The past always leaves some scars, but this is not so frightening. The more scary part is that we get used to living with those scars as if they are a natural part of our personalities, we just become different people, with different values. In the society we live in, the most dangerous thing is that we have given up our personal freedom. We no longer live, we just exist. The personal initiative is no more considered as the driver of progress. The simple truth is that personal initiative cannot exist where the individual is limited. Limitations in the modern world have numerous of faces – we can find them in the face of government intervention, the high taxes, the inability for individuals to preach the religion they choose, the inability for us to be different, to be minority or just be ourselves. And in life we have only one major obligation towards ourselves and it is the obligation to be who we want to be and we need to show high form of responsibility towards this obligation, and not only should we be ourselves, but we should develop ourselves! No one can ever take away this right from us! When our sensitivity towards our basic rights is blunted, we need to find some mechanisms through which we can remember what is freedom and what was it to be yourself! That is why in 2010 we founded “Libertarianstvo” foundation.
“Libertarianstvo” foundation is a classic foundation. It is non-profit, non-religious and non-political structure according to Bulgarian legislation. “Libertarianstvo” foundation believes that every human has the right to develop his own capabilities and live as an independent person without relying on social charity. We believe that personal initiative is possible only in an environment of freedom. And if we have personal initiative we will have progress. “Libertarianstvo” foundation aims at raising the awareness for the libertarian principles in the Bulgarian society. Moreover, through its activities the foundation wants to make people realize that we have to protect our freedom, because it cannot be social justice if our individual rights suffer in favor of the rights of the community. Last, but not least we believe that people should protect their freedom, because freedom is the only true way to progress!
Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton