Hi there FTL! I just discovered your show a few weeks ago and have been listening to about 4 episodes a day since. Recently you aired an episode in which you were talking about Internet/Information addiction that really piqued my interest. Ian had listed the signs to look for in information addiction and like him many of those signs applied to me.
You see, about 4 years ago I stumbled upon a YouTube clip of Ron Paul during the 2008 Republican Primary debates. It was the classic clip of him debating Rudy Julliani where he's trying to convey the idea that terrorists didn't attack us because we're free and prosperous, they attacked us because we'd been over there. It was the first time I'd ever heard that and the reaction from the debate audience as well as from Julliani indicated to me that he wasn't saying this to be popular or win votes, but because maybe it was the truth.
That one YouTube clip started my Information addiction. Suddenly I had to read/watch/listen to everything I could find on the Internet regarding why the terrorists had actually attacked us. This led to discovering things like Austrian Economics, Murray Rothbard, monetary policy, the Federal Reserve, the Free State Project and ultimately, four years later, Voluntaryism. In each of these topics I would try to approach them with an unbiased, skeptical and critical fashion, and in every one they held up to scrutiny.
So, my question to Ian, Mark or anyone on this board is, Do you think the majority of people who may be predisposed to information addiction will inevitably discover Voluntaryism? Did anyone here come about Voluntaryism the way I did and if so did it take you just as long to reach the conclusion that this is the only fair, just, moral, reasoned approach to (self) governance?