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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Be The Outsider

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, th...

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 https://freemansperspective.com/the-world-is-wrong/

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 https://freemansperspective.com/farbers-first-essay-2/

“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 https://freemansperspective.com/men-are-idolaters/

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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Fear, Shame And Intimidation Are Chemical Weapons - Free-Man's Perspective

I rather hate to do this, but these first two paragraphs seem the best way to make this very important point. Apologies. Imagine that some combinat...

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 https://freemansperspective.com/without-apology/

“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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A Full Confession, Part Two - Free-Man's Perspective

Martin continued talking for a while, but mainly about his childhood and early career. Then he moved back to the problem that America posed to rule...

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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Anyone Who Goes To Work For A Central Bank Coin Is A Traitor

Anyone Who Goes To Work For A Central Bank Coin Is A Traitor There’s a time and place for just about everything, and this is a time to be blunt: ...

You can’t write about this till I’m gone,” he said, “but that won’t be long.” #plebchain #followforfollow #gold #silver #oil #confession

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A Full Confession, Part One

You can’t write about this till I’m gone,” he said, “but that won’t be long.” I hadn’t been to Jay’s Bar since the events I recorde...

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 https://freemansperspective.com/structured-for-magnificence/

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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How Political Parties Took Over The United States - Free-Man's Perspective

Millions of decent and hard-working people are presently coming to grips what has been happening to them, and so we’ll cover a crucial piece ...

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/