Nobody asked but … If the military-industrial-government complex were capable of ruling the world, what are the chances that they would refrain from doing so? There is no conspiracy, per se, but there is the malignant growth of the power mad. Domination is the dark side of interaction. It takes no conspiracy for a stench…
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The Wages of the State
Nobody asked but … Somebody posted a meme on the Web stating that Senators make in the neighborhood of 170 dollars an hour but many of them voted against a minimum wage around $10 per hour. Firstly, they shouldn’t be setting either wage level because, secondly, they have demonstrated that they don’t know much about…
Win-Win Doesn’t Mean You Lose Nothing
Send him mail. “Win-Win World” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursdays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Russell L. Roth. Russell is a 30-year marketing veteran and graduate of Jay Snelson’s “Science of Human Interaction” course (he calls it “Win/Win 101”). He has owned and operated businesses in advertising, real estate and internet marketing. He holds…
Mission Creep
Nobody asked but … The missions of the police and the military are to hold X safe from all harm at all costs. The problem is that they can neither define X, nor all harm, nor all costs. And since they cannot, they cannot also define X to the taxpayers. Instead they continually roll out…
Spooner, Captain Phillips, Further Fallacies
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. This is…
Why We Can’t All Just Get Along
Send him mail. “Win-Win World” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursdays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Russell L. Roth. Russell is a 30-year marketing veteran and graduate of Jay Snelson’s “Science of Human Interaction” course (he calls it “Win/Win 101”). He has owned and operated businesses in advertising, real estate and internet marketing. He holds…
Disproving the State
Editor’s Pick. Written by Stefan Molyneux. Two objections constantly recur whenever the subject of dissolving the State arises. The first is that a free society is only possible if people are perfectly good or rational. In other words, citizens need a centralized State because there are evil people in the world. The first and most…
Hindsight Or Foresight — Always 20/20
Nobody asked but … I don’t have much patience with either hindsighted speculation or crystal ball gazing. Very few of these time travel accounts bear the mark of Occam’s Razor. I don’t concur that Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy, but the facts are eloquent without overcooking the detail. And there is nothing really surprising there…
On Mass Murder
Murder is “unlawful killing.” Unlawful is not lawful, or not legitimus (latin). Legitimus is “in line with the law,” and laws are rules. Rules can be either decreed by a ruler, or discovered by legal theorists observing norms, conventions, and mores. Murder is unlawful killing both in the sense that rulers have declared it such and most individuals…
Am I a Radical Extremist?
I don’t think you can be any further away from a position than by advocating for it’s opposite. The status quo of general opinion and the positions I take are, plainly put, antithetical. Yes, I think I do qualify for the label of “radical extremist.”