OH SFL Regional Conference Talk, Oct. 24, 2015
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These are the slides to my talk given to the Ohio Students For Liberty Regional Conference. The title, "You are not a lottery ticket" is taken from Peter Thiel's book Zero to One. The topic concerns social change and the institutions that prevent us from achieving our ideal society.
![The Biggest Threat to Liberty:
Compulsory State Schooling
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Address to the German
Nation, 1807: By means of the new education we
want to mould the Germans into a corporate
body, which shall be stimulated and animated in
all its individual members by the same interest.
If you want to in?uence [the student] at all, you
must do more than merely talk to him; you must
fashion him, and fashion him in such a way that he
simply cannot will otherwise than you wish him
to will.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/youarenotalotteryticket-151026131521-lva1-app6891/85/OH-SFL-Regional-Conference-Talk-Oct-24-2015-33-320.jpg)
OH SFL Regional Conference Talk, Oct. 24, 2015
- 1. YOU ARE NOT A LOTTERY TICKET. HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, STARTING NOW.
- 2. Social Change What life do you want to live? What world do you want to live in?
- 3. YOU ARE NOT A LOTTERY TICKET THESE ARE MEANINGLESS
- 4. YOU ARE NOT A LOTTERY TICKET THESE ARE MEANINGLESS
- 5. YOU ARE NOT A LOTTERY TICKET THESE ARE MEANINGLESS
- 6. YOU ARE NOT A LOTTERY TICKET THESE ARE MEANINGLESS
- 7. YOU ARE NOT A LOTTERY TICKET THESE ARE MEANINGLESS
- 8. You Are Not a Lottery Ticket Individuals are not determined by statistics. Life is not left up to chance. You dont need to be lean, you dont need to pivot. Thiel on startups. Us on life.
- 9. You Are Not a Lottery Ticket De?nite Inde?nite Optimist United States, 1950-1970 United States, present Pessimist China, present Europe, present
- 10. You Are Not a Lottery Ticket De?nite Inde?nite Optimist Hegel, Marx Nozick, Rawls Pessimist Plato, Aristotle Epicurus, Lucretius
- 11. SOCIETIES ARE NOT CIVILIZATION V INSTITUTIONS MATTER, BUT ARE NOT DESIGNED
- 12. Societies Are Not Civ V Your life is not up to chance, it takes design. BUT
- 13. Societies Are Not Civ V Your life is not up to chance, it takes design. BUT This applies to all people in an order.
- 14. Societies Are Not Civ V Individual lives are complex to plan for outsiders. Societies are aggregates of individual lives. Ridiculously di?cult to plan. Spontaneous Order vs Rational Constructivist Order
- 15. Societies Are Not Civ V Libertarians get a bad rap for leading people to believe that we are opposed to planning. The more the state plans, the more di?cult planning becomes for the individual. Hayek
- 16. I dont want to do nothing. Theres plenty to do.
- 17. The question I ponder is who plans for whom? I dont want to do nothing. Theres plenty to do.
- 18. The question I ponder is who plans for whom? I dont want to do nothing. Theres plenty to do. Do I plan for myself? Or leave it to you?
- 19. The question I ponder is who plans for whom? I dont want to do nothing. Theres plenty to do. Do I plan for myself? Or leave it to you? I want plans by the many, not by the few.
- 20. Where Will You Live? 4 Options For Your Society Society Individuals Spontaneous Order Constructivist Order De?nite Any technological revolution Space-race USSR Modern-day China Inde?nite Great Stagnation United States European Welfare Nightmare
- 21. Where Will You Live? 4 Options For Your Society Society Individuals Spontaneous Order Constructivist Order De?nite Any technological revolution Space-race USSR Modern-day China Inde?nite Great Stagnation United States European Welfare Nightmare
- 22. How Will You Live? 4 Options For Your Life Society You Spontaneous Order Constructivist Order De?nite Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Innovator, Passionate Professional High-ranking Government O?cial, Smashed- Dreams Peon Inde?nite Listless Worker (See: O?ce Space) Low-ranking Government Drone, Welfarist
- 23. Where Are We Today? Society Individuals Spontaneous Order Constructivist Order De?nite Any technological revolution Space-race USSR Modern-day China Inde?nite Great Stagnation United States European Welfare Nightmare
- 24. How Did We Get Here? How did we go from the Industrial Revolution and the Tech Boom to the Great Stagnation and O?ce Space? Blame our parents?
- 25. You Are Not a Lottery Ticket The strange history of the Baby Boom produced a generation of inde?nite optimists so used to effortless progress that they feel entitled to it. Whether you were born in 1945 or 1950 or 1955, things got better every year for the ?rst 18 years of your life, and it had nothing to do with you. Technological advance seemed to accelerate automatically, so the Boomers grew up with great expectations but few speci?c plans for how to ful?ll them. Since tracked careers worked for them, they cant imagine that they wont work for their kids, too. Peter Thiel, Zero to One
- 26. How Did We Get Here? How did we go from the Industrial Revolution and the Tech Boom to the Great Stagnation and O?ce Space? Blame our parents? Law/Legislation?
- 27. How Did We Get Here? How did we go from the Industrial Revolution and the Tech Boom to the Great Stagnation and O?ce Space? Blame our parents? Law/Legislation? Culture?
- 28. The Biggest Threat to Liberty: Compulsory State Schooling Recall the society matrix. Where do schools fall?
- 29. Where Will You Live? 4 Options For Your Society Society Individuals Spontaneous Order Constructivist Order De?nite Any technological revolution Space-race USSR Modern-day China Inde?nite Great Stagnation United States European Welfare Nightmare
- 30. Where Will You Live? 4 Options For Your Society Society Individuals Spontaneous Order Constructivist Order De?nite Any technological revolution Space-race USSR Modern-day China Inde?nite Great Stagnation United States European Welfare Nightmare
- 31. Where Will You Live? 4 Options For Your Society Society Individuals Spontaneous Order Constructivist Order De?nite Any technological revolution Space-race USSR Modern-day China Inde?nite Great Stagnation United States European Welfare Nightmare
- 32. The Biggest Threat to Liberty: Compulsory State Schooling Compulsory state schooling (public education) is the product of an entirely constructivist mindset. The Scienti?c Management of Everything and Prussian Collectivism Can we compare 1850 to 1920? To 2015? Inde?nite schooling.
- 33. The Biggest Threat to Liberty: Compulsory State Schooling Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Address to the German Nation, 1807: By means of the new education we want to mould the Germans into a corporate body, which shall be stimulated and animated in all its individual members by the same interest. If you want to in?uence [the student] at all, you must do more than merely talk to him; you must fashion him, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than you wish him to will.
- 34. The Biggest Threat to Liberty: Compulsory State Schooling Fully schooled society. School-creep. School vs. education E.g., Pre- and Post- government schooling MA.
- 35. Three Ways Out Cultural / Legal / Individual Which do you control?
- 36. Three Ways Out Cultural / Legal / Individual Which do you control?
- 37. Living Free Now: Living with De?nite Optimism for a Spontaneous Order.
- 38. Living With De?nite Optimism What life do you want for yourself? What future do you want to build? Do you have to deschool yourself? How can you most e?ciently get there? Go and build it.
- 39. Living Free Now: Living with De?nite Optimism for a Spontaneous Order. The future: Raising Free People.
- 40. Raising Free People Home education Sudbury schools Private schools Thousands of other options crowded out by the government monopoly on schooling.
- 41. Further Reading Zero to One, Peter Thiel (w/ Blake Masters), 2014. Cosmos and Taxis, FA Hayek, from Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Vol. 1, 1973. Weapons of Mass Instruction, John Taylor Gatto, 2009. The Underground History of American Education, John Taylor Gatto, 2003. Free to Learn, Peter Gray, 2013.