Freedom book and movie list
This page has some books and films that I have found helpful. Read on to see the list.
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Book review – Bye Bye Big Brother (abridged version)
Bye Bye Big Brother is by Grandpa and others and is a book on escaping repressive governments, lawsuits, busybodies and confiscatory taxation by going overseas. The original of this book is expensive and in three volumes, but now there is a more affordable ($9.95) abridged version available via Amazon for the Kindle (or anyone with a PC who wants to install the free Kindle software).
Read on to find out more about the book and read the review.
Review of Libertarian Serial – The Conscience of Abe’s Turn
The Conscience of Abe’s Turn is an online libertarian serial novel that can be read here. Some libertarian fictional works focus on the possibilities of a political system without coercion, some look at economic freedom, while others envisage free states or countries. The Conscience of Abe’s Turn is about civil rights, particularly the misuse of the police force and the criminal justice system to control dissent.
Read on to find out more about this serial (which is currently in progress).
Book Review – A Most Sacred Right
I have previously reviewed The Place To Stand, a thriller by Robert Lukens about a group of successful business people who are targeted by the government because of their success. Instead of succumbing, they found their own country, Soverindi, and make it a success.
Robert has now written a new libertarian novel, A Most Sacred Right. It is a book for today’s times – when government is the problem rather than the solution, and people yearn for truth and freedom. Read on for the rest of my review.
Book Review – Cash McCall
Cash McCall by Cameron Hawley is best known as a 1960 film starring James Garner and Natalie Wood, but the film was based on a book, first published in 1955. This book is long out of print, but I bought a used copy through Amazon. I haven’t seen the film, but I understand that it is essentially similar to the book, with some detail changes.
Cash McCall is interesting for the person who wants to live their own life because it has themes of freedom running deeply through it and contrasts characters who pursue growth and freedom with those who are constrained by habit, the need for social approval and win/lose outcomes. Whilst not a philosophical work in the same way as Atlas Shrugged, it covers some similar themes, and this book review highlights the major ideas in this novel.
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Review – A Crude Awakening
This is a review of the documentary movie – A Crude Awakening – which is about peak oil, and the implications on the western way of life as oil becomes scarcer and more expensive.
Peak oil is the observation that oil production peaks and then declines as existing sources become depleted. There have been no major new oil sources found for some time, and existing supplies are now around 50% depleted.
Book review – The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual is subtitled How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State, by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg and copyrighted in 1997. The edition I read was published by Simon and Schuster.
The authors (who are investors) predict a world where the welfare state is no longer regarded as a force of nature and where cyberspace frees the elite from the constraints of national boundaries. The forecast outcome is the collapse of the welfare state as the wealth producers move their operations elsewhere.
Freedom themes in some popular films
Themes of liberty, independence and excellence run deep in the human psyche. While it often glorifies the banal and mediocre, even Hollywood realises the appeal of these ideas. Sometimes a promising idea is spoiled in the translation to film, sometimes it manages to strike a chord in our hearts. This posting is to highlight some of the films that have an element that appeals to the person who seeks to regain there freedom. Warning, there are some spoilers.
Book review: Forbidden Knowledge
The full title of this book is Forbidden Knowledge Information They Don’t Want You to Know (Fifth Edition). It is compiled by Robert E. Bauman and published by the Sovereign Society.
Book review – The Place to Stand
I came across “The Place to Stand” almost by accident, and based on the initial information on the site (http://soverindi.com) was keen to read and review it. It is a substantial work, at 455,000 words, and I would classify it as a thriller, but one that gives a libertarian perspective.