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. Many a speaker in church and elsewhere admonish others to make sacrifices of time, energy, and even money for whatever cause…
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Fallacy #10, The Suppression of Democracy, Spooner Quote #3
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. There seems…
Evolutionary Mismatch
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. In “The Primal Insight: A Question of Needs“, I recommended looking at our evolution as a species in order to…
Words Poorly Used #45 — Education
I was really cranked today when I read on Facebook that some useful idiot was quoted as saying that he was happy to pay taxes for public education so he didn’t have to live in a society of idiots! Whaa-a-a-a-aattt? Has this guy watched television any time since 1950? Does he think that reality shows,…
Labels on People are the Worst Words of All
Nobody asked but … I am noticing now that some of my Facebook friends are beginning to make declarations of independence from abstractions. Yesterday, I read where a man was going to start unfriending everyone who had “Voluntaryist” in their facebook handle. Being a voluntaryist myself (among other things), I have two reactions — 1)…
Fallacy #9, Thought-Word-Deed, Spooner Quote #2
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. My father,…
To Atheist Liberals
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…
Fault versus Blame
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. Distinguishing between fault and blame is important to me. How I react to a situation depends on the difference. Here’s…
The Bottleneck
Nobody asked but … The brain can process thoughts in a volume that is orders of magnitude beyond what we can process vocally. The spoken communication is the tip of the tip of the iceberg. And, yes, freeing oneself from seeking to control what others process may be the greatest freedom. The brain can process…
Man’s Law, Architecture, Reason
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. As I…