There are times that not only try men’s souls, but warp them. #plebchain #followforfollow #philosophy #blog

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The Mania of 2021 - Free-Man's Perspective

(Originally published August 3, 2021.) There are times that not only try men’s souls, but warp them. Westerners of our generations never beli...

I am not trying to insult libertarians; they’ve been right, or reasonably close to right, on a great many things, and for decades on end; that’s not trivial. Nonetheless, they could never get much moving in the world, while Bitcoiners, to use an old but fitting phrase, are turning the world upside-down. I think it’s important to understand why. #Bitcoin #plebchain #followforfollow #btc #Libertarians

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Why Bitcoiners Are Doing What Libertarians Never Could - Free-Man's Perspective

I am not trying to insult libertarians; they’ve been right, or reasonably close to right, on a great many things, and for decades on end; that’...

As far back as we can see in any detail, we find humans creating art. But art is an odd thing, in that people generally create it for internal (and thus hard-to-articulate) reasons, making clear, logical explanations difficult. Making it still harder has been an obsession with incoherent and confusing art over the past century. #plebchain #followforfollow #art #blog

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The Purpose And Value of Art - Free-Man's Perspective

As far back as we can see in any detail, we find humans creating art. But art is an odd thing, in that people generally create it for internal (and...

There’s a lot to say about this little phrase, and it’s an exceptionally potent study, because it gives us a crucial view of our function in the world. It’s a phrase Jesus used far more than any other, and I think you’ll be surprised by what he actually said. #followforfollow #philosophy #religion #podcast https://freemansperspective.com/podcast-the-kingdom-of-god/

It has become common to speak of Judeo-Christian principles, but that begs the question of precisely what those principles are. And so I searched for a clear set of them, and came up dry. I found statements of religious beliefs and I found lists of good habits that were spawned by Judeo-Christian principles, but I didn’t find the principles themselves. #followforfollow #plebchain #religion #christianity #philosophy

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What Are The Judeo-Christian Principles? - Free-Man's Perspective

It has become common to speak of Judeo-Christian principles, but that begs the question of precisely what those principles are. And so I searched f...

I had preconceptions about the United Nations, of course, but I was looking forward to seeing the real thing in person; only then would I know if my guesses had been correct. So, I made my plans. #followforfollow #plebchain #ClimateChange

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My Adventures At Climate Change Central - Free-Man's Perspective

In 1999, my friend Henry Lamb mentioned that he had been attending UN meetings. I thought it sounded intriguing and asked for details. After all, r...

All of us in the modern West grew up believing that we were living under “the rule of law.” The truth, however, is that the rule of law – the sovereignty of law – ended a couple of centuries ago. And by losing it, we lost a primary driver of our civilization. #followforfollow #plebchain #history #blog

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The West That Was, Part 5 - Free-Man's Perspective

When law was sovereign All of us in the modern West grew up believing that we were living under “the rule of law.” The truth, however, is that ...

You see, these are things we need to discuss. If we don’t, we’ll end up limping along the way we are, slowly declining and eventually seeing other people summon the guts to kick-start a golden age. #followforfollow #plebchain #blog

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What A Real Leader Would Say - Free-Man's Perspective

It’s late summer in Anytown, USA: A small platform stands at the edge of a cornfield. A very average-looking person steps up to a microphone and ...

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...