Month: August 2002

  • Movementarian.com is LIVE!

    The project that has been keeping me busy for the last three weeks, Movementarian.com has gone live! It’s our third day since the big opening, and our hits have already passed 5600.I have not had time to write too much for it yet, but check out my piece titled Sexual Frustration Caused by Porn IndustryMore…

  • A Policy Proposal for Economic Reform in Russia

      Despite making a recovery after the 1998 market crash, Russia remains weighted with numerous holdovers from the Communist era that keep its economy from taking advantage of free-market reforms. In short, Russia has not prospered under capitalism because it has not yet discovered it. In order to do so, the Russian government must engage…

  • Listserv: The Virtues of our Time: Collectivism, Nihilism and Pragmatism

      August 11, 2002 The Virtues of our Time: Collectivism, Nihilism and Pragmatism By David Veksler American politicians today generally act on the dominant philosophy of the day, which can be described by three main values: collectivism, nihilism, and pragmatism. These values directly contradict those held by the founders of the United States: individualism, moral…

  • SPAM

    I got spam from the Air Force Reserve today. Are they getting desperate or what? Maybe they should make a flight simulator game — hey, it worked for the Army. Would it work so that you were always fighting the enemy, and if so, who would you go after? Is it open season on Iraq…

  • Technology, for better or worse.

    Despote environmentalist and “post-modern” myths to the contrary, technology is a Good Thing. Many liberal profs will spread BS about how the 20th century demonstrated the “evils of technology” but I don’t buy any such thing. Technological progress is driven by the individual innovation and requires certain conditions to take place. While it is possible…

  • Bureaucracy

    (This is an update of an earlier post)So I’ve already gotten in trouble once for publishing security exploits, but I think it’s worth chancing it again to make my point. I went by the Student Activities office today to get a subdomain name, and decided to ask for the SOFC # for the Libertarians. The…

  • Zimbabwe

    The thing I find the most outrageous about politics in today’s world is not that so many collectivist and authoritarian governments exist, but that it is the free nations of the world that support them. The U.S. is building North Korea a nuclear plant in exchange for it agreeing to not build more nukes, as…