Welcome everybody. My name is Alexander and you're listening to another realisation. And today

we're doing something quite special. I will be interviewing someone who I admire it dearly

and who will certainly enrich us with a lot of knowledge and valuable information. Today I have

the privilege to speak to the one and only James Corbett.

James Corbett is an award-winning investigative journalist who started the Corbett

reports in 2007 with the intent of creating an outlet for independent critical analysis

of politics, society, history, science and economics.

He is renowned for the thousands of hours of audio and video media that he made for the website,

and also for his podcasts and several online video series.

I personally discovered James Corbett's work through his excellent documentaries on 9-11,

which I encourage you to watch as well. Now, the topics of discussion where James has particularly

piqued my attention are voluntarism and anarchism, since those are the subjects that I primarily

talk about on this platform. Knowing that James is and has been a voluntarist and an anarchist for many years, I have the honor of hosting him on Realization today.

So James, welcome to Realization. How are you doing today?

I'm doing great. Thank you for having you. Thank you so much for being here. Now, James, I wanted to ask you, how did you become a

voluntarist? I think that is a good question. And if I wanted to answer that philosophically,

I would say that I think human beings fundamentally are voluntarist by nature, and they have to be trained into not being voluntarist nature and they have to be trained into not being voluntarist.

And maybe that's a controversial opinion because obviously when you look around, most of the people that we encounter in our daily life, most of the time, almost without exception, are statists who, whatever their political, particular

political flavor that they prefer, they do think that the governmental systems that we live under

are the natural state of being. I would posit that, in fact, no, humans are remarkably

adaptable, and that, of course, is part of the

ultimate resource that Julian Simon talks about, our brains being the ultimate resource,

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