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2024-08-30 03:15:33

All of us in the modern West grew up believing that we were living under “the rule of law.” The truth, however, is that the rule of law – the sovereignty of law – ended a couple of centuries ago. And by losing it, we lost a primary driver of our civilization.
#followforfollow #plebchain #history #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-west-that-was-part-5/

2024-08-23 05:05:19

1910 was well before my own time, of course, but I knew at least ten people who lived through it as adults, and discussed the era at some length with one of them, my great uncle Dave. And so this is an era I feel I can still reach out and touch.
#history #followforfollow #plebchain
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-west-that-was-part-2/

2024-08-18 17:47:37

Respecting the office and the law are unAmerican, and I’m going to show you precisely why, mainly from the mouths of the American founders.
#followforfollow #plebchain #liberty #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/why-americans-shouldnt-respect-offices-or-laws/

2024-08-13 04:17:42

It struck me some time ago that the people we think of as “geniuses” tend to arrive, over time, at surprisingly similar sets of conclusions. It further strikes me that a simple list of such thoughts might be of value.
And so, here is a list pulled from my quotes file and presented without commentary.
#followforfollow #blog #quotes
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https://freemansperspective.com/what-geniuses-believe/

2024-08-11 04:04:55

Soon enough we learned that the system was also stupid and perverse, but we found a way around that contradiction by blaming one segment of the system or another: The Blues or the Greens or the Reds were the problem; it could not, must not, be that the system itself is the problem.
Then came 2020, and the system revealed its true face.
#followforfollow #tyranny #covid
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https://freemansperspective.com/2020-the-year-the-system-showed-its-real-face/

2024-08-09 19:05:19

The life of meek obedience is a sin against the self. It is a surrender of mind and passion. It’s a half life at best.
#plebchain #followforfollow #passion
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https://freemansperspective.com/live-dangerously-and-you-live-right/

2024-08-06 17:04:21

All of us with husbands and wives are beautifully positioned to make them better human beings. Unfortunately, many of us are squandering the opportunity.
Today I’d like to help fix that.
#followforfollow #plebchain #marriage #relationships
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https://freemansperspective.com/do-you-have-a-plan-for-improving-your-spouse/

2024-08-05 16:10:40

I’ve gone on for a long time about fear making humans stupid, and even about it being a weapon and a brain poison. But I’ve also wondered at times whether people would hit fear-fatigue… that point where people have simply had enough and walk out from under it.
#followforfollow #blog #philosophy
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-wages-of-perpetual-fear/

2024-08-03 20:01:02

“Shame,” wrote psychologist Silvan Tomkins, “strikes deepest into the heart of man… it is felt as a sickness of the soul which leaves man naked, defeated, alienated, and lacking in dignity.”
Shame is the great barrier that keeps people from acting as individuals and from expanding beyond a minimum-energy state. The expectation of shame is paralyzing to the vast majority of humans at some points of their life, and to some more frequently than others. Many people have spent their lives seeking shame-avoidance positions.
All of this is a horrific waste, and in this podcast, we take it on.
#plebchain #followforfollow #podcast #psychology
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https://freemansperspective.com/podcast-on-shame/

2024-08-02 02:00:37

Let’s be honest about something: We in the West have been overrun by a tidal wave of racial hatred, and it erupted from institutions “of higher learning.” Whatever exceptions may exist, this central fact is clear. We are free to close our eyes, of course, but when we choose to see, this is what stands in front of us.
#plebchain #followforfollow #racial #learning #blog #philosophy
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-barbarians-have-taken-the-institutions/

2024-07-27 05:41:57

Julian Assange is now free and recovering from his long, malicious ordeal. We wish him and his family all the very best. He is a hero, and paid a high price for it.
A lot of people know the what about Julian and WikiLeaks – that they published secret information – but they don’t know the why. And that’s unfortunate, because the thinking behind all the leaks is both brilliant and illuminating.
#plebchain #followforfollow #julianassange #wikileaks
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https://freemansperspective.com/julian-assange-really/

2024-07-24 16:05:54

I would pay dearly for young people to feel what it was like to be a scientifically minded child in the 1960s. It was a special and beautiful moment. Each week there was a new step toward the stars. And this was not science fiction, this was real. There was an exhilaration to it that I don’t think can be found in any other venture. The door to infinite space was creaking open for us.
#plebchain #followforfollow #science #nasa
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https://freemansperspective.com/to-be-young-and-headed-to-the-stars/

2024-07-23 19:06:04

The biggest crimes stand in the open; what prevents people from seeing them is simply their size and the fact that they are crimes. We can’t believe that such large evils are possible.
#plebchain #followforfollow #blog #morality
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-ultimate-crime/

2024-07-22 16:45:07

The idea that running away is a virtue bothers a lot of people, but when you find that the greatest men and women of history have done precisely this, it’s time to re-evaluate, no matter how it makes you feel.
Compliance is how we shrivel and ultimately die to ourselves. Acting on your own decisions – with all the risk that implies – is the path of life and liberation.
#plebchain #followforfollow #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/podcast-why-dropping-out-and-running-away-are-virtuous/

2024-07-21 16:53:22

The crowd is always a deceiver. No one expressed this more concisely than Simone Weil, when she said, “conscience is deceived by the social.” Conscience is individual, social is collective, and the two are at odds. Likewise, sanity is individual and mania is collective.
Within the crowd, malice appears as duty, honor, order and justice. To reside in the crowd is to be deceived; the only question is how much.
#plebchain #followforfollow #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-preservation-of-sanity-and-civilization/

2024-07-20 16:12:58

Cryptography, after all, boils down to math, and you can’t put a bullet through a math problem. Well-applied cryptography, then, is immune to the usual applications of power. And so, whatever we cloak in cryptography can push through barriers erected by old, grasping regimes.
#plebchain #followforfollow #crypto #cryptocurrency #revolution
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https://freemansperspective.com/how-cryptography-has-revolutionized-revolution/

2024-07-19 17:01:25

Almost no one in the broader world knows about the #crypto apostles. (My term, not one they apply to themselves.) Even rather few in the larger crypto community know much about them. So I’m not talking about famous names, but quiet people. I’ve decided to tell you about them with some hesitation.
#plebchain #followforfollow #bitcoin #cryptocurrency
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-crypto-apostles/

2024-07-19 05:31:08

This is a set of passages from my files: The thoughts of notable geniuses on the subject of education. I hope that parents, especially, will find them informative.
#plebchain #followforfollow #quotes
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https://freemansperspective.com/geniuses-on-education/

2024-07-12 16:27:31

This is a set of passages from my files: The thoughts of notable geniuses on the subject of education. I hope that parents, especially, will find them informative.
#followforfollow #plebchain #quotes
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https://freemansperspective.com/geniuses-on-education/

2024-07-10 18:27:35

There is real beauty in doing a job well, even a simple job. It is our great loss that this form of beauty is never mentioned in public these days – double-sad, because at one time, such beauty was acknowledged.
This brings us to an obvious question: What happened? How did we lose the beauty and dignity of work?
#followforfollow #plebchain #dignity #workethic
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-dignity-of-work/

2024-07-09 17:02:22

People very often expect authorities to possess superior information. After all, the assumptions of the 20th century were that those at the top of large systems have information the rest of us don’t, and that they make better decisions because of it. This was the lesson of the factory, the military and government. In all cases, those at the top were believed to have the best information.
In actual practice, however, those at the top don’t get the best information.
#plebchain #followforfollow #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-quality-of-information-within-a-hierarchy/

2024-07-08 17:25:44

What happens next is up to you. It’s not up to leaders or bosses. It’s up to you.
#followforfollow #plebchain #rights #liberty #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-immortal-hymn-of-mankind/

2024-07-04 16:09:28

I hear the same complaints about politicians that you do. And while I understand them, the fact is that complaining accomplishes almost nothing. And there is a very simple reason why complaining has no real effect:
Because the complainers keep right on obeying.
As long as you obey, the things you complain about will keep on happening.
#plebchain #followforfollow #independenceday #4thofjuly
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https://freemansperspective.com/nothing-changes-as-long-as-you-obey/

2024-07-04 05:26:13

The thought that something like “the right to a secure retirement” could destroy us seems a little crazy at first. Who, after all, opposes old people living comfortably? Nonetheless, many rights do destroy, and it recently struck me that I had never seen a clear and dispassionate explanation of why. And so I’ll rectify that.
#plebchain #followforfollow #rights
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https://freemansperspective.com/how-rights-destroy-us/

2024-07-02 16:44:26

Eras change as their illusions burn out, and a lot of illusions are presently on fire. Millions of decent people – reliable friends and neighbors – have been pushed and pulled into a situation where they are facing the hard death of their dreams.
Back in the 1960s it was common to say “Tune in, turn on, drop out,” and plenty of young people did. Now it looks like the phrase may run in reverse: Drop Out, Tune In, Turn On.
#plebchain #followforfollow #burnout #era
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https://freemansperspective.com/dropping-out-of-dreams/

2024-07-01 16:02:57

Rules and obedience have never elevated anyone to heroism and greatness., but I know what does, and I discovered it in the rubble of 9/11.
#followforfollow #plebchain #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/a-recipe-for-heroes-and-saints/

2024-06-27 16:22:46

Due to the number of questions I’ve received about Jesus, I think a podcast devoted to him is in order.
People addressing this material, from whatever angle, tend to have fiercely held opinions, cherry-picking facts around them. That makes these discussions very difficult, and I’ll do my best to avoid that trap. This is a fascinating subject, and removing dogmatic opinions is what opens it to us.
#plebchain #followforfollow #religion #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/was-there-a-real-jesus-and-if-so-what-did-he-really-say/

2024-06-25 16:14:50

Last week we examined the “social contract” in some depth, to see if it passes as a legal concept. This week we’ll examine two follow-up issues: one that I didn’t mention and one that I mentioned, but didn’t delve into.
#plebchain #followforfollow #socialcontract
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https://freemansperspective.com/follow-up-on-the-social-contract/

2024-06-23 19:24:15

So, you’re printing up six trillion dollars, giving 7/8ths to banks and corporations and 1/8th back to us… which we’ll be taxed on… plus, all that money creates a monster deficit that our children be expected to pay back anyway? The honest answer, if it were ever given, would be “yes.” And for this we’re expected to thank them!
#followforfollow #plebchain #taxation
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https://freemansperspective.com/free-money-doesnt-fix-broken-processes/

2024-06-21 18:22:58

The social contract is a description of “the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.” The social contract asserts that all of us have consented to surrender some of our rights to a ruling group, in exchange for the protection of our remaining rights.
The question I’ll address today is whether this is a legitimate contract.
#plebchain #followforfollow #socialcontract #draft
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https://freemansperspective.com/is-the-social-contract-legit/

2024-06-19 17:23:53

Imagine a pretty spring day. You’re standing on your front porch or some other pleasant vantage point and looking out at a sunlit landscape: trees, grass, and singing birds. Then your five-year-old child or grandchild walks up to you and tugs on your hand to get your attention. You turn and the child asks, “What kind of world is this?”
What do you reply?
#plebchain #followforfollow #philosophy
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https://freemansperspective.com/14-words/

2024-06-17 16:00:12

Lord Acton wrote that power tends to corrupt, but I’m going to say flat out that it does corrupt. I’ll go further and say that it’s an addiction (probably every bit as bad as cocaine), and that the lust for control is one of its primary drivers.
#plebchain #followforfollow #corrupt #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/control-is-an-addiction/

2024-06-17 15:56:52

Humans are not naturally stupid. They are not naturally bad. Fear, however, distorts them, weakens them, and makes them far less effective than they’d naturally be. Fear, in its many guises, is the great enemy of mankind, and it’s time that we addressed it head on.
#plebchain #followforfollow #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/fear-is-a-mind-hack/

2024-06-14 00:48:42

Humans are not naturally stupid. They are not naturally bad. Fear, however, distorts them, weakens them, and makes them far less effective than they’d naturally be. Fear, in its many guises, is the great enemy of mankind, and it’s time that we addressed it head on.
#plebchain #followforfollow #humanity #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/fear-is-a-mind-hack/

2024-06-13 04:32:13

So, do you think life was nasty, brutish, and short in 1905? That there were poor and starving people falling dead on every street corner?
Hardly.
#plebchain #followforfollow #history
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https://freemansperspective.com/why-cant-we-party-like-its-1905/

2024-06-12 04:56:06

The good news about ignorance is that it sets us free from mental chains. Now, to be clear, what I’m talking about here is accepting and admitting our ignorance. This is essential if we want to actually know things, as opposed to making a show of knowing things. And I can tell you from personal experience that it really works. I gained the habit of admitting my ignorance (almost advertising it) back in the early 1980s, and that habit has helped me toward more understanding and discovery than I’d be able to itemize.
#plebchain #followforfollow #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-gospel-of-ignorance/

2024-06-11 04:48:32

Serfdom was… and is… a state of mind far more than an economic or social position.
The Serfdom State of Mind focuses on the desire for safety and security… of remaining clear of blame… to the detriment of self-reliance and living as a free and independent moral agent.
Everyone enjoys safety, of course, but to place placidity above life itself is a grave error, and lies at the root of serfdom.
#plebchain #followforfollow #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-serfdom-state-of-mind/

2024-06-09 19:52:46

Sure, we’ve all seen this in practice and people have developed catchy terms for it, like echo chamber, but the polarization effect of social media has been demonstrated scientifically. In fact, some of us were warning about it a long time ago. And while I can no longer find my original documentation on the subject, I can tell you precisely how it works.
#plebchain #followforfollow #socialmedia
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https://freemansperspective.com/social-media-polarization-machine/

2024-06-07 04:48:30

Our job is to improve ourselves, our families and the world in general, and we are in no way obligated to do it through systems that hate us and abuse us. Endless gullibility is a vice, and it doesn’t look good on us.
#plebchain #followforfollow #racism #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-desperation-of-anti-white-racism/

2024-06-05 16:03:28

There are, apparently, a lot of people who think Bitcoin is down for the count. Forget about that; Bitcoin is doing just fine and “the count” is just a sideshow.
#plebchain #followforfollow #bitcoin
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https://freemansperspective.com/dont-worry-about-bitcoin/

2024-06-04 05:09:45

I spent a good deal of my young adulthood searching for business advantages. Ultimately I found mine by reading: While the other guys were talking about nonsense and chugging back brews, I was reading the literature of my business… and it worked.
#plebchain #followforfollow #business
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https://freemansperspective.com/would-you-like-an-advantage-in-business/

2024-06-03 04:25:43

Lèse-Majesté, an offense against the dignity of a ruler, is a little-used but very important concept. And it is the central crime that cannot be tolerated by the ruler.
Lèse-Majesté stands against the concept of free speech, of course, but when push comes to shove, necessities stand above the law, and lèse-Majesté is a necessity to rulers.
As we examine in this podcast, lèse-Majesté is crucial for the legitimacy of the ruler (without legitimacy the whole structure of rulership would fail), and is crucial to what I call “applied idolatry” in our world.
#plebchain #followforfollow #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/lese-majeste-and-the-necessity-of-idolatry/

2024-06-01 04:40:31

Years ago I engaged in a long usenet discussion with another gentleman on immigration, life in the third world, etc. After some back-and-forths, the gentleman proposed a scenario:
What would happen if the two of us were dropped, naked and with absolutely no way of calling for help, into the poorest and most desperate spot in India?
#plebchain #followforfollow #philosophy
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https://freemansperspective.com/be-the-outsider/

2024-05-31 05:23:55

Here is something that was thrown in my face at a relatively early age, as I began to think seriously and independently: So, the world is wrong and you’re right!?
But as it happened, I was more or less right. And very definitely the world was wrong.
The hierarchies of the world are trying to freeze everything and everyone in place. That means they will always be wrong. Even when they say the right things – like “murder is bad” – they’ll always be doing it for twisted reasons, with twisting effects…
#plebchain #followforfollow #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-world-is-wrong/

2024-05-28 17:12:57

This podcast (published originally in an appendix to A Lodging of Wayfaring Men) was composed twenty years ago, while working in a difficult and even dangerous cypherpunk project. It expresses the things that were on our minds as we stepped away from the status quo and dared to build afresh outside of it.
#plebchain #followforfollow #encryption #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/farbers-first-essay-2/

2024-05-27 14:46:20

“Men,” wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don’t make it of wood, you must make it of words.”
Idolatry is a frame of mind. We’ve all experienced it, though we haven’t been clear on what it was. But once you do recognize it, you’ll be at least half immunized against it, and probably for life.
#plebchain #followforfollow #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/men-are-idolaters/

2024-05-26 17:14:25

Imagine that some combination of circumstances end with you walking into a so-so bar, then accidentally causing some gigantic brute to spill his drink. Imagine also that this brute just learned that his girlfriend moved out, taking his bank account with her.
#plebchain #followforfollow #blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/fear-shame-and-intimidation-are-chemical-weapons/

2024-05-23 22:15:43

It’s up to us to improve the world. If obediently waiting for someone or something else could work, the dominating structures of the world would have improved long, long ago. But they haven’t, leaving the job to us.
To do this, however, we must first change the way we look at ourselves and experience ourselves.
#plebchain #followforfollow #bitcoin #btc
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https://freemansperspective.com/without-apology/

2024-05-22 17:42:39

“I’m glad to be back here,” he said while making a wide gesture with his arm. “I grew up with people like these (the half-full bar included pretty much everything from manual laborers to lawyers), and I still like them…”
Then he stopped and eyed two men and a woman in the corner who had to be politicians. “Except the little cluster of parasites,” he spat out, which surprised me.
#plebchain #followforfollow #politicians
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https://freemansperspective.com/a-full-confession-part-two/

2024-05-20 17:21:28

There’s a time and place for just about everything, and this is a time to be blunt:
Anyone who takes a job for a central bank or any similar entity, building a cryptocurrency, quasi-cryptocurrency or kind-of-blockchain-thing, is a traitor.
Not just a traitor to Satoshi (though that’s very certainly true), and not just to the crypto community, but a traitor to mankind.
#plebchain #followforfollow #cryptocurrency #decentralization
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https://freemansperspective.com/anyone-who-goes-to-work-for-a-central-bank-coin-is-a-traitor/

2024-05-17 05:59:36

This episode of the Parallel Society #podcast explains something that’s tremendously simple and is great news for us, but is at the same time deeply radical, going against the structure of the world we live in. And that’s a simple phrase: We are structured for magnificence.
#plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/structured-for-magnificence/

2024-05-15 17:45:54

Production Versus Plunder, Paul’s highly regarded history book, came together in a fascinating and almost amazing way. He’s never told the story before, but in this podcast, he does.
#plebchain #followforfollow #history #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-making-of-production-versus-plunder/

2024-05-15 17:42:54

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This should be it. 🙂 https://feeds.libsyn.com/178841/rss

2024-05-15 05:30:33

Senators, under the original constitution, were appointed by state governments, not elected by the people. This was a crucial part of the arrangement… it was the original separation of powers.
#plebchain #followforfollow #history
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https://freemansperspective.com/what-you-dont-know-about-political-parties-in-the-united-states/

2024-05-13 15:08:32

Most people still have the idea… the image… that the “Dark Ages” were filthy and grotesque, like a Monty Python film.
Not only is that false, but the people of the Dark Ages should be held in high regard. They’re the people who, for the first time in human history, killed slavery on a civilizational scale. They also created free market capitalism. And so, the prosperity that we enjoy to this day exists thanks to the people and ideas of the Dark Ages.
If that sounds crazy to you, you should probably listen.
#plebchain #followforfollow #history #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/dark-ages-werent-actually-dark/

2024-05-12 17:40:03

We all know that parenthood has been publicly trashed over the past half century. The larger culture portrays Fathers as dolts and full-time moms as second class women. These ideas, hammered endlessly and over decades, have had their effects.
#plebchain #followforfollow #mothersday #parenting
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https://freemansperspective.com/revisiting-parenthood-after-a-century-of-socialism-and-freud/

2024-05-11 18:19:19

Among the most important scientific findings of the 20th century were those of Dr. Robert Sapolsky. His work was becoming an interesting but fairly straightforward study, until a freak accident turned it into a human turning point. (Don’t stop listening half-way through or you’ll miss it!) Sapolsky’s findings show that the kind of progress we dream about is unquestionably possible. That puts the burden back on us, of course… and that scares a lot of people… but let there be no more question, we CAN step into a better age.
#plebchain #followforfollow #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/sapolskys-baboons/

2024-05-09 17:40:00

One objection to the cryptosphere… to free cyberspace… is that it’s only for super-smart people, and not for average people. And that’s flatly false.
Building the cryptosphere requires technical expertise, but populating it – filling it with people and commerce and human decency – is for all who will.
And by daring to enter, you make yourself functionally smarter!
#plebchain #followforfollow #cryptocurrency #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/its-only-for-special-people/

2024-05-05 18:39:38

Cryptography has changed the world over the past few decades. Without it there would be no Internet commerce, no VPNs, or Tor, or Bitcoin, or Wikileaks, or the Snowden revelations, or BitTorrent. But however impressive the results, it’s the power of the crypto vision that has driven them… and a revelation it is. Those who grasp it are often changed for life.
#plebchain #followforfollow #cryptocurrency #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-cryptography-revelation/

2024-05-04 16:50:24

Young people are taught that women before 1970 or so were suppressed, deprived of education and legally raped by their husbands. But I’m telling you that’s false. My mom, her friends, and many other women I knew were not dupes, weaklings, and victims. Whoever wishes to can hate me for this, but I was there and I know what I saw… and I will defend the women I loved.
#plebchain #followforfollow #history #women #housewives
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https://freemansperspective.com/a-defense-of-1950s-housewives/

2024-05-03 15:40:40

Individual humans are able to transcend status fairly well. We usually learn, for example, to drop the concept among people we live with and love. And therein lies the proof that it is not truly “us.”
#plebchain #followforfollow #christianity #religion
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https://freemansperspective.com/status-revisited/

2024-05-03 04:21:29

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2024-05-03 04:20:18

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2024-05-03 04:18:59

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2024-05-03 04:13:30

Buckminster Fuller’s advice for building a better world was to create a new model that makes the old model obsolete, and the Parallel Society podcast is dedicated to just that. We cover #cryptocurrency, #biohacking, private space flight, #homeschooling and much more.
#plebchain #followforfollow #podcast
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https://freemansperspective.com/first-parallel-society-podcast/

2024-05-03 04:07:29

Cultures form naturally among people of similar opinions, but as they grow and continue, those opinions are treated as entities of themselves. And so the collective begins to oppose (and soon enough hate) the free-minded individual.
#plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/culture-versus-conscience/

2024-04-29 14:16:41

I can still remember the first time someone told me that they believed in the Calvinist doctrine of “the depravity of man.” It shocked me. To complain about human behavior I very well understood; there’s plenty of bad behavior in the world. But to flatly call the human species depraved… hopelessly unredeemable… that was, and remains, obscene to me.
#plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/we-have-no-idea-how-good-we-can-get/

2024-04-27 16:52:27

One by one and two by two, people are seeing the facts… are grasping that science has made privation obsolete and that centralized, bronze-aged structures are the primary obstacle.
#plebchain #followforfollow #science
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https://freemansperspective.com/science-won-might-obsolete/

2024-04-25 20:57:07

No matter how sure we are about something, we need to leave an opening for better information to change our minds. Most often we’ll need only modify a long-held opinion, but we have to be ready to jettison anything that doesn’t stand up against new information.
#plebchain #followforfollow #selfimprovement
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https://freemansperspective.com/necessity-well-rounded-person-pull-off/

2024-04-25 02:17:40

In Yiddish, pisher properly means pisser, and by implication a pisher is someone who is still pissing their pants as an adult. Obviously, it was a term of denigration, indicating a worthless person.
What “Call me pisher” meant in practice, however, was, “Go ahead and call me an asshole. I don’t care.”
#plebchain #followforfollow #selfempowerment
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https://freemansperspective.com/call-me-pisher/

2024-04-22 23:10:01

This is what the heretics of our time are developing and what the world desperately needs us to develop, whether it knows it or not.
#plebchain #followforfollow #liberty
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https://freemansperspective.com/its-heretics-who-save-the-world/

2024-04-21 16:07:46

A free, post-scarcity world will not be prevented by archaic systems scratching and clawing to retain their domination. We will evolve freely, unburdened by an unfortunate past. This will happen, and today I’m going to tell you why.
But more than that, I want you to understand that we deserve to win, and that the future – the world of our children, grandchildren, and so on – very much needs us to win. Our culture (of decentralization and personal goodness) stands for, and supports in action, the things that allow life to thrive upon Earth.
#Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Future
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https://freemansperspective.com/why-well-win/

2024-04-17 15:48:28

The worst thing about this, however, is that the child is likely to have their opinion of themselves reduced. And that’s tragic. As I’ve noted many times, we are magical creatures. Humans, alone in the known universe, are able to create willfully… are able to reverse entropy willfully.
The child should think of his and her self as magical… because they really are!
So, let’s make some sense of this problem.
#plebchain #followforfollow #ethics
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https://freemansperspective.com/why-you-can-do-anything-you-want-and-why-you-cant/

2024-04-17 00:33:31

“The mark of an educated mind,” taught Aristotle, is “to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” And that’s what I’ll be asking of you today. Because as certain as I am that I’m substantially right on this, I’m also sure that its acceptance will take quite some time. But I do want to plant its seeds as best I can.
#Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Morality
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-cult-of-rules/

2024-04-15 16:21:47

But once they stop playing political make-believe, great things await the people of the West.
May it be soon.
#Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Politics
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https://freemansperspective.com/separation-righteousness-politics/

2024-04-13 02:56:16

In 2014, Jonathan Logan and I started on this book, ultimately releasing it in 2016. Being involved in online #privacy on a daily basis at cryptohippie.com, we saw where things were headed and decided that we had to warn people.
#PlebChain #FollowForFollow #PrivacyMatters
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-new-age-of-intelligence/

2024-04-12 21:08:53

Here’s how serious this is: These people have already demonstrated their willingness for non-compliers to die. This is the same #psychology that drove inquisitors and their heretic hunts: The names and titles are new but the pathology is the same.
#Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Morality
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https://freemansperspective.com/everyone-needs-to-ditch-the-status-quo-now/

2024-04-11 17:52:46

The Bible has been loudly and publicly criticized for centuries now. At the same time, it’s most vocal defenders have been those who demand that it be treated as a mandatory oracle. As a result, the public has been given a binary choice:
Either the Bible is horrible, or else it’s divine and you’ll go to hell if you don’t think so.
I think that’s a false choice, but it’s the one most people see.
#PlebChain #FollowForFollow #Religion #Christianity
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https://freemansperspective.com/good-things-bible/

2024-04-10 17:14:55

A few people remember President Dwight #Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, where he warned #Americans about the rise of a #military-industrial complex… a #warning that was stunningly accurate and almost fully ignored.
#PlebChain #FollowForFollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/humanity-crucified-cross-iron/

2024-04-09 18:11:39

The #truth of the matter is that the ruling structures of our world are abject failures – relics of a brutal and ignorant past. And Eisenhower was right when he said they were crucifying #humanity on a cross of iron.
We can do better.
#History #PlebChain #FollowForFollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/humanity-crucified-cross-iron/

2024-04-08 18:26:49

As I write this, #Bitcoin has just passed 985 million transactions. A quick, “back of the envelope” calculation says that it will process its one billionth transaction in six or seven weeks… somewhere around May 20th. I think this is a milestone we should note.
#PlebChain #FollowForFollow #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #CryptoCommunity
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https://freemansperspective.com/bitcoins-one-billionth-transaction/

2024-04-03 18:10:03

What happens when the young and healthy see themselves cast in the role of “the permanently abused,” then, is quite predictable, all the more so because they’re expected to thank their abusers: They rebel. As they should.
#Crypto #CryptoCommunity #Plebchain #followforfollow #whistleblowers
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https://freemansperspective.com/more-revolutionaries-are-coming/

2024-04-03 17:50:27

I don’t oppose #science. In fact I advocate for it. But it’s also clear that “science” has been turned into an #idol, and then into a social weapon. I’m going to explain briefly how that happened.
#plebchain #followforfollow #christian #history
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https://freemansperspective.com/how-science-became-an-idol/

2024-03-30 17:26:33

This video, which was made for #Google employees, was designed to confuse them into supporting their employer’s plans and to feel like they were smart for doing so. That pissed me off.
#Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Tech #PrivacyMatters
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https://freemansperspective.com/googles-mendacity-the-selfish-ledger-decyphered/

2024-03-30 17:18:57

I’m obviously passionate about this subject, and I think you’ll shortly see why. But I also want to present the facts clearly.
#Plebchain #FollowForFollow #CryptoCommunity #DarkWeb #FreeRoss
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https://freemansperspective.com/justice-condemned-ross-ulbricht-case/

2024-03-27 16:01:13

Free Ross
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#Plebchain #FollowForFollow #FreeRoss
https://freemansperspective.com/justice-condemned-ross-ulbricht-case/

2024-03-23 14:13:08

I’ve been in and around the US #justice system for most of my life. I’ve always had relatives and friends who were lawyers, and I worked as an expert witness for more than 30 years. And however much I may disregard the state as an institution, I hold great regard for the common law, upon which the US justice system was based.
So, when I tell you that Ross Ulbricht’s prosecution shocked me, please understand that this is not the judgment of an antagonist or a neophyte.
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#Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #CryptoCommunity #FreeRoss
https://freemansperspective.com/justice-condemned-ross-ulbricht-case/

2024-03-20 13:35:00

#Panarchy is moral. It’s a better model. It delivers actual liberty.
Panarchy would secure the blessings of #liberty to ourselves and our posterity, and if not perfectly (nothing is going to be perfect at this stage of human development), it would certainly be better than the political systems that killed 262 million people over the 20th century.
And so the bar for panarchy to pass is frightfully low. All that truly stands in its way is superstition.
#Plebchain #FollowForFollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-blessings-of-panarchy/

2024-03-17 15:37:45

None of us, however, are about to deny ourselves: what we are, what we love. We’re still going to live our lives our way. But neither do any of us want to be locked into cages; that helps no one, save self-righteous enforcers. (About whom I can’t help remembering a line from Jesus: Whoever kills you will think he’s doing God a service.) And so we’ll simply change tactics and survive into another day.
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https://freemansperspective.com/rosc-21-roll-move-along/
#Bitcoin #BTC #Plebchain #FollowForFollow

2024-02-28 20:22:05

The first cypherpunks, being clever lads, began using the internet and #encryption because they were interesting and fun. Shortly, however, they realized that they were actually building a terra nova and were instantly confronted with a huge question: How should we arrange our new world? That cranked everything into high gear.
#Bitcoin #BTC #Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Cryptocurrency #Crypto
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-discovery-of-terra-nova-by-the-cypherpunks/

2024-02-28 20:05:23

“Okay, Johnny, please tell the agencies two things. First, that I’ll do what I can to get the kids to pull back. Second, that they’re fools if they try to take these kids down in their usual hyper-aggressive way. Look at what they did to Ross Ulbricht: They wanted his head on a pike, but all the exercise did was make the agencies look like maniacs, turn Ulbricht into a martyr, and spawn new dark markets.”
“I didn’t know that,” he said.
“Well, it’s true,” I went on. “These guys have no idea how barbaric they look to the kids on the #darknet.”
#Bitcoin #BTC #Plebchain #FollowForFollow #PrivacyMatters #RossUlbricht
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https://freemansperspective.com/rosc-20-storm-warning/

2024-02-23 15:23:14

The first #cypherpunks, being clever lads, began using the internet and #encryption because they were interesting and fun. Shortly, however, they realized that they were actually building a terra nova and were instantly confronted with a huge question: How should we arrange our new world? That cranked everything into high gear.
#Bitcoin #BTC #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #PrivacyMatters #Plebchain #FollowForFollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-discovery-of-terra-nova-by-the-cypherpunks/

2024-02-19 16:19:19

Our only “weapon” is #cryptography… which boils down to math. This is a point that Satoshi Nakamoto made when he announced #Bitcoin:
[I wrote Bitcoin to] win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.
The “arms race” of Satoshi and the cypherpunks was this:
They have cops, guns, bullets and court orders backed by them.
We have cryptography.
#BTC #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #Plebchain #FollowForFollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/rosc-19-back-shadows/

2024-02-18 16:26:50

These young people are quite aware that the powers that be will not like them teaching such things, but there’s really nothing else for them to do. The alternative is to embrace parasitism: to live and die as bureaucrat-controlled zombies.
And so they’ve chosen life, even if their choice comes at a price.
#Bitcoin #BTC #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #YouthEmpowerment #Plebchain #Followforfollow #Blog
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https://freemansperspective.com/rosc-18-not-parasites/

2024-02-17 16:25:18

The entry of the old folks really made me happy. The deep purpose here isn’t to make #money or even to escape tyranny. Rather, it’s to help life function in the world. And these old folks still have life in them. They should be able to use it any way they wish to. #Crypto gives that to them.
#btc #bitcoin #plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/rosc-17-rise-elderly/

2024-02-14 21:56:34

Ever stopped after a #workout to soak in the breathtaking beauty of #nature? This #blog post captures that serene moment overlooking the Monterey Bay. It's about finding awe in the vastness of our world and how that simple act can boost our happiness and well-being. From reducing stress to improving focus, it's a reminder of the wonders we often overlook in our busy lives. If you need a nudge to reconnect with nature and yourself, this read's got you covered. Take a breather and dive into the magic waiting right outside our busy routines!
#plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-part-of-life-were-most-likely-to-ignore/

2024-02-09 16:14:13

Ever stopped after a workout to soak in the breathtaking beauty of #nature? This #blog post captures that serene moment overlooking the Monterey Bay. It's about finding awe in the vastness of our world and how that simple act can boost our happiness and well-being. From reducing stress to improving focus, it's a reminder of the wonders we often overlook in our busy lives. If you need a nudge to reconnect with nature and yourself, this read's got you covered. Take a breather and dive into the magic waiting right outside our busy routines!
#plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/the-part-of-life-were-most-likely-to-ignore/

2024-02-07 17:22:31

Regardless of what we might call mega-government and the associated mega-destructions of the 20th century, humanity has not been overcome and will not be. We are conscious, self-referential beings, able to #create at will and to correct our course; all healthy humans are capable of these things. Beyond that, humans enjoy the act of creation very deeply.
#plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/earned-knowledge-l14p4/

2024-02-05 16:55:52

World War I began as a moment of mass insanity. A royal heir was shot, a few diplomatic mis-steps occurred, and then millions of people furiously demanded war… vicious, bloody, deadly, torturous war.
#History #plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/earned-knowledge-l14p3/

2024-02-03 15:36:39

What’s fascinating about #socialism is that it was contradicted to its core, but that people wanted to believe in it anyway. Beyond the fundamental error of seeing #humanity as a type of bee hive, here are three of its biggest contradictions -
#plebchain #followforfollow
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https://freemansperspective.com/earned-knowledge-l14p2/