Systemic Integration of Freedom and Respect, for Blockchains and Other Crypto Projects by Wes Bertrand, MA counseling psychology Summary The company Blockchains in Sparks, NV has been seeking to change the world. Their office displays the “To the crazy ones” poem by Rob Siltanen from Apple’s famous “Think Different” ad campaign. Change in how humans accomplish things and relate to…
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Chapter 9 – Real possibilities for lasting happiness
Total trust in self, i.e., complete personal liberty You might wonder whether total trust in self (thereby enabling trust in other selves) is possible in today’s massively distrustful culture. Can such a crucial psychological need as self-esteem be fully experienced in a political world that threatens rights-respecting persons with punishments if they do or don’t do particular things? What really…
Chapter 8 – Societal transformation to voluntaryism
Complete political liberty recap Living complete liberty inside out essentially means personal transformation, which therefore yields societal transformation. In such a new world, political philosophy might be discussed at various times to maintain clarity, but “politics” as we’ve known it will be gone. Imagine that: no more news filled with seemingly endless stories about governmental affairs—no more campaign trails, stump…
Chapter 4 – Basic truths of childhood and adulthood
Childhood issues and vital concerns My parents divorced when I was seven years old, which really wasn’t an age when I could make full sense of what had happened and what was happening. As you might know, seven is the supposed age of reasoning ability in Catholicism, denoting moral responsibility and therefore the capacity to experience subjective guilt from “sinning.”…
Chapter 3 – Childhood trauma revealed in family, religion, and government
Early experiences in the family Thus far, we’ve examined the nature of our internal world, the meanings of mental freedom and mental enslavement, how we can gain and surrender self-responsibility, and the nature of domination systems. Additionally, we’ve touched on some of the resulting manifestations of these things in our culture. Let’s make them more explicit now, in terms of…
Chapter 2 – Mental shackles fashioned from inside and outside
The opposite of mental freedom is mental enslavement, which sadly reflects the main condition of our present culture. Whenever we conform against our better judgment or wishes, we lose some mental freedom. Whenever we surrender our autonomy and choice, even for survival purposes, our sense of mental enslavement increases. Again, freedom concerns our capacity to choose, based on our range…
Chapter 10 – Live freely and not die!
In Search Of The Governed’s Consent Article 3 That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation or community; of all the various modes and forms of government that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety and is most effectually secured against the…
Chapter 8 – Laws that promote our pursuits of happinesses
Pursuits of happinesses laws? Though Congress is totally unfamiliar with them, there can indeed be such laws. I use the plural form of both words not to make grammarians grimace, but to emphasize that there’s more than just one pursuit to more than one form of happiness. A society of complete liberty allows for everyone’s version of earthly bliss. As…
Chapter 6 – Ending modern day letters patent
Having covered the nature and value of private property and what a free market means for us, as producers and consumers, sellers and buyers, we now come to the important topic of “intellectual property.” On this issue, we must again sweep aside the traditional and conventional notions, along with all the vested interests trying to maintain the status quo, especially…
Chapter 5 – Ending authoritarianism and modern day guilds
Since all statist policies are interrelated, let’s analyze their nature by dealing with three that affect us severely in one way or another: the drug war; prescription drugs and devices; and, regulatory licensure in the health care industry. Thou Shalt Not Alter Your State Of Mind, With Exceptions The so-called War on Drugs has been an abysmal failure. It…