From the White-PillBox: Podcast #32

Please enjoy this interview with one of my Substack subscribers, James, who had some great questions and comments. We covered several topics, like White Pills, skepticism of the state, and strategy.

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All episodes in the Myth of Authority podcast series:

Part 1 - The Myth of Authority: introduction

Part 2 - How the myth of authority affects our psychology

Part 3 - Our psychological red pill journey; our focus on the state

Part 4 - Psychology: the true and false selves

Part 5 - Libertarian assumptions about what needs to be done

Part 6 - The war room approach

Part 7 - Direct and indirect approaches

Part 8 - Examples of the direct approach

Part 9 - Training ourselves in direct approaches

Part 10 - Politics get slammed

Part 11 - Overview of the transition to a free society

Part 12 - The transition: who and how many

Part 13 - The transition: the pieces of the puzzle

Part 14 - The transition environment

Part 15 - The transition: current examples

Part 16 - The transition: the myth in the coming decades

Part 17 - The transition: peoples’ behavior in the coming decades

Part 18 - The transition: the bullies’ behavior in the coming decades

Part 19 - The transition: libertarian myths about the transition

Part 20 - The transition: the final stages

Part 21 - Series recap of White Pills

Part 22 - Afterword - my experience

Part 23 - A heart-to-heart with the libertarian movement

Want to know how important things would get done without government?

• Reading material: “The Machinery of Freedom” by David Friedman; for private law specifically (rather than government law) try “Legal Foundations of a Free Society” by Stephan Kinsella

• Video: “The Case for Privatization, of Everything”, “Law without Government: Principles”, “Law without Government: Conflict Resolution”, “Law without Government: The Bargaining Mechanism”

Want a comprehensive overview?

• Reading material: “The Voluntaryist Handbook” by Keith Knight

• Video: “Anarchy 101”, “The Philosophy of Liberty”

Want to get down to the root of it, without sugar coating?

• Reading material: “Anatomy of the State” by Murray Rothbard, “The Most Dangerous Superstition” by Larken Rose

• Video: “The Fundamentals”, “The Whole Problem”, “The State is Too Dangerous to Tolerate”, “The Tiny Dot”

Want to focus on economics?

• Reading material: “I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read, “Economics in One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt

• Video: “The Attractiveness of Austrian Economics”

Want to focus on the absurdity of politics?

• Reading material: “The Problem of Political Authority” by Michael Huemer

• Video: “Election Day”, “I’m Allowed to Rob You”, “If You Were King”, “The Jones Plantation”

Thanks for listening!