Despite the language and the yelling, though, this man is more intelligent than a majority of the "liberty movement" and has an education to back it up. The two-hour commitment of this resource is infinitely more valuable than the George Washington post I shared a few days ago, so if you watched Molyneux, you really must watch Cantwell.
I know I share a lot of Christopher Cantwell's material on this resource list, but when a man is right, he's right. Where other people are right and receive credit for being so, Cantwell is more right and receives almost no credit for it, because he refuses to temper his message of truth with platitudes or concessions. This podcast episode is no exception. If one is of delicate disposition or is unable to handle raw, unadulterated truth screamed at one's earholes (I'm not sure why they are reading my blog), they may want to sit this one out.
Despite the language and the yelling, though, this man is more intelligent than a majority of the "liberty movement" and has an education to back it up. The two-hour commitment of this resource is infinitely more valuable than the George Washington post I shared a few days ago, so if you watched Molyneux, you really must watch Cantwell.
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From Sophocles' Oedipus trilogy, Antigone is as powerful and as tragic as the other two works. Antigone (the titular character and daughter of Oedipus and his mom), in my opinion, sets the example for all men and women of virtue, even 2,500 years after the story was written. The poetry and power expressed in the play (more so in some translations than others) is tangible and should be enough to keep the reader's attention. If it isn't though, the cast of The Partially Examined Life have done an excellent reading of the play , along with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza. You can read their particular translation here.
This article is a great way to open a wide-ranging discussion about drugs in a free society. Libertarians are often painted (not unfairly) as being obsessed with legalizing and decriminalizing drugs. Cops and cop apologizers these days, have nobody more scary, unpredictable, and violent than a cop to point to that the caricature of a crackhead to say, "At least we're better than him." Admittedly, in an anarchist community, drugs would be "decriminalized" as a matter of course. It is crucial, then, for liberty-minded individuals to explore the full breadth of understanding that we have so far about drugs, the societal impact they have, and the best methods for encouraging responsibility in one's family and community. Such a discussion also opens the door for further reading and discussion into the realities hidden behind propaganda, such as the relatively low rate of addiction even amongst users of "hard" drugs like cocaine and heroin or the incredibly strong relationship between exposure to environmental factors (almost all caused by government) and drug use.
It's Saturday! That means you'll have a couple hours to kill tonight, right? I hope so, because this is a solid biographical lecture on George Washington. The good, the bad, the ugly, all wrapped into a discussion from his parents all the way to his death. Seperating fact from fiction, and an earnest attempt at seeing the man behind the myth.St
Stephan Molyneux is still a nutter, but he does sometimes get things spot-on. This is one of those occasions. This is, essentially, what came to mind every time someone brought up George Washington as an anecdote in discussions concerning politics. Having just watched this video (over the course of the last week), I now have a more complete set of facts to draw on and a better chronology to set it in. This comes in handy when thinking about "restoring the republic" or "what the founding fathers wanted", so everyone ought to watch this.
George Ought to Help is a very short, much more kindly iteration of a point I've made on this blog and elsewhere. This is a good video to serve as a refresher to those that already understand the basics of morality, and it serves as a great starting place for those that aren't quite on board yet with anarchy.
An informative and handy explanation on thy the NSA is bad and what to do about it. It's a little bit of a read, but it's divided into easy-to-navigate sections and is as concise as possible while still conveying the enormity of the situation every single human being in the developed world now find themselves.
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