Episode 001 kicks off the Everything-Voluntary.com podcast with a look at Skyler’s journey toward voluntaryism, peaceful parenting, and radical unschooling. Listen to Episode 001 (1h13m, mp3, 96kbps) Show Notes Skyler’s Personal WebsiteFacebook Profile, Skyler J. Collins My Road to Liberty Went Through Economics Why I’m a Libertarian Post-Punitive Parenting Education in the 21st Century Origin…
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Hazlitt, Balko, “Private Sector”
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. It never…
Lying, Cheating, Stealing…
Recently, Realfarmacy.com ran an article by Mike Adams (the Health Ranger of NaturalNews.com fame) under “Naked Juice Class Action Settlement Announced” entitled “Here’s how to claim $45 from PepsiCo even without proof of purchase.” At the heart of the suite is Naked Juice’s fraudulent claim that the brand contained no GMO, while the suite claims…
Words Poorly Used #1 — Chaos
Senator Sam Hayakawa was a man of many hats, but his principle claim to fame was as a linguist. I learned semantics from Professor Hayakawa. “If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a…
Am I a Radical Extremist?
I don’t think you can be any further away from a position than by advocating for it’s opposite. The status quo of general opinion and the positions I take are, plainly put, antithetical. Yes, I think I do qualify for the label of “radical extremist.”
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…
Then Came The Internet…
Send her mail. “Love Perspective” is an original column appearing every other Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Serenity. Serenity is the mother of 4 boys and both a recovering mainstream parent and statist. She seeks to share what she has learned along her journey to voluntaryism, radical unschooling, and living a counter-culture lifestyle. Archived columns can…
Re: Violence Against Government
Parrish, my ponderings recall what I wrote yesterday for “Two Cents”: There’s a scene in the third book where Katniss defends the members of her Capitol prep team (make-up, wardrobe) to Gale, who remarks to the effect that they disgust him as residents of the Capitol who love the [Hunger] Games. She tells him that…
Social Coercion, a Discussion
I thought I’d share the discussion on Facebook that led to me writing my column on social coercion, between Aaron and Steve (with minor edits and comments in brackets). It’s far more detailed than my column was and I wanted to archive it here. Skyler. Steve: “Social coercion” I define as the pressure one individual or…
On Reading Fiction (eg Harry Potter)
Nobody asked but … Skyler, your recent comments on the voluntaryist lessons from Harry Potter struck a chord. I would be much more likely to recommend the novels of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald, Lawrence Block, and Michael Connelly in the hardboiled genre, and Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Anthony Burgess, John Brunner, and Philip…