Predictable. That is what most other content providers are giving you. The ones to the right and the ones to the left all sound similar, most use the AP stylebook, which literally dictates what kind of words apply to different scenarios or rules about headlines.
(*As a brief aside, yes, we continue to use the Oxford Comma. Not using it makes no sense.)
If you have a true north pointed at freedom and prosperity for all, to some degree your content should be predictable, based in principle. But the predictability of most content today is more tribal: the right will rally around and defend anything they think is in their tribe, and so will the left. Likewise, everything associated with the other tribe is always bad. That’s not principled, that’s a shallow tribalism that shouldn’t inform a respectable digital publication.
The Freedomist aspires to many things, which we hope to get better and better at. But when someone recently asked me what the value proposition of the Freedomist was right now, I said, “originality” and, at the same time, “consistency.”
The engaged audience for the Freedomist will find content that is true and inspiring that doesn’t even sound like everyone else’s content. We have a different style, in some ways more old-fashioned and in many others very future-looking. We tend to believe in the art of wordsmithing and the science of accurate reporting.
This content should show you new perspectives, and yet remain consistent with our core focus on freedom and prosperity for all, it should be original and unique, it should be inspirational and entertaining, and it should also give you concrete ideas you can use to become more free and prosperous yourself.
Our perspective is that individuals, marriages, families, extended families, communities of trust, and local communities are all the prime mover of human civilization. Mega corporations and the state are not, or, should not, be so powerful as to drown out these human scale structures which nurture us within warm and accepting relationships.
If we come off as conservative or to the right, it may be the tribalism of the left, which pigeonholes everything not of them, and not state-centered, as “to the right.” But in truth, the Freedomist, like you perhaps, doesn’t neatly fit into any of these molds. Our concern for issues of actual bigotry, intolerance, and injustice may not so easily fit the “right wing” epithet the left-authoritarians like to toss around so carelessly.
Who am I as the Publisher of The Freedomist and owner of both Regal Blue Media and Freedomist LLC’s? The short answer is I have been an intelligence analyst, newsmaker, newspaper publisher, marketing and PR professional and provider, activist organizer, minister, and author, among other roles. My unique perspective and experience, spanning 30 years, has given me an immersive and intimate knowledge and understanding of how things really are and my deep Christian faith and philosophical foundations has given direction to that experience.
I have moved millions to vote this way or that, broke major news and exposed corrupt leaders, and sat with some of the most influential people in modern history. My vision for the future is one based on a firm desire and commitment to extend freedom and prosperity to all people. Whether this is by influencing policy or through just showing people better ways to increase wealth or make themselves more free, the idea is to do all I can, where I can, when I can.
Below: what others said about me and the coauthor of “The Capitalist Manifesto.”
Our model is subscription based. Our aim in this is to cut out any need to resort to mega corporate backing or to seek major donors or backers in exchange for loss of control. But beyond this, we hope, through such subscriber-based crowfunding to build a nationwide digital network of Freedomists who will work to find ways to advocate for and build freedom and prosperity in their own lives.
I have personally, and my brother Paul has also, been laboring to improve and develop the Freedomist product and brand since 2007. We remain essentially the same but more mature and wise, we hope you will agree. In all our interations and evolutions, we have always come back to the center, which is to advocate for and promote freedom and prosperity for all.
For most of this time, the Freedomist has been self-funded through other business endeavors. But it is my desire to make it financially self-sustaining so we can focus more on content development and features development.
In the end YOU DECIDE if this content is worth at least $5.99/month or not. We think it is and we hope it is, but only you can say it is and decide to back our broader freedom-building efforts while getting interesting, original content that motivates, educates, and inspires.
