Politely, Up Yours!

Episode 005 | Politely Up Yours - Free Society

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Joe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss and try to define a free society and what it would look like. They go deep on thinking about a society without government and whether it would work and speculate on how.

Chapters:
  • 0:12 - Book Club - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State
  • 1:10 - Transition in Rothbard from individual actors to societal interactions
  • 3:10 - The "choice to be a slave"
  • 5:55 - From hegemonic association to voluntarism
  • 9:39 - What is a free society?
  • 13:47 - Preventing coercion in a free society
  • 17:53 - Allowing society to prioritize their own defense as they see fit
  • 20:46 - Parenting and a free society and the treatment of children
  • 23:22 - Nature vs nurture and behavior modification
  • 27:16 - Self-defense, criminal justice, and vengeance
  • 30:40 - Early man and origins of states, motivations for being told what to do
  • 33:33 - Really living vs a sheltered life
  • 34:21 - Marriage
  • 39:03 - Is a free society possible?
    • Resources:
    • Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition - Murray N. Rothbard
    • Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
    • One man, one vote
    • Behavior Modification
    • Criminal Justice
    • 1 Samuel 8: Israel Asks For a King
    • 5 monkeys : because we have always done it that way
      • ...more
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      Politely, Up Yours!By Joe Macaluso, Dave Rael