As advocates of a truly free society, we voluntaryists, unlike the statists who outnumber us, do not engage in traditional political activism. This simple fact got me thinking about a habitual plan or checklist each of us might form or follow quite naturally, in the course of our daily lives in order to promote the kind of stateless socioeconomic order we envision.
Tag: history
As If It Matters (Because it Does)
Making the most out of your life even when circumstances are less than ideal is not some sort of ad-hoc consolation prize invented by motivational speakers. It’s literally the only possible way for our species to survive.
Anders Chydenius
Years ago, when I first signed up for Facebook, as I recall, there was an opportunity to establish a nom de guerre. So I chose Anders Chydenius. Despite this boost in exposure, he has remained obscure to this day.
The Russia-Blamers Think You’re Stupid
Americans never had rowdy disagreements with each other over race and religion until last year, and wouldn’t be having them now if not for those dirty, no-good Russian hackers who stole the 2016 presidential election from the second most hated candidate in history, on behalf of the most hated candidate in history, operating through subterfuge to achieve the outcome that some of us predicted months in advance, long before anyone mentioned Russian hackers.
Ireland #3
Ireland is under the radar. So the nation quietly approaches over our shoulders. Ireland never meant to set the world on fire, it meant only to expel interlopers. Ireland and the Irish people are content with what they have been dealt … which has become quite a lot, actually.
Privacy and Politics: The Hypocrisy of the Surveillance Statists
So long as American politicians and bureaucrats continue to put the rest of us under a magnifying glass, they deserve no sympathy when they get caught trying to hide their own actions from public view.
A Phenomenal, Yet Insufficiently Appreciated Book
Let us appreciate Rothbard’s masterpiece as an economic milestone in its own right, not just as an extension and clarification of “Human Action,” with the hope that it will eventually become one of the standard points of reference for seekers of comprehensive economic knowledge in a world that makes it an ever more indispensable asset.
Jamie Dimon is Right to Fear Cryptocurrency
When JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin a “fraud,” what ensued looked a lot like a “poop and scoop” con: The practice of driving down a thing’s price by saying bad things about it, then buying up a bunch of it before the price bounces back.
Digital Rights Management is the ENEmy of Internet Freedom
The purpose of Digital Rights Management is to allow creators to control the use of, and prevent the copying of, “intellectual property” — in the form of copyrighted informational works or proprietary hardware creations — after its original sale. The 30-odd year history of DRM is one of consumer dissatisfaction and sequential failure.
The American Führerprinzip
Although Trump went to Texas and Florida after the recent hurricanes, he was criticized for being insufficiently sympathetic — or perhaps empathetic. He apparently neither shed tears nor hugged storm victims, as his predecessors did. Do people really want that? Disgusting.