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Why Left Libertarianism? Dec 6, 2017

We are lost, astray inside a  "blue corn maze", Libertarianism, a revolutionary philosophy of redistributing power generally, is today mainly associated with the Right Wing of American politics. Others still believe that libertarianism is a "third path" from left and right and has nothing to do with those concepts. This is wrong-headed and ahistorical. Libertarianism grew out of classical liberalism, which is properly viewed as belonging to the left. The core concept that libertarianism rests, liberalism, is liberatory by nature. Conscripting with theocratic restrictions on the right is illiberal and antithetical. And so it was long ago, in the time...

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Gender Liberty Revisited Nov 24, 2017

I've noticed at that lot of fellow libertarians are on the fence or adverse to gender-fluidity and transgenderism. As I've noted before, this exists in the mind of the beholder and is entirely outside of libertarianism. A “thin” libertarianism remains value-neutral on the matter and has nothing to say about it what so ever. A “thick” libertarianism coupled with conservative values (which is a very confused but somewhat common mix, as I've also explained previously) may have an adverse opinion, but this is usually just grafting on personal prejudices, pseudo-science, and religious strictures. A “thick” left libertarianism, while still holding...

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Liberty is a State of Being Nov 19, 2017

Sadhguru Vasudev cautions those that want to change the world to first rid their own hearts of fear and pain, before embarking to change the way others live — otherwise one will only transcribe one’s own darkness upon the world and make a bigger mess. Before you can bring the message of liberty to anyone, you must first “live in truth” and experience liberty in your mind and heart. If your heart, mind, and body, are not aligned to the same purpose your message will be muddled. As the saying goes, ” No one cares how much you know, until...

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Everyman Is An Island Nov 19, 2017

A commonly raised objection to the sovereignty of the individual is the cliche saying, "No man is an island." Or so they say, having read such out of a text book or annotated from a statist professor's mouth. This objection is raised to say that no one is completely isolated from society, and is part of some larger whole like the community and thus is not sovereign but rather a cog in the machine of civil society. But I will contend that every man is an island, and that the metaphor is incomplete without the water that distinguishes a mountain...

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