Whenever there is a perceived political movement happening, those that are in opposition quickly stop politics from being the focus of the movement. Almost immediately detractors will say that the change being advocated for is not one of politics at all, but of a societal/cultural shift - one that will not only eventually transform the politics of the day, but, more importantly, advance the culture in a direction not amenable to the critics.
I am confident Civil War can be avoided, but only if a major rework of the governance documents occurs. It is clear this system has stagnated with ever growing bureaucracies and networks of insiders/outsiders using the public coffers as their personal pillaging portals. I encourage the masses to do the same, it isn't like they are going to stop doing what they are doing. The system depends on it. Starve that beast until it dies.
However, as that happens, there is the need to decentralize authority and change the way we are doing business. The founders had approximately 2.5 million people in 1776. If that was an applied heuristic we should have about 130 Americas by now. More importantly, they had a complete (enough) set of society systems that made reliance on the British empire unnecessary. Though the Tories probably were still reliant in multiple ways. (Which is why they sided with the crown, let that sink in you strategists). Reliance equals compliance and if organic capability does not exist to address the hierarchy of needs of the local public than decentralization movements will fail (100% of the time). We are in such a time to build them, regardless of the down pressure from Washington and globalism. Orthogonal systems exist and when made robust, allow for such conditions to take stands that should have been taken a long time ago as state sovereignty has been eroded to next to nothing. That doesn't mean neighbors won't be at odds if this occurs, but at least it will make their choice a lot more clear as to who is in your countrymen and who is just hoping their gravy train keeps a coming from the feds. May it not take too long for our children's sake to make this reality manifest. Good luck out there comrades!
What a true libertarian/anarchist/agorist movement needs is exactly what you said: Culture.
The Libertarian Party could use a serious facelift. It needs a better logo or symbol that is striking and recognizable. It needs to be plastered everywhere. Young kids need to be scribbling it in their notebooks even if they don't know why like the skateboarder kids did in high school with the anarchy symbol. It needs to basically be a ritual sigil, chaos magic style.
One thing I've been wondering about is when we will see right wing music and art. We all know the artistic and creative dynamism is in the right currently -- ie the Left can't meme. Why aren't we seeing musicians, even if they aren't singing about Rothbard, at least promoting these values in other ways? I think we will see it coming up soon.
Film and visual art that transcends just memes is also another avenue. You're working on that with your documentaries. It would be nice to see "for fun" films with an anarchist or agorist message. I bet it would hit the youth at a visceral level.
Also, last but not least -- when will we see the demagogue? When will we see the major political figure that unites the disparate strands of conservatism, libertarianism, anarchism, agorism, etc into a package that all can find common ground? A figure who brings the best of swamp man's media savvy with rothbardian trolling and the actual backbone to stand up for liberty. I mean the playing field is ripe for the taking, especially at the end of this current administration.
Fascinating stuff and its fun to watch all the developments in this scene.
I am confident Civil War can be avoided, but only if a major rework of the governance documents occurs. It is clear this system has stagnated with ever growing bureaucracies and networks of insiders/outsiders using the public coffers as their personal pillaging portals. I encourage the masses to do the same, it isn't like they are going to stop doing what they are doing. The system depends on it. Starve that beast until it dies.
However, as that happens, there is the need to decentralize authority and change the way we are doing business. The founders had approximately 2.5 million people in 1776. If that was an applied heuristic we should have about 130 Americas by now. More importantly, they had a complete (enough) set of society systems that made reliance on the British empire unnecessary. Though the Tories probably were still reliant in multiple ways. (Which is why they sided with the crown, let that sink in you strategists). Reliance equals compliance and if organic capability does not exist to address the hierarchy of needs of the local public than decentralization movements will fail (100% of the time). We are in such a time to build them, regardless of the down pressure from Washington and globalism. Orthogonal systems exist and when made robust, allow for such conditions to take stands that should have been taken a long time ago as state sovereignty has been eroded to next to nothing. That doesn't mean neighbors won't be at odds if this occurs, but at least it will make their choice a lot more clear as to who is in your countrymen and who is just hoping their gravy train keeps a coming from the feds. May it not take too long for our children's sake to make this reality manifest. Good luck out there comrades!
Hi Pete,
What a true libertarian/anarchist/agorist movement needs is exactly what you said: Culture.
The Libertarian Party could use a serious facelift. It needs a better logo or symbol that is striking and recognizable. It needs to be plastered everywhere. Young kids need to be scribbling it in their notebooks even if they don't know why like the skateboarder kids did in high school with the anarchy symbol. It needs to basically be a ritual sigil, chaos magic style.
One thing I've been wondering about is when we will see right wing music and art. We all know the artistic and creative dynamism is in the right currently -- ie the Left can't meme. Why aren't we seeing musicians, even if they aren't singing about Rothbard, at least promoting these values in other ways? I think we will see it coming up soon.
Film and visual art that transcends just memes is also another avenue. You're working on that with your documentaries. It would be nice to see "for fun" films with an anarchist or agorist message. I bet it would hit the youth at a visceral level.
Also, last but not least -- when will we see the demagogue? When will we see the major political figure that unites the disparate strands of conservatism, libertarianism, anarchism, agorism, etc into a package that all can find common ground? A figure who brings the best of swamp man's media savvy with rothbardian trolling and the actual backbone to stand up for liberty. I mean the playing field is ripe for the taking, especially at the end of this current administration.
Fascinating stuff and its fun to watch all the developments in this scene.
Cheers