Why Society Needs a New Rite of Passage and How Capitalism Can Supply It

The turmoil and the grand social transformation into an industrial society is still ongoing on a cultural level. Mankind has not acclimated itself to this new social environment. For untold tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we lived in pre-industrial conditions, with its own culture and rituals. But with the dawn of the industrial age, we have neglected to adjust our cultural practices to this new phase of human development...

2024.08.25.

Welfare is the Enemy of the Family, the Church and the Community—Time for Conservatives to Oppose it

One of the most oft-repeated criticisms of the classical liberal / libertarian ideal is that it allegedly atomizes society. According to its opponents, in a society based on the nexus of voluntary interactions, in a society from which the initiation of force against persons and property has been universally banished deep friendships disappear, family bonds lose their value and churches will no longer have any social function...

2024.08.03.

Liberty During Emergencies

Chaotic periods and emergencies are a natural part of human life. We will never get rid of them. How human societies respond to turbulence is determined by the dominant ideology of the public opinion — more precisely, by the ideological seeds sown during the peaceful times before chaos. The peaceful period is the time of planting the ideological seeds — good and evil — in the minds of the many. In times of chaos, societies reap the fruits of all that was sown before...

2020.03.20.

The Philosophy of Mass Effect from a Libertarian Perspective: Introduction & Indoctrination

The video game industry is the youngest of all forms of art. Unfortunately they haven’t received the same kind of universal cultural recognition as novels, movies or music did. Yet its stories, its worlds, its musical compositions and visual artworks are worthy competitors with the best works of literature or cinematography. An outstanding example of this is the Mass Effect trilogy, published in 2007, 2010 and 2012 by the company BioWare — subsidiary of Electronic Arts...

2020.01.01.

A libertárius hitvallás

Ha körbetekintünk Magyarország politikai palettáján, a vörös ötven árnyalatát látjuk. Az úgynevezett jobboldali pártok épp annyira fanatikusan törekednek az államhatalom kiterjesztésére, a gazdaság állami irányítására és személyes szabadságunk megcsonkítására, mint a vállaltan baloldal. Minden párt azt tűzte ki lobogójára, hogy az egyéni szabadságot és szabad vállalkozást az állam mindenható uralmára váltsa...

2017.01.30.