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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No matter how one measures welfare, there’s more of it where governments refrain from causing poverty by curtailing markets
– Leon Louw
A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter
– G. K. Chesterton
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
– G. K. Chesterton
They preach that if you see a man flogging a woman to death you must not hit him.
– G. K. Chesterton, writing about pacifists
It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged.
– G. K. Chesterton
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
– Jacob Bronowski
Hey you over in Johannesburg:
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
-Thomas Paine
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
-Albert Camus
Human society is probably “sustainable” only in a very low-tech mode, or a very high-tech mode. Anything in between is necessarily transitional, in one direction or the other. We must either move forward, or die in large numbers, and face miserable stagnation afterward. Personally, I’m against the latter.
– Glenn Reynolds
What kind of world is it when, in sheer self-defence, you have to Fisk your own newspaper articles?
– Brian Micklethwait (in an article earlier today)
You don’t need a government to tell you when you’ve gone too far. There’s no greater deterrent for a comedian than stone silence.
– Mike Myers
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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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