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. A tax cheat on trial for lying on his tax return. A music pirate on trial for illegally downloading music. A…
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Election Results
Nobody asked but … Every commentator who has any credibility left for a voluntaryist has said literally the same thing. To wit — congratulations, a whole 1/3rd of you voted, congratulations, in very, very rare instances did a winning candidate garner even 20% of the American vote, congratulations, you provided cable news with their periodic…
Convergence, J. B. Bury, Fallacy #17
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. Having just…
Voluntaryist Class Analysis
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. Class analysis is a useful tool toward the stratification of society in order to understand different perspectives on political or economic…
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,…
What is Wrong?
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. “Wrong” is one of these terms that have several meanings. A dictionary lookup tells me that wrong, as an adjective, means,…
Rules, Spooner Quote #8, Fallacy #16
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’m thinking…
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 Argument from Patriotism
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…
Human Nature Has a Past, Present, and Future
Nobody asked but … I will grant you that homo sapiens as currently constituted is an unambitious evolutionary experiment in higher order thinking hampered by lower order instinct. The truth that human nature is natural, however, is incomplete. It is also natural to optimize adaptation. It is also natural to aspire to a higher level.…