I agree, not equally self-reliant though. “Reliance on one’s own capabilities, judgment, or resources; independence.” I have to rely more on myself and my own energy to get the food I need and such. To show extremes, a guy living in Alaska, who has to stalk and kill a moose in the dead of winter, is more self-reliant than a guy who merely has to pick a bunch of berries from a bush to get his meal for the day and collects all his meat via traps. The former is more reliant on the self and particularly his capabilities, while the latter is more reliant on the bounty of nature (i.e., the former is far more of a hardcore survivor).
And just the fact that I would have to exert more calories in obtaining my meal here shows that I am more reliant on the self and less reliant on what Nature provides.
You are equally self-reliant. You do not rely on anyone else. Ergo, you are 100% self-reliant.
You might mean some standard of manliness you’d like to ascribe to (argghhhh, I can take down a bear with my bare fists), but that’s not what you said.
You are equally self-reliant. You do not rely on anyone else. Ergo, you are 100% self-reliant.
My argument though, which you have not addressed, is that the latter case is relying more upon Nature’s Bounty than strictly himself. They are equally self-sufficient, but I am relying more on the capabilities of myself, if that makes sense. If an eagle hypothetically flew down from the clouds with a plate of bacon and eggs for a man every day, are you seriously saying that person would be just as reliant on himself? Anyway, don’t see why you have to nitpick semantics about this? I meant it more in the sense of manliness anyway, probably.
These “anarcho-zionism” (props on that term!) proposals all ignore economic reality. There’s a reason why New York is New York… it has a large, well-protected harbor and is almost the exact closest point on the American continent to the UK/Europe, by far the largest trading partner that side of the Atlantic. For any large economic center you investigate, you will find similar reasons why it exists. Throwing a dart at a map of the Pacific ocean and saying “Let’s build a Laissez-Faire City here!” is nuts.
A practical consideration; do you speak Greek? Another little matter to possibly consider is that historically a depression is followed by war, relative to the size of the depression. This is a big depression and will be followed by a big war in the Northern Hemisphere, quite probably nuclear. Ducking below the equator is possibly not such a silly idea. In the Southern Hemisphere are quite a number of islands; Vuanuta, Tokolau, Australia, New Zealand to mention but a few. The latter are run by big money puppets and the former by IMF diktat. Southern America, Argentina Chile etc but all Spanish speaking and unless your Spanish is very fluent every encounter with officials and purchase of even the most basic goods, a challenge. English speaking South Africa has large tracts of open space in the Northern Cape with some complete villages for sale, ex agicultural hubs now taken by factory farms. Botswana & Namibia too dry with Zambia as an option being sparsely populated, friendly people, no pollution of any kind and a mild climate. In the USA you have no civil rights left after bill S1867 and you can either risk the USA or run to fight another day advises Sun Tzu. The Nazi’s passed a similar law accompanied by “nacht und nebel” the arrested person just disappeared into the system. I wish you fortitude for those that remain!
Greece is probably in for a period of military rule and/or war with one/all of its neighbors, so it’s not the best place to be. Also, the government never said it intended to sell sovereignty, just property.
But most importantly, “Zionism” has no hyphens for a reason: there has been only one instance of a directed mass migration for ideological purposes in the history of mankind, namely the Zionist movement.
I think that we libertarians are not any less ‘fanatical’ in our ideology than Jews where as a group, so what we lack is 1) our Baron de Rothschild and 2) a major crisis in the country with the larger libertarian population, the US.
Groups never self organize: some rich dude will have to purchase the land, prepare the economic activity to be followed, and invite everyone for any kind of ‘anarcho-zionism’ to work.
Hm, probably on the way.
All told, this is probably the project that could be closer to actually taking off, I’m afraid. There may be no substitute for pure geographical concentration.
Nah, there’s no call for an outright dismissal of the island nation concept.
You can focus on jobs that don’t require physical resources. You could grow algae bio-diesel on the ocean. You could do underwater mining. There’s all sorts of things that could be done more productively on an island nation.
The problem, as other highlighted, is that Greece is not selling off the islands as Russia did with Alaska or Napoleon did with the old Louisiana. These are government-owned lands that will simply become “private property”, hence they will be subjected to the same laws as the rest of private properties in Greece. In short you’ll end up buying land in Greece. At that point is just better to buy property in a country in better conditions: New Hampshire in the US, Chiang Mai in Thailand, Los Lagos in Chile (which I am currently looking into) are all better calls at the moment and there are plenty more.
Thanks, but I think you’d be fine! These platforms are very large, heavy, with laterally distributed floats making them extremely stable–plus they are interconnected making them even more stable and self-supporting. You wouldn’t even realize you weren’t standing on land much less have a chance to get seasick!
Oil rigs use floats directly above the drogue-weight, and because of this can be very unstable and bobby. Not so with the hex-platform design where the floats are distributed out to the edges of the platforms.
There’s also a wave wall around the whole structure creating harbor-like calm inside them.