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OldBenjaminNOMORE Posted: Fri, May 11 2012 6:51 PM

If so, what are you doing to spread the word of less government, and more importantly, what are you doing to spread the idea of anarchism?

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The personal is the political. I plan on living as state-free as possible for now. I participate in agorism in New Hampshire. After I've completed learning primitive survival skills I plan on homesteading a few acres to live on. I also campaigned for Ron Paul in NH.

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What am i doing? I'm living my life. Period. I do it without the help of the state. I spend every day trying to better myself. If people have questions for me i give them my opinion and source to look up. I have little interest in spreading the message to people that really have no interest in it. I'll state my opinion and leave it at that. If it confuses or shocks someone, then i'll explain myself. Over time i have seen friends start to gain interest due to my lack of "shoving it in their face" style like many others have. That's my biggest issue with Paul supporters, Spamming Ron Paul 2012 or trying to debate everyone that disagrees with them is unproductive.

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Williamloveseconomics:
That's my biggest issue with Paul supporters, Spamming Ron Paul 2012 or trying to debate everyone that disagrees with them is unproductive.

Well, I agree, if you're style of debating is just shouting the other guy down. But I would say having a civil debate is very important for winning people over. One of the major reasons I abandoned socialism is watching my socialist classmates debate my Libertarian professor in college. He offered reason, they offered emotion and namecalling. It was enough to get me to look into the other side.

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Williamloveseconomics:
What am i doing? I'm living my life. Period.

Uh.  Great.  What the heck does that have to do with being politically active?

 

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Williamloveseconomics:
What am i doing? I'm living my life. Period.

Uh.  Great.  What the heck does that have to do with being politically active?

The personal is the political. Agorism is the same way.
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Aren't you supposed to be in the woods by now?

 

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I am not, nor do I make any effort to spread anarchism

"As in a kaleidoscope, the constellation of forces operating in the system as a whole is ever changing." - Ludwig Lachmann

"When A Man Dies A World Goes Out of Existence"  - GLS Shackle

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bloomj31 replied on Sat, May 12 2012 10:57 AM

Sometimes I get it into my head that I'd like to be more involved.  At that point I start doing research into exactly where I could begin to plug myself in so to speak.   Usually after looking into the amount of work I'd have to be doing (most of it as a volunteer or for very low pay because I'm underqualified) I give up and go back to playing video games and playing around on the internet.  I'm just too damn lazy to be politically active.

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Aren't you supposed to be in the woods by now?

Do you know all the reasons why I can't be in the woods now?

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Freedom4Me73986:
Do you know all the reasons why I can't be in the woods now?

Because you need technology and you've shunned that?

 

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