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Vermont Voluntaryists on Facebook
I am seeking to ramp up voluntaryist activism and interest in voluntaryism in general here in Vermont. In October, 2011, I launched the Vermont Voluntaryists Facebook Page, yet to date, most members are non-residents. So while all interested in the transition to a voluntary society are still welcome to join, I’m especially interested in more…
Never Call the Cops!
A rebellious teenager has a fight with his father and takes his pickup truck for a drive without permission. The father calls the cops. The cops hunt down the son and shot him dead. Unfortunately, this is not a plot outline for a TV movie, but an actual situation that occurred this week in Iowa.…
Detroit
Nobody asked but … I was just scanning the Google News headlines for today, when two particular stories caught my eye. One concerns a state-appointed financial manager for Detroit and the other concerns three shot dead in ” … the latest in a series of shooting incidents in the city.” As someone who was indirectly…
Opinions, Treaty of Versailles, the Manhattan Project
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. Last time,…
On the Hunger Games II
If you are unfamiliar with “agorism” and would like an introduction, look no further than the first few chapters of The Hunger Games, book one. It describes Katniss and Gale crawling under the unpowered electrical fence around their district to hunt game and gather food, return and trade it at the black market known as…
The “Nuclear Option”?
Last week, American-Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson suggested that the US military should drop a nuclear bomb in the middle of the Iranian desert in order to show Iran that they mean business. He further suggested that the next bomb be dropped on Tehran if Iran refuses to comply with US demands. Now I understand that…
On Government Projects
The Obamacare website debacle is a perfect example of the sorts of inefficiencies, disasters, and boondoggles that plagues government projects again and again. Irrelevant is the good or service being produced. Government lacks the necessary incentives, knowledge, and calculation to do anything as efficiently, successfully, and worthwhile as private organizations in society. That so many…
Everything is a Remix
I wrote in a Facebook discussion that all creative works were derivative. I think that’s true. Consider “orcs”. I understand that orcs were invented by Tolkein in LOTR. In The Hobbit, they were simply “goblins,” but were sized slightly larger than humans. Other writers used “goblins” as a creature much smaller than humans, so when…
Social Coercion, or Humans as Means
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. Traditionally, voluntaryism has only been concerned with physical coercion, or physical aggression. In “Voluntaryism Transcends Anarchism” I gave my thoughts on…