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Statism, Cages and the Murder of Conscience

2012-01-12T19:19:00.000-05:00

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Atlas Shrugged: The Freedomain Radio Review

2011-11-20T09:46:00.000-05:00

Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio, reviews the movie 'Atlas Shrugged'

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Atlas Shrugged: The Freedomain Radio Review

2011-11-19T10:43:00.000-05:00

Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio, reviews the movie 'Atlas Shrugged'

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Remembrance Day

2011-11-11T22:39:00.000-05:00

I wonder what the dead of war would say, if they stayed past their demise, and wheeled around the fading battlefield like invisible kites of regret. I wonder what they would say - the hundreds of millions slaughtered by swords and bombs and guns, vaporized into shadows on broken walls, ground into jam beneath the curled feet of tanks - I wonder what they would say to us? I wonder what they said to themselves, in their last moments, before their eyeballs bled from the crushing weight of war descending upon their lives.

I wonder if all the words that herded them like bitter vacant shepherds off the cliff edge of death - I wonder if those words evaporated just before their lives did? All the words like - patriotism, nationalism, religion, country... soldier. I wonder if all of the words that wrapped around them like a strangling anaconda mummy tape flew away from them before they died, and revealed only the sand - the dead sand - of nonexistence. I wonder if they realized, just before they died, that they were going to go the way of the words that led them to their graves, the words that did not exist, that made them not exist... The countries that do not exist, the patriotism - that is to live on bended knee to violent masters - the class that does not exist, that led them to lay down their lives for nothing, for rulers emptier than the words that hung them. And I wonder what they would say, if they could still fly above the ruin of the world that smashed them - and that they smashed… I wonder what they would say, as they saw all of these ghastly, deadly, empty, strangling words - still roaming the human landscape, still slithering like spindly, spiderly snakes through the books and teachers and priests and parents and lies and media and print of this world… The words like, ‘honor’ - the words like: ‘medal’ - the words, not that they had been ground out by the empty illusions of their elders, but that they had ‘fallen,’ like a toppling domino that was a human being...

I wonder what they would think of the music played for the dead, who died from words… I wonder what they would think of the tears of the people who stood by their graves; the tears of those whose agony at their loss went as deep and as wide as a bloody ocean. I wonder what they would think of the tears of the people who cried their graves, the people who did not move heaven and earth to stop them from going and marching and falling into the whirling blades of warring death.

I wonder what they would think of those who sobbed at their passing, but did not stop their journey to their end, that did not throw themselves in front of this train of death that scoops and sweeps and grinds and sprays over the bodies of all those it runs into, and over…

And I wonder what these billions of ghosts would say to the young, whose hearts and minds and bodies are currently gripped in the talons of these empty, dead, dying, murdering, cancerous words… The young who are snatched from the dead classrooms of State propaganda, and the dead pews of religious praise for the dead and the dying and the killing and the murdering… To the young held aloft and carried aloft in the steely and stealing talons of these empty words, being carried high above the lands that they're supposed to be ‘protecting’ - but that no one is invading – and, in the name of ‘defense,’ being carried thousands and thousands of miles across oceans, across frightened white upturned faces, and being dropped from these great heights, to fall like dead drones onto houses, onto hospitals, onto electricity plants, onto useless sand - but most of all, onto people - because these dead words carry live people and drop them to merge in a horrible embrace with victims of mass murder. I wonder what they would say to those being carried off by these words and dropped on the innocent…

And I wonder - I think most of all - what these ghosts - who learned too late what it is to die by words, to be slashed by syllables, to be murdered by mouths - what they would say to those of us who still continue to praise this murder, to salute this savagery, to stand stiff before these slumping corpses, to cheer these deaths - and to continue to mouth these empty phrases – ‘national defense,’ the ‘war on terror,’ ‘patriot acts,’ ‘protection,’ ‘honor,’ the ‘fallen,’ the ‘brave,’ the ‘few’…

Because it is these words that we mouth - these words that we loose from our throats - that fly into the air and fasten their fangs and their talons onto the mouths and the lives of the young. and block their air, and block their future, and hack and slash their potential, and return them to us in a box, or a wheelchair, or crutches, or blind, or shattered in spirit - to become a repetition of war in the home, in brutality against children, in brutality against those they have every right to be enraged at - those who cheered them on their way to murder, and to be murdered…

The war always comes home.

And we should use our lips to kiss the young, to sing with the young - not to fasten our lips upon the young and breathe into them these words like a carcinogen smoke that will hurl them aloft, hurl them overseas, hurl them to death - or sometimes, a fate worse than death…

The only value of Remembrance Day should be that it remembers war… Remembers that which is past, remembers that which is history, remembers that which is gone, remembers that which has been scrubbed clean from human life, from the world, from our experience as a species.

The fundamental problem with Remembrance Day is that it does not force us to remember war - because war is still with us.

Remembrance Day should be a glance backwards at a door to a chamber of horrors that we have closed and sealed - not a glimpse across the world to see it continuing, seemingly forever.

Let us make war a thing that we only remember, not something that seems to always and forever murder memory.

Beautiful Freedom

2011-09-21T22:07:00.000-04:00

Answers to common questions about a truly free society.

Stefan Molyneux on TV: Will Obama's jobs plan put Americans to work?

2011-09-08T17:28:00.000-04:00

The US has been going through rough economic times and many are looking at solutions from the past to get the country out of this downward spiral. Seventy-five years ago, the Hoover dam was created by a federal program to help put Americans to work and also produce energy. Many Americans expect President Obama to do something similar when he unveils his jobs plan. Stefan Molyneux, host of FreeDomain Radio, tells us if a plan like this is possible or even feasible.

True News: Condemning the British Rioters!

2011-08-12T17:14:00.000-04:00

Do you think that even people from disadvantaged households are fully morally responsible for their actions? Very well, you must accept this as well... From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world -- http://www.freedomainradio.com

True News: The British Riots

2011-08-09T16:02:00.000-04:00

The economic, political and social realities behind the rebellion of youth which cannot be resisted. From Freedomain Radio, the Largest and Most Popular Philosophy Show on the Web -- http://www.Freedomainradio.Com

Stefan Molyneux on TV: 'I Love the Budget Compromise!'

2011-08-04T17:30:00.000-04:00

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, explains to Adam Kokesh on Adam Versus the Man, why he would French kiss the budget compromise bill if he could...

The Short, Unhappy Lives of Fiat Currencies

2011-08-03T18:15:00.000-04:00

The average life expectancy of a fiat currency is only 27 years -- from Freedomain Radio, source available at http://www.fdrurl.com/fiatdeath

True News: Don't Be Fooled by the Debt 'Solution' Delusion!

2011-08-02T17:18:00.000-04:00

Jeff Berwick, the Dollar Vigilante, joins Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, for a rousing discussion of the recent deficit reduction "solution" put forward by Congress, plus the worst comic book Hero ever, the Super Congress!

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Philosophy Unleashed - Liberty Fest Questions and Answers!

2011-07-31T09:57:00.000-04:00

Is there an afterlife? What is goodness? How will peace be achieved?

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, takes challenging philosophy questions from brilliant participants at the http://www.patriotpolls.com forum, in anticipation of Liberty Fest Two -- http://www.lfnyc.com

U.S. is Losing Economic Cold War with China

2011-07-27T17:43:00.000-04:00

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This week Stefan Molyneux (our video host) interviews Casey Research Chief Economist Bud Conrad on the current state of the U.S. and global economy, with a specific emphasis on investment implications.

Bud has a more bearish view on nuclear power than Casey Energy Strategist Marin Katusa, so we'll have to interview him soon as well. It's okay that their opinions differ; creative thinking can't occur where different views are not allowed. And Bud's basic analysis is highly consistent with the way Doug himself views things -- which is, in technical economic terms, "pretty darned scary."

"WE ARE STILL HERE!" 2011 Porcupine Freedom Festival - Stefan Molyneux

2011-07-23T09:45:00.000-04:00

Do you guys want a short speech? I mean I know it's kind of late, I can either do it tonight or I can do it for the closing ceremony...

Speech? Speech? OK, all right... This is the first I've done a speech with a bit of alcohol in me, so let's see how it goes. I feel - I feel loose, babies!

All right - so one of the things that I’ve felt my whole life is that - gratitude from the culture that we live in can sometimes be a little – short, you know, and one of the things that I think is that we are all philosophers. Everybody who works from first principles, everyone who talks about nonviolence, we all are philosophers - and the one thing that's very true about philosophers is that they don’t get a lot of 'sugar,' they don't get a lot of love in their own time. It’s true - well OK, except for you, absolutely – you’re handing it out like candy and that's nice!

But we don't get a lot of that juice, don't get a lot of that love. Socrates got some hemlock, Spinoza was kicked out of his – everywhere… I mean - Ayn Rand, even now after being right for sixty years in a row, she still gets spat on by the main culture, so it is hard! Wouldn’t you say? I mean look, we've all faced it, you’ve all had difficulties at work, you’ve had difficulties in your relationships because of your commitment to ideals. That’s a hard thing to live with.

So – the one place that I go, when I sort of need to feel replenished and strengthened – I mean we have each other, for those of you who have people around (this is the beautiful thing about what's happening here) - but I kind of go into the future in my mind, because I think the world are trying to build, the world that we want to create, the world that we’re laying the foundations for that we may never live to see… I mean, I don't think that we’ll live to see it, maybe those of you who had great sex last night, there’s an egg and a sperm in there who may live to see it - maybe - but I don't think we’re going to live to see exactly the kind of world that we want - a world of statelessness, a world without war, a world without incarceration, a world without violence… I don't think we’re going to live to see it – but that's all the more heroic I think for us to try to build it even though we’re not going to live to see it.

So I go to the future. I think - I am so happy to live in a world without slavery in the way that it used to exist – I’m so happy to live in that world - and the first people who started talking about there being no slavery, were like us… And the first people who started talking about “women should be equal to men” were kind of like us, and they faced a lot of opposition, they faced a lot of skepticism – I mean the first guy who came up and said, “Blacks should be equal to whites,” was not a popular man or woman, and he faced a lot of opposition from everyone around him and the general culture spat on him a lot, and people thought he was crazy or mad or evil or bad - but we all take that stuff for granted now, and it's so impossible - you know - like moral change in the world, you stand below it and it looks like a cliff, it’s so high, a mountain so high that you can't get over it, you can get through it, you feel like you’re going to beat your head against the wall for the rest of your life and never make a dent…

But then a weird thing happens when the change occurs – when people get over that wall or they walk through that wall and then they look back, and it’s like there’s nothing there! It’s really strange…

Before the end of slavery, people said (and we’ve all heard these arguments before, right?) - people said: “You know, there’s never been a society without slavery, so… You point to me a society without slavery - you can't do it! You point to me a society where there’s equality for women, you can do it! You point to me a society where there is no government, and you can’t do it!” That’s all we hear!

Well because we can see it, it will be here! It will be here!

Because the vision is everything!

Without the vision there is no moral growth. We can't get over that mountain unless we see it so passionately and so powerfully that we can walk through that wall as if it is not even there – and then people will see that it isn’t there – that the barrier is only in the mind!

So if you go to the future - which is where I go to - I think of the people, 100 years, 150 years from now, and they’re going to look back at this gathering… Can you imagine how they’re going to look back at this gathering?

“So those crazy motherf*ckers, what the hell were they thinking? I mean - they have couple of hundred people and a microphone… Some drinks… And what are they looking at? They’re looking at nuclear weapons and prison systems and aircraft carriers and police and military… What are they thinking? What are they thinking, those crazy brave motherf*ckers – what are they thinking? How can they imagine taking it on? How could they imagine taking it on?”

But the imagination is everything…

And they look back to us, and they're gonna say - and this is what you need to hear, and this is what you need to remember, coming down from the future:

“THANK YOU!”

This is what we need to remember every morning when it gets hard, when we get tired, when we read the newspaper, and it’s like: nothing is f*cking changing… We need to remember that rolling down from the future, from the people who will live in the world that we’re only beginning to build - they are saying (as we say to everyone who came before us who built the world that we love to live in):

“THANK YOU, EVERYBODY!”

All right. So I’m going to tell you what I think they’re going to thank you for – and you need to remember this, because this is what I see... They’re going to thank you - the future is going to thank you - for your courage! Your courage – it is hard, hard, hard work – raising the moral standards of mankind is a hard f*cking slog, and it takes a lot of courage! It takes a lot of courage, because there's a lot of criticism, there's a lot of misunderstanding, there's a lot of fear that we face in those around us. When we shake the foundations of the moral universe that people live in, they freak out! They get frightened, they attack - and it takes a lot of courage, you know – we are all wired for social approval. We all want social approval, because if you didn't have social approval in the Stone Age, you couldn't even survive.

Studies have shown, you know, that people who experience social disapproval, it's almost indistinguishable from physical pain, within the brain.

That's what I mean by courage: that we have to fight against the natural conformity of our biological natures, to go against the tribe, against our immediate short-term interests for the sake of a beautiful world to come. That takes courage, and people are going to say, looking down through the lens of time, to this few, we few, we happy f*cking few:

“THANK YOU FOR YOUR COURAGE! EVERYBODY WHO STANDS WITH US! THANK YOU FOR BUILDING THIS WORLD THAT WE LOVE!!"

They're gonna say - I think, they're gonna say, "Thank you, for your love. For your love."

Because, you know, there's a cheap kind of love in the world... And the cheap kind of love is like - welfare from the government. "Oh, there's poor people! Let's shovel some money at them", "Oh, there's some people we think should be better educated, let's shovel some schools at them." That's cheap love. That is pseudo-love. That is fake love.

The REAL love, is to stand for principles of non-violence, voluntary cooperation, and to love humanity enough, to KNOW, that if we set humanity free, the world can be BEAUTIFUL, the world can be a paradise, the world can be utopia!

WE DON'T NEED THE F*CKING GUNS TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE! THE GUNS WILL MAKE IT WORSE, ALWAYS!

People think that if you stop pointing guns at people, everything gets worse. But we know; we have a love of humanity, a trust in the soul and nature of man, that if we put down the guns, humanity… rises.

People think you put down the guns, humanity attacks. No! You put down the guns, people are liberated. They come up. They flower! Into beautiful, peaceful, wonderful communities.

Like this – like this!

So, they will say, "Thank you, for your true love of humanity enough to trust that if you put down the weapons, everybody will be beautiful."

It's true! They will thank us for our integrity. They will thank you for your integrity. That even though it's hard, that even though you face criticisms, even though people will REJECT you for what it is you're doing, that you're still holding true to the ideals of the north star... of non-aggression!

So simple! So simple! Stop using violence to get things done. It's so simple and so hard! They will thank us for our integrity!

Because - what we're doing, is brick by brick. So like brick by brick, we're just puttin' down these bricks. And the bricks are every time we have a conversation, every time we send someone to material that is valuable, every time we stand up to a bully, every time we stand up to an abuser, every time we help somebody who's been ground down - help them rediscover their humanity.

These are little “brick-by-bricks.” It's hard to see the whole cathedral of the future, that we're building. But it is a beautiful place that we are building. And, I would love - wouldn't you love - to just go forward 150 years, or a 100 years, and just SEE; SEE this world?

I see it in my mind's eye, it's so clear, I really do. I really do. A world - ah, dammit! A world without WAR! The eternal dream of humanity! Without WAR! Because we KNOW - we KNOW FOR A FACT - those of us who understand all of this (and everybody in this room is in that number) – we know that when you have no state, you have no war.

A world without prisons. A world without prisons! A world where people can interact in a peaceful way without fear of jail. A world where you can just walk up to a f*ckin' plane... and get on it! A plane!

A world where the money in your pocket today, is gonna be the money in your pocket tomorrow, and not some f*ckin' toilet paper you're embarrassed about!

So, I just wanted to point that out. This is something that I use. Because people sort of say to me, "Well, how can you remain so optimistic?" And, it's because I don't view the world around me as the standard of value that I'm bringing to the world. Because people, they don't want to be confronted with this stuff. Even if society slides into an ultimate shit-hole, they still don't want to be reminded of this stuff. It's like everyone would rather just go into that shit-hole, rather than wake up and see the basic reality of the society that they live in!

But I go - and I hope that you'll think about doing it too - I go to the future. And I think of everyone that I look back at, and admire, who has helped to build a world where what we're doing is even POSSIBLE! That's an incredible advancement, that what we're doing is even possible!

And so, think about the people in the future. The people whose peaceful, sunlit, happy, STATELESS, GUNLESS WORLD - and I mean "gunless" in terms of the STATIST guns - the world that we're building for these people, which we won't get to LIVE in, but is gonna be the most beautiful thing in the world, and it will never, ever go back! It will NEVER go back! We're not gonna have slavery back in the way that it used to be! Women are never gonna be subjugated in the way that they used to be, and once we get rid of the STATE, IT'S DONE!! FOREVER!!

This shit is not going to regrow! It is not going to come back! That's how IMPORTANT what it is we're doing! We're putting a NAIL in the COFFIN, a STAKE in the HEART of the greatest vampiric predator the world has ever known! That TAKES GUTS, AND WE'VE GOT IT!!!

And, this fight has been fought for thousands of years. But it is not gonna be thousands of years to come, because we're all together, we all know each other, we can all communicate with each other, the information can go out in a way that has never occurred before.

It took thousands of years to get here, but it's only dozens more to go. I genuinely believe that. And, for those of us who have kids, we know how important it is that we build a world that they can live in without the fears that we all grew up with; the fears of nuclear war, the fears of environmental depredations, so funded and driven by the state.

And this has been going on for a long time, this battle. We have an incredible propulsion mechanism in the communities, and the communications technology that we have at the moment, which is an incredible gift for us, as liberty activists.

I'm just gonna finish up by reminding you to visit the future, and to get the accolades that roll down from the future to us. They will! They will! Everybody in this room is gonna have a f*ckin' FREE PRIVATE SCHOOL NAMED AFTER THEM IN THE FUTURE!

So, I'm going to just end up by saying that - yeah, this battle's been going on for a long time. And it is a battle of good versus evil, there's no doubt about it. And - I'm going to close with a line from one of my favorite speeches in a movie - Morpheus:

"It has been a long time coming, but we are going to win. Because WE ARE STILL HERE!!!!”

'The Eye of the Storm' - Gerald Celente on The Social Collapse of the West

2011-07-19T21:35:00.000-04:00

Gerald Celente, publisher of The Trends Journal, discusses why we are heading into the greatest recession,, the inevitability of war, and the uselessness of higher education.

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Vegas Baby! Jeffrey Tucker on Freedomain Radio

2011-07-16T09:51:00.000-04:00

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Jeffrey Tucker of Mises.org takes a short break from gambling and showgirls for a chat with Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio about his new book "It's a Jetson's World," and how the peace and freedom of the future will come to be.

Unhinged Psychiatry - Freedomain Radio Interviews Dr. Daniel Carlat

2011-07-08T18:50:00.000-04:00

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, interviews Dr. Daniel Carlat about his new book "Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry - A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis"

'Death in Afghanistan' - Stefan Molyneux on Television

2011-06-08T21:29:00.000-04:00

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio - http://www.freedomainradio.com - and AVTM Contributor, Jake Diliberto join Adam to discuss the recent deaths of 5 U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the continue unrest across the Middle East.

The First Casualty of War

2011-05-22T16:43:00.000-04:00

A listener remix of a speech I gave in 2008, for Memorial Day. From Freedomain Radio - http://www.freedomainradio.com

Death By Drug War - Freedomain Radio Interviews Dr Jeffrey Miron of Harvard

2011-05-16T19:39:00.000-04:00

Jeffrey Alan Miron is an American economist. He served as the chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University from 1992 to 1998, and currently teaches at Harvard University, serving as a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Harvard's Economics Department.

Miron is an outspoken consequentialist libertarian. He was one of the 166 economists to sign a letter to congressional leaders in opposition to the bailout plan put forth by the U.S. federal government in response to the global financial crisis of September--October 2008. He advocated that those companies that floundered during the crisis should be bankrupt instead of receiving government help. He has proposed three policy reforms to help the US economy recover from the financial crisis: cutting entitlements, freezing regulation, and replacing the existing tax code with a flat tax on consumption. Miron has also spoken out against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, arguing that it is economically unfeasible and will increase the US deficit; instead, he suggests limiting government intervention is the best way to lower overall health care costs and make health care accessible to the most amount of people. He has studied the effects of drug criminalization for fifteen years, and argues that all drugs should be legalized.

'Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream' - Freedomain Rad...

2011-05-13T18:30:00.000-04:00

Podcast: http://www.fdrurl.com/FDR1908

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Christopher Whalen is co-founder of Institutional Risk Analytics, a unit of Lord, Whalen LLC, the Los Angeles based provider of bank ratings, risk management tools and consulting services for auditors, regulators and financial professionals.

He leads IRA's risk advisory practice and consults for global companies on a variety of financial and regulatory issues.

Christopher is the author of the new book, "Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream."

Christopher currently edits The Institutional Risk Analyst, a weekly news report and commentary on significant developments in and around the global financial markets.

He also contributes articles on the Reuters and Zero Hedge web sites. Christopher has testified before the Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission on a range of financial and other issues.

Christopher is a Fellow of the Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University. He is a member of Professional Risk Managers International Association and volunteers as a member of the steering committee for PRMIA's Washington D.C. chapter. He was regional director of PRMIA's Washington D.C. chapter from 2006 through January 2010.

Christopher is a member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Global Interdependence Center in Philadelphia.

Capitalism, Materialism, Freedom and Death

2011-05-10T20:54:00.000-04:00

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The Freedomain Radio interview with Dr Corey Anton. Dr. Anton has presented numerous competitively selected papers at national and international conferences and has published dozens of scholarly articles in journals such as Communication Theory, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Human Studies, Semiotica, ETC, Bulletin of General Semantics, The Atlantic Journal of Communication, afterimage, Communication Studies, and The American Journal of Semiotics. He is a Past Chair and Program Planner for the Semiotics and Communication Division of NCA. Highly active in the Media Ecology Association, Anton is a trustee on the Board of Directors for the MEA and serves as the Editor for the journal Explorations in Media Ecology. Most recently Anton was named a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Institute of General Semantics

o dear god in heaven there's going to be another election, yawnnnnn :o

2011-05-06T13:01:00.000-04:00

Stefan Molyneux, host of of Freedomain Radio and Jeffrey Tucker, editorial vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a think tank that espouses the Austrian School of economics, discuss current events. The anemic economic recovery, modern policing, the boredom of elections, and the hope of the internet.

The Truth About bin Laden

2011-05-02T16:06:00.000-04:00

His death will not bring your freedoms back to life. From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web. http://www.freedomainradio.com

Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/binladen

So bin Laden has apparently been killed, and this is cause for mass celebrations, perhaps because people believe that the cycle of evil will end with this murder.

But governments don't solve the problem of evil, because governments always need an enemy to scare you with -- the Kaiser, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, drug dealers, terrorists, and so on and on.

But who is the enemy?

The death toll from American imperialism: more than 27,000,000 million people slaughtered worldwide.

Well, I guess 27,000,000 and one will make everything better now.

Even if we say that bin Laden needed to be captured or killed -- just look at the facts:

It took the US government 10 years, 2 wars, almost a million deaths, and over $1.1 trillion (interest and inflation not included) to kill one person.

This is the same person that the US trained, funded and armed to fight the Soviets in the 1980s. The same person that the Taliban offered to hand over almost a year before 9/11, as long as the US government provided objective evidence linking him to terrorism -- which the US failed to do, even after the Taliban warned Washington that bin Laden was going to strike the US.

After 9/11, the Taliban again offered to turn over bin Laden to a neutral country or the Court of Justice in The Hague, even without evidence. This offer was rejected.

And proof? Colin Powell promised it would be provided. It never was. The British government put together a 21-page dossier on bin Laden, but admitted that it would not amount to a prosecutable case in a court of law.

Remember when Saddam Hussein was captured? That was cause for celebration as well.

And what changed?

If killing bin Laden is a great victory, then wonderful, good job, give us our freedoms back. Cut the defense budget in half. Bring the troops home, because we're done.

What? That's not going to happen?

Then stop celebrating and wake up!

'Single Dad Laughing' - The Freedomain Radio Interview

2011-04-29T18:24:00.000-04:00

Dan, one of the most popular fathers on the Internet, talks to Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio about peaceful parenting, raising children without aggression, and how many dads tragically break their own children.

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Guns, Gods and Goodness - The Use and Abuse of Ethics

2011-04-22T21:09:00.000-04:00

Why be good? Until we have an answer, all we will have is abuse. From Freedomain Radio -- http://www.freedomainradio.com

There's this very tragic continuum in human thought wherein - in general - if somebody tends to be less religious, they tend to be more statist - like Communists are atheists, most socialists are agnostics and so on - whereas if somebody tends to be anti-state, then there is a tendency to be more religious.

I think this arises from the fundamental problem that society has which is: why should we obey those in authority? Why should we obey moral rules?

'The Lord, the Lord Jehovah, has given unto you these 15 -- oy -- 10, 10 Commandments for all to obey...'

Those who are more religious have the magic pixie dust called 'God' to sprinkle on their Commandments, to raise them from mere mortal rules to divine absolutes. Whereas those who don't believe in the magic dust of religion have to turn to the state and to physical aggression, to incarceration, to kidnapping, to imprisonment, in order to turn mere human rules into moral 'absolutes.'

So you kind of have to hold your nose; like if you're an atheist, you pretty much have to hang out with people who are very pro-state, and if you're anti-state then you have to hang out with people who are very religious - but neither of these approaches solves the basic problem of human morality.

Threatening somebody with supernatural punishment is merely verbal abuse, and it doesn't raise the truth status of any of the moral rules proposed. Whereas threatening people with kidnapping and incarceration is mere physical abuse - and also does not make any moral rules that are supported by such attacks any more valid.

It is really only philosophy that will solve this problem for us, and will give us reasonable and consistent and empirical arguments from first principles that will allow us to convince people to be virtuous rather than threatening them with random and destructive punishments if they fail to conform to fairly arbitrary rules. So the first thing we need to do is to understand that we don't have a good rational basis for social rules at the moment - that's real tragedy, something we all need to work to sort out, to figure out, to solve.

I've made my efforts in this direction with a free book called "Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics." But until we recognize that we don't have a rational and philosophical basis for morality at the moment, we're forever going to be swinging between these two awful poles of the verbal abuse of religion and the physical abuse of statism.

But we don't have to - we can find a third rational peaceful way to have social rules without abuses - and I hope that you will continue to explore this incredibly fertile area in the realm of philosophy.

Adam vs the Man: Episode 6 with Stefan Molyneux!

2011-04-18T23:16:00.000-04:00

Stefan Molyneux shows up as a complete ham at 8:50

Tonight on Adam vs. the Man with Adam Kokesh: HAPPY TAX DAY! Or, is it Merry tax day? Time to take stock America - we made it until 1913 without the modern income tax - could we do without it? Tom Woods joins Adam to compare what the founders envisioned for funding the government to the monstrosity we have today. Adam also covers how the income tax, well, pretty much makes you a slave. If you get up early, work hard all day, and pay your taxes, you'll make it big in this country - right after you win the lottery. This, by the way, is just another tax for people who are bad at math.

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio on New TV Show "Adam Versus the Man"

2011-04-10T22:20:00.000-04:00

RT America Launches New Show, Hosted by Former US Marine, Adam Kokesh!

Starts April 11, 2011, 7pm EST, every night.

http://www.adamvstheman.com/

In the US, RT is available on cable in the metro areas of Washington DC, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego as well as in North Carolina and South Carolina.

For more information go to http://rt.com/usa/where-to-watch/

Atlas Shrugged: The Freedomain Radio Movie Interview

2011-03-12T23:22:00.000-05:00

Stefan Molyneux interviews Harmon Kaslow, a producer of the new movie 'Atlas Shrugged' Part 1 - http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web: http://www.freedomainradio.com

The Truth About Freedom - 300 Million Souls Escape Poverty!

2011-02-26T15:12:00.000-05:00

Free Money from the Banksters! An Interview with Dr. George Selgin

2011-02-15T19:56:00.000-05:00

Professor George Selgin explodes the myths of economic stability through central banking, races through the history of money, war and death in the 20th century, and flatly refuses to predict the future! :) From Freedomain Radio -- http://www.freedomainradio.com Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/selgin

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interviewed on Blacklisted News Radio

2011-02-10T11:18:00.000-05:00

How to Survive the Coming Economic Crash - Freedomain Radio Interviews W...

2011-02-06T10:33:00.000-05:00

Egypt: Starvation, Revolution and the Price of Statism

2011-02-05T10:24:00.000-05:00

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward - The Freedomain Radio Review

2011-01-30T10:42:00.000-05:00

Bill Gates, Sam Harris and the Superstition of State Education

2011-01-06T21:15:00.000-05:00

Amazon Boobs, Ancient Gods and the End of Evil

2011-01-02T13:11:00.000-05:00

The Story of Our Unenslavement

2010-12-23T19:03:00.000-05:00

True News: The Truth About Wikileaks

2010-12-09T15:22:00.000-05:00

Winning the Case for Freedom!

2010-10-15T21:55:00.000-04:00

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio helps you close the case for freedom. Recorded at the Porcupine Freedom Festival in New Hampshire.

Farewell Father

2010-10-07T22:04:00.000-04:00

PARTE 1 of 3 - Demostrando la Moral Libertaria (Proving Libertarian Mora...

2010-10-05T13:35:00.000-04:00

Freedomain Radio - The Free iPhone/iPad App!

2010-10-02T11:20:00.000-04:00

http://www.fdrurl.com/apple - a free application to help you access Freedomain Radio podcasts, videos, news, books and give feedback on the show! Wisdom - there's an app for that!

Collaborative Problem Solving with Kids - Dr. Ross Greene Interviewed

2010-09-28T14:43:00.000-04:00

Delusions of Gender - Dr. Cordelia Fine, The Freedomain Radio Interview

2010-09-17T12:55:00.000-04:00

Cordelia Fine studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, followed by an M.Phil in Criminology at Cambridge University. She was awarded a Ph.D in Psychology from University College London. From 2002 to 2007 she was a Research Associate at Monash University, and then at the Australian National University. She is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics at Macquarie University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Against the Gods? Atheism Versus Agnoticism: The Great Debate

2010-09-07T12:12:00.000-04:00

The Ethics of Self Defense - A Freedomain Radio Article

2010-08-31T21:24:00.001-04:00

UPB and Self-Defense

Self-defense against the initiation of force is generally accepted, though not always advocated, in most systems of morality. My book “Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics” touched on general aspects of self-defense, which I would like to expand upon here.

Generally speaking, self-defense is the ability to use proportional violence to avoid or minimize harm to oneself during an unprovoked attack. The phrase thus generally refers to the use of violence, rather than merely escaping a violent situation, and so, in the UPB framework, must be subject to moral evaluation, rather than a neutral or aesthetic (APA) evaluation.

The first thing to recognize about self-defense is that although it describes the use of violence, it remains fundamentally different from the initiation of force, in that it is reactive, rather than proactive violence. Self-defense, then, does not exist in the absence of the initiation of force. In other words, self-defense is a potential effect of the initiation of force, and thus the primary moral evaluation must be focused on the initiation of force, which is discussed in great detail in “Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics.”

A second aspect of self-defense is that it covers far more than physical attacks from other people. Few people would object to a man hitting an attacking bear or shark on the nose, or taking antibiotics to kill off an infection, or having a swollen appendix or rotten tooth removed. These can all be considered categories of self-defense, in that force (and poison against bacteria) is used to defend the body against an imminent and growing physical danger or attack. If self-defense is morally invalid, then all these actions would be very hard to justify. This does not constitute an ironclad proof of the validity of self-defense, but it does indicate that opposing self-defense creates insurmountable practical obstacles.

Three Possibilities

Using the UPB framework, there are three main possibilities to consider when evaluating moral propositions regarding self-defense:.

1. Self-defense is morally permissible.

2. Self-defense is morally required.

3. Self-defense is morally prohibited.

In the first instance, self-defense is morally permissible, but it is not immoral to refrain from defending yourself. In the second instance, self-defense is morally required – and thus, as proved in the UPB book, violence can be used against those who do not defend themselves. In the third instance, self-defense is morally prohibited, and thus violence can be used against those who do defend themselves.

Common sense draws us towards the first instance – that self-defense is morally permissible, but not morally required – but let us discuss this possibility last, because if we have disposed of the other two options, this first one becomes much more credible.

Self-Defense Is Morally Prohibited

If self-defense is morally prohibited, then the UPB-compliant moral statement would be something like this:

“It is universally preferable for all people at all times and in all locations to refrain from defending themselves against attack.”

This proposition falls apart very quickly. First of all, since that which is universally banned may be subject to violent opposition, then the initiation of violence cannot be universally banned, since self-defense is also universally banned. However, the arguments in the UPB book clearly demonstrate that the initiation of force cannot be universally preferred, and therefore self-defense cannot be invalid.

Secondly, to ban self-defense is to ban the effect of an action (the initiation of force), but not the action itself. This is like banning murder, but not killing, or to argue that making someone fall off a cliff is immoral, but pushing them off a cliff is moral. You cannot have a shadow without an object and a light source, and neither can the effects of an action be immoral, but that action which causes it be moral. Thus self-defense cannot be immoral, while the initiation of force is moral. But if the initiation of force is immoral, then self-defense is justified, again, as described in “Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics.”

Thirdly, if self-defense is immoral, then violence can be used against somebody acting in self-defense. However, by definition someone acting in self-defense is already subject to violence – that of the attacker. However, the UPB framework clearly demonstrates that the initiation of violence is immoral – if self-defense is also immoral, then a man acting in self-defense can be aggressed against – which is already happening. In other words, the same action -- aggression against a man -- becomes both immoral and moral at the same time. It is immoral because the initiation of force is wrong, but it is moral because using force against a man acting in self-defense is moral.

These logical impossibilities and contradictions – not to mention the practical impossibilities of acting in accordance with such illogical rules – clearly refute the proposition that self-defense is morally prohibited.

Self-Defense Is Morally Required

Perhaps self-defense is morally required – this seems closer to the truth, but also feels problematic, to say the least. In the UPB framework, the non-initiation of force is morally required, which is to say that the non-initiation of force avoids immorality.

If a certain action is morally required, then the opposite action must be morally banned, and thus subject to restraining force. Since the non-initiation of force is morally required, the opposite action – i.e. the initiation of force – may then be subject to restraining force, i.e. self-defense.

However, if self-defense is morally required, then refraining from defending yourself must be morally evil, and thus subject to restraining force. However, we then run into the same logical contradiction outlined above. If Bob attacks Doug, and Doug is morally required to defend himself, but refrains to defend himself, then Bob's attack becomes morally justified, since Doug is acting in an evil manner by avoiding self-defense. However, the same attack cannot be magically transformed from evil into good, and thus self-defense cannot be morally required, since it would thus transform an evil action – the initiation of force – into a virtuous action, which would be the just punishment of defenselessness.

Furthermore, if self-defense is morally required, then any action taken – or avoided -- which brings harm to a person would justify a violent attack against him or her. I think most of us would be fairly uncomfortable with the idea of violently attacking the overweight, or those who do not get regular medical checkups, or take antibiotics for an infection, or get a rotten tooth pulled and so on.

Lastly, as discussed in the UPB book, a good rule of thumb regarding moral propositions is the “coma test,” which states that a man in a coma cannot be rationally accused of moral evil. Clearly, a comatose man cannot act in self-defense, which further supports the rational and empirical objections against the proposition that self-defense is morally required.

Self-Defense Is Morally Permissible

The elimination of the other two major possibilities lends strong support to the proposition that self-defense is morally permissible, but not required. This rule allows us to use force to defend against the initiation of violence, but does not support the use of force against us if we either do not or cannot use force in self-defense. It also accords with the medical reality that to undergo surgery to remove an inflamed appendix is not immoral, but neither is it immoral to avoid such a surgery – in other words, self-defense even against a dangerous organ is permissible, but not required.

Since self-defense is morally permissible, we may not use force against someone engaged in an active defense against an attack – in other words, we may not morally join in with the attacker. This restriction helps us avoid the logical impossibility of defining an attack as immoral, while our simultaneous attack becomes magically moral.

Since self-defense is a universal standard, it is not restricted to a single individual – i.e. the individual being attacked – but extends to everyone, thus permitting third-party defense such as security guards and courageous bystanders. (It also validates the highly useful proposition that it is preferable for a skilled third party to take out my appendix rather than forcing me to do it myself.)

Since self-defense is a reactive action, it can be universalized, since it is merely the shadow of the action of the initiation of force – where the initiation of force is not present, neither will self-defense be present. Any reasonable moralist would far prefer the non-initiation of force to self-defense, just as any sane person prefers not getting sick to getting cured. The initiation of force mathematically adds to the amount of violence in the world, while self-defense does quite the opposite, and even from this utilitarian standpoint, a lot of good is done through the moral permissibility of self-defense.

In summary, then, UPB validates the proposition that self-defense is morally permissible, but not required, which accords with our commonsense notions of morality, and with the logical rigor and strictness required by the approach of Universally Preferable Behavior.

Frankly Faithless: An Interview with the Thinking Atheist from Freedomai...

2010-08-20T20:14:00.000-04:00

The Sunset of the State

2010-08-04T17:30:00.000-04:00

The Truth Behind 'Lost' - A Philosophical Review

2010-05-27T09:03:00.000-04:00

Greece, Democracy and Catastrophe

2010-05-09T09:16:00.001-04:00

Greece has a long and complicated history with democracy, but the future of Greek democracy will be short and brutal.

Largely as a result of 400 years of savage Turkish occupation, Greeks retain an innate distrust of and hostility towards the State – as one Greek said: "We never had the Enlightenment because of the Turks."

As a result -- and this is no different in America -- political power has only been maintained through outright bribery of special interest groups. Chief among these are the military-industrial complex, born out of military rivalry with Turkey, which costs over €14 billion, or 6% of GDP. Naturally, nearly 80% of the Defense Ministry budget is spent on administrative costs and payments to Army staff.

20%-30% of the entire Greek population works for the government; they cannot be fired, and many are allowed to retire with a pension in their 40s. Tens of thousands of unmarried or divorced daughters of civil servants collect their dead parents' pensions, and pension outlays are projected to rise to 12% of GDP, over four times the EU average. Some civil servants receive bonuses for using a computer, speaking a foreign language and even arriving to work on time - and all workers get 14 monthly salaries a year, the result of a plan to keep monthly wages -- and so future pensions – low.

Two weeks extra salary is paid out at Easter, and also during the summer -- the 14th salary is paid to government workers at Christmas. Until 2008, the government owned Olympic Airways, whose employees and their families were allowed to fly around the world for "free." It was only able to sell the money pit after lavishly paying or rehiring almost 5,000 employees. Overall, the Greek government owns 74 companies, mainly utilities and transport firms, most of which are overstaffed and bleeding money. The state rail company warehouses over 9,000 people and reported 2008 losses of 800 million Euros.

Nebulous and pointless committees infest government payrolls -- one committee is supposed to manage Lake Kopais, which actually dried out in the 1930s.

Greece was able to gain entry to the European Union by cooking its books and hiding debt through swap agreements, with the help of US financial services firms. Greece then continued to fake its budget numbers until 2008, when it ran out of money, and revealed that its deficit was four times larger than reported – 14% of GDP. It is important to note that this GDP measure is completely misleading, since the government does not have access to the entire GDP – it's like planning to pay down your debts by using your pre-tax income and ignoring your interest payments. The Greek public sector consumes about 40% of GDP, which represent a cost to the state, not an income, while taxation rarely rises above 50% – so at best only 10% of the GDP is available to address the debt, which basically means that debt levels are in reality 10 times the numbers commonly reported.

Like all doomed governments, Greece imagines that it can "grow itself" out of its fiscal crisis, referring to the fantasy that the Greek economy grew by almost 4% per year between 2003 and 2007. However, even if these numbers are true - and the source is not at all credible – this was due largely to massive infrastructure spending for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and consumer borrowing as a result of easy credit -- even before this crisis, Greece was a major beneficiary of EU aid, equal to about 3.3% of GDP. If past growth was an illusion, future growth is an impossibility.

What about increasing government income? There is little room to raise taxes; the top income tax rate is already 40%, and the sales tax is 21%. In addition, 44% of salary is taxed for Social Security, with employees paying 16%, and employers paying 28%. These ridiculous tax rates, combined with a historical mistrust of government, have created an enormous black market and a culture of tax evasion. In one wealthy Athenian neighborhood, 324 residents admitted on their tax forms that they owned pools, while satellite photos revealed almost 17,000 pools. More than half of the doctors in a trendy neighbourhood claimed incomes of less than $40,000, while a quarter claimed less than $13,000, and so were tax exempt.

It is an axiom of statism that compulsion and control must always expand, and the current bailout of Greece is an inevitable result of the long-term subsidization that has already occurred. S&P has already downgraded four Greek banks to junk status. Euro zone banks are holding about 75 billion Euros of Greek bonds (about $97.5 billion). French and German banks are holding about 34 and 20 billion Euros respectively, so a noticeable amount of their capital is at risk. A retreat of investors from the debt of Greece, Spain, and Portugal could lead to high interest rates, declining investment, and slow economic growth in Europe. This will affect countries, including the U.S., that export to Europe.

Greece's dismal economic performance has in part occurred because it is already being bailed out by the EU, and has been for the past 11 years -- first because Greek bonds are priced relative to the economic strength of the EU as a whole, rather than its own basket-case economy, and second because the European Central Bank accepts Greek government bonds as collateral. European banks that buy Greek government bonds (paying higher interest than German bonds, because of the additional risk) use these Greek bonds to obtain a loan from the European Central Bank at 1% interest.

Without a doubt, and with no possible alternatives, the EU is doomed, and Greece is just the start of the avalanche. Since wages and social benefits constitute 75% of total (non-interest) public spending, the Greek government will attempt to stave off the inevitable by targeting public wages and pension bills. Daniel Gros, an eminent EU economist, argues that for each 1% of GDP decline in Greek government spending, total demand in the country collapses by 2.5%. If the government reduces spending by 15% of GDP — the initial shock to demand could be well over 30% of GDP. These sorts of transitions from public to private employment can work in a low tax, low regulation environment -- think of the millions of soldiers returning from the Second World War -- but the Greek economy is crippled by suffocating state controls and crushing taxation.

Firing government workers provokes violent, expensive and destructive conflicts, raises short-term costs for severance packages and legal battles, and the resulting unemployment destroys income tax receipts, and raises welfare and retraining costs.

What is rarely mentioned is the basic economic reality that every EU nation is currently running enormous deficits, carries catastrophic debt levels, and so has no actual money to give to Greece. Germany remains the strongest European economy, but German voters, already weary from decades of bailing out Eastern Germany, will find themselves hard pressed to muster the motivation to cut back on bratwurst in order to pay for the sundrenched retirements of Greek public servants. England is beyond useless, since its own budget deficit is poised to surpass Greece's as the worst in the European Union.

The entire European Economic Union is a house of cards, with governments all loaning money to each other in order to hide their true deficits from potential bond purchasers. Bailing out Greece with imaginary fiat currency is not a solution to a problem, but only a brief respite, designed so that those at the top of the political class can finish their looting before escaping the collapse.

Heroism Part 2 - from Freedomain Radio

2010-05-06T17:55:00.000-04:00

Heroism Part 1 - from Freedomain Radio

2010-04-29T19:12:00.001-04:00

What you think is feeding you is actually eating you. An examination of the heroism that is stolen from you. http://www.freedomainradio.com TEXT: http://www.fdrurl.com/heroism1

The Story of Your Enslavement

2010-04-18T10:51:00.000-04:00

Digeus Registry Cleaner

2010-04-03T22:48:00.000-04:00

Registry Cleaner

The Bomb in the Brain Part 4: The Death of Reason - The Effects of Child Abuse

2010-03-10T20:15:00.001-05:00

The scientific evidence underlying the near-universal resistance to reason and evidence. If you want to change the world, you first must understand the unconscious barriers to thinking.

References: http://www.fdrurl.com/tn_abuse4

From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show on the Web, hosted by Stefan Molyneux -- http://www.freedomainradio.com

需要政府的时代已经过去了 (Freedomain Radio 'Matrix' video in Chinese)

2010-03-06T19:57:00.001-05:00

需要政府的时代已经过去了

黑客帝国这个电影的情节是历史上最恰当的比喻之一。为人类的方便而发明的机器后来反而使得人类成为奴隶。这是反乌托邦科幻故事当中最常见的主题。

这种成为奴隶的恐惧感怎么会如此普遍，如此引人注目呢？我们真的害怕家里的电视机和笔记本电脑以后会成为人类的主人吗？

当然不是这样子。

这不是我们所害怕出现的未来，而是我们正在经历的过去。

在理论上，政府之所以出现了，是因为要使得人民的生活过的更安宁，更幸福些。但是呢，最终政府唯一会做的恐怕只有束缚人民。

我们所发明的“服务”机关，最终成为严重损害人民利益的统治权力。

所谓的“民有，民治，民享”的美国政府目前已经把数百万人关押起来，夺取国家总收入的一半资金以上，向外国人实施复杂缠人的不必要的法律法规，并且日日进行拷打，屠杀，侵犯他国，推翻异国政府，同时支撑着700多海外帝国性质的军队基地。另外，还引起通货膨胀，使得未来的人民需要还的债务不断地增多。

我们所发明的“服务”机关，最终成为严重损害人民利益的统治权力。

这个所谓的“为人民服务”的政府概念从历史的客观角度来分析是一个彻底不正确的概念。

国家政府为了保护人民而被人民建立起来这个传说完全没有依据。

在有政府之前的社会里，也就是说在部落时代时，人们所生产的东西只够自己使用，根本没有多余的财产，食物等资源。因此，拥有奴隶很不划算，因为奴隶只能生产使得自己能够生存下去的东西，所以主人没有可夺取的资源。

如果一匹马所能生产的食物只够自己吃，那么人不会去捕猎，驯服这匹马。

然而，当农业技术的提高允许生产多余的庄稼以后，拥有奴隶突然变得很划算。

当牛开始提供剩余的奶和肉以后，拥有牛就变得很划算。

历史上最早的政府和帝国实际上是一群奴隶主，他们明白人既然能生产剩余的食物和物品，所以捕猎，抓获，制服，最终拥有他们是很划算的。

最早的埃及和中国帝国本质上是人类养殖场，在这些地方人们被捕猎，被抓获，被制服，最终被拥有了，正如其他动物一样。
基于技术的提高，这些奴隶的生产量远远超过了抓获和束缚他们的费用。
统治阶级，也就是养殖场的管理人，得到了大部分剩余的生产物品，并给了残酷无情的阶级一部分东西来鼓励他们继续束缚人民。
这个阶级包括警察，奴隶捕猎人，宣传阶级，宗教徒，知识分子，和艺术家。

这个情况持续不断数千年的时间，直到16或17世纪。到了这时候，因为农业技术和方法的迅速提高，所以产生了生产量直线上升的新时代。

英国的圈地运动把该国的农业土地重组规划，导致庄稼收获增加5到10倍以上，而其结果就引起了工业工人阶级的诞生，使得大量人民从农村搬到城市里居住。

这个令人感叹的农业改革就是工业革命的根源和前提条件。

工业革命可不是统治阶级希望释放农奴的表现，反而是统治阶级发现了一个道理，他们意识到了如果给动物一定的自由，它们就会变得令人惊讶得勤快。

当你把牛放在很狭窄的空间里生活，它们会发疯似地撞墙，给管理人添加很多不必要的麻烦。
因此，管理养殖场人员便给它们更宽阔的空间 --- 当然，这不是因为想释放牛，而是想提高生产量并减少费用。

“自由放养”的下一步绝对不是“自由”。

19世纪的国家资本主义实际上是“自由放养奴隶制”的崛起。

这个自由现象不是想解脱人民的枷锁而发生的，反而是想提高奴隶的工作效率而已。

与此同时，知识分子，艺术家等人都能享受各种各样的利益鼓励他们隐藏真实的情况。

现代人类养殖场管理学的一个大挑战即时人的“积极性”。

国家资本主义只能在人们有自愿的创业心促使他们努力才能够成功实行。

然而，一旦出现生产量提高的情况，国家政府各阶层一律会扩大人数，使得统治阶级和他们的受益人人数膨胀。这种膨胀会直接影响人们努力工作的积极性。
税务提高了，法律条款增多了，国债上升，生活水平下降。

人们越意识到他们的勤快和努力成果不属于自己而属于他人，郁闷情绪和绝望便越成为一个社会现象。

为了解决问题，统治阶级使用各种各样的新手段，包括：更多宣传活动，抗抑郁药物的支持，迷信，战争，社会道德活动，创造新“敌人”，
爱国主义的反复灌输，排外情绪和反对移民的现象等等。

你一定要搞明白这个世界的真实情况。

当你看世界地图的时候，你看到的不是国家，而是养殖场。

尽管你享有一些很有限的自由（包括有限的拥有权，迁徙权，结社自由，就业自由），
但这不是因为政府在原则上支持（他们不断的侵犯这些权利），而是因为“自由放养”的动物无比得便宜和勤快。

你一定要搞明白人的实际想法。

国家资本主义，社会主义，共产主义，法西斯主义，民主主义。。。都是动物管理解决方案。

有的方法比较成功（比如国家资本主义），有的效果很差（比如共产主义）。

最终它们都失败，因为把人看成动物来对待严重违反道德和逻辑。

在中国，印度，和整个亚洲的新来的自由现象实际上是当地国家养殖场管理人更新了他们的养殖技术。
他们已经发现了，如果给牛一点自由空间，它会给统治阶级更多奶和肉。

统治者也意识到了，如果不让你离开养殖场，你会变得不开心，精神上将会有问题，工作效率将会下降。
当奴隶以为自己很自由的时候奴隶才会比较勤快。因此，统治阶级需要让你产生自由幻想才能夺取到你的工作成果的最大比例。

因此，他们“允许”你离开，但你到不了自由的地方，只能到另一个养殖场去，
因为全世界都是不同的养殖场。
政府会阻碍你随带太多金钱，会用复杂的申请手续缠住你，会限制你就业的机会。。。
但你总可以“自由”地离开。由于这些麻烦，很少有人真的离开，但自由的幻影仍在。
一千牛当中的一个如果走丢了的话，仍在的999头牛更感觉自己很自由，所以养殖场管理人更加获利。

政府也通过许可制度把你束缚于国家内。最有工作效率的动物是专家，所以统治阶级把类似于电子颈圈的“营业许可证”套在他们脖子上，只让他们在自己的养殖场工作。

为了进一步创造自由的形象，有的养殖场还允许当地动物选择统治阶级事先筛选好的人当中的一个代表。
这些人之间的区别很小，而进行选举时从来不让动物选择直接关闭养殖场并过真正自由的生活。

政府学校是动物的教条灌输基地。
在这些地方，学校教儿童要懂得“爱”养殖场，并且教他们害怕真正的自由和独立性，
让他们攻击任何反对养殖场的叛逆动物。政府也为支持政府的知识分子提供待遇良好的工作单位以鼓励他们。

政府的荒唐矛盾 -- 正如宗教 -- 只能在向无助的儿童灌输不计其数的宣传下才有人相信，才能维持下去。

民主主义和某种“社会契约”能容许少数人统治几十亿人这个想法真是太荒唐的了。

如果你告诉一个奴隶他的祖先选择做奴隶，所以他也要做奴隶，他会简单地说：

“如果当做奴隶是一种选择，那么我决定不做奴隶。”

统治阶级最害怕听到的就是那一句话，所以他们让奴隶攻击任何说出类似于这一句话的人。

政府不是一种哲学论。

政府没有历史上或逻辑上的继续存在的依据。

政府是统治阶级的一种拥有人类奴隶的借口。

政府是进行暴力的委婉理由。

各种各样的政府机构都属于养殖人类的解决方案和养殖方法。

宗教是一种受欢迎的迷信，使得儿童产生害怕情绪并且愿意付出代价缓解不安的心情。

爱国主义是一种固执观念，使得当地的动物产生对主人的好感。

迷信的相反不是另一个迷信，而是真实。

一个错误概念的相反不是另一个概念，而是客观的证据和原则。

迷信，错误概念，和政府的相反。。。是哲学。

理性和勇气将会把我们释放了。

你不必要当其他人的奴才。

选择看准真相。

从梦中醒来吧。

True News: The 'Economist' Defends the US Government

2010-03-04T14:35:00.001-05:00

The free market of legal bribery meets with the moral approval of the magazine the 'Economist'.

From Freedomain Radio -- Http://www.freedomainradio.com

Greece, Gold and Financial Terrorism - Freedomain Radio Interviews Max Keiser

2010-02-25T21:25:00.001-05:00

The economic war being waged against Greece, the EU - and North America!

Max Keiser is a TV presenter, radio host, entrepeneur, broadcaster and journalist.

Max Keiser is the inventor of the virtual specialist technology / prediction markets, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Karmabanque, and PirateMyFilm

Max is presenter of The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News, which aired every Friday from 9 January 2009 through March 2009.

Max also presented films for AlJazeera English and is a blogger for Huffington Post.

Max and Stacy host of the weekly radio talk show, The Truth About Markets, on Resonance 104.4 FM in London every Saturday night since January 2005.

Max is a former Wall Street broker.

The Biology, Morality and Politics of Addiction - Dr Gabor Maté - The Freedomain Radio Interview

2010-02-25T09:51:00.001-05:00

Dr Gabor Maté reveals the biological basis of addiction, and the insanity of the statist war on drugs.

http://www.drgabormate.com

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1944, Gabor Maté emigrated to Canada with his family in 1957. After graduating with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and a few years as a high school English and literature teacher, he returned to school to pursue his childhood dream of being a doctor.

Dr. Maté ran a private family practice in East Vancouver for over twenty years. He was also the Medical Co-ordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital for seven years.

Currently he is the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and resource centre for the people of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Many of his patients suffer from mental illness, drug addiction and HIV, or all three.

Dr. Maté has had regular medical columns in The Vancouver Sun and the national Globe and Mail.

Widely recognized for his unique perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder, and his firmly held belief in the connection between mind and body health, he is a sought-after speaker and seminar leader on these topics.

He is the author of four books -- When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, and Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. The third book, Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers, he co-authored with developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld. Most recently published is In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction.

True News: Public Miseducation and the Shame of History (from Freedomain Radio)

2010-02-08T14:14:00.001-05:00

Why it is sooo insane for pundits to argue that Obama is having a hard time getting things done because the electorate is sooo dumb! :(

'You Are Not Alone' - Freedomain Radio Interviews Dr Richard Schwartz

2010-02-04T10:12:00.001-05:00

Richard Schwartz earned his Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University, after which he began a long association with the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and more recently at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, attaining the status of Associate Professor at both institutions. He is coauthor, with Michael Nichols, of Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods, the most widely used family therapy text in the United States.

Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems in response to clients descriptions of experiencing various parts—many extreme—within themselves. He noticed that when these parts felt safe and had their concerns addressed, they were less disruptive and would accede to the wise leadership of what Dr. Schwartz came to call the Self. In developing IFS, he recognized that, as in systemic family theory, parts take on characteristic roles that help define the inner world of the client. The coordinating Self, which embodies qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion, acts as a center around which the various parts constellate. Because IFS locates the source of healing within the client, the therapist is freed to focus on guiding the clients access to his or her true Self and supporting the client in harnessing its wisdom. This approach makes IFS a non-pathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy. It provides an alternative understanding of psychic functioning and healing that allows for innovative techniques in relieving clients symptoms and suffering.

http://www.selfleadership.org

The Politics of Obesity - Freedomain Radio Interviews Dr. Robert H. Lustig

2010-01-27T12:33:00.001-05:00

An interview uncovering the political and medical causes of the current obesity crisis. To read the article referenced, please visit http://www.fdrurl.com/sucrose

The Fructose Epidemic - An Article by Dr Robert H. Lustig

2010-01-27T12:32:00.001-05:00

'Fructose consumption has increased coincidentally with the worldwide epidemics of obesity...' A powerful article on the diseases caused by sugar and high fructose corn syrup. To read the entire article, please visit http:///www.fdrurl.com/sucrose

True News: The Truth About Haiti from Freedomain Radio

2010-01-22T20:20:00.001-05:00

The real facts behind the disaster in Haiti - the only natural part of the catastrophe was the earthquake, the rest is man-made. An interview with Carl Lindskoog from the City University of New York..

He has suggested the following links for additional research:

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
http://ijdh.org/

Jubilee USA Network
http://www.jubileeusa.org/

Suggested Reading:
Paul Farmer, The Uses of Haiti, 3rd ed. Common Courage Press, 2006.

Josh DeWind and David H. Kinley III, Aiding Migration: The Impact of International Development Assistance in Haiti. Westview Press, 1988.

Alex Dupuy, Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700, Westview Press, 1989.

The Peter Schiff Interview - Freedomain Radio

2010-01-21T10:56:00.001-05:00

Economist Peter Schiff answers questions about the coming fiscal crisis, and how to survive it, from Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio.

Global Warming Skepticism: The Freedomain Radio Interview with Warren Meyer

2010-01-16T14:18:00.001-05:00

"Millions of lives hang in the balance" - The Scientific, Economic and Political Realities behind Climate Change and Global Warming - an Interview with Warren Meyer of http://www.climate-skeptic.com

Freedomain Radio: http://www.freedomanradio.com

Die "Staats-Matrix" von Stefan Molyneux

2010-01-03T20:09:00.001-05:00

Stefan Molyneux präsentiert auf seinem Freedomain Radio (www.freedomainradio.com) mehrere Bücher und über 1500 Podcasts mit Nachrichten, historischen Analysen und philosophischen Themen, welche leicht verständlich sind und einen grösseren Zusammenhang des aktuellen Weltgeschehens bieten.

The True Meaning of 'Avatar' - The Freedomain Radio movie review... (spoilers)

2010-01-01T17:41:00.001-05:00

From crippled soldier to ten foot tall painted hippy - one of the greatest transformations in artistic history! http://www.freedomainradio.com

Anxiety, Depression, Autism - Freedomain Radio interviews Dr Siegle

2009-12-27T15:07:00.001-05:00

Dr Siegle discusses the latest breakthroughs in brain imaging and mental health treatments. http://www.freedomainradio.com

The Bomb in the Brain - The Biology of Violence: The Effects of Child Abuse Part 3

2009-12-22T16:55:00.001-05:00

Why people become violent. Series References: http://www.fdrurl.com/tn_abuse1
http://www.freedomainradio.com

Lord Monckton Educates Greenpeace-campaigner on global warming

2009-12-17T11:03:00.001-05:00

hehe

Babies, Brains, Nature and Nurture -- An Interview with Dr Stuart Shankar - Freedomain Radio

2009-11-17T22:44:00.001-05:00

Dr. Stuart Shanker is a Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at York University and currently serving as Director of the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative (MEHRI), an initiative whose goal is to build on new knowledge of the brains development, and help set children (including those with developmental disorders) on the path towards emotional and intellectual health.

Babies, Brains, Nature and Nurture - An Introduction to the Interview with Dr Stuart Shankar

2009-11-17T22:43:00.001-05:00

Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bi6x-...

A brief discussion of the article that first prompted me to contact Dr. Shankar for the interview, which is posted below...

The article I am reading from: http://www.fdrurl.com/babiesbrains

Please Vote for Freedomain Radio!

2009-11-14T14:08:00.001-05:00

For the first time, Freedomain Radio has been nominated for two categories in the 2009 Podcast Awards! Please vote once per day until November 30, it will be extremely helpful! :) This short video will show you how to cast your vote - and thank you so much!

US Health Care in Crisis - An Interview with Dr. Mary Ruwart by Freedomain Radio

2009-11-11T08:34:00.001-05:00

An interview on the US health care crisis with Dr. Mary Ruwart, http://www.ruwart.com. Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D. is a former pharmaceutical research scientist and Assistant Professor of Surgery. She has worked extensively with the disadvantaged in low-income housing and was a contender for the 1992 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nomination. Her scientific, political, and community activities have been profiled in several prestigious biographical works, including American Men and Women of Sciences, World's Who's Who of Women, International Leaders in Achievement, and Community Leaders of America.

True News: The Health Care Bill Passes Congress!

2009-11-08T23:15:00.001-05:00

The "Affordable Health Care for America Act" Some facts and falsehoods about the latest push towards socialized medicine. From Freedomain Radio. http://www.freedomainradio.com

True News: 'Canadian Health Policy Failures' - An Interview with Dr Brett Skinner

2009-11-07T11:01:00.001-05:00

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interviews Dr Brett Skinner about his new book on the failures of Canadian health policy.

A Brief History of Ethics (Part 1) - Freedomain Radio

2009-11-05T19:53:00.001-05:00

An overview of the four major approaches to ethical reasoning, from Aristotle to Rand - and why they doth sucketh...

The Liberty Roundtable #1: Education and the State

2009-11-04T22:20:00.001-05:00

A rousing roundtable with Wes Bertrand http://www.completeliberty.com, Brett Veinotte http://www.schoolsucks.podomatic.com and Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio http://www.freedomainradio.com

"How Much Government Is Necessary?" - Part 2 of the Debate

2009-11-03T08:25:00.001-05:00

An epic debate between Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio and Michael Badnarik, 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate on the question 'How Much Government is Necessary?' at Drexel University, Philadelphia, July 5, 2009 Full audio of the debate available at http://fdrurl.com/phillydebate

Anarchism Versus the State, Part 1

2009-10-30T15:35:00.001-04:00

Stefan Molyneux debating Michael Badnarik, Opening Rebuttal

2009-10-30T09:38:00.001-04:00

Full audio of the debate available at http://fdrurl.com/phillydebate .
Debate at Drexel University, 2009. "How Much Government is Necessary?"
First rebuttal of the minarchist position by Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio. More of the debate can be posted if people are interested.

True News 59: Statism on Fire! Freedomain Radio

2009-10-27T18:16:00.001-04:00

A parable, some facts, and some indignant spittle. Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/tn59

Stefan Molyneux on the Oracle Broadcasting Network

2009-10-25T10:17:00.001-04:00

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio answers questions about liberty on the radio show "Outside the Box"...

Money is You - Freedomain Radio

2009-10-23T17:49:00.001-04:00

It is not dollars, treasuries, bonds and debt that is being sold by your government.

It is you.

Text and references:

http://www.fdrurl.com/money...

True News 55 Obama, Vanity, Grandiosity

2009-10-10T11:18:00.001-04:00

Did Obama close Gitmo yet? Get the troops out of Iraq? How about improving things in Afghanistan, reforming health care, fixing global warming, reforming immigration, solving gays in the military, limiting executive power and prosecuting torturers?

The Freedomain Radio Interview: Lloyd deMause

2009-10-06T13:38:00.001-04:00

Lloyd deMause is the Director of The Institute for Psychohistory, founder of the International Psychohistorical Association, and author of seven books on psychohistory, four of which can be freely downloaded at http://www.psychohistory.com.

For the free audiobook of 'The Origins of War in Child Abuse' please visit http://www.freedomainradio.com/psychohistory

District 9 - The Freedomain Radio Movie Review

2009-10-04T08:48:00.001-04:00

Empathy, morality and aliens and falling to the guns of the ruling classes...

Freedomain Radio Interview: Brett Veinotte

2009-09-28T17:25:00.001-04:00

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interviews Brett Veinotte, host of the excellent 'School Sucks' podcast... http://schoolsucks.podomati... http://www.freedomainradio.com

Freedomain Radio - True News 52 - Ant-Atheism

2009-09-23T10:07:00.001-04:00

Notes and facts about the most hated and feared minority... Sources: http://www.fdrurl.com/tn52

True News 51: Public Predations

2009-09-04T19:34:00.001-04:00

Public versus private salaries - the ghastly truths... Freedomain Radio http://www.freedomainradio.com References: http://www.fdrurl.com/tn51

Freedomain Radio Debate - Stefan Molyneux and Jan Helfeld

2009-08-24T11:14:00.001-04:00

Sunday Aug 30 2009, 4pm EST, http://www.fdrurl.com/callin

Freedomain Radio: Sunday Call In Show Aug 16 2009

2009-08-19T11:41:00.001-04:00

Letting go of godz and learning to love the hard road of truth...

The Freedomain Radio Call In Show, Sundays, 4pm EST

http://fdrurl.com/watch

http://fdrurl.com/callin

http://www.freedomainradio.com

Ethics Redux! Universally Preferable Behaviour Revisited...

2009-08-19T11:40:00.001-04:00

Some important clarifications about Universally Preferable Behavior, my core theory of ethics. Free Books: http://freedomainradio.com/... UPB Audiobook: http://fdrurl.com/UPBAudio

Freedomain Radio - Call In Show, Sundays 4pm EST

2009-08-11T12:52:00.001-04:00

Got thought? Bring it. Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show on the Web, is now taking calls on a live show! http://www.fdrurl.com/callin (347) 633-9636

True News 49: Deflation Panic

2009-08-11T09:21:00.001-04:00

Deflation - good for you, bad for the state.

Freedomain Radio: http://www.freedomainradio.com

Freedom Roundtable - 2009 Liberty Forum

2009-08-08T08:56:00.001-04:00

At the 2009 Liberty Forum, OTN sat down with Ian Freeman of Free Talk Live, Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio and Marc Stevens for a roundtable on evolving the voluntary society. We discuss our personal journey towards a free society, the common misconceptions, and the path forward.

True News 48: Why America Invaded Iraq

2009-08-07T19:26:00.001-04:00

Bush was ordered to.

http://www.freedomainradio.com

http://open.salon.com/blog/scott_k/2009/08/07/bush_iraq_must_be_invaded_to_thwart_gog_and_magog

http://bookrate.wordpress.com/2006/07/22/deaths-over-history-religious-vs-nonreligous/

A Philosopher As Parent Part 1

2009-07-31T13:25:00.001-04:00

Some thoughts on philosophical parenting from Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain Radio. http://www.freedomainradio.com