Showing posts with label individualism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label individualism. Show all posts
Wendy McElroy: Why the Lights of America are Dimming
You cannot create passion and talent. But you can destroy them. When people are punished for their virtues, such as the drive to excel and to work hard, then passion and talent become liabilities. Sometimes people persist for the sheer joy of creation, for the fulfillment of doing work they love. Because that's when the magic happens, ... MORE
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affirmative action,
America,
discrimination,
freedom,
individualism,
race,
social justice,
virtue
Elderly Man Watches New Jersey Cops Tear Down His Home
Politicians wanted the land. An elderly homeless man watched in tears as the home he'd built in the woods six years before was torn down by police. Sam's eyes filled up as he silently watched the sturdy, wooden structure bulldozed along with his carefully tended garden trimmed with a white picket fence. Until last month, Sam lived in a woodland ... MORE
The Free State Project: A Libertarian Testing Ground
by Kashmir Hill. Long before billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel dreamed up the idea of a floating libertarian island nation, a 24-year-old Yale grad student named Jason Sorens proposed
a far more down-to-earth experiment for those who wanted to live the
limited government lifestyle: that a critical mass of “freedom-loving
people… ... MORE
Police Enforce Mandatory Dress Code Along NJ Boardwalk
Cops deployed as fashion police. There is too much freedom going on. People who do not dress in a manner that is deemed acceptable by the government are subject to penalties in this New Jersey shore resort town. According to the government, people must cover their feet, must must wear shirts after 8:00 p.m., and must never allow ... MORE
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fees,
fines,
individual liberty,
individualism,
penalties,
police state,
regulation,
restrictions
Frank Chodorov: What Individualism Is Not
The bottle is now labeled libertarianism. But its content is nothing new; it is what in the nineteenth century, and up to the time of Franklin Roosevelt, was called liberalism — the advocacy of limited government and a free economy. (If you think of it, you will see that there is a redundancy in this formula, for a government of limited ... MORE
Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead. How do you persuade a nation to march in lock step with a police state? You start by convincing them that they’re in danger, and only the government can protect them. Key them up with constant danger alerts, distract them with wall-to-wall news coverage about disappearing planes and pseudo-celebrities, use ... MORE
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censorship,
individualism,
police state,
schools,
surveillance,
SWAT,
tactics,
zero tolerance
Matt Kibbe: 'You Can't Have Freedom for Free'
On Rush, Ayn Rand, and Not Compromising. In 1977, I bought my first Rush album. I was 13. The title of the disc was 2112, and the foldout jacket had a very cool and ominous red star on the cover. As soon as I got it home from the store, I carefully placed that vinyl record onto the felt-padded turntable of my parents’ old Motorola console ... MORE
Labels:
Ayn Rand,
capitalism,
creativity,
free market,
individual liberty,
individualism,
innovation
William F. Jasper: Why More Bundy Standoffs Are Coming
The war on the west will continue. The federal government’s over-the-top police action against the Bundy family ranch is an ominous portent of more to come, as rogue agencies and their corporate/NGO partners attempt to “cleanse” the West of ranchers, farmers, miners, loggers, and other determined property owners. ... MORE
Political Correctness And The Slavery Of ObamaCare
by Ben S. Carson. When I was in high school in Detroit, there was a great deal of emphasis on clothing. As I became increasingly interested in fitting in with the “in crowd,” fashion supplanted academic achievement in my hierarchy of importance. My grades plummeted and I became a person who was less pleasant and more self-absorbed. ... MORE
Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt?
by Brian Doherty. A labor of love over money. John Aglialoro is a businessman, and a very successful one, named by Fortune magazine in 2007 as the 10th richest small business executive in the country. But his latest project is, he says, about “love.” It’s the film Atlas Shrugged III: Who is
John Galt?, the conclusion of a trilogy of movies based ... MORE
Labels:
achievement,
Ayn Rand,
capitalism,
collectivism,
individualism,
production,
railways,
reason
'Libertarian Paranoia' Is the Newest Fad in Politics
by Gene Healy. Look out: The libertarians
are coming! The libertarians are coming! Never before have so many
been so intimidated by so few, with so little political power. Salon.com offers near-daily warnings about the libertarian
“threat”: It's corrupting progressivism: “Don't
ally with libertarians: Ideologues co-opt an anti-NSA ... MORE
Labels:
government,
individual liberty,
individualism,
libertarian,
NSA,
Patriot Act,
politicians,
statism
Jaana Woiceshyn: Envy Vs. Achievement
A battle of political philosophy. Envy is one of the most useless of feelings, both in our private and business lives. Yet many people experience it, at least from time to time. They envy their neighbor’s fancy car and exotic vacations, or wealth in general. They envy their friends’ educational achievements or the praise they receive ... MORE
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