230415 What I learned in my studies this morning 3*

Fight! Fight the taxman!

Do not gently submit to.

Seneca is wrong.

Thoughts:

Taxes are immoral. Fight them. Push for a voluntary world. Use every "loophole" you can. Pay as little as possible.

But but but, student, how can you say this and insist that cosmopolitanism is foundational to Stoic philosophy? 

Easy. It's exactly because cosmopolitanism is foundational to Stoic philosophy that I can say this.

Taken seriously, Stoic cosmopolitanism means you — you, personally, you in particular and as an individual, YOU — are duty bound to go out and improve your Community. Directly, without intermediary. And that Community, writ large, is most broadly defined.

Thus, if we take cosmopolitanism seriously, we'll be out there doing all the things we "get" (have foisted upon us) from taxes.

And it would be cheaper, more effective, voluntary, and moral.

Today's Meditation:

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Today's Meditation III: