Freedom has been mostly “legalized” over the last few decades in Wenzhou “where the mountains are high, the emporer is far away, and people are busy creating their own economic miracle.” Must read article from Reason.com on this bastion of voluntaryism.
Category: Items of Note
5-year-old Arrested…
…for being a 5-year-old. Here’s the lesson, take your kids out of compulsory schooling, ie. prison, and give them freedom. The soul knows what it wants:
Voluntary Communism
I’m reading a book by Walter Block, ie. libertarian extraordinaire, titled “The Case for Discrimination“. In chapter 17, he gives a wonderful defense for all things voluntary, including voluntary communism, worthy of a place here at Everything-Voluntary: [There] is nothing at all wrong with the form of communism practiced by the Hutterites! As a long-time…
US President, Not a Voluntaryist Parent
He parents like he “governs”, with coercion.
Thankful For
I am grateful and thankful for all sorts of things. For my life, my wife, my children, my parents, my jobs, my talents, my house, my car, and my Savior. However, I will say that I am not grateful or thankful for my “freedom”. Freedom is a given, it’s the default, the zero-point. You have…
Polygamy in Canada
It looks like the British Columbia Supreme Court will be ruling on the legality of polygamy. Of course, voluntaryism means any relation based on the mutual consent of all parties should be legal and lawful. This includes plural marriage. That’s not to say that what’s happened among the Warren Jeffs group should be legal. As…
Re: Youth vs. Teenager
Guest post by Carl Uhl. Skyler, in Butler Shaffer’s book “Boundaries of Order”, he made similar comparisons regarding teenagers and how they act when they are finally permitted to exercise some semblance of control over their lives. Following is an excerpt from “Boundaries or Order” available in .pdf format from Mises.org It has become commonplace…
Re: Youth vs. Teenager
A very interesting interview on the subject of teenagers and adolescents of psychologist Robert Epstein. He believes adolescence is an artificial extension of childhood, that teenagers have more competence than we allow them to exhibit, and that our child-labor and compulsory schooling laws are counter-productive and keep teens from obtaining adulthood (and the rights and…
Youth vs. Teenager
The word they use in Mexico for teenager is “rebelde”, which means, obviously, rebel. It seems Mexico is a little more honest with how they view teenagers. I view teenagers the same way. I think we all do these days. Was it always that way? Were the teen-aged always considered rebels? Not according to Michael…
The Essence of Coercivists Institutions
The essence and foundation of coercivist institutions is seen in the picture below. The OWS crowd would do well to connect the big Wall Street banks they oppose, with the coercivist institution that they are built on.