On Craft, Faith, and Liberty
Every age, it seems, has its own tools for escapism. For most of the history of mankind, one of the tools to escape the reality was to go somewhere in the middle of nowhere and just “be”. But tools for to escape reality have gotten a lot more sophisticated and dangerous.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up … Read more
The morning was vexingly strange. Even though I had known for some time that this Sunday was the day when Jordan Peterson was to give a lecture in Ljubljana, and had the tickets, I didn’t know how many opportunities surrounding it would arise.
I find writing things helps to make your thoughts concrete and they start facing you instead of you facing them. If one can face his own thoughts as something concrete, something real, something that isn’t only limited to “subconscious”, then one can make closures, and properly think things out. When you write things down, another … Read more
Tokrat se bom podal na miselni pohod v območje, ki se ga velikokrat med libertarnimi prijatelji smatra kot kompliciranega in morda neizvedljivega. Glavno vprašanje je, kako reformirati Slovenijo (ali njej podobno državo) v nekaj, kar je prijazno ljudem, istočasno pa jim daje svobodo, ter od njih pričakuje odgovornost, katere dandanes manjka. Vse te stvari, ki … Read more
V življenju se nam marsikdaj dogajajo reči, ki jih ne razumemo. Vsak dan, preko radia, televizije in interneta, poslušamo, kako se je nekje zgodila tragedija, drugje je nekdo nekoga umoril, kako je država zopet povišala davke, ali pa kako je naravna nesreča odvzela dom tiso- čim ljudem. Če sledimo vsem tem novicam, se hitro lahko vprašamo: “Ali Bog sploh lahko obstaja, ko pa je vsepovsod okoli mene toliko trpljenja, kriminala, izgube?”
Some of us, among libertarians, are suggesting that territory or land cannot ever be properly owned. It may be due to the spherical nature of Earth, it may be due to the question of “what about the air above it”, perhaps due to often hyper-possessive nature of land ownership and thus restriction of movement even … Read more
In this age of definitional relativism it’s difficult to tell people what capitalism is. Most often, when people hear the word Capitalism, they think of what we have today. There’s a lot of fancy words we could ascribe to what we have today and some libertarians try to do so. Alas, with no luck. There’s … Read more
Zadnjič je nekdo na internetu spraševal o Jezusu in o Njegovi identiteti in božanskosti. Marsikdaj se namreč zgodi, da pripadniki semi-kristjanističnih tradicij in ideologij kot recimo mormonizem, jehove priče ipd. preveč zaupajo v avtoriteto svojih svečenikov, duhovščine ali kogarkoli, ki naj bi bil predstavnik ali posrednik Boga na tem svetu. Njihove besede prevečkrat vzamejo za … Read more
I can’t remember who was it, that said it, but when your kids take their trash out on their rooms on their own, without parents’ involvement, they can be called grown enough. But in the matters of State and Governance even trash isn’t done correctly. Nothing ever is done right. And yet there are limits … Read more