Episode 048 is a conversation on the recent blockbuster “Interstellar” and it’s allegorical value. “Guardians of the Galaxy” and the Grimm’s Fairy Tales are also briefly touched on. And Skyler encourages Phil to start a podcast on the allegories found in popular media. Listen to Episode 48 (0h59m, mp3, 128kbps)Show Notes IMDB.com Synopsis, “Interstellar“IMDB.com Synopsis,…
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Must We Seek the Divine?
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. The last time I wrote about my religious beliefs, I said that I was starting over, “rebuilding” my foundation. I…
Urban Planning, Clairvoyance, Movie: Harper
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. I have…
Words Poorly Used #57 — Media
Before we started calling newsmongers by the convenient word, “media,” we called some of them “the press” and some “broadcasters,” implying that the method of delivery was the essence And they used to quarrel among themselves as to whom had a legitimate claim on the profession of journalism and to whom the label of “reporter”…
Voluntaryism 101: A Simple Explanation
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…
Words Poorly Used #55 — Majority
The majority hardly ever carries the day. Let’s take The USA’s torture program — there is a thing that should never exist but for an extremely small minority of government functionaries, in collusion, supported by a very small but vocal crowd of immediate gratification seekers in the populace. The thing gets off the ground before…
Derivatives Explained
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 “Check Your Privilege”
Are we setting our children up to be shamed for their “privilege”? Relative to most kids, my children have the privilege of not being spanked or schooled. They have the privilege of controlling their own lives, everything from media use to food to sleep. They have the privilege of learning two languages and two cultures.…
The Communist Manifesto as Scripture?
Phillip Eger, my EVC podcast co-host, wrote the following in a religious Facebook group post that asked the question, “What books do you accept as scripture?”. I set him up with, “Phillip Eger would say everything that comes from the mind of man. All are portals to the unconscious mind, where the true god can…
Whence Cometh Moral Outrage?
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. Everyone seems to have their own definition of morality. Why is that? If morality is “the proper behavior for a person…