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 https://freemansperspective.com/first-parallel-society-podcast/

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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Culture Versus Conscience

Culture has always been the antagonist of conscience. Once we see ourselves as part of a larger entity – once we identify with it – we feel a n...

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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We Have No Idea How Good We Can Get

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 c...

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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Science Has Won: Might Is Obsolete

Since the Bronze Age, human societies have been arranged around brute force. Even now, governments are monopolies of violence. More than that, the ...

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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The Necessity of Being a Well-Rounded Person… and How to Pull It Off

I regularly go on about the necessity of forming your own opinions and making stands upon them. And while I’m quite certain about that, there’s...

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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Call Me Pisher

“Call me pisher” is a Yiddish phrase from my youth, and it was used to instruct me in a very important lesson. (Though I hardly realized it at ...

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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It’s Heretics Who Save the World

The people who have kept the world from a slide into darkness and pulled it forward have, to a shocking extent, been heretics of one form or anothe...

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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Why We’ll Win

A free, post-scarcity world will not be prevented by archaic systems scratching and clawing to retain their domination. We will evolve freely, unbu...

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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Why You Can Do Anything You Want… And Why You Can’t

People frequently tell children “You can do anything you want.” And this causes a lot of confusion, because in the real world, they can’t. An...

“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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The Cult of Rules

“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 ...

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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The Separation of Righteousness and Politics

“Righteousness” is a seldom heard word in modern life, but the concept is still very much with us. In fact, political arguments all through the...

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 https://freemansperspective.com/the-new-age-of-intelligence/

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 https://freemansperspective.com/everyone-needs-to-ditch-the-status-quo-now/

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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Good Things in the Bible

The Bible has been loudly, publicly, and repetitively criticized for a long time, and it’s most vocal defenders have been those who demand that i...

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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Humanity Crucified on a Cross of Iron

A few people remember President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, where he warned Americans about the rise of a military-industrial complex�...

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

Free-Man's Perspective

Humanity Crucified on a Cross of Iron

A few people remember President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, where he warned Americans about the rise of a military-industrial complex�...

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 https://freemansperspective.com/bitcoins-one-billionth-transaction/

I doubt that any of my readers would consider these as healthy attitudes for a child to assume. And that’s why we warn before we punish. We want them to understand that there are rational reasons for punishment, and we don’t want them cowering in perpetual fear. Warning, then, is an essential tool, and yet it plays almost no role in modern #law. And this begs the question: Why not? #PlebChain #FollowForFollow #Ethics #Morality

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Why Does the Law Not Warn?

Everyone who has children, or even nieces and nephews, understands that you have to warn a child before punishing him or her. If not, you teach the...

What if, just once, you got out of bed and imagined that you were a fresh being in the universe? And more than that, a good, #creative, potent being. What if you imagined yourself free of obligations and intimidations, charting a #fresh course? What if you looked at your life as if it were #beginning anew? #Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Happiness #Innerwork

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A New Day, a New Chance to Be Wonderful

Most people fail to appreciate the fresh opportunity that each day brings them. Their programming requires them to snort derisively at concepts lik...

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. #Plebchain #FollowForFollow #Crypto #CryptoCommunity https://freemansperspective.com/more-revolutionaries-are-coming/