Articles tagged with: Society
Posted in Personal, Society on 15 September 2008
- Happiness is living without expectations.
- You can own silver and gold but never any fiat currency issued by someone else.
- Life is what happens when you jump out of your mind and use your senses.
- Time is the sequential experience of movement in consciousness.
- We seem to rely on systems, not people.
- No system [...]
Posted in Society on 23 January 2008
How can you set-up a society like ours in case you want to repeat the current model from scratch? The instructions are very simple but do not expect people free willingly to align with your system.
Give people an illusion of control but take away their power. Centralise decision-making power away from local level where it [...]
Posted in Personal, Society on 15 January 2008
“Politics is not about public interest but someone’s special (economic) interest.”
“Life is about giving, and the rest is taken care of.”
“Nothing has any meaning except the one we give to it— everything simply is.”
“Humbleness is all it takes.”
“The impossible happens when the possible is ignored.”
“If you don’t know what to do, meditate.”
“The (future) wealth is [...]
Posted in Personal, Society on 24 June 2007
We like to have our freedom. It is great and fun to explore and extend our boundaries. We love to take the credit for our actions, but only selectively. Positive consequences are naturally ours to claim but what about the not so desired effects?
Freedom and responsibility go hand-in-hand—the greater the freedom the greater the responsibility [...]
Posted in Blog on 15 June 2007
This is a very compact but complete system of ethics. It is very simple, brief, and yet powerful based on the following guiding principal from which all the rest can be deduced.
The Guiding Principal
All (human) beings are born equal and remain equal every day of their lives.
The below Principals are only sub-principals for the [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Personal, Society on 2 June 2007
We focus on growth—it’s everything. Our current economy is based on the ever-expanding growth paradigm. It does not work without it. Our monetary base grows every year. Valuations need to grow, as well as profits and revenues. The society is driven by this growth mania.
And how do we do this? By producing and consuming more, [...]
Posted in Blog on 14 April 2007
There are only net tax payers and net receivers in any given society where government coercion is practised. See why, explained by Murray Rothbard.
Tags: coercion, equality, government, justice, Murray Rothbard, politics, Society, tax
Read more..Posted in Blog on 28 March 2007
An interesting article about Jean-Baptiste Say by Amadeus Gabriel:
Thus, society could work without government management if people carried out their business and let other people carry out their business at the same time. Say underlines his position by giving some historical examples. Writing in 1819, he observes that at times during the previous thirty years, [...]
Posted in Personal, Society on 27 August 2006
A society is decaying when it is interested in only of the effects and not in the causes. What happens when the ‘needs’ are of most importance and the ways to satisfy them are despised? A moral decline.
Who does not have any needs? We all do. Newspapers are full of ‘needs’ to be fulfilled. They [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Personal, Society on 14 August 2006
The economy is based on the productivity of us, the people. If we are taken off the equitation, nothing gets done either. We live by our efforts and abilities. Everything in our society is based on the efforts of someone, and his or her capabilities. If you need bread you get it from someone who [...]
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