3x5 Comics

I've begun a new webcomic about philosophy. I hand draw them on 3x5 index cards, and have a generally good time at it. The site is 3x5comics.com. I hope you'll give it a look and subscribe if you like it. Here is the first comic:

Statism Is Dead

Statism Is Dead - Part 3 - The Matrix is a YouTube video by Stefan Molyneux. It's a wonderful short-form view of the idea that governments were not designed for the aid of people, but with human livestock in mind. It's a wonderful way to spend 16 minutes, and is his most popular video to date:

The Trial and Death of Socrates

This YouTube video series by the very living, very breathing philosopher Stefan Molyneux is about some long-dead arguments by a long-dead man whose ghost haunts us to this day. I recommend watching the whole set if you can. Videos 2, 3, and 4 are a dramatic presentation of Plato's Apology, with some limited interpretation. The rest contain some wonderful extrapolation of what it all means, and how dangerous the vengance of philosophers has been to humanity for thousands of years.

These are totally wonderful in so many ways. I want to share them with everybody who has even a passing interest in philosophy, history, literature, or psychology. Code for the YouTube embeddings lazily and lovingly stolen from the Lost Liberty Cafe, a wonderful resource on human freedom.

Murder Works!

Look! Barack Obama has directly ordered the murders of over a dozen people already. Thank goodness. Now I can rest easy, knowing I won't have to do it and feel bad, even if they are just some obscure brown mountain-dwellers half a world away.

And don't you feel better for it? Isn't your life positively swimming with atoms of joy that weren't there just a week and a half ago? Isn't your life at least 20 times better than it was before? Because that's the ratio of happiness-changing that occurred for the drone-bombed brown people half a world away: one life to zero. On, to off. Breathing and smiling and laughing and thinking, to fleshy compost. And they're dead. Completely. And they're not coming back. Ever.

They died because a man in a fancy office told other men with a fancy model airplane to drop some fancy bombs and scatter their bones across the mountainous landscape. Because he thought it was his job to kill people. Because he thought YOU hired him to kill people, even if you didn't. In the moment where the decision was "Do I drop bombs to kill people, or do I tell them to ground the drones and bury the bombs forever?" ...his decision was to continue the slaughter.

This is not change. I think it's disgusting that people call it that. This is just a different arm pulling the same bloody executioner's lever. Please stand with me and stop calling this whole mess noble.