Americanly Yours

A equals A.  Existence exists.  Things are as they are.  Truths are true.  We have the ability to determine the truth or falsehood of our judgments in relation to the facts of reality.

If the above sentences seem so obviously true, ask yourself why we have found ourselves in this mess.  Ask yourself why politicians (Republican as well as Democratic, liberal as well as conservative) continue to push for programs that fly in the face of logic, reason, and ultimately reality.

We fight “wars for peace,” heavily regulate the economy in an effort to increase economic activity, often both heavily subsidize and heavily tax the same product (ie, tobacco), redistribute wealth to promote “economic efficiency,” and so on.  Clearly, our leaders have failed to grasp the simple truths contained in the first line of this article.

If our “leaders” have failed, however, it is because We the People have failed by selecting illogical people to act as our overseers.

If we want to see real change in our lifetimes–a change in the right direction, towards individual Liberty and a respect for logic, reason, and ethics, we must make the change in ourselves first.

There are many ways to accomplish this goal in our society, including grassroots political activism, developing workable alternatives to the present system, and education.

Economic activity depends on a division of labor–when people specialize in areas in which they are proficient, society can take on more tasks and advance faster than it could if everyone tried to do everything themselves.  Similarly, all of the above methods of achieving Liberty must be employed by those best suited to these tasks.

While all of these methods are important, it is my opinion that education is the most important.  Education is the cornerstone of good policy.  Education is also “the gift that keeps on giving.”  If I educate someone about the fundamentals of economics, he or she can then turn around and use their abilities and new knowledge to educate people they know.

It is simply impossible to achieve a society based on natural law, the principles of self ownership, and respect for private property if people are not educated about these concepts.

Although I dabble in philosophy, my website focuses mainly on economics.  But just as we must specialize our labor if we want economic growth and we must specialize in our methods of promoting Liberty if we wish to achieve this goal, we must specialize in educating and informing people about the ideas of Liberty if we wish for our educational efforts to be successful.

If all websites promoting Liberty were written and constructed in the same manner and focused on the same topics, we would only reach the same few people.  Therefore, it is important and even vital for this movement that different types of educational and informational resources are developed.

With the above in mind, I am pleased to present yall with an exciting new resource.  My friend, Dubbs Galt has spent a considerable amount of time developing a great new website.

A=A is a new, comprehensive resource designed to educate people about logic, reason, philosophy, economics, and natural law.

This site has a ton of resources, including information about how we got into this economic crisis, a detailed and comprehensive section on philosophy, a section on the importance of the study of sound economics (based on the study of human action), and a great section full of resources which will allow you to educate yourself.  Dubbs is a very talented writer who has the unique ability to break issues down to their core principles, investigate these principles, and then reconstruct the issues themselves.

There is much more to this site than what little I have described and I urge you to check it out.  In the coming weeks and months, Dubbs plans to further develop his already excellent site, so I urge you to continue to follow A=A as it develops.

Americanly Yours,

Phred Barnet

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“He did not know why he suddenly thought of the oak tree.  Nothing had recalled it. But he thought of it and of his childhood summers on the Taggart estate.  He had spent most of his childhood with the Taggart children, and now he worked for them, as his father and grandfather had worked for their father and grandfather.  The great oak tree had stood on a hill over the Hudson, in a lonely spot of the Taggart estate.  Eddie Willers, aged seven, liked to come and look at that tree.  It had stood there for hundreds of years, and he thought it would always stand there.  Its roots clutched the hill like a fist with fingers sunk into the soil, and he thought that if a giant were to seize it by the top, he would not be able to uproot it, but would swing the hill and the whole of the earth with it, like a ball at the end of a string.  He felt safe in the oak tree’s presence; it was a thing that nothing could change or threaten; it was his greatest symbol of strength.  One night, lightning struck the oak tree.  Eddie saw it the next morning.  It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel.  The trunk was only an empty shell; its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside—just a thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not been able to stand without it.  Years later, he heard it said that children should be protected from shock, from their first knowledge of death, pain or fear.  But these had never scarred him; his shock came when he stood very quietly, looking into the black hole of the trunk.  It was an immense betrayal—the more terrible because he could not grasp what it was that had been betrayed.  It was not himself, he knew, nor his trust; it was something else…”

Borrowed from Atlas Shrugged.

Americanly Yours,

Phred Barnet

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