by Scott Swain | Dec 19, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism
Originally written 2016. Updated. We have all heard American Republicans and Democrats speak of each other with rancor. It is especially tragic when we realize both “sides” want the same things; fairness, peace, health, prosperity, a strong WiFi signal,...
by Scott Swain | Dec 2, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism
Over the past few years there has been an acceleration in what some call “cultural Marxism”, “identity politics”, tokenism, or “wokeness”. One form this has taken has been in films, specifically from the most powerful franchises in...
by Scott Swain | Nov 22, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Health, Liberty, Life, Privacy, Voluntaryism
Original publication: November 2020. Step 1 – in progress: Create fear; physical, psychological, and emotional separation; and economic ruin with a plandemic. Step 2 – preparation and propaganda stage: Remove remaining connection and stability with...
by Scott Swain | Nov 5, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Health, Liberty, Life, Privacy, Voluntaryism
Original publication: January 2020. My greatest worry since the beginning of the Covid-19 situation has been that the government response – “encouraging” us to stay inside and/or apart, as well as force businesses to close – would initially...
by Scott Swain | Oct 30, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, Health, Humor, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism
Spread truth with a t-shirt! Wanting to culture-jam via an easy and relatively safe method? Pick one of these designs. Free: I will send you layered 300dpi Photoshop file you can modify and upload to a t-shirt printer like VistaPrint. If you don’t have Photoshop...
by Scott Swain | Sep 4, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Liberty, Life, Politics, Voluntaryism
What if being “highly independent” can make it difficult for us to see the value of strong relationships and our “me-first” attitude, completely logical, in reality, can be supplemented with even just a bit of compromise at times in order to...
by Scott Swain | Aug 28, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Liberty, Life, Socialism, Voluntaryism
A zoom-able version of the above image is near the bottom of this article. How much time do we actually save by taking short cuts with our communication? I’m a fan of efficiency. This is why I simultaneously sympathize with and get frustrated by people using...
by Scott Swain | Aug 10, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism
I bet most of us agree that there is usually a net overall loss when one person forces another person to do a thing. Sometimes, though, people “expand” the definition of force to include not doing a thing. What?! Example A person in need came to you asking...
by Scott Swain | Jul 22, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Voluntaryism
Official “needs inventory” as originally created by Marshall...
by Scott Swain | Jun 10, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Culture, EQ, Liberty, Life, Voluntaryism
Following is an argument for using a form of empathy I’ve developed called Practical Empathy (PEQ), based on and similar to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. Empathy is not agreement, so you risk no loss of integrity by practicing...
by Scott Swain | Jun 9, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Liberty, Parenting
Originally written by Scott Swain in 2017. Not authoritarian or permissive What I’m recommending is neither “permissive parenting” or “authoritarian parenting”. It’s part of a growing movement called “peaceful parenting”...
by Scott Swain | Jun 9, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, EQ, Liberty, Life, Parenting, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism
It seems that Socialism is on the rise right now; at least amongst those who have not come to the USA looking for the opposite of what socialism did to their Country. Why? Let’s speculate. I see it as a combination of factors: – Wealth largess from the...
by Scott Swain | Jun 4, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism
Voluntaryist Empathizing with and Addressing the American Democratic Socialist Perspective No matter what your philosophical / political beliefs, odds are: you have a desire to increase joy, prosperity, health, and security. Also, I propose that many have in common is...
by Scott Swain | May 11, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Liberty
Evaluation Evaluations and moralistic judgements are when we judge another person [often as “wrong” or “bad” but also including terms like “good” and “awesome”] when they do things that are not in agreement with our...
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