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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Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous
– Ludwig von Mises
…if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers
– Rudyard Kipling, from Kim
…But nobody can be a great economist who is only an economist – and I am even tempted to add that the economist who is only an economist is likely to become a nuisance if not a positive danger
– Frederick Hayek
And by the way, gun rights supporters are frequently mocked when they say it deters foreign invasion – after all, come on, grow up, be realistic: Who’s nuts enough to invade America? Exactly. It’s unthinkable. Good. 2nd Amendment Mission 1 accomplished.
– Bill Whittle (in his essay Freedom – at his new blog Eject! Eject! Eject!)
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
– P. J. O’Rourke (from the rabble rabble rabble list of choice quotes at the top left)
Gender is too important an issue to be left to people who think it’s more important than anything else.
– James Lileks (yesterday)
Blogging is better than college.
– Michael Blowhard (yesterday)
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
– Herman Melville (Pierre – 1852)
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man is of his bones. But if you break a nation’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
– George Bernard Shaw (in the Preface to John Bull’s Other Island – 1904)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
I suspect Vladimir is more widely read in Broadcasting House (The BBC) than Hayek, Rand, Mises, Bastiat, Friedman and Popper added together
When a woman marries a wealthy man for his money, she is often described as having ‘married well’. Yet when a woman merely rents herself to a man, she is called a prostitute and threatened with legal sanction.
– Perry de Havilland
You don’t stop violent crime by devoting resources to making excuses look less reasonable.
– Alice Bachini
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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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