Episode 076 welcomes Chris Jenkins to the podcast to discuss his journey to voluntaryism, with Skyler and Morgan. The topics covered include: Cash Flow, the game, the Robert Kiyosaki and Jeff Berwick encounter, his paralegal career, his K-12 public schooling experience and being labeled slow, forced into Resource classes and not allowed out, his complete disinterest in all things school, his LDS mission to Philadelphia and Dover, his wife and kids, their schooling experience, his neo-conservative days during the 2008 election, first paying attention to Ron Paul in 2012, his interest in affiliate marketing, becoming a libertarian in 2012 and an anarchist in 2013-2014, the attacks he suffered by the City of Bountiful over his rental property, why having people close to you with different opinions can make for enlightening discussions, and his favorite podcasts.
Tag: government
Rulers Don’t Give Two Shits About You
How long will it take people to figure this out? When authoritarian powers are huffing and puffing at each other and preparing for war, it is because both sets of tyrannical control freaks–the ruling classes of BOTH countries–need their OWN subjects to be scared, so that the slaves on both sides feel loyalty to their supposed savior rulers.
Influences III
If I were a guest on a podcast or an interview broadcast, when asked about my major influences, I would stick close to the names repeated by voluntaryists — Spooner, Bastiat, Jefferson, Mencken, Mises, Hazlitt, Rothbard, Higgs, and Woods. But in this more expansive context, I can stretch out to discuss the influences who made me a voluntaryist before I knew I was one, before I knew to read the internal literature of the voluntaryist, libertarian, individualist mainstream. Three such influences are Alan Turing, Dan Carlin, and Ruth Rendell.
The Back Story 024 – The Secret Bank You Can’t Afford to Ignore (3m)
The Back Story 024 looks at the conspiratorial origins of the largest central bank in the world.
If You Need Violence to Enforce Your Ideas…
…your ideas are worthless. Or so goes the meme I’ve seen recently on Facebook. Actually, I’ve seen it before, in the past, and I shared it thinking it was clever. This time around, however, I had a different take.
Xenophobia and Cultural Assimilation
No one has an obligation to “assimilate” into a different culture, regardless of what piece of dirt they happen to be standing on. People don’t acquire an obligation to wear what you wear, eat what you eat, speak the language you speak, and think what you think, just because they exist in close proximity to you.
Spoon-Feeding Statists
When I provide explanatory links rather than typing the whole thing out again, it would be nice if he took the time to read them, instead of wanting it all spelled out and spoon-fed to him. But I’ve learned that’s not how it works. He wants to be spoon-fed, and he wants it pre-digested. No effort.
Crops, Currency, and Crypto
Peoples in places with a single staple grain, harvested at the same time once each year, were easy for states to subjugate and coerce. Partly for this reason, most humans resisted extensive grain farming, even several thousand years after it had been invented, and opted instead for what Scott calls a complex ‘web’ of nutrients.
Delegation/Relegation
A truth of government is that things are disposed of at the next level down, where the incentive is to lay blame but to preserve the process. This is called relegation.
I am…
…a libertarian because I believe in maximizing liberty and minimizing aggression. I recognize the maximum amount of liberty requires there be no one who can violate liberty free of rightful consequences.