If Government Officials Want To Prevent Rebellion They Should Stop Committing Treason – LewRockwell

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I have been working within the liberty movement for almost 17 years now. In that time I’ve been involved in numerous organizations that all generally fought the same battle, or the same war – The war against encroaching centralization and authoritarianism. Each group and each institution has had different ideas about how to go about solving the problem of incremental tyranny. Some of them focused on politics, others on preparedness, and still others on convincing police and military to stand on the side of freedom. Some of them had focused goals, some of them were scattered. Some had decent leadership, … Continue reading →

Source: If Government Officials Want To Prevent Rebellion They Should Stop Committing Treason – LewRockwell

Ukraine’s War with Russia Has Nothing To Do With Freedom – LewRockwell

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Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared before a joint session of Congress to plead for more billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to help Ukraine in its war with Russia.  One particular sentence in Zelensky’s address caught my attention: “We Ukrainians will also go through our war of independence and freedom with dignity and success.” The sentence prompted an enormous applause from the members of Congress. There is one big problem with Zelensky’s statement, however. The war between Ukraine and Russia has nothing to do with freedom. Instead, it has everything to do with NATO, the old Cold War … Continue reading →

Source: Ukraine’s War with Russia Has Nothing To Do With Freedom – LewRockwell

Jordan Peterson

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Wisdom

Do You Really Want a Safe Place?
Is that what you want?

You want to be so weak that you are protected from threats? What the hell kind of life is that? You are a paralyzed rabbit in a hole. That is no life for a human being.

You should be confronting danger and the unknown and malevolence. The reason for that is: The solution to the problem of tragedy and malevolence is the willingness to face them now.

Who the hell would ever guess that? It is a completely paradoxical suggestion. Well, why does it work? Because the more you confront the two of them, the more you grow, and maybe you can grow so that you are actually larger than the chaos and malevolence itself.

And you think, “Well, what is the evidence for that?” That is easy. That is what people do.