I’ll share the ultimate hack in just two words: letting go. These two words, if practiced and lived, can be the key to all the self-improvement in your life:
Tag: order
Charity, not Theft and Slavery
It’s hard to imagine, but I’ve read that back during the barbaric era of government, people in need actually relied on government to steal money to pay for the things they needed, or to force people to provide those things at their own expense against their will! Food, housing, and medical care were considered to be legitimate reasons to steal and enslave!
Statism is Extremism
Only those who walk the line of reasonableness between the extremes manage to balance their principles where they need to be: walls around the property you own and control, and nowhere else.
Did it Really Work For You?
You don’t have to be happy, but you probably shouldn’t be the person who talks about how important a product is for people’s happiness if your life looks like a glaring counterexample. If you’re going to fight for a particular point of view, then you should at least try to look satisfied with the life it gave you.
Outcome-Based Reasoning
“National ‘borders’ is a state-created concept, and therefore any ‘policy’ about those borders–including the policy of not violently stopping people from crossing–is a ‘government program.’ Therefore, ‘open borders’ is just as statist as ‘closed borders.'”
Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future
The trouble is that we have left the Industrial Era for the Imagination Age, but our mass education system remains fully entrenched in factory-style schooling. By many accounts, mass schooling has become even more restrictive than it was a century ago, consuming more of childhood and adolescence than at any time in our history.
Words Poorly Used #109 — Information
It’s just a system. It is independent of ideas of right and wrong. Data goes in and it gets transformed in the process that awaits it. The output is a direct result of the process.
Trust In the Power of Your Asking
Take a chance on the power of your asking. Give your relationships an opportunity to work on the basis of sincerity and sympathy. You’ll have a lot more fun that way. Don’t pull out a fire extinguisher if all you need to do is ask someone to blow out a candle.
Statist Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological condition of traumatic bonding in which a victim comes to empathize with an abuser so much that they will identify with and defend them. It is evident in many who consider themselves compassionate and patriotic, as evidenced by the following statist hogwash I recently saw going around social media.
Be True To Something Other Than Yourself
Some are very good at keeping it real as long as they get to redefine reality at whim. Others know how to keep it real by submitting to a reality beyond their own head.