Yes, I can do that, believe it or not. And it’s simply this: each person’s course in seeking, creating, and maintaining freedom must necessarily be a unique course. It is also never a linear one.

After you are freed personally you can help others in the same way while helping them understand the true nature of that state.

I know of no person’s life that is this clear-cut and systematic. Sometimes one leads in one area, while concurrently learning from another individual. Sometimes we have more issues, and/or more urgent issues in the realm of personal relationships, and at other times, differing realms take center stage. We are all concurrently teachers and students, to the degree we’re active in a pro-freedom community. If you are expecting, either consciously or not, to get totally free in one area before pursuing another, you will have a long wait—and, I predict, a less happy, fulfilling, and less free life than was otherwise possible.

Ultimately I think the greatest thing one can do for liberty is raise a child free of any abuses like most families inflict on their children.

It is a vitally important aspect—and one I am pursuing with my children (generally referred to here as “snolfs”)—but I think it is equally important to create and maintain voluntary relationships among other freedom-loving individuals. That helps build the kind of tolerant, freedom-oriented community I think most of us would like to be part of; it also serves as an excellent role model to children and other adults alike.

... Stefan Molyneux does have a lot of books on his website (now for free) as well as youtube videos and podcasts. www.freedomainradio.com I encourage you to come and check it out and let me know what you think. You can even stop by the message board and ask us all some questions.

Thanks. I’m pretty sure most, if not all the regulars here are aware of his stuff. I have read some of his stuff, and watched a few vids; and while I think he is spot on in some things, in others his take is incomplete. The “learning to love high gas prices” vid is one example of the latter; as I recall, nowhere in there does he address one of the biggest causes of the recent jump in gasoline prices: the declining value of the fiat FRN. Unless one is actively cheering for the collapse of the USSA and all the pain that would entail, I don’t see anything to love in that.

More to the point, I am glad you’ve found a lot of value in his offerings. Others may do similarly, but some may not—which is not intended as a criticism of Molyneux at all. In my life thus far, it has been my experience that every time I have looked outside myself to one person for all the answers to my questions, for all the solutions to the problems I see and experience, I have been disappointed. Based on your pattern of enthusiastically and uncritically recommending him, and your apparent unwillingness to consider other perspectives or approaches to liberty, I suspect you might be heading for a similar realization. Again, I don’t mean that as a criticism, simply a speculative observation. Being a disciple isn’t necessarily a bad thing—but it seems to me it works best if one is a disciple for principles rather than other individuals and/or their systems.

I wish you all the best in your pursuit of freedom.