Nobody asked but … When Humpty Dumpty gets up on the wall. We often theorize that communism falls when it is overwhelmed by its own weight, like a beached whale. See the Berlin Wall. But any thoroughgoing analysis will show that specific instances of communism including socialism begin to fall with the advent of an…
Tag: democracy
Words Poorly Used #4 — Democracy
The trouble with the word democracy is that it can mean almost anything. And politicians, along with manipulators in general, love almost-anything words. Since the very languages which contain the usage democracy are themselves sets of rules made by people the very use of language is democratic. Any learned behavior is democratic — rules by…
Opinions, Treaty of Versailles, the Manhattan Project
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. Last time,…
Words Count
Nobody asked but … Today I saw a huge, black SUV, and its model name was “Armada?” I am very sorry to see this completely irrelevant bandying about of words that stem from war. And I suppose the mammoth, black SUV fad was started by Blackwater and the fighting-for-democracy bunch otherwise known as neo-cons. I…
MYOB, Imperialism, Income Tax
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More Winnies, More History, Defining Religion
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. Today we…
The Winnies, The Euro, Town and Country
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Politicians Are Not the Only Culprits
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Roads, Natural Statism, the Singularity
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A Tale of Two Political Systems
Editor’s Pick. Video by Eric Li. Editor’s note: This is not an endorsement of political China, but merely something the editor found interesting as it concerns Hans Hoppe’s thesis on democracy.