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CHAPTER NINETEEN: Usefulness
While Gootopia shares the five essential factors of tyranny that have marked all Statist regimes (victims, oppressors, absence of...
Nov 27, 2022


CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Gootopia
Governments and political philosophies come and go, but the Control Impulse that drives men to seek to determine events and direct the...
Nov 20, 2022


CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Subjectivity
One of the first things a law school student learns is the difference between the objective and subjective standards under the law. The...
Nov 13, 2022


CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Pursuit
A primary distinction between a Statist and a Liberal is in how they each view the concept of happiness as opposed to Happiness. For the...
Nov 6, 2022


CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Statism
The American perception of the Left/Right Paradigm rests upon a hodgepodge of notions that are sketchily understood and periodically...
Nov 2, 2022


CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Myth
The American political spectrum is generally (and incorrectly) perceived as being arrayed from the “left” to the “right”. This is the...
Oct 23, 2022


CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Influence
When I was a soldier, I was taught the Army hand-to-hand combat system. It is brutally simple, direct, and effective, but heavily reliant...
Oct 16, 2022


CHAPTER TWELVE: Output
Integrity of Output is a man’s Dominion over his words and deeds. It is the last (after wholesomeness of Input and purity of Heart) of...
Oct 9, 2022


CHAPTER ELEVEN: Heart
Purity of Heart is a man’s Dominion over his thoughts, feelings, and emotions. It is the second (after wholesomeness of Input and before...
Oct 2, 2022


CHAPTER TEN: Input
Wholesomeness of Input is a man’s Dominion over what he deposits into his body and soul. Together with purity of Heart and integrity of...
Sep 26, 2022


CHAPTER NINE: Dominion
A Zebra Jockey is a high-Adaptation man whose default response to the Chaos of uncontrollable circumstance is to make necessary and rapid...
Sep 19, 2022


CHAPTER EIGHT: Passivity
The Control Impulse to determine events and direct the actions of others exists to some degree in every human being. Whether a man is a...
Sep 11, 2022


CHAPTER SEVEN: Is
Thirty years ago, I told my friends and family that I had “decided” to go to law school rather than telling them the truth, that I had...
Sep 4, 2022


CHAPTER SIX: Adversity
Most of the major decisions I have made in my life were not decisions at all, but rather Adaptations in the face of Obstacles and Chaos....
Aug 28, 2022


CHAPTER FIVE: Obstacles
Obstacles are unexpected impediments to movement. I learned a valuable lesson about mountain bike riding from my friend Randy, who had...
Aug 20, 2022


CHAPTER FOUR: Razors
A “razor” is a philosophical principle that helps eliminate unlikely explanations for the Chaos that periodically and inevitably arises...
Aug 14, 2022


CHAPTER THREE: Edge
I’m not a soldier anymore, I’m a lawyer now. Not long ago my client Chance and I had to go New York together for a deposition. He called...
Aug 7, 2022


CHAPTER TWO: Flow
Many years ago, I was sent to Africa on a mission with my Special Forces team. We flew there on an Air Force C-130 transport plane. A...
Aug 2, 2022


CHAPTER ONE: Chaos
Chaos is the state of uncontrollable circumstance. Although Chaos reigns equally over each of the Earth’s biological kingdoms, it is only...
Jul 20, 2022
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