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BooksAndArticles

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There are a large number of people waiting for a full-spectrum, apocalyptic crash of the Western system. What I maintain is that it won’t happen. And I hope to convince you that I’m right.

Why You Shouldn’t Believe In A Full-Spectrum Crash - Free-Man's Perspective

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Sadly, there are fairly few people left who understand what the Hippies were really about. Mostly people remember the Hollywood version: pot-smoking, political protesting and clumsy dancing. The actual Hippies, especially the early Hippies, were a much different group. They were interesting and brave people: people very much worth remembering.

The Wisdom Of The Hippies - Free-Man's Perspective

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There is a simple fact that people are unable to ingest. You can explain it carefully, with charts, graphs and solid documentation… and they may even like the sound of it… but after the explanation, it fades away and is forgotten.

The Truth We Can’t Accept - Free-Man's Perspective

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Everything You Think You Know About the Church Is Wrong!

For centuries, “educated” voices have smeared Christianity and the Church with easy, lazy conclusions. But what if the reality is far more complex—and far less damning—than you’ve been led to believe? 

From the Crusades to the Inquisition, from power struggles to witch trials, this issue breaks down the myths, exposes the real motives, and challenges the slander that’s been passed off as truth.

If you’re ready to rethink history and uncover what really happened, finish reading this issue now!

Most Of What Everyone Knows About The Church Is Wrong - Free-Man's Perspective

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We can call this one an experiment..

6,000 Years On The Wheel - Free-Man's Perspective

spirituality

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Christianity, as people in their 60s and 70s have observed, was pushed off the public stages of the West over the past two generations. At this point, whoever speaks well of it in such places must be prepared to absorb blows.

The West’s New Faith - Free-Man's Perspective

conspiracy

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One of my entertainments, from time to time, has been the Kennedy assassination… John Kennedy’s, that is. I’m not particularly a fan of mysteries, but once in a while one of them intrigues me.

Demolishing The Warren Report - Free-Man's Perspective

bitcoin

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The odd thing about centralization is that people expect its bad aspects to be external things, like economic issues. Those, however, aren’t the essentials. If the internal effects of centralization were recognized, and if we did something about them, the outer problems would vanish soon enough.

Six Reasons Why Centralization Is Bad

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"“Love one another.” You hear it all the time. But while it’s nice that it’s said, people don’t do it terribly well. It’s a hard thing for them to hold in mind. They can get serious about it from time to time (and again, a good thing), but doing it consistently eludes most everyone.

I think this deserves a moment of our time… if for nothing else than to work through some hypocrisy."

Why “Love One Another” Is Easy To Say But Hard To Do - Free-Man's Perspective

Education

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Recently a friend sent me a snippet of a conversation he saw in an online community. It read, Public school attendance is indoctrination in obedience. That’s a stark statement, but what struck me was not its bluntness, but that it has become common. 

The Times They Are A-Changin’ - Free-Man's Perspective

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Everything we do changes the world, of course, and I remain a strong advocate for kindness. Nonetheless, we need to face the fact that the children’s book version of “be kind and change the world” hasn’t worked. Wars and crime proceed as they have since the Bronze Age, and long years of promoting “be kind” hasn’t changed that a bit.

Why Kindness Doesn’t Change The World - Free-Man's Perspective

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People remember Bruce Lee as a fighter or as a movie star. But as it happens, he was also a thoughtful man. Bruce had his gaps and flaws, of course, but he also left behind a lot of useful thoughts. And since so few people know about these ideas, I’ll cover them here.

The Wisdom of Bruce Lee - Free-Man's Perspective

Bitcoin thrives on human virtue.

The status quo thrives on human weakness.

Why Bitcoin Culture Is Better Than The Status Quo - Free-Man's Perspective

tech

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While most people missed it, there was a thriving gold economy in the early 2000s. It was centered around e-gold (a system for trading digital gold) and it involved billions of dollars per year in transactions.

The Missing Gold Economy - Free-Man's Perspective

culture

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"I’ve advised people to get and stay out of debt for a long time, but even so, I didn’t fully understand the affects of debt until the Covid time. As the mayhem spread, I struggled to understand the level of compliance with what would have been, at any other time, criminal medical advice.

Certainly compliance was driven by massive applications of fear. And, certainly, it was accompanied by exceptional levels of guilt, as in “You’ll be responsible for killing Grandma!” Still, there was more to it, and that extra piece, I soon enough realized, was debt."

Debt And Compliance - Free-Man's Perspective

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Civilization is produced by us, not by dominance hierarchies with publicity operations. 

Rulership survives on human vulnerabilities. Civilization survives on human virtues. No matter how much publicity equates rulership with civilization, they are fundamentally opposed.

Civilization Comes From Us

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"Everything “normal” in the Western system trains you to be a placeholder: You are expected to attend the schools to which you’re assigned and complete the necessary programs. By doing that, you can attain a nice slot in the big machine. Then you’ll function in that general capacity, probably for many years. This is called success.

You’ll be able to get car loans, a house loan and possibly even 2.1 children. And then, when you’re too old or sick to continue, the machine will drop you out and a new person will be called in to fill your slot. A few years later you’ll die and a few people will say nice things about you. You will have been a placeholder, perhaps a mildly rewarded one, but that’s all.

It ain’t enough."

Being A Placeholder Isn’t Enough

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Humanity is informed as never before; nothing in the historical record compares. This, unfortunately, is not a particularly good thing.

Information Is Broken

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Even if you’re not exactly sure what bourgeois means, you’ve almost certainly noticed that it refers to something bad or embarrassing. But before I explain its actual meaning, I want to turn the tables on it: I will maintain that bourgeois is good.

Bourgeois And Proud

FiresidePhilosophy

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"People sometimes talk about freedom requiring morality and even religion. The famous quote along these lines is from John Adams, who wrote that the US constitution was made for “a moral and religious people,” going on to say that it’s unfit for any other kind.

Nothing against Mr. Adams, but that passage is a mere assertion. It says nothing about why it might be true that freedom requires a moral populace. Such assertions really ought to be supported, and so far as I’ve seen, they haven’t been.

Today I’ll address that void."

Is It True That Only Moral People Can Be Free?

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The existence of absolute standards threatens a great deal of modern power, and so has long been ridiculed and excluded from consideration.

Reality, however, cannot be changed, and the fact is that we all act for life and against death. So does every other living thing on this planet. That makes life and death absolute and objective standards. 