HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:53:09 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:53:09 GMT etag: "db54d53e8cdbfe1906dfd35b5be6e055" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 1.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=537.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:53:09 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:53:09 GMT etag: W/"db54d53e8cdbfe1906dfd35b5be6e055" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 2.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=459.0 https://cybercynic.wordpress.com Sat, 06 Jun 2020 05:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/global-government/#comment-6936 Sat, 06 Jun 2020 05:59:38 +0000 https://aasof.com/?p=35611#comment-6936 […] intended to appeal to a certain readership. This was also covered (to some extent) in my post on Global Government an Epistocracy  where the author divided the electorate into three categories, which he creatively labels hobbits, […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/uk-electoral-naivete/#comment-6935 Sat, 06 Jun 2020 05:59:35 +0000 https://aasof.com/?p=36340#comment-6935 […] from UK — Electoral Naiveté: Every election does — to my mind —point to the fundamental differences between how they are […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/they-think-its-all-over-it-is-now/#comment-6913 Sat, 30 May 2020 06:30:10 +0000 https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/?p=5114#comment-6913 […] post in which I specifically mention H. L. Mencken was was eight years ago in  2012 as they They think it’s all over – it is now, since then I have quoted him quite a lot. Does that make me a libertarian? My post last week […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2018/06/30/aasof-on-democracy/#comment-6876 Sat, 23 May 2020 05:25:27 +0000 https://aasof.com/?p=32084#comment-6876 […] ³Aasof on Democracy (url*/edited)! Is the key element of a truly democratic society in most countries the will of the demos and if so what proportion of it? Is freedom of expression, especially the freedom to criticise (in whatever form) the practices of any State democracy?  […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/who-decides-2/#comment-6875 Sat, 23 May 2020 05:25:25 +0000 https://aasof.com/?p=16349#comment-6875 […] ²Who Decides (url)? Who has a right to decide anything? No doubt, the constitutional answer is that in a democracy the decision rests with the majority; yet, particularly where deep and highly personal convictions are concerned, the democracy must do its best to respect minorities.  […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/anarchism/#comment-6874 Sat, 23 May 2020 05:24:57 +0000 https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/?p=5271#comment-6874 […] with a real justification¹ for seriously declaring myself to be an Anarchist. In 2013 I posted Hooray for Anarchism opening with an article that I had read from a libertarian in the USA, “Reading the views of […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/plus-cest-la-meme-chose/#comment-6873 Sat, 23 May 2020 05:24:54 +0000 https://aasof.com/?p=24379#comment-6873 […] week on Facebook: There was a UK General Election in 2017, in which I posted Plus c’est la même chose and found myself with a real justification¹ for seriously declaring myself to be an Anarchist. In […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/wealth/#comment-6867 Sat, 16 May 2020 09:59:28 +0000 https://aasof.com/?p=31540#comment-6867 […] The visibility of this global wealth disparity may, perhaps, create a disillusionment with wealth (per se) and a desire for a more prosperous global society. Wealth & Prosperity […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/self-interest-economics-altruism/#comment-6866 Sat, 16 May 2020 09:59:13 +0000 https://aasof.com/?p=30634#comment-6866 […] go someway to explain what  self-interest means to me — especially when used in my 2017 post Self Interest, Economics & Altruism. In my dotage I am now more likely to read Adam Smith’s book on The Theory of Moral […]

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]]> https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/other-peoples-money/#comment-6854 Sat, 09 May 2020 06:44:13 +0000 https://cybercynic.wordpress.com/?p=2988#comment-6854 […] The only way to acquire money is from other people and so all money is other people’s money. Monies issued by a government in the form of legal tender is still other people’s money, inasmuch as its primary purpose is to enable other people to carry out financial transactions and pay their taxes to a government.  Thus a government receives a revenue income stream in the form of taxes, taxes being other people’s money. Ideally this revenue income stream would fund all government expenditure, except that politicians buy votes with promises that required an expenditure greater than the taxes received from this income stream. Other People’s Money (2012) […]

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