certainty and any pretense to finite and flawless data. Put another way, under uncertainty principles, any attempt by political systems to ‘impose order’ has an equal chance to instead ‘impose disorder.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 227

“If an emerging system is born complex, there is neither leeway to abandon it when it fails, nor the means to join another, successful one. Such a system would be caught in an immovable grip, congested at the top, and prevented, by a set of confusing but locked–in precepts, from changing.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 191

“Game theory brings to the chaos–theory table the idea that generally, societies are not designed, and that most situations don’t come with a rulebook. Instead, people have their own plans and designs on how things should fit together. They want to determine how the game is played, and they see societal designers as myopic busybodies who would imprison them with their theories.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 372

“Libertarians say: what about individual rights? The question boils down to this: how many robbers must there be before robbery is no longer a crime? How many rapists must there be before it is no longer rape? We all know logic. A crime is a crime, no matter how many people are involved. If the majority of a town goes out and lynches someone, it is still murder. Majority rule often leads to mob rule, which tramples on individual rights and self–ownership.”

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Source: Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, (1985), p. 196 (Chapter 23, “The Libertarian Philosophy and Taxation")

“Every system that has existed emerged somehow, from somewhere, at some point. Complexity science emphasizes the study of how systems evolve through their disorganized parts into an organized whole.”

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Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 118

“Freedom does not guarantee wealth or success; it guarantees only the individual’s right to pursue them. Despite political promises of personal security from hunger and poverty, government cannot lessen the plight of the poor. Rather, the welfare state prolongs poverty and nurtures people’s dependence on handouts. This is no accident. There is no better way to control members of society than to make them insecure and eager to accept any type of legislation in exchange for a so-called free lunch.”

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Source: Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, (1985), p. 126 (Chapter 14, “What About the Poor?”)

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