Individualism Archive
The Singing Revolution: How the tiny country of Estonia overthrew their Soviet occupiers, without killing a single person
I just ordered a copy of The Singing Revolution, a documentary about how the Estonian people organized themselves in the 1980s and cleverly used the cultural power of songs to overthrow their Soviet occupiers.
An entire ...
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Transcript of my Reason.tv interview about Ayn Rand’s legacy
My thanks to a user on braincrave.com for transcribing the parts of my August 2008 interview with Reason.tv that pertain to Ayn Rand's legacy. I'm pasting his transcription below (with a few light edits and ...
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The Invitation
December 26, 2009 · Category: Individualism, Intellectual, Mindfulness, Personal, Witness Consciousness
by Oriah
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how ...
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John Mackey on Conscious Capitalism
John does an excellent job, here, of explaining the theme he's been promoting in recent years.
I particularly like what he conveys in the first few minutes. I'm more ambivalent about the idea of businesses having ...
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Reason TV interviews Atlasphere founder Joshua Zader
November 9, 2009 · Category: Atlasphere, Buddhism, Individualism, Intellectual, Objectivism, Personal
The interview, titled "Dating in the Atlasphere," was actually conducted in August 2008, but they've waited a while to publish it as part of a long series of interviews about Ayn Rand's legacy.
From Reason TV's ...
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Reflections on the current state of Objectivism
October 13, 2009 · Category: Individualism, Objectivism
I wrote the following in response to a friends-only post on LiveJournal, in which a Rand-admiring friend in academia claims Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism offers no worldly advantage. For example, if you look at ...
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Are you a right-wing extremist?
Drudge has had two headlines today that are just delicious together.
First, we learn that the Department of Homeland Security has sent out a nine-page document warning local law enforcement officers that the economic recession, the ...
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John Galt is smiling
The allusions to Atlas Shrugged in the mainstream media are just getting better and better. From the new Bloomberg article "Obama Needs AIG’s Liddy, Not Other Way Around," by Caroline Baum:
The hero of Ayn ...
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Mudita Forum is now at Google Groups
March 18, 2009 · Category: Buddhism, Eckhart Tolle, FLOW, Individualism, Integral, Intellectual, Meditation, Mindfulness, Mudita Forum, Objectivism, Witness Consciousness
Check out the new Mudita Forum, if you think you might be interested.
The purpose of Mudita Forum is to provide a stimulating, thoughtful environment for discussing Eastern consciousness-raising practices — such as meditation, mindfulness, and ...
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Now you’ve heard of Adam Shepard
I enjoyed reading Charles Platt's expose of what it's really like to work at Wal-Mart -- lack of unions and all.
At the end comes this gem:
If you haven’t heard of Adam Shepard ... His remarkable ...
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