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]

This is the modern world

Spotted at Samizdata.net HQ, a well known Samizdatista demonstrates multi-tasking…

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… he may well have also been touch-typing on a laptop under the table using his toes.

For Friends

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She gazes at the moon
The fragrant earth remains
Tears and thunder fall.

Samizdata slogan of the day

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master
– George Washington, whose birthday it is today

Samizdata quote of the day

The ballot boxes are the coffins of freedom. We will not take part in the funeral of freedom.
– A text message circulating on Iranian mobile1 phones yesterday

1 = US: cell phone

Surviving St. Valentine’s Day with Samizdata.net

Ah yes, St. Valentine’s Day. smiley_heartthrob.gif The shop windows are filled with endless tacky heart-shaped corporate eye-catchers and the air is filled with cupid’s arrows… and other rather faster moving objects.

Adriana is thinking of Valentine's Day

Have fun.

Samizdata quote of the day

Of course I have sensitivity, you know… I just refuse to use it with my friends
– Adriana Cronin-Lukas

Samizdata slogan of the day

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?
– Frédéric Bastiat

Samizdata slogan of the day

Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn’t be called piracy because it was done by the city government.
– Local-body politics explained (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)

Samizdata slogan of the day

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts
– Will Rogers

Samizdata slogan of the day

State funding of abortions is, however, a completely different matter. The pro-choicers say it’s a matter of choice. Let it stay that way, then, without forcing people who oppose infanticide to fund it.
Tomas Kohl

Samizdata quote of the day

There are two possible political morals to this. One is, don’t have schools. Children in large groups behave like troops of baboons. The other is, if you are going to have schools, have discipline.
Natalie Solent

Samizdata quote of the day

“France is the best country in the world.”

— Claire Sepchat (who is French).