Anarchic/Free societies? Thoughts, ideas, etc.

Miscellaneous General
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I would like to ask everyone two questions.

  1. Do you have any ideas for a way to implement a free society today? Are there any that you know of that already exist?

  2. Shoot me some comments/ideas/flames/interests/whatevers for my thoughts on this idea I have been juggling in my head.

My approach to Freedom for myself is similar to a floating university barge (I am talking aircraft carrier/cargo carrier). Every person who wants to live on the barge would contractually and voluntarily agree to obey a certain set of rules/laws. It’s as simple as, you don’t agree to the laws, you don’t come aboard.

I even have a whole plan on how education would occur (through debates, rather than lectures). I believe true knowledge can only be attained through thinking, and thinking is very difficult to achieve through memorization, which is what happens with modern teaching. The people that would want to stay and continue to live on the barge after ‘graduating’ would be the debate leaders/moderators/initiators, while those who chose to return to land would be trained with the knowledge to pass on their principles and ideas.

This would be an immediate step for freedom for all who want to avoid the involuntary state. It would also be a great step towards liberating the entire world. The amount of brain power and debates occuring would undoubtedly lead to some awe inspiring ideas to defeat the aggression of the involuntary state.

An interesting twist would be that the barge could adopt street kids/orphans from around the world and teach them to be the greatest libertarian thinkers on Earth. A child that is raised with the massive amount of knowledge surrounding him, and after coming from homelessness, would have a massive amount of respect for the ability to raise standards of living. The children would also put the barge in the eyes of every single person on Earth. People would hear about it and the word would spread rapidly, and the ideas of NAP along with it. This alone would be a cramp in the involuntary state, but it would also be a GREAT deterent from any nation attacking you, as well as a great way to raise donations.

Funding such a venture would require a lot of immediate capital, but, done correctly, the barge could produce all sorts of goods, research, technology, etc.

I know it sounds like a bit of a dream (which it is), but I believe it is one of the only feasible ways to avoid the state NOW, as the ocean is still not state owned. It is also the closest thing I’ve got to end the state forever.

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Mises Daily by Murray N. Rothbard

My New Year’s Wish For The Movement

I know it’s a hopeless fantasy, but I can dream, can’t I? My devout wish for the libertarian movement, and for the state of my own blood pressure, is for a whole year’s moratorium on the following:

On Survival

I am sick and tired of reading about how we should all stock up on a year’s supply of dried beans, and backpack it to the hills. Fellas. I’ve got news for you: I ain’t eating any dried beans, and I ain’t backpacking it to the hills. I will stick to the market, crippled though it may be, and continue to dine in plush urban comfort on Pepsis, vodka martinis, and veal parmigiana. I have often wondered why our bean-eating backpackers don’t really head for the hills and leave the rest of us alone and blissfully outside of their consciousness. The horrible thing is that I have a dark suspicion that our tub-thumping survivalists are themselves spending their time in urban comfort guzzling martinis and wolfing down the aforesaid parmigiana.

On the New Libertarian Country

For over a decade now I have heard the drums beat for the new Eden, an island, natural or man-made, that would live in either anarchistic or Randian bliss. One would think that if man can really learn from experience, then the total and abject failure of each and every one of these cockamamie stunts should have sent all of their supporters a “message”; namely, to come back to the real world and fight for liberty at home. Come to think of it, I don’t see very many of the New Countryites schlepping out to Minerva, Abaco, Atlantis, an ocean platform, or a moon of Jupiter. Once again, I would love at least a year of these brethren removing themselves from the consciousness of the rest of us: either by remaining silent and returning to concerns nearer home, or, preferably, really hieing themselves posthaste to the New Atlantis and Randspeed to them.

On Psychobabble

Wouldn’t it be great? A whole year of nothing, not a word, not a peep, about “open relationships”, “growing as a person”, “getting in touch with your feelings”, “opening up a space”, “non-authoritarian relations”, “living free”, and all the rest of the malarkey. But, then, what in the world would all our psycholibertarians have to talk about? Well yes, that would be an interesting experiment indeed. Either they would have to painfully make their way to developing an interest in history, current affairs, economics, political philosophy — in short, the real world, or else they would have to descend into a blissful silence (blissful that is, for the rest of us.)

On Griping from the Sidelines

It is easier, I suppose, to sit around and pick holes in the 85th word of the eighteenth paragraph of the fourth press release by Roger MacBride or of someone else who actually writes or does something to advance the cause of liberty, than actually to work for liberty yourself. That way, you have the luxury of hugging the mantle of “purity” tightly around your shoulders without having to do anything to move toward a libertarian society. But how about a year of concentrating on one’s own constructive action? Again, it would be interesting to see whether a year of abstinence from griping would really clear the decks for constructive work. (And, come to think of it, the gripers and the psychobabblers are often one and the same.)

On Reading Science Fiction

There is nothing wrong with science fiction per se, but is has become all too clear that for many libertarians science fiction has taken on a cultic status. A year’s abstinence from scifi would clear the decks, and clear a lot of minds as well. But for what? What in the world is there to read if you are deprived of science fiction? Well, look around, and maybe a new world of other things to read will be revealed.

An impossible dream, this magnificent moratorium? Perhaps. But maybe if we wait till next year….

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Establishing a free society today is actually quite simple. It suffices to organize a process by which a competing body of law can produced, over the entire territory of a nation state or only a smaller part of a nation state. Then if a sufficient number of people choose to defend it with their lives, the state will not be able to challenge it and its monopoly on law will be shattered.

From that point every perversion of statism can be progressively and peacefully rolled back by legislating freedom from the state’s law. In other words we will immediately be in a free society but will only enjoy the full benefits of it over the long run.

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I agree entirely. No need to seperate ourselves from the market. I am not talking about seclusion. I am talking about organization of individuals. Trade, production, luxury, everything you would want from a cruise liner.

It would be a university… Focusing on these subjects. [8-|]

How about going to an Unversity that not only teaches libertarian viewpoints on all subjects, while also being an example of one at work?

The ultimate goal of creating my society would be education and being with other likeminded individuals. It would secondly be a ‘pure’ society. I’m not talking about a perfection. Clearly it wouldn’t eradicate all the involuntary governments of the world immediately, but it would be a way to combat their ideas.

I believe it to be an impossible task of forcing libertarianism on others. Impossible in that forcing someone to not submit to the government of their choosing is unlibertarian.