We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Samizdata slogan of the day So while the war in Iraq might only be beginning, the pundits of the Blogosphere can already register a victory. It’s a bloggers’ world. We only link to it.
– Steven Levy in his article Bloggers’ Delight, MSNBC
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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Are we really so influential? No self-deception going on here?
Sure. Blogs are very influential in the blogosphere. 😉
This was a quote by a MSNBC journalist, not a blogger. How can that be “self-delusion”? Have you read the article?…
Very true… and this esteemed (or maybe just steamed) blog even got a mention! When MSNBC folks (and Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post etc.) start noticing, it is fair to say blogs are no longer the resented ‘immigrant generation’ but actually starting to be accepted as a ‘fact of life’. I just hope in the process that pundit blogs like this and others do not get all ‘bland and establishment’ when the writers realise that people are actually taking them seriously.