Editor’s Pick. Written by Leo Babauta. Yes, you absolutely are. Because not getting a high school education like everyone else means your kid will know nothing useful, and be unready to get a job and unsuited for life. OK, sarcasm aside, let’s take a look at this question sincerely. It’s a legitimate worry, because unschooling…
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The Invisible Wall
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…
Episode 001 – Skyler’s Journey (1h13m)
Episode 001 kicks off the Everything-Voluntary.com podcast with a look at Skyler’s journey toward voluntaryism, peaceful parenting, and radical unschooling. Listen to Episode 001 (1h13m, mp3, 96kbps) Show Notes Skyler’s Personal WebsiteFacebook Profile, Skyler J. Collins My Road to Liberty Went Through Economics Why I’m a Libertarian Post-Punitive Parenting Education in the 21st Century Origin…
My Journey to Voluntarism
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…
On Procrastinating Important Change
My wife’s favorite phrase, one that she shares with me often is, “Don’t leave for tomorrow the things you can do today.” I believe Benjamin Franklin first recorded it, but I doubt he was the first to think it. My wife heard it growing up in Mexico City. It’s sound advice, though difficult for me…
Top Winnie, Around Town, The Ring
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. In this…
The Liberal Mind vs. the Conservative Mind
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…
Am I a Radical Extremist?
I don’t think you can be any further away from a position than by advocating for it’s opposite. The status quo of general opinion and the positions I take are, plainly put, antithetical. Yes, I think I do qualify for the label of “radical extremist.”
A Realistically Optimistic Scenario for the Future
1. The exponential development of the global Internet culture, intensifying global migration processes, and the rapid development of communication and transaction technologies will jointly result – sooner than most would anticipate – in the dissolution and eventual disappearance of the presently dominant nationalistic, “patriotic”, and other worldviews based on morally arbitrary, tribal divisions. 2. The…
Social Coercion, a Discussion
I thought I’d share the discussion on Facebook that led to me writing my column on social coercion, between Aaron and Steve (with minor edits and comments in brackets). It’s far more detailed than my column was and I wanted to archive it here. Skyler. Steve: “Social coercion” I define as the pressure one individual or…