Taking Action

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freedom_seek Posted: Mon, Feb 9 2009 11:43 AM

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pairunoyd:

Everyone has an excuse. They sit back and discuss anarchy, libertarianism and the state but never do anything about it. Excuses abound!

Exactly.  It is one thing to discover that you are a sheep or that you are locked in a fancy air conditioned cage.  It is another to say I will risk the comfort I now experience for something less certain.  Maybe a website or a system can be created that takes us beyond these armchair discussions, and into the real world. 

Democracy is about ever so slowly tightening the chains of tyranny around the neck of a decent person.  We should be about gently filing away at these chains not talking about filing them away, but actually filing them away.   

Here is the pattern:

• Someone suggests a solution (Hey! Has anybody thought about doing X.  OR I think we should do Y.)
• People respond with agreement, disagreement, ask clarifying questions, or offer suggestions.
• Nothing happens.  No one gets together.  No one starts to outline how the venture could be accomplished.  No one starts to complete a list of action items.

How do we fix this?  The Mises website does an amazing job of outlining the problem and even some solutions.  However, this does not seem like the place to begin acting upon the knowledge gained.  We can find others here, but system for implementing this needs to be developed.

Requirements of the Freedom System:

• Voluntary
• Private
• Defensible (both intellectually and physically)
• Defensive (non-coercive)
• Scalable (one or one billion people should be able to independently implement the solution)
• Ubiquitous (anyone, anywhere, any language, any current government)
• Distributed (loss of one does not imply the loss of all)
• Perpetual (the system must last as long as humans exist)
• Self healing (erosions of freedom should be mended as soon as they develop, accounts for human failure and imperfection)
• Contagious (the system must reproduce itself)
• Autonomous (self-contained, modular, flexible, self-regulated)
• Low Barrier to Entry (a person with few resources should be able to implement it)

Depending on how you look at this list some of these requirements could be derived from each other.  Let me know if you think something is missing or that I'm crazy or whatever.   

Free yourself first.