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. Perhaps the…
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Knowledge, Wisdom, and Wealth
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. I live in a great age. Despite all the problems in the world, the present era has so much knowledge,…
The Ethics of Voluntaryism
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. Having recently written columns explaining both the philosophy of voluntaryism and the voluntary principle on which its based, I thought it…
The Private vs. the Public Sector
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 004 – From 2013, To 2014 (1h54m)
Episode 004 takes a look back at 2013 both personally for Skyler and Phil and at the outer world, and looks forward to 2014 and what it might mean for liberty. Listen to Episode 004 (1h54m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes 1984, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The Sword of TruthSkyler’s Column, “Liberty, Freedom, and Power“Skyler’s Column,…
Hazlitt, Balko, “Private Sector”
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. It never…
On the Hunger Games V
(Spoiler Alert!) In the end, the toppling of one tyrant meant the the rise of others. Though Katniss killed President Coin, the heretofore leader of District 13 and the rebellion, and aspiring dictator, “representative” rule will govern what’s left of Panem (North America) going forward. Suzanne Collins story seems to reveal her as a student…
On the Hunger Games IV
As I finish up this series, halfway through the third and final book, one major theme that has been consistent throughout is the effects that violence has on an individual’s mind. Written in live first person, the author, Suzanne Collins, brilliantly portrays what the Games and the following rebellion does internally to Katniss. Horror after…
Re: Violence Against Government
Parrish, my ponderings recall what I wrote yesterday for “Two Cents”: There’s a scene in the third book where Katniss defends the members of her Capitol prep team (make-up, wardrobe) to Gale, who remarks to the effect that they disgust him as residents of the Capitol who love the [Hunger] Games. She tells him that…
On the Hunger Games III
Something that this series, as well as previous ones like John Carter and Carson Napier, has taught me is the importance of extending empathy to those who have been raised to regard certain actions, say forcing people to participate in a game where they must kill everyone else to win, as not wrong. There’s a scene in…