Episode 066 features a recording from the internet show “For the Love of Learning” of a panel of unschooling dads, hosted by Laini Liberti. The panel includes Robert Gottlieb, Hamilton Carter, Skyler Collins, and Kevin Sabourin. The topics discusses range from how each dad found unschooling to what unschooling looks like in their home.
Day: March 13, 2017
Philosophy of Voluntaryism 001 – Self-Ownership (56m)
Philosophy of Voluntaryism 001 is the first episode of a new podcast series by Danilo Cuellar. This episode features a conversation with Jim Limber Davis on the concept of self-ownership.
Reboot Your Operating System
The first step to breaking free from the past is changing how your brain operates. More important than what you experience will be how you interpret your experiences. The same conditions witnessed by different people will create quite different effects. Your mind is a factory for turning raw observation into elaborate paradigms of meaning.
The Bill of Rights is Worthless
The parasites count on the deterrent effect that comes from the threat of punishment to control people’s behavior, at least to some extent. Without a specific “or else” part, a “law” would just be a suggestion. “You’re not allowed to do that! But if you do, we’re not going to do anything to you anyway.” What would that deter? Nothing.
Who Do You Think You Are?
It is tempting to settle with the influences we have early in life. They give us guidelines that we think that we can always fall back on when the life’s new challenges come too quickly or hit us too hard. If you have the courage to undo the foundations of your upbringing, you will open yourself to all the versions of yourself that you can become. This is how you figure out what you actually care about.
“Collective Punishment”
If the kinderprison teacher doesn’t know who is guilty of some offense (real or imagined) he’ll just punish the whole class. This is an extremely common practice in government schools and similar places. I think the lesson this teaches is different than the one authoritarians might imagine.
Follow the Mythological Path in Life
Our lives become a part of mythology when we pursue personal transformation through primordial patterns in the human psyche. We follow the hardwired path to arrive at superior versions of ourselves. The stories which have recurred with the greatest longevity in our cultures are those which appeal most profoundly to our underlying program for progression through life.
I Wish You Nothing But Freedom
My desire for the liberation of all individuals won’t be compromised by personal vendettas nor will it be weakened by the sometimes irritating actions of people on the left, people on the right, people in the libertarian world, or people who couldn’t care less about those kinds of labels.