Looks like this is exactly what we can witness currently. However, unfortunately many people seem unable to diagnose the cause and the cure to correctly.
You're very knowledgeable on this subject and I would like to invite you to read this Treaty which has created a natural law jurisdiction. Could you please let me know what you think?....
I didn't read all of it, but I skimmed it and I am not really sure what to think of it. I support every effort to create more small jurisdiction independent from nation-states and everything that gives power back to the individual. However, what the Free Cities Foundation is doing (https://free-communities.org) looks more promising to me. Let me know (if you want) if I understood that wrong.
Generally, I see some interesting developments of communities going towards independence, but I am not ready to bet on that (yet). Hence, I am taking the way of exploring more freedom-oriented countries.
That sounds like the plot of The Sovereign Individual: The state will need to compete for people to move there. If this was the case, living conditions in most states would increase rapidly (if they don't, people just leave). However, I am not really seeing this thesis play out. I hope that this will change in the future, but the individual is still fairly bound to their country of origin. Further, I am not sure if the situation that "freedom peeks out of every dark place on earth" will lead to a race towards freedom. We already have some examples of states in the US and whole countries providing way more freedom than others, and I really don't see the longing of the masses for greater freedom. Looking back at the covid time, I see more of a disdain of freedom and a longing for the state to protect them.
We unify against the state by building new high trust decentralized systems where we go to solve problems in groups. The state is the one collective problem we should solve together. Specifically the corruption in our systems. We can build better systems that are harder to corrupt, migrate to them, then use them to fix our corrupt ones.
Thanks, I appreciate it! I see your point with the collectivist view. I use the “we” to sound less lecturing. If I say “you must,” “you should,” or “you cannot,” that creates a similar situation like I described in the beginning: “‘This must be regulated differently!’ ‘That should be forbidden!’ ‘There must be some government intervention!’ Quite a few of the people around us know exactly how everyone else has to live their lives.”
I don’t wanna tell you how you have to live your life, instead “lead by example and invite [my readers] to participate.”
Yep, exactly. The "I" sounds a bit too self-centered in my opinion (as you already discerned). Generally, this is not a blog about me and my experiences but timeless principles (from my perspective of course).
I appreciate your suggestion, though. For the next post, I will consider this. Feel free to point out anything else if you notice something.
You can have group problem solving without having groupthink and collectivism. The key is to understanding why sometimes humans behave amazing in groups and build awesome things . And other times they turn into collectivist hellscapes. It is a solvable problem. It starts with Epsitemology. We solve problems in groups. We don’t choose labels.
There is clearly a we. We can protect and honor individualism and still protect the integrity of the systems that govern the we.
Collective problems require collective intelligence to fix, but not collectivism. We can freely decide to share goals. Isn’t that volunteerism’s best use?
All of humanity should want our systems to be nourishing us instead of hurting us.
If we pause the fighting just long enough to do this one thing - unify against corruption - when we resumed we would no longer be fighting. We would be talking, sitting at the same table, solving problem together. Our divide is an orchestrated one, a manufactured one. And despite all of us knowing this, we somehow don’t realize the easy way out is just to come together, and solve this one problem as humanity.
We MUST end the cult of Statism...or it will end us all.
Government is NEVER a solution to anything. Only the problem.
Looks like this is exactly what we can witness currently. However, unfortunately many people seem unable to diagnose the cause and the cure to correctly.
You're very knowledgeable on this subject and I would like to invite you to read this Treaty which has created a natural law jurisdiction. Could you please let me know what you think?....
https://www.universal-community-trust.org/uct-treaty-full/
I didn't read all of it, but I skimmed it and I am not really sure what to think of it. I support every effort to create more small jurisdiction independent from nation-states and everything that gives power back to the individual. However, what the Free Cities Foundation is doing (https://free-communities.org) looks more promising to me. Let me know (if you want) if I understood that wrong.
Generally, I see some interesting developments of communities going towards independence, but I am not ready to bet on that (yet). Hence, I am taking the way of exploring more freedom-oriented countries.
There's a couple of great paragraphs from the 'End of all Evil' by Jeremy Locke that states:
The pattern of liberty progresses every time the lies of culture
are discovered and understood. Though cultures are designed to
maintain tight control of the minds of people so that they cannot
see the tyranny over them, witnessing freedom can break the
bonds nearly instantly. When the violence of dying cultures runs
out and freedom peeks out of every dark place on earth, the
people of the world will begin a competition for freedom.
When there is freedom to move and shop for jurisdictions (the Treaty of UCT), you
will find that people move to freer societies, not stricter ones.
Moreover, elements of evil will gravitate to more restricted
societies because they are easier to exert control over. This is the
final chapter for evil. Technology, communications and wisdom
free people to evade authority, and they will do so with ever
increasing effectiveness.
This is the completion of the pattern of liberty. This is where
evil ends.
That sounds like the plot of The Sovereign Individual: The state will need to compete for people to move there. If this was the case, living conditions in most states would increase rapidly (if they don't, people just leave). However, I am not really seeing this thesis play out. I hope that this will change in the future, but the individual is still fairly bound to their country of origin. Further, I am not sure if the situation that "freedom peeks out of every dark place on earth" will lead to a race towards freedom. We already have some examples of states in the US and whole countries providing way more freedom than others, and I really don't see the longing of the masses for greater freedom. Looking back at the covid time, I see more of a disdain of freedom and a longing for the state to protect them.
Sooner or later, the critical issue of jurisdiction will become self evident. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
We unify against the state by building new high trust decentralized systems where we go to solve problems in groups. The state is the one collective problem we should solve together. Specifically the corruption in our systems. We can build better systems that are harder to corrupt, migrate to them, then use them to fix our corrupt ones.
Great piece but why did you switch the “you” to a “we” halfway through?
The only way out (or in) is individually and the “we” suggests a group movement/responsibilty/accountability.
Thanks, I appreciate it! I see your point with the collectivist view. I use the “we” to sound less lecturing. If I say “you must,” “you should,” or “you cannot,” that creates a similar situation like I described in the beginning: “‘This must be regulated differently!’ ‘That should be forbidden!’ ‘There must be some government intervention!’ Quite a few of the people around us know exactly how everyone else has to live their lives.”
I don’t wanna tell you how you have to live your life, instead “lead by example and invite [my readers] to participate.”
Does this make sense to you?
Yes. But “you” worked previous that.
I also thought about another way, but replacing “you” with “I” (as you the writer leading by example) could be read as annoying and obnoxious.
It ain’t easy getting this type of message across!
Yep, exactly. The "I" sounds a bit too self-centered in my opinion (as you already discerned). Generally, this is not a blog about me and my experiences but timeless principles (from my perspective of course).
I appreciate your suggestion, though. For the next post, I will consider this. Feel free to point out anything else if you notice something.
Please know I was less trying to point anything out and more trying to figure out how to get an important message across to a wider audience.
There are a lot of important messages out there, but as soon as an author switches to “we must for the movement to succeed,” I’m gone!
Agreed, important aspect of voluntaryism is that such a collectivist approach is not the right way.
You can have group problem solving without having groupthink and collectivism. The key is to understanding why sometimes humans behave amazing in groups and build awesome things . And other times they turn into collectivist hellscapes. It is a solvable problem. It starts with Epsitemology. We solve problems in groups. We don’t choose labels.
There is clearly a we. We can protect and honor individualism and still protect the integrity of the systems that govern the we.
Collective problems require collective intelligence to fix, but not collectivism. We can freely decide to share goals. Isn’t that volunteerism’s best use?
All of humanity should want our systems to be nourishing us instead of hurting us.
If we pause the fighting just long enough to do this one thing - unify against corruption - when we resumed we would no longer be fighting. We would be talking, sitting at the same table, solving problem together. Our divide is an orchestrated one, a manufactured one. And despite all of us knowing this, we somehow don’t realize the easy way out is just to come together, and solve this one problem as humanity.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/they-want-us-divided-so-we-must-unify?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post