by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 9, 2021 | All Articles, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Updated. Originally written in 2015. “What if, in a society run on voluntary principles, corporations were to become warlords by enslaving the entire population in a military style dictatorship? And… how do we protect ourselves against other governments...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 24, 2021 | All Articles, Culture, Liberty |
Summary of the history of Irish slavery: In the 17th century, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, an estimated 30,000-50,000 Irish people were sent into slavery in the Caribbean and Virginia. Cromwell shipped Irish slaves to the colonies as a way to help fund...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 4, 2021 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Liberty, Life, Politics, Relationships, 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 Howard Swain | Aug 19, 2021 | All Articles, EQ, Liberty, Parenting, Relationships, Voluntaryism |
Updated. Originally written in 2016. An effective way to spread Voluntaryism while rewiring your brain for increased awareness, control of your own emotions, understanding of responsibility, and personal power. Have you ever wished you could demonstrate your...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jul 15, 2021 | All Articles, All Videos, Culture, Liberty, Life, Marxism, Politics, Socialism, V-Marxism, V-Pinned, V-Racism, V-Voluntaryism, Voluntaryism |
From the premiere episode of Jason Whitlock’s new BlazeTV show, comes one of his patented fire-starter monologues. It’s a letter to black America that covers everything from Colin Kaepernick to George Floyd to LeBron James and the all-too-cozy relationship...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 17, 2020 | All Articles, Liberty, Voluntaryism |
Originally written 2016. Updated. If a pillar of Libertarianism is tolerance and acceptance of different ways, let’s recognize some ways the “Brutalist” Libertarian merely has a preference for different values than the...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 22, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Health, Liberty, Life, Privacy, Voluntaryism |
Original publication: November 2020. (1) In progress: Create fear; physical, psychological, and emotional separation; and economic ruin with a bio-plandemic. “But at least we can connect, share information, organize, learn, play, and share & acquire entertainment...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 4, 2020 | All Articles, Economics, Health, Liberty, Life, Prepping, Privacy, Voluntaryism |
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 cause supply chain issues, followed by businesses...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 3, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Life, Money, Prepping, Voluntaryism |
Original publication: January 2020. Any one of the ideas below, alone, may have little affect on your expenses. It’s the cumulative effect that matters. They add up. Here’s my list. I’d love to hear yours. Please share your ideas in the comments....
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 30, 2020 | 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 Howard Swain | Jul 2, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Most people agree it’s imperative for any entity initiating harm to face consequences. The disagreements tend to be about how. Government regulation is currently the most used and acceptable method for attempting to hold businesses accountable. Unfortunately,...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jun 9, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
or “Broken Window Fallacy” simplified by Scotter A window is broken. Is this a net negative or positive for the economy? Look to your intuition. Does this sound to you like a net negative or positive? Some such as Keynes and Krugman say: The net effect on...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 24, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Marxism, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
This article is a summary of the video of Scott on the right, below the Candace Owens and Thomas Sowell videos. “Where are we if we don’t have diversity of thought? How are we to have intelligent conversations with each other? How are we to learn from each...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 22, 2020 | All Articles, Liberty, Life, Privacy, Voluntaryism |
“But if I am doing nothing wrong then why worry?” What if privacy is something that makes you a human? While it is useful to deny snoopers such as Facebook, Google, US National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, Police, insurance companies, etc., from seeing your...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 19, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Health, Liberty, Life, Privacy, Voluntaryism |
Original publication: November 2020. Click on the following image to see larger version. Spread it around! In the video below, two evolutionary biologists – Bret Weinstein, PhD and Heather Heying, PhD discuss Ivermectin and vaccines in relation to covid,...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 11, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Liberty, Relationships |
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...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 4, 2020 | All Articles, Humor, Liberty, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Alternate reality where governments provide food directly to refrigerators via pipes, just like water Sue: “This is getting lame! Yet another reason we need to get rid of government.” Biff: “Get rid of government?! Are you crazy? There are too many...
by Scott Howard Swain | Feb 9, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Health, Liberty, Life, Privacy, Voluntaryism |
Original publication: Early February 2020. Updated. 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 –...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 24, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Marxism, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Featured: Brave New World, the mini-series, 2020, Peacock network Sexy, high budget, well-written, and – like the book by Aldous Huxley – a commentary on how tyranny can arrive via comfort, ease, and pleasure. Looking at today’s rise in the seeking...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 13, 2019 | All Articles, Business, Climate, Corruption, Economics, Liberty, Life, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Originally written Nov 24, 2018 How & why did this begin? In 1974, “The Weather Machine,” a BBC show, warned of impending climate disaster. After four decades of cooling temperatures, the idea was there was a threat of a new ice age coming. In the...
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