For a $20 fraud. This is not, and cannot be considered justice. Coercivist institutions, ie. the state, have a history of greater and greater abuses of justice. On these merits alone, they should be rejected forthwith. Justice here would have been at most $40 paid to the theatre and his name tarnished in the local…
Category: Items of Note
Let Kids Be Themselves
I just stumbled upon this wonderful quote, “A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.” – Bansky and wanted to say a thing or two about it. Both unschooling and unconditional parenting are primarily about allowing your kids to be themselves. Letting them discover things like ways of…
Planting the Voluntaryist Seed
A short conversation between my 6-year-old son and I before reading our bedtime story went as follows: Son: Dad, what is that second word on your book in the bathroom?Dad: “Defined”, the title is “Liberty Defined” (Ron Paul).Son: What is liberty?Dad: Liberty is when nobody else is trying to control you.Son: Do we have liberty…
Re: Spontaneous Road Order
There isn’t a better case for spontaneous road order than India: Some colleagues of mine just got back from a trip to India (to train some new hires), and their experience mirrored the above. They were mesmerized at the seeming chaos of it all, yet it worked. In 2 weeks, they saw 1 fender bender,…
Re: Privately Owned Roads?
Guest post by Carl Uhl. Skyler, I have been contemplating posting something regarding spontaneous order and traffic for the past few days and your post inspired me. What sparked my thinking on this are my weekly trips taking my mom shopping at our local strip mall. Once we pull off of the centrally planned public…
Re: Privately Owned Roads?
Ms. Mary March Newell comments, “People need to be able to move freely throughout the country. We can’t have anyone ‘OWNING’ the roads…” I’d like to introduce to Ms. Newell an important work on this very topic by the magnificent Walter Block titled, The Privatization of Roads & Highways. Very important, free read, and duly…
Re: Intro. – Zen Anarchist
Glad to have you Zen! For those who don’t know, “minarchist” mean “minimal-rule” or limited-government, ie. your nightwatchman-state libertarian. Some noteworthy minarchist libertarians are Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, and F.A. Hayek. I, too, was once a minarchist, a necessary step on the way to complete voluntaryism. I’m looking forward to what this young minarchist minister-in-training…
Re: Anti-Social?
Carl, a beautiful video! Indeed, state action is the epitome of anti-social behavior. It should also be recognized that state-owned schools, public schools, are where kids learn to be anti-social. Stuck in a chair 8 hours, with kids their own age (the blind leading the blind), and not allowed to speak unless spoken too. Consider…
Origin of Everything-Voluntary
Post by Skyler J. Collins. Alright so, I’ve started this website and listed out the topics I’d like it to cover, all really without any explanation of how they relate or why I believe they’re all important. Let’s do that. Once-upon-a-time, I was what I consider now to be a Socialist-Democrat. I was a “teenager”…
Common Genius
After a long life, and thirty years in the public school trenches, I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We supress genius because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves. John Taylor Gatto,…