When people stumble upon libertarianism, they realize they’ve discovered a great truth about humanity and this great truth can bring about the best possible world if only enough people became…
Belief Is Not a Choice
Stefan Molyneux was recently on The Scott Adams School show talking about the existence of God with one fo the show’s hosts, Owen Gregorian. Molyneux was arguing against the idea…
Why Liberals vs Conservatives?
I’d guess that 99% plus a good percentage of the remaining one percent of people have a strong enough tribal survival instinct to be manipulated by the political elite with…
Stockholm Syndrome Is Tribal
I don’t remember which podcast I was listening to the other day where one of the hosts mentioned something about Stockholm Syndrome (SS, from now on) and it hit me…
Two Competing Libertarian Views of Property?
I’m always trying to figure out how people think about things. Recently, while speaking to a respectable, knowledgeable libertarian friend about property philosophy, I realized that he comes to his…
The Black Hole of Modern Society
I use a small, handheld voice recorder called Pocket (https://heypocket.com) that lets me click a button and record a note and Pocket’s AI takes my rambling and organizes it into…
Evil and Tribalism
People can’t accept that evil is what it is because their tribalism requires that they support it. The political class are evil, their agenda is evil and, since the agricultural…
Tribalism and the Universality of Religion
I’ve written before about why religions exist. By no means an exhaustive essay, similar to this one. Religions are persistent and pervasive throughout human civilizations. It always seemed strange that…
Man’s Evolutionary Flaw
The ideas I write about here are constantly evolving in my head, but I may not update them in writing. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the story of our evolution…