We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
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Finding Alexandria Some wonderful photos and informative writeup here about the lost, and now found, treasures of Alexandria, which at one point ranked as one of the wonders of the world, boasting the world’s tallest lighthouse.
The photographs are outstanding. Enjoy. (Thanks to Stephen Hicks for the link. Stephen has written a fine book debunking that steaming pile of intellectual hocus known as post-modernism, incidentally.)
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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Fascinating. I also read the article about postmodernism and quite a bit of the Ayn Rand ethics in business piece.
What a lucid and insightful chap Hicks is.
We will eventually flush the anti idividual, anti business meta-context away even though we handicap ourselves by adopting civilised methods.
I have recently come back from the temples of Luxor and Karnak and the Valley of the Kings.
I was totally blown away (as I knew I would be) by the sheer scale and splendor of Ancient Egypt.
A thought occured to me though.
Without their fixation on religion and death, we would know little of these people. Every edifice you see is a glorification of a God or more often Pharaohs who believed themselves to be Gods.
There is little in the way of remains to show how the ordinary people lived. Only Gods deserve granite the ancient civilisations seem to say.
I wonder if some ancient agnostic civilisation we have never heard of, that were even more smart than the Egyptians, existed, but we’ll never know about because their egos and building materials were of a smaller scale.