Archive | July, 2011

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

I often wonder to myself why I continue to live the life that I do. I could probably walk away from it all now, “get a real job”, and make a lot more money than I do blogging and with T21C.

Yet, I continually come to the same conclusion: that life is good, that happiness is possible, that good things and good people do exist — and that all this is worth fighting for.

My happiness, my achievements, my ideals brought into physical reality — my greatest self actualized.

And the people and things that matter — things that are good, right, congruent, and true; people that benefit my own life in the process of living theirs — people that hold reason as their absolute, and truth a their unstoppable hammer for the world.

I see these things in the achievements and creations of others. In books, movies, TV shows, websites, inventions, exercise machines, videos, speeches, music, cars, buildings, guns, contracts — even the fucking computer…

No Treason

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

Lysander Spooner was one of those “confused” American individuals who fully opposed slavery, and opposed the northern federal invasion of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. According to part of his “about the author” section on Mises.org

the author of some of the most radical political and economic writings of the 19th century, and continues to have a huge influence on libertarian thinkers today. He was a dedicated opponent of slavery in all its forms — even advocating guerrilla war to stop it — but also a dedicated opponent of the federal invasion of the South and its postwar reconstruction.

Gee, was this guy crazy, or absolutely right and fully consistent in his philosophical and political views?

Why on earth would anyone oppose those Northern do-gooders who came to free the slaves?

Maybe, because the American Civil War had didly shit to do with freeing slaves, and everything to do with destroying the voluntary federal union the States had created just a few decades prior…