In 1952, an economist made a discovery that would embarrass psychology for 30 years.

While behaviorists insisted the mind was just stimulus and response, F.A. Hayek claimed your brain actively constructs reality through self-organizing networks.

They called him unscientific. He was decades ahead. 🧵 Here's what Hayek saw that the experts missed: your brain doesn't passively receive the world; it builds it.

Every single perception is actually an interpretation. You literally cannot see something truly new because your mind needs existing categories to make sense of anything.

Your brain is a "classificatory device," constantly turning chaos into order without any central command.

Freedom has a marketing problem.

We have the greatest product in human history. Individual liberty has created more prosperity, ended more suffering, and unleashed more potential than any idea ever conceived.

Yet we're getting destroyed by people promising free stuff while delivering famines. 🧵 Think about this historical irony: In the 1800s, we were the revolutionaries. We tore down kings, ended slavery, gave power to the people.

Now we sound like we're defending a broken system instead of offering something better.

What happened?

Nuclear reactors are spending millions to protect you from radiation levels lower than eating a banana.

This isn't safety theater—it's the 70-year regulatory nightmare that killed American nuclear power.

But recent executive orders could change everything. 🧵 The absurdity is staggering.

America has been treating nuclear power like it's made of pure plutonium when most of it is safer than your morning coffee.

The culprit? The "Linear No Threshold" (LNT) - the assumption that ANY radiation exposure, no matter how tiny, is dangerous.

The FDA is literally preventing Americans from protecting themselves from cancer.

While people in the US burn with decades-old sunscreen formulas, Europeans and Australians enjoy superior protection that the American government won't let its citizens buy.

The bureaucracy is so broken that one company has spent 20 years and $18 million trying to get FDA approval for a single sunscreen ingredient. 🧵 The FDA hasn't approved a new sunscreen ingredient since 1999.

Let that sink in. Your smartphone has been updated thousands of times since then, but your cancer protection is stuck in the Clinton administration.

Meanwhile, dermatologists routinely recommend sunscreens from Australia, Europe, and Asia that Americans can't legally access.

Most Americans have forgotten that the Declaration of Independence is one of the most subversive documents written in human history.

And understanding why matters more today than ever. 🧵 For thousands of years, every government got power the same way:

— "God chose me to rule you."
— "My bloodline makes me special."
— "I conquered you, so I own you."

The libertarian kid in your economics class just interrupted the professor for the third time this week, lecturing about Austrian economics while everyone stares at their phones.

After class: "Libertarians are such... you know."

How does someone fighting for freedom become the person everyone actively avoids? 🧵 Leonard Read saw this coming decades ago.

He warned that liberty would suffer if its advocates tried to 'reform' others like central planners: through lectures, pressure campaigns, and force.

The problem isn't the ideas. It's the method.

It's always funny seeing socialists say they "follow the science."

Because when Stalin decided DNA was right-wing propaganda, they shot every scientist who disagreed. The story of how ideology murdered genetics—and millions of people. 🧵 Picture this: You're a brilliant geneticist in 1930s Soviet Union.

You've spent years studying how traits pass from parents to offspring.

Your research could help feed millions. But there's a problem. Your science contradicts the party line.

Stalin's solution? Kill the science by killing the scientists.

Your professor talks about inflation, housing costs, and wage stagnation like they're mysterious natural forces.

But there's one date they never mention—the day everything changed: August 15, 1971.

That's when Nixon broke the money system. 🧵 Your wallet has been paying for Nixon's decision ever since.

Fifty years of "temporary" monetary policy have systematically transferred wealth from savers to asset owners, from workers to Wall Street, from your generation to the political class.

This isn't economics—it's organized theft.

"Sweden is proof socialism works!"

Your professor loves this story. Politicians too. But there's one problem: Sweden got rich BEFORE it tried socialism.

And when they actually tried it, everything fell apart. 🧵 Every campus economics debate ends the same way.

Someone drops the Sweden card: "High taxes, big welfare—and they're rich and happy!"

This myth has become the ultimate trump card against free market arguments. But what if the entire foundation of this story is backwards?

School feels like a prison? That's not a bug. That's a feature.

The modern education system wasn't created to enlighten minds—it was designed to break them into compliance. 🧵 Think back to high school.

Did you ever feel trapped in a machine with its own purposes, completely disconnected from what you wanted to learn?

That feeling reveals something fundamental: you weren't imagining the prison-like atmosphere. It was engineered that way.

Most parents tried to ban their kids from watching South Park.

But while you were laughing at Cartman's schemes, something else was happening: you were getting a political education.

Here are 7 lessons that show South Park will make you understand politics better than any civics class. 🧵 South Park created a generation who distrust both parties, spot BS instantly, and think for themselves.

They disguised brutal political truths as crude humor—and it worked better than any textbook.

Many people think legal immigration to the US works like this: apply, wait in line, get approved.

The reality? 99.4% of would-be immigrants have NO legal pathway to enter America.

Here's how the "wall of paper" makes legal immigration nearly impossible: 🧵 Immigration law in the US doesn't just have bureaucracy—it has prohibition.

Think of it like drug prohibition. There may be a few exceptions, but in practice, it's forbidden for almost everyone.

In 1958, Mao promised to turn China into an "industrial and egalitarian powerhouse."

Instead, he created one of history's deadliest famines.

15-45 million people starved to death because of socialist central planning.

Here's how utopian promises became mass murder: 🧵 The Great Leap Forward had noble goals:

→ Transform China from agrarian to industrial

→ Create equality through collective ownership

→ Achieve rapid economic progress

Sound familiar? It's the same promise every socialist makes.

Today is George Orwell's birthday.

He wasn't a capitalist, but he wrote the two most powerful anti-totalitarian novels in history.

Animal Farm and 1984 are more relevant today than when he wrote them.

Here's why his warnings matter now more than ever: 🧵 Even though Orwell supported democratic socialism, he understood something crucial:

Power corrupts—regardless of ideology.

His books express the spirit of rejecting oppression, whether it comes from the left or right.

The Korean War wasn't a geopolitical accident.

It was the direct result of an authoritarian decision: communists boycotted UN-supervised elections, crushed opposition, then launched a military offensive to seize power by force.

The history is clear—but rarely told honestly. 🧵 While the UN promoted free elections on the peninsula, Kim Il-sung's regime: → Closed its borders → Banned observers
→ Declared itself the legitimate government

No ballots, no democracy—only a personality cult backed by Soviet tanks.

Socialists promise "equality" will solve everything.

But equal misery is still misery.

Still, they've convinced millions that being equally poor is better than being unequally prosperous.

How did we fall for this? 🧵 Let's look at what "equality" really means in practice.

France and Myanmar have identical income inequality levels according to the World Bank.

But: France = wealthy, developed Myanmar = 40% live below the poverty line

Clearly, "equal" doesn't always mean "better."

Ayn Rand predicted in the 1960s everything happening now.

Campus extremists. Environmental policies advocating human poverty. Race as a criterion for everything. Hatred of success.

This isn't a description of 2025. It's what she warned about 60 years ago. 🧵 In The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971), Rand collected essays from the 1960s describing a disturbing trend:

Students solving political disputes through brute force instead of logic, reason, and persuasion.

Sound familiar?

Authoritarians never say “we’re taking away your freedom.”

They say:

→ “We’re protecting democracy.”
→ “We’re ensuring your safety.”
→ “We’re fighting disinformation.”

Do you fall for it? 🧵 It’s all about the language game.

They didn’t say the Berlin wall was to stop people from escaping socialism…

They called it the “Anti-Fascist Barrier.”

Progressive movements literally only exist because of free speech protections.

Now they're cheering for censorship.

They're about to destroy the very thing that created them.

Isn't this the definition of irony? 🧵 Every major progressive win in America started as "dangerous" speech that authorities tried to silence. [1] [2]

Your campus militants skip this history lesson. Probably because they don't know it.

Let's check the receipts:

Everything bad you've heard about nuclear energy is a myth.

Nuclear is safer than wind. Cleaner than solar. More reliable than both.

Yet environmentalists hate it more than coal🧵. If you believe we're facing climate doom, nuclear energy is literally our best shot to avoid it.

But decades of fear-mongering have turned the safest energy source into the most hated.

Time to bust some myths:

“I support liberty more than you"

Liberty isn't a cult. Stop treating it like one.

Here's why dogmatic libertarians are becoming liberty's worst enemy 🧵 These days, it's like a race to see who can be the most "libertarian/classical liberal."

Grounded in dogmatism, they act like there's only one way to justify liberty, one way to support it, or one way to advance it.

They're more like Marxists than liberty-lovers.