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. I wrote “Government vs. the State” a year ago, and since then have used it many times in conversation to explain…
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On Anarchy
Suffering from a bout of jeffreytuckeritis, I can’t get this most glorious of concepts out of my head. Anarchy. An, without, archy, ruler. Without rulers. Without murderers, slavers, rapists, batterers, and thieves. Without the initiation of aggression and violence and coercion. Every interaction we have with others that is without one party ruling over the…
Constitutional Government Failed Because it is Socialism
I just had to save the below from the dustbin of history, now that the Mises forums are gone. It speaks for itself, written by “Stranger”: Ludwig von Mises defined bureaucracy as such: In what does the position of such a provincial governor differ from that of the manager of a business branch? The manager…
Every Action is Self-Interested
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. Altruism is the “the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.” This seems impossible,…
Yin Yang, Spooner #10, Fallacy #19
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 am…
An Open Letter to My Baby
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. Dear Baby Collins, Having just entered life and found myself as your father, you’re probably thinking, “Great, who’s this schlub?”…
On the Police
Police cars used to display – and some may still – their supposed purpose, something to the effect of, “To Serve and Protect”. Naturally, when people read this, they assume it means to serve and protect them. Actually, they’re wrong. The police are not security for the people. Rather, they are law enforcement. Their mission…
There Will Always Be Government
Nobody asked but … The only philosophical debate I got into with family at Thanksgiving ended with me being told in stern tones that “there will always be government, even if there are only two people!” But, on calm reflection, the critical issue is whether that government is voluntary. It is not voluntary when…
Ferguson
Nobody asked but … No matter where you stand on the spectrum of law and order, you must regret the outcome. The victims are the dead man, the shooter, and all of us who depend on honesty from public servants. I never thought I would be writing anything about the Ferguson MO incident because it…
Spooner #9, Fallacy #18, Hard Work
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. A review…