The Good Citizen
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in philosophy | 3 Comments »The good citizen stands in relation to his country as the good son to his mother. He obeys her because she is his elder, because she conjoins within herself the vision of many, and because he owes to her his begetting ...
Damn your culture
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in mind control, philosophy | 3 Comments »What is culture? The American Heritage Dictionary has it this way: 1. a. The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. b. These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a ...
Parsing the politicization of childbirth
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in economics, people | 4 Comments »The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, with the backing of the American Medical Association, loves mothers. They love babies, too. Of course, everyone loves babies, right? In the spirit of doing only the best things possible for mothers and babies, ...
Christian Michel: Why I am not a democrat; I prefer freedom
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in people, philosophy | 3 Comments »I recently had the immense pleasure of meeting Christian Michel, organizer for the Libertarian International, the Libertarian Alliance, and ISIL, the International Society for Individual Liberty as well as founder of the website liberalia.com. It is not often, here, that I ...
Educating for anarchism
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, philosophy | 18 Comments »I was just finishing up at the post office this morning, mailing out the letters I wrote yesterday, when I got a phone call from a client. (Matters of inconsequential fact have been changed to protect identities and my business relationships.) Client: ...
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