Free-Man's Perspective

“The mark of an educated mind,” taught Aristotle, is “to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” And that’s what I’ll be asking of you today. Because as certain as I am that I’m substantially right on this, I’m also sure that its acceptance will take time. But I do want to plant its seeds as best I can. Continue reading “The Cult of Rules”

“Righteousness” is a seldom heard word in modern life, but the concept is still very much with us. In fact, political arguments all through the West focus on shows of righteousness.

So, how does someone show themself to be righteous without ever coming near the word? It’s done with a simple trick that you’ll recognize immediately: Continue reading “The Separation of Righteousness and Politics”

The Bible has been loudly and publicly criticized for centuries. At the same time, it’s most vocal defenders have been those who demand that it be treated as a mandatory oracle. And so the public has been given a binary choice: Either the Bible is horrible, or else it’s divine and you’ll go to hell if you don’t think so. Continue reading “Why The Bible Remains Necessary”

A few people remember President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, where he warned Americans about the rise of a military-industrial complex… a warning that was stunningly accurate and almost fully ignored.

What almost no one remembers was Eisenhower’s speech in 1953, when he said that under the pressures of fear and war spending, humanity was “hanging from a cross of iron.” Continue reading “Humanity Crucified on a Cross of Iron”

Everyone who has children, or even nieces and nephews, understands that you have to warn a child before punishing them. If not, you teach the child a rash of bad lessons, like these: Continue reading “Why Does the Law Not Warn?”

Most people fail to appreciate the fresh opportunity that each day brings them. Their programming requires them to snort derisively at any positive description of humanity. After all, the systems of this world are built upon the assumption that mankind is weak, stupid, and generally inadequate to a moral existence. As a result, most people have become addicted to bad news. Continue reading “Just For One Day”

I’ve been an advocate of science for a long time, but I also recognize that science proper has become Science^TM… an idolized science that Francis Bacon would have condemned… did condemn. More than that, this science has become a tool for the application of social pain.

And so I’m going to explain, briefly, how this happened. But before I do, I want you to understand what this idolatry I speak of really is. So, please consider this slowly: Continue reading “How Science Became an Idol”

Twenty years ago the cypherpunks were almost entirely forgotten. But now – and quite shockingly to those of us who were involved – cypherpunks are cool again. More than that, the discoveries of the cypherpunks are changing our world in a serious way.

That being so, I’d like to briefly recap what the cypherpunks discovered, because what these people found was a new world… a terra nova. Continue reading “The Discovery of Terra Nova by the Cypherpunks”