The past year has been a mass confusion of fear, misinformation, cover-ups, tyranny, crazed true-believers and more. Making sense of it has been difficult, and even those of us who try to do so professionally have come up short. But this morning the word we’ve needed rolled through my mind as I was waking up. And that word is scope. Please bear with me as I explain. #followforfollow #plebchain #Misinformation #Tyranny #Blog #Opinion

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The Word We Need To Make Sense of This Moment - Free-Man's Perspective

(Originally published April 8,2021.) The past year has been a mass confusion of fear, misinformation, cover-ups, tyranny, crazed true-believers an...

When I say “Ross Ulbricht’s world,” I’m not referring to his present circumstances, of course; he’s presently in a prison cell. What I’m talking about is the better world that Ross was building before the US government came crashing down upon him. That’s the world I want to live in. #FreeRoss #RossUlbricht #FollowForFollow https://freemansperspective.com/i-want-to-live-in-ross-ulbrichts-world/

We are watching the Enlightenment collapse before us in real time. I’ll be fairly brief in my explanation of why this is so and how it came about, but it strikes me as something we should understand. #Philosophy #History #FollowForFollow

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The Collapse of The Enlightenment - Free-Man's Perspective

We’ve been watching the Enlightenment collapse before us in real time. This is something that adults need to understand. What remains of the ...

The development of the American colonies moved in an arc. They began with a lot of oppression (after the old world model), shook it off as the arc rose toward 1776 and the revolution, then headed slowly back down. My job today is to give you some feel of the times, and I’ll begin with some background. #history #followforfollow #plebchain #blog

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The West That Was, Part 4 - Free-Man's Perspective

America, 1776 The development of the American colonies moved in an arc. They began with a lot of oppression (after the old world model), shook it o...

Aside from a breathless stream of headlines and a few random inputs, I haven’t seen many facts regarding the events of January 6th. Circumstances made things that way for me, and now I’m glad they did, because it set me up for the really important issue: Am I allowed to ask questions about this, or am I not? #plebchain #followforfollow

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Are We Still Allowed To Ask Questions? - Free-Man's Perspective

(Originally published January 18, 2021.) Aside from a breathless stream of headlines and a few random inputs, I haven’t seen many facts regarding...

If we wish to grasp American life in the 19th century, it’s probably best to start by understanding that when America was young, it had no myth. Once we really understand that, the rest falls into place fairly easily. #followforfollow #history #plebchain #blog

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The West That Was, Part 3 - Free-Man's Perspective

19th Century America If we wish to grasp American life in the 19th century, it’s probably best to start by understanding that when America was yo...

1910 was well before my own time, of course, but I knew at least ten people who lived through it as adults, and discussed the era at some length with one of them, my great uncle Dave. And so this is an era I feel I can still reach out and touch. #history #followforfollow #plebchain

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The West That Was, Part 2 - Free-Man's Perspective

America, 1910 1910 was well before my own time, of course, but I knew at least ten people who lived through it as adults, and discussed the era at ...

There’s a common refrain that “#Bitcoin fixes this.” Sometimes it’s used well and other times less so, but I’m being very serious when I say that Bitcoin fixes society. And in this article I’ll explain precisely how Bitcoin is able to do this at the largest scale. #followforfollow #plebchain #cryptocurrency #crypto

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Society: Bitcoin Fixes This - Free-Man's Perspective

There’s a common refrain that “Bitcoin fixes this.” Sometimes it’s used well and other times less so (it would often be more accurate to sa...

A great tragedy of our era is that young people have no feeling of what Western civilization was like. In the government owned and operated schools where they sat for years, they were presented with a litany of the West’s failures, most of them exaggerated, or even imagined. #followforfollow #history #plebchain

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The West That Was, Part 1 - Free-Man's Perspective

A great tragedy of our era is that young people have no feeling of what Western civilization was like. In the government owned and operated schools...

The modern world will allow you to join any of a thousand collectives, but it will punish you for standing on your own, as a self-willed entity. People who commit this crime understand that they are outlaws in the present world. And if at first they don’t understand that, the world makes sure they know. #followforfollow #plebchain #individuality #collective

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The War Against Will - Free-Man's Perspective

The modern world will allow you to join any of a thousand collectives, but it will punish you for standing on your own, as a self-willed entity. Pe...

I’ve written about Ross Ulbricht before, but I want as many people as possible to know about this horrible miscarriage of justice. #followforfollow #plebchain #rossulbricht #freeross https://freemansperspective.com/why-ross-ulbricht-must-be-pardoned/

Respecting the office and the law are unAmerican, and I’m going to show you precisely why, mainly from the mouths of the American founders. #followforfollow #plebchain #liberty #blog

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Why Americans Shouldn’t Respect Offices or Laws - Free-Man's Perspective

It has become a common belief among Americans that they should “respect the office” of an official, even if they don’t respect the person hol...

Guilt, as I’ve noted before, is the great vulnerability of the Western world. I’ll pass up an explanation of why for today, but the validity of this statement is made ever so clear by the fact that political types rise to power by championing one class or another of victims, portraying everyone else as somehow guilty. It works brilliantly, and by it bizarre and unbalanced people leap into power. #followforfollow #plebchain #power #blog

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We Must Stop Trying To Be Unassailable - Free-Man's Perspective

Guilt, as I’ve noted before, is the great vulnerability of the Western world. I’ll pass up an explanation of why for today, but the validity of...

It struck me some time ago that the people we think of as “geniuses” tend to arrive, over time, at surprisingly similar sets of conclusions. It further strikes me that a simple list of such thoughts might be of value. And so, here is a list pulled from my quotes file and presented without commentary. #followforfollow #quotes #plebchain

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What Geniuses Believe - Free-Man's Perspective

It struck me some time ago that the people we think of as “geniuses” tend to arrive, over time, at surprisingly similar sets of conclusions. It...

It struck me some time ago that the people we think of as “geniuses” tend to arrive, over time, at surprisingly similar sets of conclusions. It further strikes me that a simple list of such thoughts might be of value. And so, here is a list pulled from my quotes file and presented without commentary. #followforfollow #plebchain #quotes #blog

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What Geniuses Believe - Free-Man's Perspective

It struck me some time ago that the people we think of as “geniuses” tend to arrive, over time, at surprisingly similar sets of conclusions. It...

It struck me some time ago that the people we think of as “geniuses” tend to arrive, over time, at surprisingly similar sets of conclusions. It further strikes me that a simple list of such thoughts might be of value. And so, here is a list pulled from my quotes file and presented without commentary. #followforfollow #blog #quotes

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What Geniuses Believe - Free-Man's Perspective

It struck me some time ago that the people we think of as “geniuses” tend to arrive, over time, at surprisingly similar sets of conclusions. It...

Millions of decent people are wasting their time and energy, trying to identify the secret bad guys of the world, then prove that they’re right. What I want to say is that it’s a magnificent waste. Even worse, monster hunts keep people with strong ethics on the Establishment Plantation. #followforfollow #plebchain #empowerment #blog

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Why I Don't Spend Time On Secret Bad Guys - Free-Man's Perspective

Millions of decent people are spending their time and energy, trying to identify the secret bad guys of the world, then to prove that they’re rig...

Soon enough we learned that the system was also stupid and perverse, but we found a way around that contradiction by blaming one segment of the system or another: The Blues or the Greens or the Reds were the problem; it could not, must not, be that the system itself is the problem. Then came 2020, and the system revealed its true face. #followforfollow #tyranny #covid

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2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face - Free-Man's Perspective

(Originally published in September of 2020.) As we grew up, nearly all of us were inundated with stories of our glorious national fathers, our beau...

The life of meek obedience is a sin against the self. It is a surrender of mind and passion. It’s a half life at best. #plebchain #followforfollow #passion

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Live Dangerously And You Live Right - Free-Man's Perspective

The title of this post, live dangerously and you live right, comes from the great author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he was ever so correct. Th...

All of us with husbands and wives are beautifully positioned to make them better human beings. Unfortunately, many of us are squandering the opportunity. Today I’d like to help fix that. #followforfollow #plebchain #marriage #relationships

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Do You Have A Plan For Improving Your Spouse? - Free-Man's Perspective

All of us with husbands and wives are beautifully positioned to make them better human beings. Unfortunately, many of us are squandering the oppor...