http://www.endervidualism.com Individualism & Ender = Endervidualism: Antistatist Individualist Culture en tom@endervidualism.com tom@endervidualism.com Tue, 06 May 2008 16:30:00 GMT Manually Generated http://endervidualism.com/erev/current.htm My selection of the best individualist links last week: 64 sets of headlines, bylines, pullquotes and links to articles from various sources. http://endervidualism.com/erev/08/ewr080427.htm Tue, 06 May 2008 16:30:00 GMT http://blog.tomender.com/2007/11/09/twe-interrupted/ I have suspended This Weekend (TWE) until I can make improvements I want in the function. The link will take you to a longer more detailed explanation at ‘Memory, Making, Meaning’. Please feel free to comment there. The existing pages will remain intact for now, but as they age I may redirect their traffic to that blog entry. At this point ‘TWE Coming’ contains good selections for the coming weeks. http://blog.tomender.com/2007/11/09/twe-interrupted/ Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:30:00 GMT http://www.endervidualism.com/bwallace/round_peg_square_hole.htm From Bob Wallace: “Ever since I was 12 years old I have felt like I belonged to a different species. I’ve always felt human... well, mostly...but with maybe, oh, I don’t know -- some sort of unusual DNA, perhaps like in ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’. That would explain things.” http://www.endervidualism.com/bwallace/round_peg_square_hole.htm Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:45:00 GMT http://endervidualism.com/agora/children_of_men_2006.htm Movie Review of ‘Children of Men’ (2006) by Tom Ender. Anti-state dystopian scifi action/adventure stars Clive Owen, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Michael Caine, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor; directed by Alfonso Cuarón. “Although this film surely belongs in the dystopian category, in addition to the suggestion that the near future may contain social horrors it carries other more optimistic messages as well. The movie’s performances far exceeded my expectations, as did the story itself. The work ranks as an artistic achievement which reveals both some of the best and worst aspects of the human species.” http://endervidualism.com/agora/children_of_men_2006.htm Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:45:00 GMT http://endervidualism.com/salon/index.htm Bounteous, 7/07: Fiction by John Scalzi, and Vernor Vinge are reviewed; interview with Paul Rosenberg, author of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men; Good Intentions Paving Company; Koko Taylor; Murphy’s Bye-Laws; Talent is a Force, Not a Tool; special-character HTML codes; and much more http://endervidualism.com/salon/main0707.htm Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.endervidualism.com/catfarmer/seven_cs.htm A new Essay by Cat Farmer on the spectrum of social options. “[I]f there’s a key to ‘changing the world,’ I think people generally have the idea backward. Unfortunately, it seems most would rely on Control and Coercion — try as they will to hide that fact behind smiley faces and snappy slogans. They’d rely on government coercion (legislation and enforcement) to propagate their ideas.... Gandhi had a brighter idea: he said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’” http://www.endervidualism.com/catfarmer/seven_cs.htm Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:30:00 GMT http://endervidualism.com/retta/ban_gov_school_3nk.htm Part 3 of Ban the Smoking Gun of Government from Schools: “I had spent the last month making drawings of and working out design issues for the projects I intended to create this semester, as independent art students do. If I had to, I knew that I would drop the class if he didn’t let me be. He didn’t seem open to discussion. As I said, a little authority is a heady thing.” http://endervidualism.com/retta/ban_gov_school_3nk.htm Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:00:00 GMT http://endervidualism.com/lilar/tale_of_2globes.htm An essay from Lila Rajiva: “Unfair trade is yet another of the shiny slogans that festoon the spectacle of globalization like tinsel on a pole dancer. How can different regulations and practices in different countries constitute unfairness? Isn’t it the essence of trade that different countries have different things to offer — whether cheaper labor, or better technology, or more bountiful natural resources, or more welcoming business environments?” http://endervidualism.com/lilar/tale_of_2globes.htm Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:45:00 GMT http://endervidualism.com/sunni_m/discordian.htm Another new essay from Sunni Maravillosa on ‘sustainability’, freedom and some implications. “Each participant will become part of the freedom systems they use. However, understanding that inevitable result and advocating the establishment and perpetuation of a system are very different things. I’m resigned to the former; I don’t foresee seriously engaging in the latter. ... I see potential harm in the comfort and opportunity for habit formation that systems offer their users. To whatever degree a system stifles or slows creative thought, because individuals think something like, ‘That’s the way it’s always been done’, it impedes progress. It presupposes that we, today, know what will be best for those living in the future. We don’t.” http://endervidualism.com/sunni_m/discordian.htm Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:45:00 GMT http://www.endervidualism.com/tomender/llp_in_that_order.htm An Essay by Tom Ender on some aspects of property and its ownership - “[F]ictional characters do not have rights. If you have imaginary friends, they do not have rights. Only a real person can have rights. This applies to property rights, along with all other individual rights. ... In today’s world are there any fictional or imaginary entities which are thought by many people to have rights?” http://www.endervidualism.com/tomender/llp_in_that_order.htm Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:30:00 GMT