I want to welcome Alex R. Knight, III to EVC! (As a blogger.) He’s a veteran in the voluntaryist movement, writing and blogging for Strike-The-Root.com (archive, blog), C4SS.org (archive), and DailyAnarchist.com (archive). A student of American terror-fiction author Edgar Allen Poe (among others), he’s published two collected works of short stories titled Tales From Dark…
Category: Items of Note
Re: the Cops
Parrish, not only should you do everything in your power to avoid calling or involving the police in your life, if you happen to find yourself a target, you must never ever ever ever talk to them. Ever! Skyler.
“Social Skills”
Which is more conducive to the development of “social skills”? 1) an environment where one can socialize with everyone around, from all different ages, at anytime, or 2) an environment where one can only socialize with others his same age (who likewise need to develop their “social skills”), and only at times deemed appropriate by…
Re: Violence Against Government
Parrish, my ponderings recall what I wrote yesterday for “Two Cents”: There’s a scene in the third book where Katniss defends the members of her Capitol prep team (make-up, wardrobe) to Gale, who remarks to the effect that they disgust him as residents of the Capitol who love the [Hunger] Games. She tells him that…
Social Coercion, a Discussion
I thought I’d share the discussion on Facebook that led to me writing my column on social coercion, between Aaron and Steve (with minor edits and comments in brackets). It’s far more detailed than my column was and I wanted to archive it here. Skyler. Steve: “Social coercion” I define as the pressure one individual or…
Re: Prohibitions
Parrish, what the tunnels also demonstrate is the initiative, creativity, entrepreneurship, and determination of human beings. The market, either above or under ground, continues to amaze me. And to think that so many think that free people couldn’t figure out how to make and manage roads fairly and efficiently. Straight up ignorance, methinks. Skyler.
Everything is a Remix
I wrote in a Facebook discussion that all creative works were derivative. I think that’s true. Consider “orcs”. I understand that orcs were invented by Tolkein in LOTR. In The Hobbit, they were simply “goblins,” but were sized slightly larger than humans. Other writers used “goblins” as a creature much smaller than humans, so when…
Re: Cross-breed Carrots
Parrish, whether or not a cross-breed carrot is mislabeled or not, I’ll leave that up to a competitive judiciary to decide. I personally wouldn’t think so as I understand the genetics are the same (all dog breeds are DNA-wise still a “dog”). You are correct, however, that many different types of foods would be available…
Re: Madmen
Kilgore, the Articles failed to provide the white wealthy slaveholders with enough power and plunder. The Constitution has not. Skyler.
Re: Politics Anonymous
Parrish, I have been sober from politics for about five years now. Prior, I never imagined not embracing what everyone else I knew, and what all of my teachers and elder family members assured me through their admonishments and example was right and good, that is, participation in the political process. But as attempt after…