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...

I’ve gone on for a long time about fear making humans stupid, and even about it being a weapon and a brain poison. But I’ve also wondered at times whether people would hit fear-fatigue… that point where people have simply had enough and walk out from under it. #followforfollow #blog #philosophy

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The Wages of Perpetual Fear - Free-Man's Perspective

(Originally published August 31, 2020.) I’ve gone on for a long time about fear making humans stupid, and even about it being a weapon and a brai...

With violent idealists roaming streets, burning things, enjoying the fact that they can scare people and so on, I think a brief explanation of how idealism leads to death (and frequently to mass death) is in order. #plebchain #followforfollow #idealist #philosophy

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How Idealism Leads to Death - Free-Man's Perspective

Having recently experienced violent idealists roaming our streets, burning things, breaking things and generally enjoying the fact that they can sc...

“Shame,” wrote psychologist Silvan Tomkins, “strikes deepest into the heart of man… it is felt as a sickness of the soul which leaves man naked, defeated, alienated, and lacking in dignity.” Shame is the great barrier that keeps people from acting as individuals and from expanding beyond a minimum-energy state. The expectation of shame is paralyzing to the vast majority of humans at some points of their life, and to some more frequently than others. Many people have spent their lives seeking shame-avoidance positions. All of this is a horrific waste, and in this podcast, we take it on. #plebchain #followforfollow #podcast #psychology https://freemansperspective.com/podcast-on-shame/

Let’s be honest about something: We in the West have been overrun by a tidal wave of racial hatred, and it erupted from institutions “of higher learning.” Whatever exceptions may exist, this central fact is clear. We are free to close our eyes, of course, but when we choose to see, this is what stands in front of us. #plebchain #followforfollow #racial #learning #blog #philosophy

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The Barbarians Have Taken The Institutions - Free-Man's Perspective

(Originally published July 22, 2020.) Let’s be honest about something: We in the West have been overrun by a tidal wave of racial hatred, and it ...

Julian Assange is now free and recovering from his long, malicious ordeal. We wish him and his family all the very best. He is a hero, and paid a high price for it. A lot of people know the what about Julian and WikiLeaks – that they published secret information – but they don’t know the why. And that’s unfortunate, because the thinking behind all the leaks is both brilliant and illuminating. #plebchain #followforfollow #julianassange #wikileaks

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What Julian Assange Is Really Doing

Most people know the what about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks – that they publish secret information – but they don’t know the why. And that�...

I would pay dearly for young people to feel what it was like to be a scientifically minded child in the 1960s. It was a special and beautiful moment. Each week there was a new step toward the stars. And this was not science fiction, this was real. There was an exhilaration to it that I don’t think can be found in any other venture. The door to infinite space was creaking open for us. #plebchain #followforfollow #science #nasa

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To Be Young and Headed to the Stars - Free-Man's Perspective

I would pay dearly for young people to feel what it was like to be a scientifically minded child in the 1960s. It was a special and beautiful momen...

The biggest crimes stand in the open; what prevents people from seeing them is simply their size and the fact that they are crimes. We can’t believe that such large evils are possible. #plebchain #followforfollow #blog #morality

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The Ultimate Crime - Free-Man's Perspective

The biggest crimes stand in the open; what prevents people from seeing them is simply their size and the fact that they are crimes. We can’t beli...

The idea that running away is a virtue bothers a lot of people, but when you find that the greatest men and women of history have done precisely this, it’s time to re-evaluate, no matter how it makes you feel. Compliance is how we shrivel and ultimately die to ourselves. Acting on your own decisions – with all the risk that implies – is the path of life and liberation. #plebchain #followforfollow #podcast https://freemansperspective.com/podcast-why-dropping-out-and-running-away-are-virtuous/

The crowd is always a deceiver. No one expressed this more concisely than Simone Weil, when she said, “conscience is deceived by the social.” Conscience is individual, social is collective, and the two are at odds. Likewise, sanity is individual and mania is collective. Within the crowd, malice appears as duty, honor, order and justice. To reside in the crowd is to be deceived; the only question is how much. #plebchain #followforfollow #blog

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The Preservation of Sanity And Civilization - Free-Man's Perspective

(Originally published June 22, 2020.) I hadn’t planned on this post, but the ongoing mania compels me to contribute something toward the preserva...

Cryptography, after all, boils down to math, and you can’t put a bullet through a math problem. Well-applied cryptography, then, is immune to the usual applications of power. And so, whatever we cloak in cryptography can push through barriers erected by old, grasping regimes. #plebchain #followforfollow #crypto #cryptocurrency #revolution

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Cryptography Has Revolutionized Revolution - Free-Man's Perspective

I am no fan of violent revolution, yet I have to admit that John Kennedy had a point when he said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible...

Almost no one in the broader world knows about the #crypto apostles. (My term, not one they apply to themselves.) Even rather few in the larger crypto community know much about them. So I’m not talking about famous names, but quiet people. I’ve decided to tell you about them with some hesitation. #plebchain #followforfollow #bitcoin #cryptocurrency

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The Crypto Apostles - Free-Man's Perspective

Almost no one in the broader world knows about the crypto apostles. (My term, not one they apply to themselves.) Even rather few in the larger cryp...

This is a set of passages from my files: The thoughts of notable geniuses on the subject of education. I hope that parents, especially, will find them informative. #plebchain #followforfollow #quotes #education

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Geniuses on Education - Free-Man's Perspective

This is a set of passages from my files: The thoughts of notable geniuses on the subject of education. I hope that parents, especially, will find t...

This is a set of passages from my files: The thoughts of notable geniuses on the subject of education. I hope that parents, especially, will find them informative. #plebchain #followforfollow #quotes

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Geniuses on Education - Free-Man's Perspective

This is a set of passages from my files: The thoughts of notable geniuses on the subject of education. I hope that parents, especially, will find t...

This is a set of passages from my files: The thoughts of notable geniuses on the subject of education. I hope that parents, especially, will find them informative. #followforfollow #plebchain #quotes

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Geniuses on Education - Free-Man's Perspective

This is a set of passages from my files: The thoughts of notable geniuses on the subject of education. I hope that parents, especially, will find t...

There is real beauty in doing a job well, even a simple job. It is our great loss that this form of beauty is never mentioned in public these days – double-sad, because at one time, such beauty was acknowledged. This brings us to an obvious question: What happened? How did we lose the beauty and dignity of work? #followforfollow #plebchain #dignity #workethic

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The Dignity of Work - Free-Man's Perspective

At one time I lived close to the Field Museum of Chicago; I had a membership and spent a good deal of time there. One evening, about ten minutes be...