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…
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…
Can We Recover Stolen Property?
Manual to Humanity either adjusted or revealed a few previously obscured or undiscovered aspects of libertarian philosophy, like objective morality, just acquisition and threat assessment. One thing that remained unanswered,…
To Become A Scammer, Or Not To Become A Scammer…
I think the problem was the agricultural revolution. Mankind isn’t built for the permanent settlements created by farming. In purely nomadic, hunter-gatherer, tribal days, the political class could easily be…
If the Dream Is Gone, What Now For Libertarians?
The good news for libertarians is that we’re right. Libertarian objective morality has been discovered and libertarian theory has been shown, empirically, to be right over and over. Normal people…
The Machinery of Political Scams
After the MIC scam post, I wanted to comment more broadly on the phenomenon of political scams and how I think things probably work, if we could know what’s behind…
Intellect and Its Relationship to Tribal Instinct
As some do, I think a lot about the human condition and why people do the things they do. As I’m sure I’ve mentioned, the Leskovar Insight plays a major…