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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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
– Voltaire
Pat Buchanan is making a stir again. In his new book he claims homosexuality is addictive – apparently, so are intolerance and stupidity.
– Jay Leno
The captured Taliban that are now in Cuba are getting one bath towel, they are getting shampoo and toothpaste. The people there are seeing this and asking Castro, “Can we get this stuff?”
– David Letterman
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers
-Abbie Hoffman
Great Moments in Capitalist History: on this day in 1964 the world’s largest cheese (34,591 lbs) was manufactured in Wisconsin
Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
– P. J. O’Rourke
Here’s something to ponder: just as there are boobs on the far-left, there are also boobs on the far-right. You know, they do come in pairs.
– unknown
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
– John Lehman, former US Secretary of the Navy
The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with
– Marty Feldman
Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
– Ayn Rand
The whole principle is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.
– Robert A. Heinlein on censorship
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right
– Winston S. Churchill
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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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