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 https://freemansperspective.com/dark-ages-werent-actually-dark/

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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Revisiting Parenthood - Free-Man's Perspective

Parenthood has been publicly trashed over the past half century. 20th century culture portrayed fathers as dolts and dedicated moms as second class...

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 https://freemansperspective.com/sapolskys-baboons/

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 https://freemansperspective.com/its-only-for-special-people/

It seems that right on the heels of a beautiful new vision, old fears come charging back to our minds, defending their positions. And so this episode explains why and how we will succeed. There’s really no doubt about the general outcome. The only uncertainty is the timing. #plebchain #followforfollow #morality #ethics https://freemansperspective.com/can-succeed-will-succeed/

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 https://freemansperspective.com/the-cryptography-revelation/

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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A Defense of 1950s Housewives - Free-Man's Perspective

I believe that women are inherently as valuable as men. But I don’t believe this because of politics, I believe it because of experience. Young p...

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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Status Revisited

A few years ago I wrote an article on status, to rather mixed reviews among the online commenters. Today I’m going back to status, “doubling do...

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

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