Could there possibly be a more egregious authoritarian suck-up than this sockhead, Machiavelli? Why do people use the adjective, Machiavellian, with a kind of grudging admiration? Kilgore.
Tag: authoritarian
Crime and Punishment in a Free Society
Would a free society be a crime-free society? We have good reason to anticipate it. Don’t accuse me of utopianism. I don’t foresee a future of new human beings who consistently respect the rights of others. Rather, I’m drawing attention to the distinction between crime and tort — between offenses against the state (or society) and offenses against individual persons or their justly held property.
Power and Resentment
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. Two themes that my mind has been dwelling on lately, in relation to each other, are power and resentment. I here…
Mandela
Nobody asked but … Skyler was correct when he posted that there are no gods on the Earth, but sometimes there are exceedingly unique persons. Nelson Mandela was one of those. Certainly he was a statist (in the end), but he was also certainly a voluntaryist. In fact, he was too complex to categorize. To…
Hazlitt, Balko, “Private Sector”
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. It never…
There Is No Teapot Too Small to Have a Tempest
Nobody asked but … All that is needed is collectivism. Read this story in the Lexington, KY Herald. I have no problem with voluntary homeowners associations per se, at least until some member or members take it upon their bad, authoritarian selves to pull this kind of scam. I can see denying Ms. Boak the…
Words Poorly Used #9 — Private Sector
I quote my alter ego, Verbal Vol, from his upcoming EVC column, Finding the Challenges:” … there is no private sector; the entities cited are defined by the public (state) sector, in effect they are subsidiaries of the state. If the state did not believe they were beholden to the state, they would have no…
On Power Struggles
Power struggles occur all over the world. Why? I’m sure there are a thousand reasons, but it seems they all come down to one party wanting the final say over their actions while the other disagrees. This can be any two people or groups of people, children or adults. What are we doing as individuals…
Libraries
Nobody asked but … There are, I confess, two state-provided services I like — public libraries anywhere, and public restrooms in little villages in places like New Zealand and the Dolomite Alps. In the USA, We combine the two. I think the Library of Congress is the one federal government artifact I might argue for…
Re: Social Skills and Authoritarianism
Nobody asked but … Skyler, I very much agree that it takes no brain to to see the faults of grade segregation, but I think it takes a disciplined brain to see the better alternatives. Organized schooling in America, however, is eminently qualified for behavior requiring no brain. Collectivism negates the use of brains. It…