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The Boogeyman: Fear of the Unknown
When society creates governments to ward off the Boogeymen of the world, they often then become the evil they seek to defeat.
Staff Columnist
Joshua D. Glawson is a Staff Columnist for 71 Republic writing on philosophy, economics, and political theory. His writing appeared in Carolina Journal, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Mises Institute, Free the People, ZeroHedge, and The Epoch Times. Joshua earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Irvine.
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When society creates governments to ward off the Boogeymen of the world, they often then become the evil they seek to defeat.
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Holding an idea because a majority happens to support it is a dangerous form of groupthink that endangers the notion of liberty and justice for all.
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Noted Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker gives an incredible presentation on reason, happiness, and enlightenment thinking.
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Implied and explicit consent are concepts that have practical uses, like consent to personal acts, but are also important in understanding the government.
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Many factors contributed to the downfall of the Detroit automobile industry.
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Contributing to the liberty movement through writing provides the writer with the ability to take in ideas and to spread new ones.
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Liberalism has gone from an ideology seeking to protect individual's rights and keep them free, to a hypocritical philosophy of big government benevolence.
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Though more people appear to be leaning socialist in the modern day, actual implementation of these policies would undoubtedly fail.
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Rarely is someone excited for Mondays to come around, but with these new tips, you can start to enjoy Mondays like any other day.
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A response to a socialist, who argued against Joshua D. Glawson's stance on issues such as poverty, child labor laws, mentioned in a previous article.
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While true capitalism, by nature, unites people and helps to lift the masses out of poverty, economic systems that use the state to coerce really divide us.
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A list of Liberty minded organizations that those looking to become involved in the Liberty Movement should look to join.
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Two lists — what you love and what you're good at — beat any major-to-career chart.
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Anyone who claims him or herself to be a "Libertarian for Trump" is betraying personal principles and at odds with the very nature of liberty.
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Many turn a blind eye to the lies and problems of our government because our first instinct is surviving, and we prefer to do so as comfortably as possible.
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Integrity is a value greatly lacking in our political figures today, as they have abandoned it, and their principles, to better themselves and gain power.
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Communication needs to be restored between countries, and expansionism needs to cease in order to not press other countries towards retaliation.
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The US and several multinational organizatons have a focus on cybersecurity and spying, and so it falls to whistleblowers to expose them.
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Iran has been shaped, influenced, benefited, and harmed by the international community from almost the beginning.
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The sure way to US peace is via the age-old tale of continuing in free trade while having Justice systems that provide equality under the law
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When States define nations and collect statistics about people within them, they are only creating more tools to divide those who are equal.
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To read these two basic practices is to considerably change the entire intellectual lifestyle of a libertarian in a positive way.
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The more middlemen between ourselves and those in need, the fewer benefits those in need will see.