Nobody asked but … When Humpty Dumpty gets up on the wall. We often theorize that communism falls when it is overwhelmed by its own weight, like a beached whale. See the Berlin Wall. But any thoroughgoing analysis will show that specific instances of communism including socialism begin to fall with the advent of an…
Tag: individualism
Crime and Punishment in a Free Society
Would a free society be a crime-free society? We have good reason to anticipate it. Don’t accuse me of utopianism. I don’t foresee a future of new human beings who consistently respect the rights of others. Rather, I’m drawing attention to the distinction between crime and tort — between offenses against the state (or society) and offenses against individual persons or their justly held property.
October
Nobody asked but … We are celebrating October the 35th today out at the farm. We will be celebrating until the end of Indian Summer. Last night, I celebrated the federally-granted early sunset with a cup of hot coffee on the front porch, watching the sun-tipped wild diorama of the flame-colored ridges. The only thing…
On Reading Fiction (eg Harry Potter)
Nobody asked but … Skyler, your recent comments on the voluntaryist lessons from Harry Potter struck a chord. I would be much more likely to recommend the novels of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald, Lawrence Block, and Michael Connelly in the hardboiled genre, and Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Anthony Burgess, John Brunner, and Philip…
I Trust You Understand This
Nobody asked but … One of the most frequently used words in human exchange is trust, and to me it is one of the most misunderstood ideas. An example — to drive on the roads requires you to trust other drivers. Well, no such thing applies. You must actually have reasonable expectations of safety in…
Rants, the March for Freedom, Podcasts
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. Sometimes I…
Foreseen Consequences, Politics, Music
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. Today, I…
Hemp, Farmers, and Regulation
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original bi-weekly 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. This…
Heuristics, How Much, Religious Wars
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original bi-weekly 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. The…
Collectivism vs. Individualism
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original bi-weekly 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. Archived columns can be found here. FFT-only RSS feed available here.…