Category Archives: Humanity

So Now You’re A Superhero…

A Guide For The Newly Uplifted

Let’s say, hypothetically, that you have suddenly become enlightened somehow or other. Now what?
First of all, cool! What a struggle to get to this place, am I right? To get here, you very likely had to pass through some serious fires on a personal level. And I commend you for [...]

How To Join The Illuminati

Those Poor Misunderstood Illuminati
The Illuminati, I’m prepared to say, are woefully misunderstood. How exactly it all happened, I’m not sure. But somewhere along the line, public perception of the mysterious group and Illuminism, the philosophical ideal behind it, got ridiculously entangled with just about every kind of conspiracy theory out there. Untangling all those strands [...]

Sovereign Individuals

Great article, brief, to the point, inspirational. Excellent candidate for print-out and distribution.
The modern concept of sovereignty and of nation-states began after the Thirty Years War, and with the Peace of Westphalia that ended that war in 1648. The Thirty Years War was primarily a war of churches and religions. The Peace of Westphalia ended [...]

Mexican Money Ethic

Compare this to the Hawala system in Islamic cultures. Both groups know something about “shared value communities” that whitebread middle class Americans clearly do not:
EL RODEO, Mexico: For years, millions of Mexican migrants working in the United States have sent money back home to villages like this one, money that allows families to pay medical [...]

Self-Ownership & Negative Liberty

Two interesting and highly useful terms and concepts within the study of the personal and party sciences:

Self-Ownership: “Self-ownership (or sovereignty of the individual or individual sovereignty) is the condition where an individual has the exclusive moral right to control his or her own body and life. The concept has been originated inside mainstream anarchist theory, [...]

Towards Open Source Identities

Articles for further exploration of this subject, although I’m still not certain what value an open-source identity would have (but I intuit that there is one!):

Digital Identity: “Identifiers are the key used by the parties to an identification relationship to agree on the entity being represented.” {see also: networked identity in that same article}
Juristic person: [...]

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