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Frequently Asked Questions
--and Answers
How do you pronounce your name?
Your name is so strange, what does it mean?
Can I use your articles and essays on my site?
Do you do presentations or speeches at conventions, conferences, etc.?
Are you the creator of anarcho-capitalist symbol Libertatis Æquilibritas
Can I, as an editor, request new articles on a specific topic?
Can I, as a regular visitor to this site, comment on your articles or ask you to write more on some topic?
Your worldview is quite radical. What is your philosophy about?
Do you have any favorite philosophers, thinkers or doers?
I’ve heard a lot about anarchy and anarchism. But I’m not sure it would work. Why would it not degenerate into chaos?
Isn’t anarchism really about fighting and destroying?
Are you affiliated to an anarchist agency or an organization?
If you would have to choose an ideological label, what would it be?
How do you pronounce your name?
It is pronounced something like “Pair Beelond.”
Your name is so strange, what does it mean?
The name is very Scandinavian. “Per” is originally a shorter version of Peter; Bylund is a composite of the words “village” [by] and “grove” [lund].
Can I use your articles and essays on my site?
Yes, but do not copy & paste the texts. Link to this site instead.
Do you do presentations or speeches at conventions, conferences, etc.?
Yes, I do--wherever I’m wanted. If you are interested, please contact me and we’ll work something out.
Are you the creator of anarcho-capitalist symbol Libertatis Æquilibritas
Yes, I am. See projects.
Can I, as an editor, request new articles on a specific topic?
Yes, I’m always interested in getting published. Contact me.
Can I, as a regular visitor to this site, comment on your articles or ask you to write more on some topic?
Yes, I appreciate feedback and suggestions. Contact me.
Your worldview is quite radical. What is your philosophy about?
It is simply about freedom, but more specifically freedom from coercion and freedom from power. I believe every individual has a right to be left alone if he or she wishes, and be let free to make whatever choices one wishes to make--and that full responsibility for one’s actions follows from this freedom. I see a free society as necessarily without anyone exercising power over another: a voluntaryist society. Such a society is by definition stateless (anarchist).
Do you have any favorite philosophers, thinkers or doers?
There are and have been so many great minds, but I especially like the ideas expressed by Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Samuel Edward Konkin III, and Murray Newton Rothbard.
I’ve heard a lot about anarchy and anarchism. But I’m not sure it would work. Why would it not degenerate into chaos?
The argument for anarchy is not primarily practical, it is moral. All structured, force-based types of society are immoral. As for the reason anarchy would not degenerate into chaos, I’ve written extensively on this--please see the articles library.
Isn’t anarchism really about fighting and destroying?
No, you are probably thinking of the chaos-loving brats who call themselves anarchists only because the think it is “cool.” They are not really for anything, they are only against.
Fighting and destroying is really exercising power, and power is the opposite of anarchism. The young people trashing property and burning flags are actually practicing government. The only difference is that the state uses make-up, these pricks do not.
Are you affiliated to an anarchist agency or an organization?
No, I’m not organized. But I do have a lot in common with the Movement of the Libertarian Left and institutes/organizations such as the Ludwig von Mises Institute and the International Society for Individual Liberty.
If you would have to choose an ideological label, what would it be?
Anarchist. But to narrow it down, I might also call myself agorist, market anarchist, mutualist, or [true] libertarian.
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