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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You are not a libertarian unless you accept as axiomatic that, at its core, society must allow individuals to make their own choices in the pursuit of self-defined ends
– Perry de Havilland, said at a ‘Brian’s Friday’ event
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
– Winston Churchill
Beyond its entertainment value, Baywatch has enriched and, in many cases, helped save lives. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to continue with a project which has has such a significance for so many.
– David Hasselhoff, Actor
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
– Ayn Rand in “The Fountainhead” (1943)
… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
– Voltarine de Cleyre
Never blame malice for what can be adequately blamed on stupidity
-R. Feynman
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
-William Pitt (1783)
Sadly we don’t hear British prime ministers echoing those sentiments these days
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
– Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
It is a measure of the incoherence of Marxist analysis that fascism is regarded as ‘late capitalism’ when in reality late capitalism, when we get there, will clearly have resulted in libertarianism
– Perry de Havilland
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away
-Phillip K. Dick
Libertarians do not seek chaos but rather a more spontaneous order
– Perry de Havilland, said at a ‘Brian’s Friday’ event
Turning to Communism for fear of Fascism is like suicide for fear of death
– Perry de Havilland
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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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