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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Christmas chronicles for individualists You live in chains. In this awful century just passed, more than 150 million innocent people died in chains. And yet every person ever born was born free—unalterably, inviolably, immaculately free…
This is not the sort of thing I am used to finding in holiday tales, so I was delighted to discover these individualist holiday stories published for Kindle. Christmas at the Speed of Life (subtitle: Seasonal brutality – gift-wrapped) by William F. X. Connell focuses on what really matters, from a decidedly individualist viewpoint. I found this book thanks to Richard Nikoley, whose blog is a humorous mix of Paleo lifestyle content and anti-state, anti-religion polemic.
So if you are still searching for the perfect gift for a hard-to-buy-for individualist, or if you would like to gift your favorite stasist/statist with a subversive collection of short stories for the holiday, check it out.
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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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Well, not having had opportunity to buy and read the book, I must concentrate on the quotation.
With the passing of the years (and except temporarily where great war intrudes), we live longer and higher quality lives than previously.
That things are far from perfect does not stop them being (by whatever realistic averaging process one chooses) better than ever before.
So, think and work hard to make the future even better, but please do not disparage what has been achieved so far.
Best regards
Someone once said that we’re in a race to the death between Moore’s Law and Pournelle’s Law to determine the future of mankind. That is to say, Moore’s Law – technological progress in general – makes our lives better and generally makes us freer; Pournelle’s Law – the parasitic growth of government and bureaucracy – makes our lives worse and enslaves us.
The 1990s, when Moore’s Law was generally winning, are remembered as an age of freedom and prosperity. Alas, the last decade or so, Pournelle’s Law has been winning.
The happiness with which you celebrate the ‘sensible mocking’ of that great fairy tale of the guy-in-the-sky, and put him in the same bag as statists (worthy of contempt) is very sad.
In fact it indicates the mindset that will destroy what you hold dear. It hasn’t even caught up with global warming.
There is a lot to do with religion that is false, in fact most of it is, but the story about the guy in the sky and His son Jesus is. Not that you need believe it or me, for my sake.
But.
Happy Christmas!!
Hey, thanks big for the link love and kind words.
Man, I think 2004 might have been the last time I may have gotten a link out of the great Samizdata.
Keep up the great, mind liberating work, cause that’s where it all starts.