Nobody asked but … The brain can process thoughts in a volume that is orders of magnitude beyond what we can process vocally. The spoken communication is the tip of the tip of the iceberg. And, yes, freeing oneself from seeking to control what others process may be the greatest freedom. The brain can process…
Category: Nobody Asked, But
Individual
Nobody asked but … Individual means a thing indivisible, undividable. No two entities can occupy the same time and space. Every individual thing is unique, if for no other difference than the difference in time and space. If two things did occupy the same time and space, they could not be separate things. They are…
Lifelong Learning
Nobody asked but … Yesterday I started a new term at OLLI at UK. My first class is a meta-class about how to build an OLLI course. Btw, OLLI stands for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. My preliminary idea is to do a discussion group centering on classical liberalism, but my mentor believes that using that…
Law Is Not a Product of the State
Nobody asked but … Today I am sharing a link with you: Law Is Not a Product of the State. This topic is connected to one of my favorite themes. All human behavior arises for a reason, but that behavior must include a process to reach the object of a reason. The trouble is that…
Common Core
Nobody asked but … If you laid all the educators in the world head to toe, they would never reach a consensus on what was a common core. In the small HBCU (about 2,000 students) where I used to teach Computer Science, you couldn’t even get two professors teaching the same course to come up…
The Usual Suspects
Nobody asked but … We had a primary here in Kentucky yesterday. Who won and who lost? The usual suspects. Kilgore
A Law of Nature
Nobody asked but … A voluntaryist may frequently talk about the laws of nature in an abstract way, urging that we consider natural law as good and artificial laws (legislation, governmental regulation, rules, authoritarianism, even in many cases traditions and religions) as bad. The fact is that natural laws are only inevitable, having good or…
Where in the World Is The Ukraine?
Nobody asked but … Actually, somebody did ask, and an excellent facebook friend posted “I like this: Only 1 in 6 Americans surveyed could find the Ukraine on a map of the world.” There is somewhat of a reason why we don’t know where the Ukraine lies. FDR and Churchill blithely tossed it into the…
Non-aggression is Non-Aggression
Nobody asked but … There is a critical importance in knowing who you are dealing with, but I want to be clear on my application of the NAP. If you identify a statist, that is not an automatic “open fire” situation in and of itself. If you encounter a rattlesnake, and it is 10 yards…
Bitching
Nobody asked but … If your only tool is bitching, then every problem looks like a frustration, every frustration looks like a person, every person looks like a victim, every victim looks like a slave. In fact, you seek feedback only to confirm your attitude that others are not on board your slaveship. If you…