5 changes to expand your quality of life
Do you know that you can make small changes in five areas to immediately increase the quality of your life? Read on to find out more.
TV – A Basic Human Right?
Today I read an article describing how the Australian government views being able to watch television as a basic service that is a right. They are therefore proposing subsidising set top boxes for “the poor”, which encompasses people who cannot afford to convert over to digital television.
Moreover, Senator Conroy, who has the somewhat Orwellian title, Minister of Communications, promises that poor viewers will not just get a voucher, but will also receive assistance in installing their new taxpayer funded set top boxes.
I’ve recently read that the US has a similar scheme for their introduction of digital television, but the US scheme is not means tested.
Read on for my view on this idea.
Getting Back On Our Feet
Do you think that Obama is the saviour of the Western world, the one who can overcome impending economic collapse and heal the underlying structural damage in society? Or is the answer to be found in the values and actions of ordinary people? If so, what type of people are needed? Read on to find out more.
Being independent
The United States achieved greatness through individual independence. We are now living in an age where failure and mediocrity is rewarded with government handouts while success and hard work simply means a greater burden. Do we simply give up and go with the flow, or is there a smarter way?
Surviving a Recession
Recent economic events and increasing unemployment indicates that a recession is looming. A recession can potentially impact your economic freedom, which affects many other parts of your life. I know this from my own experience when I was made redundant from my job after 16 years back in 2003. Since that time, I have learned a lot about surviving and thriving in uncertain times.
How can the free person survive during an economic downturn? This post covers some of the principles that you can use to protect yourself during hard times.
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Insight vs data – finding the Philosopher’s Stone
In this posting I would like to contrast insight and data. I’ve chosen this topic because freedom comes from having profound insight, not raw data (which does not help drive action) or banal or trite interpretations of that data (which are irrelevant). I’ll use the Philosopher’s Stone as a metaphor for insight, something that transforms data into advantage.
Transcending victimhood
The welfare state finds it convenient to designate certain groups as victims, in order to gain moral sanction from tax payers for transfer payments to tax earners. Similarly, those with Marxist views see society as a struggle between those who are exploited, and those who are exploiters. Currently the idea of a victim is widely accepted in Western society.
Somebody is categorised as a victim when they are told that they have no power over their own lives and therefore no responsibility for any shortcomings. The fault is generally allocated to “society”, or specifically to those who are seen to be in power, that is “white males”. Similarly power structures in society are seen to reflect the views of “dead white males”.
5 changes to increase your freedom
What small changes can you make now to immediately increase your personal freedom? Read on to find out more.
Direct action for freedom
This posting is based on information in the book “How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World” by Harry Browne (which I highly recommend).
Browne’s book is about what we can do to immediately gain freedom and overcome obstacles to our own growth. The major obstacles are not political, but cultural – we are conditioned to think in ways that unintentionally limit our own freedom.
Freedom is…
Freedom is living a life that is unique to you, that nurtures you and fulfills your human potential. Since most people never do this, being free is unashamedly elitist.
Whilst your perception of freedom is individual to you, here are some examples of what freedom is that hopefully everyone can relate to: Read more…