MAGA Cheers on Martial Law & World War for Israhell… and Silver and Monero Skyrocket

MAGA Cheers on Martial Law & World War for Israhell… and Silver and Monero Skyrocket

If you call yourself a libertarian or anarchist, check your principles: You can’t cheer on a “should’ve complied” police state in the US, but demand regime change in other countries because… “authoritarian government brutality”.  Read that again.  Remember when ICE uniforms looked like Walmart workers but just in black with better name tags?  Now, they’re…

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What Autism Is Not

What Autism Is Not

In What Autism Is, I characterized autism as exclusion from the existential empathy on which meaningful human experience relies. Autistic people are irretrievably remote from the conditions for meaning. Whatever they learn is learnt as a simulation and from outside of human connection. Further clarity about autism comes from considering what autism is not. An opportunity…

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Scott Adams and Intellectual Courage

Scott Adams and Intellectual Courage

When Scott Adams died, People Magazine led with a line that dominated most of the media for days: “Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 69.” It’s a message for the living: depart from saying what you are supposed to say and you will lose everything. Even in death, your life will be called worthless. This was…

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Emperor Trump

Emperor Trump

We’re Closer Than You Think If you’ve been paying attention to the slow-motion train wreck that is modern American politics, the idea of America as an empire rather than a republic has been painfully obvious for years. For a long time, there was a concerted effort, a whole song and dance, to maintain the fiction that the…

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Reading Against the State: A Libertarian Guide to Critical Discourse Analysis

Reading Against the State: A Libertarian Guide to Critical Discourse Analysis

As Étienne de la Boétie pointed out, the state is absolutely dependent on ideological support, without which it could not even command an army to force obedience from the public. Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State points out that the state acquires this support by means of its court intellectuals, who frame power as “public service,” while framing skepticism as childish,…

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