The other day I was in a debate with an American war fanatic/statist. He posted a meme criticizing the IRS, soon after raising hosannas to the military might of ‘Murcah. It seems that jingoists have this peculiar structure of the brain where they hate taxes but at the same time want to be the ruler…
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Urban Planning, Clairvoyance, Movie: Harper
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. I have…
Sociology is Finally a Science
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
Voluntaryism 101: A Simple Explanation
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
Re: On Anarchy II
After sharing my post on anarchy over at reddit, Anen-o-me wrote this enlightening reply (links are mine): “Removing the lie” with an argument only works for the reflective thinkers of the population, which is a fairly small slice. Notably, the INTJ(P) personality type, the mental system builders who are bothered by logical inconsistencies and also willing…
Words Poorly Used #55 — Majority
The majority hardly ever carries the day. Let’s take The USA’s torture program — there is a thing that should never exist but for an extremely small minority of government functionaries, in collusion, supported by a very small but vocal crowd of immediate gratification seekers in the populace. The thing gets off the ground before…
The Torture Report
Nobody asked but … We’ve been lied to!!!! Now the executive branch and all of the pols in the congress can breathe a sigh of relief. The people of America can breathe a sigh of relief. After an orgy of cable news speculation and I-told-you-so’s, we can all quietly go back to the quotidian acceptance…
The Communist Manifesto Revisited
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Whence Cometh Moral Outrage?
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Everyone seems to have their own definition of morality. Why is that? If morality is “the proper behavior for a person…
Spooner #9, Fallacy #18, Hard Work
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. A review…