Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 3, Schooling Chapter 4 – Radical Unschooling As shown in the previous chapter, schooling is an extremely poor practice for building a culture of liberty. Parents who’ve begun building that culture at home through attachment and peaceful discipline will find schooling to be a major counter-productive step in the socialization…
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Chapter 3 – Schooling
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 2, Parenting Chapter 3 – Schooling Schooling is the typical next step in a person’s life, and the socialization that occurs in school is quite ill-suited to building a culture of liberty. That’s the intent, actually. Modern schooling was founded in Prussia as a means to socialize children into the…
Chapter 2 – Parenting
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 1, Introduction Chapter 2 – Parenting Having thus defined our terms, we can begin exploring the necessary prerequisites to building a culture of liberty, and ultimately, a free society. We must start at the same place where each if us began life, the home. Our parents are first to influence…
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Table of Contents Previous – Preface Chapter 1 – Introduction A free society, where liberty is secure, is necessarily one where you’ll find the widespread observance of the voluntary principle (all human relations should happen voluntarily, or not all).(2) Of course, not everyone is required to practice voluntaryism(3), but enough must so that society remains…
Toward a Free Society – Preface
Table of Contents Preface This isn’t my first publication, but it is my first publication that I authored entirely. Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting was self- published in 2012, myself as editor. It was an anthology of essays introducing the philosophy of voluntaryism in politics, the economy, parenting, and childhood education.(1) These are also…
Larry Reed Endorses New Booklet
My first endorsement for Toward a Free Society: A Short Guide on Building a Culture of Liberty has just come in: “Skyler Collins’ thought-provoking essay brings to mind the voluntaryist writings of such luminaries as Auberon Herbert and Herbert Spencer. Whether you embrace a minimal state or no state because you believe in individual liberty, or…
On Positive Rights
I read something recently that contained within it the perfect argument against positive rights. It was this: “Imagine two socialists on a deserted island, both demanding the right to education, healthcare, and basic income.” Positive rights are those which require the use of coercion by some over others, such as each of these. Clearly, such…
Building a Culture of Liberty VI: 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. Building a Culture of Liberty I: DefinitionsBuilding a Culture of Liberty II: ParentingBuilding a Culture of Liberty III: SchoolingBuilding a Culture…
Systems
Nobody asked but … 26 Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence It all comes back down to you. You must originate, develop, operate and maintain your existence, all of your principles, your moral codes, your ethics, your education. Everything in the universe is a unique sub-system, somewhat alike to other things of its…
Qualifying Anarchism
We can qualify our use of anarchism, such as “organizational anarchism” or “pedagogical anarchism”… in which case we’re talking about, most likely, the absence of hierarchy within an organization or educational model (respectively, which may or may not be ideas within the broader context of political anarchism). Without the qualification, anarchism, historically, has been about…