Maybe I’m just biased, but I think that Wikipedia is a god-awful place for any intellectual discussion. Corrupt and incompetent admins will try to shut out a lot of opinions that diverge from theirs via stupid rules and such. The majority of the active editors are intellectually both dishonest and immature. Not only that, but the overt egalitarianism and consensus-based editing system reminds me far too much of democracy, including the presence of a clear oligarchy of unscrupulous and non-disinterested editors. See this discussion here below for a little more about it.
On the other hand, vandalism of articles is pretty loltastic.
Well here’s my two cents. 1. We have to make the movement more attractive and stylish without becoming superficial. 2. Two we have to have our own form of “propaganda of the deed” . Doesn’t have to be violent, but it does have to be something that the mainstream media will find interesting and be willing to cover. 3. We have to start organising outside of the computer screen; it’s high time we’ve had organisation outside of computers and college campuses, its ridiculous that it has’nt happened yet! 4. We have to know who to target the strongest, these,in my opinion, should be:
a. the young
b. the middle class
c. the disenfranchised
d. the “illegal immigrants” (strongest emphasis on this group)
Im trying to convert a person who was a big Bob LINO Barr supporter on youtube right now. It isn’t working out too well, haha. " Are you stupid or something? Without the federal reserve, I will have to carry around big bags of gold and silver all day!"
Maybe something like a movie/documentary that will explain our ideals across to the masses (I can help with the script, my brother is also a writer)
Aww… we still need a nice catchy website… eh? Maybe tie this in with the documentary.
The strongest? Maybe just the masses, easiest way to target the masses is via the media. So all we need to get is publicity for the documentary, everything should fall into place after that.
What are your thoughts on what I’ve just said?
Panarchy
PS: I fucking hate this forum software, by mistake I pressed the backspace button when I wasn’t in the textbox and subsequently lost all my reply. FUCK. I had written some more (and different) stuff… Arghhh!!!
Yes and more we have to get our message across through clothing lines, comic books, music, and fine art of all kinds. In a pro-market society, political idealolagy is a market product, and, as such has to be advertised in a fashionable, attractive, and cool way. And also as one of our mottos I suggest “HUMAN FREEDOM” it’s simple, pretty catchy, and makes it clear everybody and anybody’s freedom will be defended and amplifies that this is an “everymans” movement, and, also as a symbol, we should definitly revive the black rose!
Don’t just stop at documentries, also focus on movies that will portray us in a positive light: Iconoclastic,rebellious, fighters for true liberty. And also we should explore “Hacktivism” and other new forms of civil disobiedance; anything that will pique Main Stream Media’s interest. Propaganda of the deed is meant to make people know we exist and make them curious about our cause and have some of them hopefully join us. MSM just does this unknowingly just by reporting our activities
This is true and should be. Also all websites should encourage organisation and activity outside of the computer, and, encourage meeting up with fellow AnCaps.
I ran into this site called libhotties.com, and if I am understanding this correctly,it is basically a bunch of girls trying to lure more guys into libertarianism. It has Mises.org as a recommended link too. I was wondering what you guys thought about this? I guess it could attract some people, but I think it is slightly emberassing for some odd reason. Would a guy really become a libertarian only because an attractive female asked him too? I think the girls on the site are statists, but maybe I am wrong. I was just wondering what your comments were about this unusual tactic. (the site is G rated if anyone was wondering, lol)
Nevermind, if you want to learn about it search it-I don’t want to be sucked up by it again, yet there are many so called “anarchist” on it, hence a market for libertarians to shore up. Yet, keep in mind that these are not the most intelligent set of people when, if, you enter the domain of 4chan.
Propaganda of the deed is meant for the masses. Reaching out to people one on one is meant for the most receptive of the groups. Also, ironically enough. the mainstream media will do everything in its power to deride and deligitamise the documentary. I hope that helps.
PS: The reason I had to make this a two parter is because of this weird software. It’s annoying at times. [^o)]
I don’t know if anybody mentioned this, but the libertarian movement lacks novels to support it-symbolically that is. We need another Atlas Shrugged (though shorter would be better to meet the short timespans of most people) or The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress-something the public can get a grasp of and would be inspired by in some way.