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.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Samizdata quote of the day
– Richard Cobden (1804-1865), quoted at the Cobden Centre website. Quoted again by Steven Baker MP at the end of his presentation this morning to the Libertarian Alliance, and featured in his final slide, of which the above is my somewhat wonky photo.
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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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A de-wonkified version (thanks to the magic of Photoshop) if you want:
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/7489/cobdenquotev2.jpg(Link)
Brian is blogging from his laptop directly from the conference. I think he may be forgiven for minimal photoshopping.
And remember Richard Cobden was “mainstream” in his day.
Even a Governor of the Bank of England (contrary to lure of power) sided with the anti bailout and anti maniulation opinions of Richard Cobden – rather than with the opinions of Walter Bagehot.
Although, of course, even Bagehot looks like a moderate compared to the crackbrained degenerates who now control the magazine he once edited – the “Economist”, and its twin publication the “Financial Times”.