A Voluntary View 008 - Bradley Thomas and Erase The State
Jeff sits down with Bradley Thomas from EraseTheState.com to discuss voluntaryism, liberty, and charity—and how they can make the world a better place.
Mr. Thomas is the creator of EraseTheState.com, and is a contributing writer for the Libertarian Institute, the Mises Institute, and the Foundation for Economic Education. Check out his website and follow him on Twitter at @EraseState.
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This video was sent to us by our associate Mustapha Cole in Seirra Leone. He operates Kids Compassion Charity, and we partner with him to provide key support to the people of Goderich Village. Thanks to our generous donors, we’re able to send Bitcoin directly to Kids Compassion to purchase needed supplies. Mustapha mentions VIA at 3 minutes into the video.
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Today our extra-special guest is Nina Prevot, a trademark and entertainment attorney. She joins Jeff to discuss intellectual property (IP), something that is a point of contention between libertarians/anarchists and many artists, authors, and other creatives. Together, Jeff and Nina explore the US laws regulating IP, what they get right and what they get wrong, and how free market alternatives to government enforcement of IP might function.
We’ve been trying to get Nina on the show for several months, and we were finally able to connect while she was traveling. The hotel internet connection isn’t the greatest, but we decided to make it happen anyway.
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Auberon Herbert (1838-1906) coined the term “voluntaryism.” Fed up with government after serving in the English Parliament, and disgusted at the effects of England’s wars, he built upon the ideas of individualist anarchist Herbert Spencer in a series of essays and speeches. In this episode, Jeff reads an excerpt from one of Herbert’s speeches that is still very applicable today.
Read another of Herbert’s works on liberty and voluntaryism here: https://viaction.org/wire/philosophy/a-plea-for-voluntaryism/
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The illustrator of the groundbreaking and immensely popular Tuttle Twins series joins us to discuss the process of developing and illustrating the Tuttle Twins. He shares plans on where the series is going in the future, and how his experiences and values have impacted his work.
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Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series was a great adventure that showed the depths to which a government can sink. Did you know that Collins wrote a prequel novel? The protagonist is Coriolanus Snow—the evil dictator in The Hunger Games books. Find out if it’s worth reading, with probably no spoilers.
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Jeff and Justin discuss several views on voting. Is it good? Bad? Important? Useless? Are there things they missed? Let us know in the comments!
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Afghanistan falling to the Taliban after 20 years of American occupation, while the FDA is set to approve an injection with less than 2 years of data. Justin and Jeff discuss the voluntaryist view of the latest news.
Articles mentioned:
- FDA approving COVID injection without due scrutiny: https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2086
- CDC not tracking COVID cases in people who’ve been injected: https://fee.org/articles/what-is-the-true-vaccine-breakthrough-rate-the-cdc-doesnt-want-you-to-know/
Also, the “peanut butter shot” is called Bicillin.
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Special guest today is Jack V Lloyd, the author of the Voluntaryist comic series. How did he come to create a superhero avatar of voluntaryism? What can be done to fight back against the tide of tyranny enveloping the real world? Find out on this episode of A Voluntary View!
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- https://thepholosopher.com/
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Is there anything about being in the armed forces that might make someone more libertarian? Braxton and Will from the Veterans Caucus of the Libertarian party join the show to discuss the military-to-libertarian pipeline.
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