Тег: Plans

Ancaps’ love for children — moving into the practical plane

I recently had the opportunity to present my book at the Montellibero club. There were about twenty-five people; no one threw tomatoes—on the contrary, they threw donations. Despite the fact that the decision to speak was spontaneous and not properly prepared, it seemed to go quite well.

However, as a result, I was asked to create some kind of adaptation for children, so that there would be a way to explain clearly to them what these strange games their parents play are all about, and to involve them in these very games.

Well, games it is. I want to make one game in a purely conversational genre, as a trial run. We will play “The Kind Tsar.” A child inherits a kingdom and wants to make their subjects happy. They can ask how things are going in their kingdom, give orders, and find out from me what is reported back to them. I am mainly interested in what questions the children will actually ask. Considering that I don’t have any of my own, this should be a mutually beneficial experience. I think that within a couple of weeks, I will decide to hold the first game there, at the club.

Another game will require more serious development; I want to create a board game about life under etatism. In the basic module, I want to offer the roles of employee, entrepreneur, official, and politician. The goal is to show their relationships as simply as possible, but without losing realism. I also want the game to leave room for ethical decisions.

Such are my ambitious plans. I spent over a year tinkering with the book on ancap, so I hope I’ll manage this significantly faster.

I also strongly hope that in the near future, I will have much more free time and will be able to devote as much attention to the channel as it deserves.

Changes in the operation of the channel

While the channel was on pause, I reflected on its future, and now I want to formulate more clearly how it will be managed.

Every week, roughly on weekends, I intend to publish not exactly a longread, but a sufficiently detailed article on topics that interest me, which are not necessarily related to your questions. Alternatively, this could be an interview or something else equally labor-intensive.

On weekdays, no more than one post per day will consist of answers to questions accompanied by donations. I have already accumulated a huge pool of answers on a wide variety of topics, and continuing to fill the info-space at the same pace would mean inevitable self-copying, paraphrasing, and so on. I answered free questions because I needed it—it is easier for me to reason within a specific given topic than to fantasize about what else interesting to convey to the public. Now I am happy to continue answering, but only if you need it, and the best way to demonstrate your interest is to back it up with money. Free questions will now move for me into the category of sociological data on what people are generally interested in, and theoretically, they may form the basis for articles.

Bitarch’s column will be maintained as texts from him appear, not tied to specific days, but somewhat depending on the depth of my processing of the original text.

Mutual promotion with other projects is possible, but on my part, it will always be a review of the corresponding channel, indicating whether I subscribed to it myself, and I would like the same approach from the opposite side, although, of course, I have no control over the info-policy of other channels.

I am ready to post reviews of other channels as a bonus to an answer to paid questions asked by them, as was tested with the “Pravy Argument” channel. Reviews will be posted on a permanent basis and not deleted after a fixed period, as usually happens with advertising on various Telegram channels.

I do not intend to personally place my own paid advertising on other channels, but I am ready to accept payment for such things as a donation, as was the case with advertising on the “Whales are swimming to the LSD crash pad” channel. In this case, if necessary, I can provide promotional text adapted to the audience of the corresponding channel.

When you just can’t focus on Hayek…

Donations and plans

I have updated the donations section on my website, adding several instructions on using cryptocurrencies, so as not to refer to scattered blog posts.

Also, something unexpected happened to me. When Siberia was covered in smog, I complained in the chat about headaches, throat problems, and sleep disturbances. The smog has eased now, but one of my readers suddenly decided to gift me a trip to the sea, so I will soon head to Armenia and Georgia for a couple of weeks. Such generous gestures are, of course, very overwhelming. But I will try to view the trip more as a business trip than a vacation, and from time to time, I’ll write something interesting in the channel.

Thank you for filling my life with such pleasant surprises!

Vacation is over

I’m back from my trip to the mountains, so there will be plenty of fresh material soon. Today, to get back into the swing of things, I’ll answer some simple question, and here’s the rough plan for what comes next:

  • I will break down the trip into cases illustrating different aspects of libertarianism and economic theory and release a fairly extensive article on the subject
  • I’ll edit and post the Friedman translations that my wonderful assistants managed to put together while I was away
  • I’ll put out a couple of articles for Bitarch and a new text for the Novosibirsk YouTube channel Libertarian Band (by the way, if anyone hasn’t checked out their latest video on libertarianism for grandmothers, definitely take a look; they have a new sexy host, and I like how he presented my text—the previous one, about lifelong tenure, turned out less lively).
  • I liked the idea of writing a few fairy tales in the style of Gorky’s Luka.
  • And we’ll see where it goes from there.

Oh, right, about Friedman. Shortly before leaving, I managed to edit the translation of one of the chapters of the third edition of the Mechanics of Liberty: Problems with deriving the ought from the is in Ayn Rand—enjoy this exclusive, as this text is hardly found anywhere, even in English. I’ve estimated the progress of the translation and think I can set a deadline for the project: February 12, 2020. Grandpa Friedman will turn 75 then, and we’ll have something to congratulate him with. I also remind you that donations for the translation are best sent to a separate wallet 1AFkD2bazCs5YZBBrSD7HsRMWLmRbg6QBo—it will be easier for me to estimate how much I can spend on rewarding my assistants. Please bear with me, but I will bother you with this reminder with every new chapter publication.