42 - The People's Tree

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NO ID Episode 42 - The People's Tree

So you think you’re liberty-minded? But you haven’t followed the self-ownership argument all the way to its logical conclusion? Neither, apparently, has anybody else. This week we deconstruct the media's coverage of the Spokane wildfire responses, the River-Keeper's environmental activism, "Dr" Fauxchi's home state, the mythology of benevolent government, public education, taxation, bureaucracy, and the curious ways government institutions manage "protect" us from...problems they seem to create.

Timestamps:

(00:01:27) Liberty-oriented content and the wrong podcast

(00:07:22) The state as your protector

(00:11:20) Government schools and the Prussian model

(00:15:30) Ruby Ridge and the monopoly on force

(00:17:18) Spokane schools reopen after the fires

(00:24:00) Inflation and federal money

(00:30:00) Idaho development and federal funding

(00:35:00) Government funding and the nonprofit ecosystem