Wed, 13 August 2008 The Dangerous Question by Marcel Votlucka http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/votlucka/votlucka2.html Why?...Do most individuals need/want Mommy/Daddy Government? Unquestioning adults as much less mature than children Kids are naturally predisposed to active-mindedness Ayn Rand's take on "Open Mind" and "Closed Mind" http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/openmindandclosedmind.html Listening to what your mind is telling you... Deism and Freedom by Robert L. Johnson http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/johnson/johnson1.html America is based on fear...What is fear? Punished for disobedience--the ties between Parents and Governments If we lived with our governmental oppressors... Which is worse: tyrannical parents or tyrannical employees of government? All political punishment is local Attila and the Witch Doctor...softening the bones and brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_New_Intellectual by Ayn Rand For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction_for_the_new_intellectual Review by Edward Tanguay http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/70.htm The meme of government has jailed our minds (and thus limited our choices) a long time ago A prison for your mind http://tinyurl.com/yp4hdv Valid definition of God is impossible because it has no referents in reality Feelings about God aren't irreducible primaries The triad of supernatural consciousness: omnipotence, omniscience, and infallibility Will a post-technological singularity consciousness be Godlike? "God" as the Universe makes the notion superfluous Former atheist Antony Flew's and Peter Murphy's Deistic thinking... http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/atheist_philosopher_041210.html http://www.deism.com/dogmaticatheism.htm Scientist Stuart Kauffman's thoughts on catalytic closure of molecular species http://www.logicallearning.net/libevolution.html Kauffman's At Home in the Universe http://books.google.com/books?id=o-Owb5IDkSQC&dq=stuart+Kauffman+catalytic+closure&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 The secret of life is auto-catalysis review by Gert Korthof http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/kortho32.htm Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing The Sacred by Stuart A. Kauffman http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman06/kauffman06_index.html Consciousness is inextricably tied to material reality http://www.logicallearning.net/libanissueofmort.html To postulate supernatural consciousness is the ultimate metaphysical question-begging The laws of identity, causality, and non-contradiction must determine our beliefs http://www.logicallearning.net/libidentitycausa.html How belief in a "Creater" relates to fear... The mental sacrifice of taking the leap of faith http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html Faith and Force as corollaries... Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Any Rand http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Any Rand (audio of Rand herself, speech and q&a) http://www.atlasshrugged.com/ayn-rand-works/ar-faith-and-force.html from Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand http://www.aynrandbookstore2.com/prodinfo.asp?number=AR07B Scientists Close to Reconstructing First Living Cell Researchers get genetic material to copy itself in a recreation of a simple protocell that could have existed eons ago by Nikhil Swaminathan http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-close-to-recon Replicating clay particles and origin of life... Various hypotheses: http://scienceweek.com/2005/sw050429-1.htm http://originoflife.net/cairns_smith/quotes/ Cell as metaphor of complete liberty Reality is knowable and science is how we find out more about it Using logic to function optimally with our consciousness in objective reality Asking "Why?" as way to truth, honesty, and virtue (or uncovering pretense, evasion, and lies) Nathaniel Branden's quotation about the uniqueness of human consciousness and self-awareness http://www.logicallearning.net/libevolution.html The Psychology of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=54 bumper music "True Faith" by New Order http://www.neworderonline.com/ Direct download: Episode_29_-_Curiosity_of_children_faith_and_force_of_adults_logical_metaphysics_origin_of_life_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:59 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 6 August 2008 Getting to the root of the problem Is depression increasing in society? Depressingly Easy by Kelly Lambert http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=depressingly-easy&sc=MND_20080731 Challenging one's silent assumptions Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns http://www.feelinggood.com/books.htm#book_fg http://www.feelinggood.com/ The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=35 Stop "Depressing" Checking one's conscious and subconscious premises Real-Time Relationships by Stefan Molyneux http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR False self vs True self The Art of Self-Discovery by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38 Living in accordance with rational self-interest and your own happiness WebWise Business: Where Confidence Grows, Cashflow Goes Chris Curtis of Web Business Ownership talks with Kirk Nugent on the VoiceAmerica Business Radio Network http://www.webwiseshow.com/shows/show4.htm Dealers of Deceit by Kirk Nugent (from: I Just Want To Testify "Pursue Your Passion Edition") http://www.kirknugent.com/ excerpt from Practical Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux http://freedomainradio.com/free/#PA excerpts from Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux http://freedomainradio.com/free/#EA The psychological need for questioning social axioms Rejecting the emotional trap of social metaphysics Social Metaphysics by Nathaniel Branden in The Psychology of Self-Esteem http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=54 We are lonely for ourselves Honoring the Self: Self-Esteem and Personal Transformation by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=43 Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/03/1718171-solzhenitsyn-chronicler-of-soviet-gulag-dies Solzhenitsyn's nationalism, Stockholm syndrome, and regimes of fear Pursue Your Passion by Kirk Nugent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wDVrfLIq0 The Ultimate Answer by Kirk Nugent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4e0xCLf28s I Need You To Remember by Kirk Nugent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DH35qC1D34 bumper music "Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones http://www.jesusjones.com/ Direct download: Episode_28_-_The_psychological_side_of_complete_liberty_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:10 PM Comments[0] |
Sat, 2 August 2008 A Foundation for Panarchy by Michael S. Rozeff http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff210.html Are there primary and secondary rights? Run for your life whenever you hear a governmental "official" talk about your safety and happiness... Does the Jeffersonian rhetoric hold water? Government's "securing rights" is a non sequitur Because ideas are bulletproof, it's important to understand their origin and influence, particularly authoritarian ones How does one provide one's "consent" to the government, while maintaining one's rights? Certainly not by birth and physical proximity Individual rights defined Implications for so-called intellectual "property" Gated communities and HOA's versus governments Interacting on entirely private property based on the rules of the owner(s) SamIam's Obscured Truth Network http://www.youtube.com/ObscuredTruth The State has no standing and no actual legitimacy Elections make a mockery of choice ("suggestion box for slaves") http://www.panarchy.org/ Government versus governance; panarchism versus anarchism The essence of the Red Pill Tibor Machan's defense of government http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html "Private property" is a redundancy, as is "individual rights" "Public property" is a contradiction in terms Voting is a joke; your choices are not honored "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." H.L. Mencken http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/h.+l.+mencken Invalid forms of governance If you like tyranny, then ~you~ can leave; in a just society, bullies are banned The Jeffersonian Matrix Robert Nozick's defense of government http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html Coercive monopolies of retaliatory force will always lead to injustice Acceptance of false moral premises; the psychology of statism Holding people accountable for their levels of immorality Freeing Yourself from Politics by Stefan Molyneux (the two magic words: would you be in favor of using force "against me"?) http://youtube.com/watch?v=kB6uQcGo60I Helping people look past their fears Microfiltering Sepsis by Jennifer Chu http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20816/?a=f Innovation in free market medicine versus FDA hindrances bumper music "Revolutionary" Etude by Frederic Chopin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étude_Op._10,_No._12_(Chopin) Direct download: Episode_27_-_Rights_choice_governance_and_the_psychology_of_statism_.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:16 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 25 July 2008 Collectivistic statist turf war insanity King rejects govt's resignation, for now by Robert Wielaard http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/17/king-rejects-govts-resignation-for-now-1/ Governmental "officials" tear markets apart and extol self-sacrifical "public service" D.C. Arrests Residents For Missing Jury Service by Keith L. Alexander http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301798_pf.html Forced "justice" makes perfect sense, doesn't it; coercion is "cooperation" Jurors are essentially slaves of judges; jury nullification is illegal, sayeth "the law" The legal system benefits government and lawyers and screws the enslaved "customers" Once again, voting and jury nullification are not needed to achieve liberty; rather, people's independent mindset is Legislature approves bill banning trans fats by Samantha Sondag http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/15/MN0111OTUA.DTL The 'land of ban' scoffs at the nature of property rights; public pressure is voluntary; governmental pressure is coercive The most important thing in the world that needs protecting: Your right to choose a couple interesting scientific articles related to cardiovascular health: Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis -- The Role of HDL Cholesterol, Lp(a), and LDL Particle Size (just google the article title and click from there, if you get the annoying sign-in page) http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/439375 Measurement of LDL and HDL particle size does not improve CAD diagnosis http://www.lipidsonline.org/news/print.cfm?aid=6602 Genetic-testing start-ups asked to stop selling in Calif. by Stefanie Olsen http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9971383-7.html?hhTest=1 Perfect example of the regulatory State; following the money trail and areas of corporate convolution What a free market in medicine would be like: everything becomes more and more affordable Bush lifts executive ban on offshore oil drilling http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/14/bush.offshore/index.html Politics in midstream, once again, based on central planning; rather, all drilling areas should be privately owned and regulated--and thus be accountable here's a great blog post with lots of info: The Oil Pricing Squeeze Is On by David Theroux http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=140 Deadliest job in America: Working on cell phone towers http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/97827 OSHA fascists to the rescue! Give me a break; say goodbye to common sense and productivity; workers know their work best; rational tort law All the most vile forms of tyranny come from the edict that "This is for your safety"--as if we should look to a coercive monopoly to protect us The guiding light for people in the free market: Use your own judgment, do things reasonable and prudent based on the circumstances, and don't follow authoritarian rules for their own sake Loss of personal control and belief in Higher Powers http://atheists.meetup.com/518/boards/view/viewthread?thread=5064714 Need for self-esteem and individual choice "But Who Will Build the Roads" Market Anarchy Explained http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/166 The contradiction of government: Evil people controlling other purportedly evil people? Death By Government by R. Rummel http://tinyurl.com/rusyx The governmental employee modus operandi: passing the buck and shirking moral responsibility They Didn’t Attack Switzerland by Bill Walker http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker32.html The whole "war on terror" is ill-gotten; US government only protects their own (and even that fails) Collectivistic thinking treats States as quasi-individuals; coercive government is the real problem, not a State that has an interventionist foreign policy bumper music "All You Fascists" by Billy Bragg And Wilco http://www.billybragg.co.uk/releases/albums/mermaid_avenueII/merII11.html Direct download: Episode_26_-_American_fascism_self-responsibility_and_personal_control_collective_defense.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:15 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 16 July 2008 Truthdig - Reports - The Hedonists of Power by Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080623_the_hedonists_of_power/ Modern-day courtiers: The mainstream media Colbert stickin' it to The Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_White_House_Correspondents'_Association_Dinner http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879 Fascism in America via State-created corporations Get rid of government--problems solved! Journalists' individual sacrifices Where people get their collectivistic fears... Ridiculous nation-state chest-pounding Philosophical rationalizations hide fears Stockholm syndrome writ large: Identifying with and apologizing for the actions of one's political abusers The youth in Iran as potential catalyst for positive change Dealing with political frustration Meddlings of governments as genesis of terrorism The individual values of journalists--or lack thereof Croc Dundee to tax authorities: 'Come and get me' http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=321662&GT1=28101 The Real Crocodile Dundee by Vin Suprynowicz http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz48.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_William_Ansell Don't appease tax "authorities" (thieves); either you honor property rights or you don't Question for statists: Should any unsolicited product or service be imposed at gunpoint? Recognizing the difference between coercion and voluntary trade "It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." (Sally Kempton) A society of complete liberty is a society of dignity Politics as reflection of self-concept Coming to terms with childhood trauma and fear vis a vis authority The Disowned Self by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=46 The Miracle Fruit, a Tease for the Taste Buds by Patrick Farrell and Kassie Bracken http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html http://flavortripping.wordpress.com/ & http://www.miraclefruitman.com/ Riding a Flavor Trip :) http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=1615a44db1aa2c70758ae67c12b06cb1f4be9808 bumper music "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon http://johnlennon.com/html/discography.aspx?upc=724352485826 Direct download: Episode_25_-_Responsibility_of_the_press_Stockholm_syndrome_writ_large_self-concept_force_vs_trade.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:34 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 8 July 2008 The Faux of July by Mike Wasdin http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/wasdin/wasdin1.html The nation of unwitting slaves; new planet shopping, anyone? Are Obama and McCain your typical Nazis? Declaration of Independence http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm Ah, the land of collectivism, a place where all sorts of evils are supposedly sufferable The 'can-do' American spirit still exists and is vital to our future The nature of consent, contracts, breach of contracts, and unanimous consent Government, the antithesis of freedom Petition for redress of grievances; being humble has its drawbacks We The People Foundation http://www.givemeliberty.org/ The Lawsuit to Restore Constitutional Order http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/InfoCenter.htm http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/CourtFilings/ComplaintAmended-9-15-04.PDF http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/PROJECTS/Court-Docs/6700-2ndCirc-Full-Appeal-Oct-2007.pdf What makes jurisdiction? The contradictory concept of "state" and other deleterious collectivistic abstractions The Pentagon Is America's Biggest Polluter by Joshua Frank http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/85186/?page=entire The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives by Nick Turse http://us.macmillan.com/thecomplex A Pentagon's Who's Who of Your Life by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt329.html Root of despotism: the "power" to lay and collect taxes Shays Fought the Revolution's Final Battle, and We Lost by George Smith http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/smith/smith4.html Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13777.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion Ever Wonder How Politicians Think? (the grasshoppers vs the ants, from A Bug's Life) http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/26/33/ The many facets of statism, and the fear and ignorance that creates them Shirking responsibility and rationalization Hiring leaps in public sector by Dennis Cauchon http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080430/1a_lede30_dom.art.htm The ills of the parasitism of government Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin by Jeanna Bryner http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080624-st-planet-tally.html bumper music "American Idiot" by Green Day http://www.greenday.com/greenday.html Direct download: Episode_24_-_Another_unfree_birthday_for_America.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:14 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 2 July 2008 An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism by Brain Police http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/04/05.aspx Voting as an lack of consumer choice Representatives don't represent you Supposed "checks and balances" Small government isn't beautiful; government itself is ugly to the bone Mississippi Drug War Blues, The Case of Cory Maye by Drew Carey http://www.reason.tv/video/show/403.html The folly of working for the State in order to get rid of the State False--and forced--"agency" Watered-down libertarianism, and its political rejection World's Smallest Political Quiz, and its erroneous divisions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Smallest_Political_Quiz Agorism and the informal (gray and black) market economy http://agorism.info/counter-economics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_economy Freedom Quotient--that is, Liberation Factor minus Enslavement Factor Economic Means to Freedom - Part X by Frederick Mann http://www.buildfreedom.com/economic/eco_10.html Participating in politics is illogical from the get-go Libertarianism as abolitionist in principle, not reformist The psychology of jailers and other perpetrators of heinousness The fallacy of "voting as an act of self-defense" and acquiescence to plunder--going behind the magic curtain The Nature Of Present Government (quoting Lysander Spooner on knaves, dupes, and the rest, and on taking responsibility for your political plunder) http://www.logicallearning.net/libnatureofgover.html Societal Structures Posturing As Proper: Democracies And Republics (quoting Benjamin Tucker on majority rule as evil and ballots as bullets) http://www.logicallearning.net/libdemocraciesan.html Some solutions: Economic disengagement from statism (agorism); education (www.tolfa.us); Hoppe's anti-intellectual intellectuals (delegitimizers of statism); civil disobedience Secular humanists faith in statism Religion and Libertarianism by Walter Block http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block103.html Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Ayn Rand http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mysticism.html "Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority" http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html The church prepares the "flock" for the dictator FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/24/fcc-wants-a-magic-po.html bumper music "Get Up Stand Up" from Songs Of Freedom (Disc 2) by Bob Marley and the Wailers http://www.bamstores.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3017162 Direct download: Episode_23_-_Libertarian_anarchism_versus_Libertarian_statism_voting_as_corrupt_faith_and_force.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 27 June 2008 Legalize Every Drug by John Stossel http://www.nysun.com/opinion/legalize-every-drug/80204/ Myths, lies, and downright stupidity of fear-ridden control freaks, so-called drug "warriors" The liberty to make bad choices too Trying to make a contradiction exist (government) Why Have Governments? by Peter Namtvedt http://www.reasontofreedom.com/why_have_governments.html "...a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke..." Fearing choices and obeying authoriteye Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster by Jen Phillips (interview with survival researcher Amanda Ripley) http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2008/06/five-ways-to-survive-disaster.html Government as perennial go-to organization during crisis! Government-issued "crutches" Information flow restricted by governmental "officials" An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/04/05.aspx Problematic concepts that one accepts as valid, e.g., sacrifice Regardless of who you vote for, you're not getting what you want Note to statists: Don't hit people and don't take their stuff Libertarian voting...and then a miracle happens... Nathaniel Branden's powerful sentence completion exercises http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38 Liberty to me means-- Message to Ron Paul revolutionary candidates: The institutional framework of the State is for the purposes of statism Coffee is actually okay (a long-term study reveals) The One Minute Case For Individual Rights http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/individual-rights/ bumper music "Whiskey Lullaby" by Alison Krauss Feat and Brad Paisley from A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection album http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=6962 |
Complete Liberty Podcast
Weekly show that promotes total respect for self-ownership, property rights, and personal choice--amidst the authoritarian/obedience-oriented political and psychological memes in American culture (and elsewhere). Basically, governments and all they entail are the problem, not the solution. Voluntarism (or market anarchism, or anarcho-capitalism) and customary law principles, in accordance with reason and dignity, spell the solution. www.completeliberty.com
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