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 quote of the day – whatever happened to the Guardian? edition In the course of a fairly long working life I have seen the newspaper as an institution grow from small things to very great things. It has grown with the growth of popular government in the country. I don’t think that is a mere coincidence. The one can hardly exist without the other. A free Press is essential to the working of the modern democratic State. A democracy uninformed is a blind giant, who may destroy the very things which he ought most to value, and who may end by destroying himself. The first act of a tyranny is to suppress or shackle the Press. Let us never forget that the liberty of unlicensed printing is the foundation of all our liberties.
– C. P. Scott on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1926.
Scott was celebrating 55 years of editing the then Manchester Guardian. One can only wonder what he would think of Ofcom etc let alone the modern-day Guardian’s support for it.
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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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