Cozy up to one of these fantastic reads and get the world a little closer to liberty in the process.
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“The Most Dangerous Superstition” By Larken Rose
My thoughts: I consider this book to be a must read for anyone looking for true liberty. It’s written in very simple, clear, concise language. It paints a tragically comic picture of the everyday absurdities and contradictions statism thrusts upon us in our daily lives.
Quote from “The Most Dangerous Superstition”
“People cannot delegate rights they do not have, which makes it impossible for anyone to acquire the right to rule ("authority"). Also, people cannot alter morality, which makes the "laws" of "government" devoid of any inherent "authority." Ergo, "authority"—the right to rule—cannot logically exist. The concept itself is self-contradictory, like the concept of a "militant pacifist.”
Get Larken’s book @
http://larkenrose.com/store/books/2019-the-most-dangerous-superstition.html
“The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude” by Étienne de La Boétie
My thoughts: A swift and entertaining read (just over 80 pages), this 16th century French work of art throws eloquent darts at statism in general and kings in particular.
Quote from “The Politics of Obedience”
“Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as our own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives. All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. .......
.......Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you?…... From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not be taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
Multiple electronic book formats for free @
https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude
“The End Of All Evil” by Jeremy Locke
My thoughts: I found this quick read through Mark Passio’s “What On Earth Is Happening” website. It gets at some of the same themes of morals and logic just as the previous two books mentioned. It’s written in very clear and easy to read language, which is quite the accomplishment, considering its deep subject matter. It tackles not only logic and morality, but also offers insight into the beauty inherent in the universe and the free human.
Quote from “The End Of All Evil”
“Peace is found when people stand for morality and reject culture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peace will rule the world instead of tyrants.”
Free download @
http://www.whatonearthishappening.com/images/stories/woeih/podcast/073/End-Of-All-Evil.pdf
I'll go ahead and also throw in a shameless plug for my own books which I've written the past 3 years, all along the same subject matter. 2 are fiction and the other is non-fiction. Here is my paperback page at lulu.com
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There is a free version of The most dangerous superstition on the internet. It's a pdf.
Politics of obedience I haven't read yet. Thanks.
Thanks for reading! I wasn't aware of a free pdf of Larken's book.
Did you find it? It's on achterdesamenleving Just like the book of Jeremy Locke.
There are also audiobooks of The most dangerous superstition, in some kind of robotvoice on youtube. I can not listen to them very long though, lol
Cool, thanks! Yeah, I try to take robot voices in small doses....LOL
Nice post. I'm gonna put those books on the reading list.
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I looked at your profile. Do you do translations?
Yeah. Why not? My native language is the spanish, but I know a little bit of english. If you need something send me a message mate...
If you'd like, feel free to translate any of my posts into Spanish and post them on steemit. You can keep the earnings.
Thanks. I'll be translating them, and when I start to upload all I'll let you know.
Sounds good!
Ready my friend, here is the first one...
Nice post Buddy!
Thanks, bossman!
I'm half-way through Larken's book ("The Most Dangerous Superstition"), and wow! GREAT stuff! Easy to read, and his examples and analogies are priceless! Really exemplifies the absurdity of the world and the system that surrounds us. Great post! Keep it up!