So, do you think life was nasty, brutish, and short in 1905? That there were poor and starving people falling dead on every street corner? Hardly. #plebchain #followforfollow #history

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Why Can’t We Thrive Like 1905? - Free-Man's Perspective

When writing historical things, I try to include perspective from people who actually lived through the events. And for money issues in the US, I�...

The good news about ignorance is that it sets us free from mental chains. Now, to be clear, what I’m talking about here is accepting and admitting our ignorance. This is essential if we want to actually know things, as opposed to making a show of knowing things. And I can tell you from personal experience that it really works. I gained the habit of admitting my ignorance (almost advertising it) back in the early 1980s, and that habit has helped me toward more understanding and discovery than I’d be able to itemize. #plebchain #followforfollow #blog

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The Gospel of Ignorance - Free-Man's Perspective

The good news about ignorance? Yes, and emphatically yes. The good news about ignorance is that it sets us free from mental chains. Now, to be clea...

Serfdom was… and is… a state of mind far more than an economic or social position. The Serfdom State of Mind focuses on the desire for safety and security… of remaining clear of blame… to the detriment of self-reliance and living as a free and independent moral agent. Everyone enjoys safety, of course, but to place placidity above life itself is a grave error, and lies at the root of serfdom. #plebchain #followforfollow #podcast https://freemansperspective.com/the-serfdom-state-of-mind/

Sure, we’ve all seen this in practice and people have developed catchy terms for it, like echo chamber, but the polarization effect of social media has been demonstrated scientifically. In fact, some of us were warning about it a long time ago. And while I can no longer find my original documentation on the subject, I can tell you precisely how it works. #plebchain #followforfollow #socialmedia

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Social Media Is A Polarization Machine

Sure, we’ve all seen this in practice and people have developed catchy terms for it, like echo chamber, but the polarization effect of social med...

Our job is to improve ourselves, our families and the world in general, and we are in no way obligated to do it through systems that hate us and abuse us. Endless gullibility is a vice, and it doesn’t look good on us. #plebchain #followforfollow #racism #blog https://freemansperspective.com/the-desperation-of-anti-white-racism/

There are, apparently, a lot of people who think Bitcoin is down for the count. Forget about that; Bitcoin is doing just fine and “the count” is just a sideshow. #plebchain #followforfollow #bitcoin

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Don’t Worry About Bitcoin - Free-Man's Perspective

(Originally published June 1, 2022.) There are, apparently, a lot of people who think Bitcoin is down for the count. Forget about that; Bitcoin is ...

I spent a good deal of my young adulthood searching for business advantages. Ultimately I found mine by reading: While the other guys were talking about nonsense and chugging back brews, I was reading the literature of my business… and it worked. #plebchain #followforfollow #business

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Would You Like An Advantage In Business? - Free-Man's Perspective

I spent a a good deal of my young adulthood searching for business advantages. Ultimately I found mine by reading: While the other guys were talkin...

Lèse-Majesté, an offense against the dignity of a ruler, is a little-used but very important concept. And it is the central crime that cannot be tolerated by the ruler. Lèse-Majesté stands against the concept of free speech, of course, but when push comes to shove, necessities stand above the law, and lèse-Majesté is a necessity to rulers. As we examine in this podcast, lèse-Majesté is crucial for the legitimacy of the ruler (without legitimacy the whole structure of rulership would fail), and is crucial to what I call “applied idolatry” in our world. #plebchain #followforfollow #podcast https://freemansperspective.com/lese-majeste-and-the-necessity-of-idolatry/

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/