Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself**

Hi everyone, I'm Bruce, a solopreneur, impactivist, self-appointed pundit, and bona-fide card-carrying member of the bipedal primate family known as homo sapiens sapiens. More specifically, I'm fiftysomething, twice-divorced, and a proud father of two quite incredible daughters. I train people and dogs for a living.

I am a Voluntarist: a radical anarcho-individualist who believes that unquestioning faith in the cult of omnipotent government has led humanity to unspeakable horror and atrocities. I abhor statism and value individualism and multiculturalism.

I support the Independent Institute, The Reason Foundation, Kiva, Medicines sans Frontieres, The Institute for Justice, FIJA, and PERC, among many others. I support any organization that promotes peace and progress without relying on or encouraging state violence.

My passions include backpacking and hiking, dancing to live music, reading and writing, dogs, cinema, jambands, dark chocolate, drums, and romancing my amazing girlfriend.

I am confident in my conviction that love is the most powerful force in the world, and the most under-utilized.

I will be blogging primarily about individualism, voluntarism, agorism, and the art of living independent of coercion. I am a radical anarcho-individualist whose worldview was forged at the intersection of behavioral science and libertarian political theory. I created a blog called Living Deliberately (www.voluntarist.me) to write about self-actualization in a society that encourages complacency and conformity. I hope to inspire and empower people to reclaim their autonomy from the Leviathan state. Or--in the words of the late Harry Browne--find "Freedom in an Unfree World".

Along the way, I will also write about those things which support my central theme, including independent living, critical thinking, writing, activism, social and political criticism, and making a positive impact on the world. And of course, I reserve the right to write about things that just plain interest me: dogs, music, theater and movies, food, travel, etc.

Most of these articles will be published on Medium and Minds and Steemit, although my Living Deliberately blog at www.voluntarist.me will also serve as a repository for appropriate articles from my "other" blogs: The Parallax Pundit and the GroovyDogBlog. I have no plans for a PayPal link or Medium membership paywall or Patreon account. If you like what I'm doing, please "clap" for my Medium articles, "boost" them on Minds, "upvote" them on Steemit, and like and repost them on Facebook and MeWe. If a few bucks float my way from those avenues I won't complain, but this is essentially a labor of love: an investment in propagating the ideas and beliefs I consider crucially important. If just one person gets inspired and influenced along the way, that will be all the compensation I need.

Peace, Bruce

**Sorry about the Rolling Stones earbug. Could've been worse. I could've titled it "Skyrockets In Flight"