Archive for Liberty

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 3: Habits & Complexes

by: Oliver DeMille March 11, 2010

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There are at least two major roadblocks hindering this needed Freedom Shift.
The first is habit. Our society has become habituated, at times addicted, to certain lifestyles.
For example, when the recession hit, people spent more money, not [...]

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 1: Failed Solutions

by: Oliver DeMille March 9, 2010

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When America decided to follow Alexander Hamilton’s economic model instead of the Jeffersonian system, a number of changes occurred which now haunt our generation.
Jefferson envisioned a nation of small farm and shop owners that spread around leadership and prosperity, while Hamilton preferred [...]

21st Century Georgics: An Introduction

by: Hyrum Lefler March 8, 2010

A key factor in maintaining freedom is sustainable economic forms.
Are you maintaining freedom through the financial principles and practices you are using? Have American families adopted the economic forms necessary for the preservation of a free people?
The average American household pays over 34.5% of every dollar earned to interest payments. Forget about [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 4

by: Oliver DeMille March 5, 2010

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The Growing Popularity of Producer Education
Consider what leading thinkers on the needs of American education and business are saying.
In Revolutionary Wealth, renowned futurist Alvin Toffler says that schools must deemphasize outdated [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 3

by: Oliver DeMille March 4, 2010

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The Power of Entrepreneurship
The wooden stake that overcomes the vampire of an inelastic class system is entrepreneurial success.
Becoming a producer and successfully creating new value in society helps the entrepreneur surpass [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 2

by: Oliver DeMille March 3, 2010

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Producer vs. Employee Society
A society of producers is more likely to promote freedom than a society of dependents. Indeed, only a society of producers can maintain freedom.
Most nations in history have [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 1

by: Oliver DeMille March 2, 2010

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A revolution is needed.
Not just any revolution, mind you, but a specific kind of freedom shift that will make the critical difference.
In order to progress, we need a renaissance [...]

Self-Mastery & Freedom

by: Stephen Palmer February 25, 2010

Chew on this insight from Steven Pressfield:
“It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarified for us to breathe…The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While [...]

Independents & the Tea Party Movement, Part 1

by: Oliver DeMille February 15, 2010

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Much of the media represents what it calls a “third” view as sometimes independents and other times the Tea Party.
In recent elections, these two groups have often voted together. They both tend to vote [...]

Victor Davis Hanson on The Coming Aristocracy

by: Stephen Palmer February 13, 2010

In a recent article on National Review Online entitled “The Trouble with Elitist Theories,” Victor Davis Hanson echoes themes from Oliver DeMille’s The Coming Aristocracy.
Hanson, a renowned scholar, Hoover Institute Fellow and the author of 15 books, including one of my personal favorites, The Other Greeks: The Family Farm & the Agrarian Roots of Western [...]