I’ve spent the last half-week in serious mental conflict. On one hand, I detest white nationalism, white supremacy, and Nazism. I find the individuals who choose to associate with such ideologies to be deplorable. They are cretinous mouth-breathers, worthy of no respect or intellectual engagement. I rebuke them and their…
On Net Neutrality
So-called Net Neutrality is the idea that all traffic that traverses the internet should be treated equally by all carriers. In theory this sounds like a noble goal, and I don’t take too much issue with the idea from a theoretical perspective. From a practical perspective, though, the idea is…
On The Human Condition
While human existence certainly changes, the human condition generally does not. We are more or less the same creatures that we were 100,000 years ago, with the same hopes and fears, and the same foibles and motivations that our ancestors had. When we look at the history of human governance,…
On Rights
Too often people conflate the concept of Rights with the concept of Privilege. These are very distinct things and we should do our best to make certain that when we are talking about them, those in the conversation understand which concept we are discussing. Rights, properly defined, are those things…
On Socialism
Practical Socialism has existed since civilization began, although not necessarily by that name. The vast majority of human history involves the state control of capital and production. Socialism’s ideas are as old as the first town that was ever ruled. Where did that ever get the common man? Today’s Socialists…
On Liberty
My assessment of human history leads me to make a couple of observations on liberty. 1 — Those societies whose laws protect individual liberty, and defer to individual liberty as much as possible, are the most prosperous and harmonious societies in the recorded history of mankind. Liberty promotes tolerance, equality,…
On Philosophical Consistency
Because my liberty is so important to me, yours is equally important. If I decide that it is in society’s best interests to impose a duty on you, then I have conceded that if someone else decides that it is in society’s best interest to impose a duty on me,…
Thanksgiving — A Giving of Thanks for Production
Purportedly, Thanksgiving is a holiday that originated when a group of pilgrims from Europe, and a group of Indians living in the New World, got together after the harvest and celebrated its bounty. Whether this story is true or not is irrelevant to this post. Thanksgiving to me is a…
Individualism
This is a blog dedicated to the concept of Individualism. In it I will be exploring liberty, individuality, free market economics, and peaceful interaction.
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