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The mixed martial arts pioneer and multi-title champion Frank Shamrock has a system he trains fighters in that he calls plus, minus, and equal. Each fighter, to become great, he said, needs to have someone better that they can learn from, someone lesser who they can teach, and someone equal that they can challenge themselves against.

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

All of these additional claims are a distraction from the central principle: if you oppose the initiation of physical force, you are a libertarian. Period. Now how hard was that?

Against the Left: A Rothbardian Libertarianism

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Furthermore, under this line of thinking, one could extrapolate that a right-wing journey would gravitate toward no government (anarchy), while a left-wing journey would navigate toward total government. This possibility calls into question the integrity of the old left-right dichotomy, meaning that the old, circular, horseshoe theory or U-turn spectrum (pitting fascism and communism as polar opposites) is either broken, a complot of historical sabotage, or simply an invention of pure fallacy. Such bending is absurd, at best, or dangerous, at worst. Why? Because if totalitarianism is positioned on the circular ends of both left and right, then “the political spectrum teaches us that opposites are the same and the same are opposites.”[155] Such absurdity fogs the mind with uncertainty and confusion; reality becomes nearly impossible to identify or define. And without clarity, how can anyone determine what is true or false?

Killing History

L.K. Samuels

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