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The main website and portal for the Promethean movement, online since late 2003. Includes an attached Forum. |
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Public forum, mainly intended for intra-movement discussion and communication. Those looking for frequent updates they can read will find the closest thing to a Promethean blog there. Uninvolved visitors are also most welcome to read posts, or sign in to ask questions and comment. Includes an area for informal publication of materials by Prometheans, such as posting in-progress publications or notes. Also includes a place to check bulletins and announcements. Hosted by Prometheanmovement.org. |
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Argus is a sub-site of Promethea dedicated to exposing oppression around the world. The theme: "Use Our Eyes, Watch the World." Argus collects selected reviewed links on oppression in many forms, from "Authority vs. Freedom" to "Laws Against Us" to "War and Genocide," including what is commonly called the violation of "human rights." (I would rather not recognize human "rights" by some nebulous objectively-posed invocation. Rather, I abhor those so-called "human rights violations" which are in fact acts of force and compulsion against the freedom of will and action of individuals.) |
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An announcement list for those interested in this website and Prometheanism. Information about updates, future plans, and more are posted here. Visit the Promethea list page for more information. |
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The PrometheanMovement list is for members of the Promethean movement and informal supporters. This list is used to disseminate bulletins, news, requests for assistance and cooperation, and other information relevant to the activities of people within the Promethean movement. The list is also used to facilitate communication among both members of the Promethean movement and informal supporters, although at present the Prometheanmovement.org forum sees more discussion. Visit the PrometheanMovement list page for more information. (Promethea List announcements generally get copied to this list too.) |
Some aesthetics and creative works relevant to the subjects on this site, inspiring its creation, or just interesting to its creator. Also see Arts and Media Recommendations. |
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Mysterious, brooding portfolio of a Russian designer provided for your inefficient exploration and enjoyment. |
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At Crazy Horse, South Dakota in the misty Black Hills, a dedicated team is carving the world's largest sculpture from a massive sloping mountain, creating a monument to art, history, freedom, independence and 'impossible' dreams. If nearby Rushmore is a testament to the government of America, Crazy Horse is a testament to the best independant spirit which has ever flourished in America; when comparing the two in person everything in the experience casts the difference in high relief. If you can, visit this testament to two men — one artist, and one warrior hero — but otherwise visit this website. |
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The attractive website of Netherfabrik, my friend Joshua Fielstra's very polished electronic industrial band. |
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Hubs for the varied musical projects of the virtuoso electronic musician, cEvin Key, and fellow collaborators. |
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Collects free graphics spoofing the police state via old propaganda posters. |
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Electronic versions of William Blake's printed color plates; read his poems in the original layout. Along with hand-copied illuminated manuscripts from before the age of the printing press, Blake was an inspirational precursor for developing the integrated space of The Promethean Trilogy's design. |
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Capitalism, Economics and Individual Economic Freedom
You may find these sites educational, but I do not claim that they necessarily describe the Promethean capitalism of a Promethean society which I do endorse. |
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Multilingual site hosting the main writings of the brilliant economic writer Frédéric Bastiat, who wrote That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen and more. |
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"We're an informal organization of those advocating economic government, our term for the rejection of the state in favor of a society based solely on voluntary institutions. Economic government is also known as voluntaryism and anarcho-capitalism." Includes neat articles about Somalia. |
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Resources maintained by an organization for formulating ideas about voluntary alternatives to coercive state institutions, the Libertarian Nation Foundation. |
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Even pure capitalism, total individual economic freedom, is often criticized as a Euro-centric idea, based on and limited by European, Western cultural assumptions, inappropriate elsewhere. The Minaret of Freedom Institute argues otherwise. Their site contains articles illuminating the economics within Islam supporting its original success, and relating Islam to modern economic scholarship. Especially see: Islam and the Medieval Progenitors of Austrian Economics. According to this paper, the real origin of free-market economics was Islamic thinkers! |
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Jim Powell, the libertarian author of The Triumph of Liberty, edits this site with diverse selections on the history of important contributions to economic and social personal freedoms, such as the writings of H.L. Mencken, the evolution of private property, and the development of religious toleration. |
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An excellent site dedicated to the great economist Ludwig von Mises and others of the Austrian School. Simply put, Austrian economists tend to be the economists that make sense in the real world with real people; Austrian economists learn from historical example, they don't use the absurdly artificial mathematical models for which economics is infamous, instead remembering that economics depends on individual human action, and they use their deductions to make the world a more free place. The tradition of Austrian economics really implies Promethean capitalism at least in the respect of firmly opposing statism and unwillingness to compromise on the desirability of total economic freedom, and in the individual subjectivity of value. However, so far the Austrian economists have often supported classical liberalism (minimal government) in order to oppose the immediate threat of socialism. |
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If you have ever watched a news report on events or subjects you knew about firsthand, you were probably amazed at how distorted the account was. The major media services are the worst; they often appear to be far more controlled and censored from within and without than we ever like to believe. Since there is no such thing as unbiased news, or objectively accurate news, assume there is a bias, and that quite a bit may be left out or inaccurate. Just keep in mind the problems with sources of information. You can still learn a fair amount directly, and infer a surprising amount that isn't openly discussed if you know how. |
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"Your best source for antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities." An intentionally provocative site which provides useful news and commentary links, run by self-described libertarians and featuring various columnists. |
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This eclectic "radical" political newsletter featuring a variety of authors sometimes has good exposes on the abuses of power. It is usually interesting concerning imperialism and war. |
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News selected from worldwide sources by automatic algorithmic routines, so at least no intermediate bias gets between your bias and the bias of the news sources. |
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Site edited by a student and colleague of the late iconoclast intellectual, Murray Rothbard, follows his example in publishing commentary by people who say what they mean and don't mince any words. You are unlikely to relate to everything here, much less avoid being offended by it at least occasionally. I myself don't care for much of what Lew publishes on culturally-conservative themes, about religion or immigration or evolution. But I included this link because you will find some uncompromising gems of anti-war and anti-state views here, such as vigorous dissections of political correctness, or reprints of Rothbard tracing the monetary motives behind corrupt politics. Articles by Butler Shaffer are especially recommended. |
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Not to be confused with this site of the same name, "The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known ... The emphasis is on material that exposes things that we're not supposed to know (or that we're supposed to forget)." True to its Orwellian inspiration, this site will illustrate very well just how and how often the information we are provided is censored, spun, 'massaged' and bowdlerized. Aside from this overall benefit, it offers some specific information we should probably all know, as in the articles Civilian Massacres During the Korean War and US Planned to Drop an Atomic Bomb on Europe During WWII. |
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Interpretation of news stories according to themes from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and additional commentary by the webmaster of the site. Probably Orwell would have disagreed with some of the associations made and I disagree with some of the commentary, but a great concept nonetheless. |
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"Strike The Root is a daily journal of current events and commentary from a libertarian/market anarchist perspective." Often, little-known stuff can be found linked here. Original articles are hit or miss. |
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Remember, citizens of Oceania: satire is thoughtcrime. Big Brother Is Watching You. |
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Philosophy and Theory Relevant to Prometheanism
Online writings, some of which may be helpful additional material for those interested in the ideas of Prometheanism. |
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This site showcases Gregory Sams of fractal and vegeburger fame, and his writings. Includes an illustrated online version of his book, Uncommon Sense: The State is Out of Date. An unusually extended socio-political application of chaos theory, much of which is quite convincing. Very readable, and recommended. |
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This campaign includes "Abstention is not Apathy" and other writings. |
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The works of individualist feminists, including biographical information, as collected by Wendy McElroy. |
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Wendy McElroy identifies herself as an individualist feminist and individualist anarchist. Her writings are frequently excellent and she is a meticulous scholar. |
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The mission of this site is to publish little-known philosophy and theory on a variety of subjects, especially from individualist anarchist sources. Not to be confused with thememoryhole.org. |
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Pages on the clever, insightful, and irrepressably improper social critic, intellectual rebel, and bon vivant Henry Louis Mencken, who wrote and edited the well-known Mencken Chrestomathy and much more. |
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This fine website on the author George Orwell's work contains his writings, in English and Russian. These include essays such as his bright and crucial Politics and the English Language, and his justly famous novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. I would nominate the latter as quite possibly the most profound and important novel in the English language, and certainly one almost incomparably well-written. Nineteen Eighty-Four deserves continued and closer attention, particularly for its themes beyond the one most celebrated — 'Orwellian' modern surveillance, in the form of "Big Brother" — themes such as Orwell's profound philosophical neologism, doublethink. |
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Keirsey on Jung/Myers-Briggs Typology
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The content of these descriptive personality theories may be useful for self-development, despite their necessary approximations of mental complexity. At the very least, these ideas can clarify some basic, individual differences of perspective. |
An expansive educational site maintained by a nonprofit group, an umbrella for a variety of nontheistic perspectives. Especially good is this logic and fallacies page, an excellent reference for argument and knowing what logic can and cannot do. |
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Several translations of the Tao online. Written by the sage Lao Tzu, this document is obfuscated by time and writing style. And clearly, it is not proto-Promethean as a whole. Yet, I have found aspects of it quite compelling. The Way of Prometheus takes inspiration for its name from the Tao (Way). |
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Interesting essay predicting the end of government. Even if this theory is wrong in specifics, the point is compelling that if there were pre-governmental societies, there can be post-governmental societies. |
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Author, futurist, and "guerilla ontologist" of Illuminatus fame who remains interesting, provocative, and strange despite his occasional shortcomings when judged according to whether he is a conscientiously self-honest philosopher. Wilson has many perceptive things to say and is recommended, if only because the unusual is refreshing, and because of the questions that reading him will force you to ask. |
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E-book by the brilliant, apparently promethean Butler Shaffer collecting his previously published articles, which I highly recommend as supplements to the content on promethea.org. |
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Material on wars and other group violence today, and on the private defense possibilities of the future, offered here as supplements to the discussions in Anticonstitution for a Promethean Society: Ending War and in the series of essays Fighting Future War. |
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"Your best source for antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities." An intentionally provocative site which provides useful news and commentary links, run by self-described libertarians and featuring various columnists. |
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The webmaster wrote: "Our site is dedicated to shattering the myths surrounding selective slavery and building mass civil disobedience to stop the draft before it starts!" |
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Ran HaCohen's columns on the ongoing Israel conflict at Antiwar.com. |
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(Precursor to the version included in The Myth of National Defense.) The Austrian school economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe uses what is clearly an economist's mind to explore the private security of a stateless society and explode a statist assumption, the myth of collective security, often credited to Hobbes for its deliberate formulation. Because everything life-advancing tends to have multiple approaches which, ernestly and conscientiously followed, will lead to the same destination, his means do not contradict the similar Promethean conclusion that post-government security is viable and desirable, discussed in The Promethean Trilogy using a different approach. |
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Decide for yourself about uncovered evidence concerning UFOs, WWII documents, FBI files, military aviation, nuclear and biological weapons, government agency strategic plans, and more in this massive archive of secrets. |
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Cryptome publishes classified and unclassified documents on technology, privacy, secrecy, spying, and encryption. |
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20, 2006 |