Saying No: The Winter of My Non-Consent – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

As parents with young children will attest, the most frequently uttered word your toddler will use is not ‘mama’ or ‘dada’, or any word you desperately want them to say, but the word ‘no’. At around 2 years, this word will issue from your child’s mouth at an astonishing and infuriating rate. ‘Yes’ isn’t any real competition in the pantheon of formative words for a two-year-old. It would seem that this right to refuse is hard-wired into us, long before we develop a sense of self or begin to retreat into that private, internal landscape that becomes so important as … Continue reading →

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The World Is Now the Opposite of Everything it Is ‘Supposed’ to Be – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com

“Up was down, black was white, good was bad, day was night.” George Costanza—Seinfeld “The Opposite” Comedy is a true reflection of life, and in many ways, humor can be used to explain the unexplainable; to expose the ludicrous nature of constant seriousness, and the fallibility of man from the standpoint of critical reality in a not-so-severe manner.  In order to find the truth, it is sometimes necessary to laugh out loud and at one’s self, and others as well, and in the process, come to see things more clearly. It has been said that with evil, comes inversion. If … Continue reading →

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