We have heard of pesticide-free lawns and preservative-free bread. What we are said to be free of in such cases are things that we often get, even though we might be better off without them. Most of my learning, especially in the fields of economics and history, has been done most effectively outside of, or in parallel with, my compulsory participation in state-run educational institutions. I have gradually come to believe that, like an unwelcome chemical in our food, we get the state in our education, even though we could be better off without it.
Inspired by these observations, this site promotes learning that is done independently of state-run, state-licensed, and otherwise state-regulated and manipulated educational institutions. This is the first meaning of “statefree learning.”
This site also promotes learning that can help us understand why humanity could be free of the unnecessary burdens and interferences of the state. This means free of the destruction, war, impoverishment, fear, hatred, and stymying of human life and progress that governments have always inflicted and still inflict. These abuses are cloaked under extraordinarily complex and brilliantly evolved intellectual covers and excuses that would be the envy of any complex parasitical organism, if only it could begin to understand them. Moreover, these misleading covers and excuses have incredibly widespread and entrenched delivery mechanisms into our minds.
With personal study and open, honest discourse, we can gradually break through these tightly woven spells of falsehood. Thus, the third meaning of statefree learning is the methodical journey of freeing our minds of the illusions and propaganda in which we have all been trained from early childhood. We can learn to see through the false models and claims and gain better tools for understanding, and with them, a better grasp of the past, the present, and the best directions for the future.