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. “Teenage rebellion” is a seemingly natural phase of a young human’s life. But is it really? What about political rebellion? Is…
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On Creativity
A friend shared a graphic on Facebook of a quote by Osho, an Indian mystic who died in 1990, that went, “Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.” I like that. I can’t speak for Osho, but for me, I make the following observation: Creativity is the mark of individuality. To be creative is to…
How to Protect Your Children
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. As parents, our primary instinct and first duty is the protection of our children. Because we love them, we feed them…
Words Poorly Used #5 — Quality Assurance
If you call a grizzly a squirrel, will it not eat you? Today’s linguistic rant may seem like small potatoes, but the degeneration of our communication is big time. See the tower of Babel. “Quality assurance” is a good, and very low key example. Rather than delivering good stuff, it is there to make…
On the Hunger Games V
(Spoiler Alert!) In the end, the toppling of one tyrant meant the the rise of others. Though Katniss killed President Coin, the heretofore leader of District 13 and the rebellion, and aspiring dictator, “representative” rule will govern what’s left of Panem (North America) going forward. Suzanne Collins story seems to reveal her as a student…
On the Hunger Games IV
As I finish up this series, halfway through the third and final book, one major theme that has been consistent throughout is the effects that violence has on an individual’s mind. Written in live first person, the author, Suzanne Collins, brilliantly portrays what the Games and the following rebellion does internally to Katniss. Horror after…
Commerce: The Permanent Rebellion
Editor’s Pick. Written by Paul Rosenberg. Commerce, by its very nature, is born free. And more than this, it forever fights to remain free. At almost every time and place, commerce evades regulations and controls; it serves its own will, not the wills of rulers. Markets spontaneously emerge at every opportunity, even when they are…
The Ominous Parallels
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Does Unschooling Mean “Anything Goes”?
Editor’s Pick. Written by Jennifer McGrail. One thing I hear fairly often is that people will “experiment” with radical unschooling, the kids will go wild (for lack of another term) and the parents will pronounce it a failure. But the problem isn’t unschooling. The problem is that if you take kids who are used to…
Heuristics, How Much, Religious Wars
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original bi-weekly 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. The…