If everybody falls for the ol’ reliable left/right false dichotomy, and then they all boycott all the things that annoy them, wouldn’t that essentially bring all commerce to a whoa? In one generation we’d be back to chipping flint and trying to sneak up on antelope, without even a nuclear war to blame it on.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Maybe if the left boycotts ammo I will be able to get some .22LR for a reasonable price.
😀 I think most of them already do boycott ammo, Harry…
Joel, I think that is a part of how the free market thrives. People choose reasons informed by their own culturally-imbued form of praxeology. New markets spring up where someone perceives a need for the next “smart phone app” and the market is driven in another direction for some small segment of humankind. Of all the forms of snarkiness, I am pleased they are boycotting, and we are not, in most instances, resorting to battlegrounds of ultimate honor or anything like that.
But, yeah, it’s very funny and somehow a parody of “If I can’t have everything my way, then I’ll take my marbles and go home!” sort of pout. But even then, dissatisfaction drives humans to find better replacements. And thus the agora turns . . .
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I didn’t mean for that to be anonymous.
“If I can’t have everything my way, then I’ll take my marbles and go home!”
I just wish they’d take their marbles, go home, and SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
“If I can’t have everything my way, then I’ll take my marbles and go home!”
Just to put this subject into perspective: Like it or not, we are all consumers. As consumers, we all continually exercise our “boycott”. We buy things from “store A” rather than “store B” for any of thousands of possible reasons, each of which may or may not be rational. Often, we aren’t aware of the reasons ourselves!
I remember one time in particular when I “took my marbles home”: At a barber shop the proprietor took another customer who had arrived after me. He explained that that customer was a lawyer and “his time was important”. Being the passive-aggressive SOB that I am, I didn’t protest, yet never returned. Why not tell him? Because informing him why he had lost my business would have been giving him important information, and I was too pissed off at him to do that.
That shop is now long-gone and I like to think that I am a tiny bit of the reason.
Sure, we all vote with our feet. Always have. Hell, I do it myself even though I probably have the smallest economic footprint of anybody. It’s a good point. Just sometimes I fear that boycotting as a political weapon could get really dangerously out of control. Also, being inconsistent, sometimes I wish it would hurry up and bring the whole damned infuriating thing down.
Occurs to me there’s considerably more talk about boycotting than actual boycotting.
Similar to all the lefty hollywood/media/elites who were going to leave the country if Trump got elected. Haven’t noticed any one of them doing so . . . they’re still around, threatening this, that, and the other thing.