Episode 005 | Politely Up Yours - Free Society

Politely, Up Yours!

Joe Macaluso and Dave Rael discuss and try to define a free society and what it would look like. They go deep on thinking about a society without government and whether it would work and speculate on how.

Chapters:

• 0:12 - Book Club - Book Club: Man, Economy, and State
• 1:10 - Transition in Rothbard from individual actors to societal interactions
• 3:10 - The "choice to be a slave"
• 5:55 - From hegemonic association to voluntarism
• 9:39 - What is a free society?
• 13:47 - Preventing coercion in a free society
• 17:53 - Allowing society to prioritize their own defense as they see fit
• 20:46 - Parenting and a free society and the treatment of children
• 23:22 - Nature vs nurture and behavior modification
• 27:16 - Self-defense, criminal justice, and vengeance
• 30:40 - Early man and origins of states, motivations for being told what to do
• 33:33 - Really living vs a sheltered life
• 34:21 - Marriage
• 39:03 - Is a free society possible?

Resources:

• Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition - Murray N. Rothbard
• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
• One man, one vote
• Behavior Modification
• Criminal Justice
• 1 Samuel 8: Israel Asks For a King
• 5 monkeys : because we have always done it that way