January 2011
12 posts
atticuschapin asked: Good individual, you are a philosopher king.
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Why I am opposed to nation-states like the...
Explain why you are opposed to nation states.
I’m opposed to the state in general. Nation-states happen to be the dominant form today (what most people call “governments”). I’m opposed to the state as a form of governance because it is unnecessary, coercive, and destructive to human well-being. The state violates human freedom. It inhibits economic growth. It sustains...
atticuschapin asked: Your blog is excellent. Thanks for the inspiring anti state messages.
gadgetry asked: I was gonna say -- I don't know if I'm more surprised by you using the term "wat," or by the ridiculous article on that pseudoscience-ridden website. lol
mutantrubberduckiex3 asked: hello! thank you for following me c: You seem like such an intelligent person & your blog is quite interesting so I followed back. You're very attractive as well.
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“The movement for independence under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi was...”
– Sharad Joshi. Liberalism and Markets in Hindu Spirituality (2007) London: Academic Foundation.
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In the fire of fairytales, Chesterton reminds us...
This is an excerpt from English philosopher G.K. Chesterton’s excellent book Orthodoxy (1908). In this piece he is responding to scientistic, atheistic, reductionistic materialists who were arguing that current physical science method was the only/best source of truth and fact and meaning in human life.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature were the terms used in...
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Do you fear a loss of faith? - Saving 'America'...
America is nothing. Without its ideals, its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash. A nation is nothing. A flag is a mere piece of cloth.
~ Captain America, Marvel #44: What If? (1977)
I want to say something simple here. I am a libertarian anti-statist from New Zealand. I am opposed to nation-states, including the American one. Nation-state...
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder...”
– George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946) (via 18goingon80)
