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This episode starts off explaining how I've changed the name of my content from "From the White Pillbox" to simply "The White Pillbox". I've also changed the intro and outro segments.
Then I move on to art. I had some viewer questions about the painting that appears behind me. So I gave a bit of history. Incidentally, I used the wrong word for the process used to create the painting. I said "stereolithography" when I should have said "seriolithography". My bad.
And that led to my sharing yet another beautiful painting, this one generously gifted to me from Stephan Kinsella. I was so happy to share this with you all. I couldn’t do better than Stephan in describing the meaning behind the painting and its original source sculpture: “I think it nicely evokes liberty, humanity, freedom, cooperation, love, the natural order, the whole bit”.
Be sure to check out the related links below.
And the meat of the episode: addressing viewer questions about critical thinking, especially in relation to my Myth of Authority series.
Stephan Kinsella’s Story of a Libertarian Book cover
Artist John Wax’s Facebook page
My entire YouTube series on the Myth of Authority
The consolidated recap episode on the Myth of Authority series
Since some may be new to libertarian perspectives, here is a short list of links you may find helpful. I’ve classified them based on the different ways people ponder issues:
Want to know how important things would get done without government?
* Reading material: “The Machinery of Freedom” by David Friedman; for private law specifically (rather than government law) try “Legal Foundations of a Free Society” by Stephan Kinsella
* Video: “The Case for Privatization, of Everything”, “Law without Government: Principles”, “Law without Government: Conflict Resolution”, “Law without Government: The Bargaining Mechanism”
Want a comprehensive overview?
* Reading material: “The Voluntaryist Handbook” by Keith Knight
* Video: “Anarchy 101”, “The Philosophy of Liberty”
Want to get down to the root of it, without sugar coating?
* Reading material: “Anatomy of the State” by Murray Rothbard, “The Most Dangerous Superstition” by Larken Rose
* Video: “The Fundamentals”, “The Whole Problem”, “The State is Too Dangerous to Tolerate”, “The Tiny Dot”
Want to focus on economics?
* Reading material: “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read, “Economics in One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt
* Video: “The Attractiveness of Austrian Economics”
Want to focus on the absurdity of politics?
* Reading material: “The Problem of Political Authority” by Michael Huemer
* Video: “Election Day”, “I’m Allowed to Rob You”, “If You Were King”, “The Jones Plantation”
Thanks for listening!
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