"How do we coexist with a majority that wants to be ruled and seeks to have us submit?"
Might have to write a post on that.
Or a book.
Or 3.
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"How do we coexist with a majority that wants to be ruled and seeks to have us submit?"
Might have to write a post on that.
Or a book.
Or 3.
LOL, I wish it were a simple question to answer! The more I grow and understand, the more I believe it will take us liberty lovers walking away and forming our own society. We cannot coexist with them. Our best option then is to strike out on our own either to new lands, leased lands, or other planets perhaps. :)
All I care is that I die defending individual liberty and I do it surrounded by those doing the same (my friends). If that happens, I'll die with a smile on my face. I will not submit, and I would rather die beside my friends than beneath tyrants!
Hello finnian,
Like old Patrick Henry said, I gotta be free or dead.
I'm 59 years old and it seems I've always had an advanced grasp of my own mortality. I can remember as a child of ten years age speaking out against the Vietnam War. My perception(s) then and now are likely an accrual accounting of suffering seamlessly inflicted since birth. Consequently, I can't speak to the transformation capacity of others. I'm inclined to pity those who have never suffered. Nothing I've endured has ever made me weaker. I am blessed by an absence of fear and a love for truth that sustains me.
My experience in human life-form has been a conscious struggle for survival under the foot of psychopaths commencing with parental and societal constructs. There was no differentiation from any point in youth to present day and I sense common ground with your seeming indictment of a "majority" that are committed to defending their comfort zone of suffering. It is true that the majority has the inertia of a deer in the headlights, and is openly hostile to anyone such as yourself that doesn't embrace the "chickenshit conformity" of collective egoism. But what exists in "society" that programs anything conducive to enlightenment?
I know that suffering is caustic to ego and that pain levels are rising; enlightenment will arise when the collective ego (story) thrashes in its final confrontations. An empty belly has a way of returning the noble brute to consciousness. It's not that the "majority" is unlearned so much as it has forgotten the original state. That state before they were pulled aside and taught that it wasn't enough to just be, but that they must be some"thing" (story).
As yet their suffering under collective ego (story) is constant but exposure to your message of real freedom carries with it the truth that individual accountability is the price for that freedom. They prefer what they know, not what they have forgotten. They must be made to remember. Conditions will arise where by default they will have to live deliberately or perish. I have come to perceive, that no campaign of product, price, place and promotion will "sell" freedom to the herd. They will only reach for it as last resort. My life experience of suffering has not afforded me an understanding of how they arrived at such a dysfunctional state. I know that enlightenment can not be withheld or given away, it can only be accepted from within. They have the choice to awaken in the present moment, and so far they reject it.
The bottom line is, you are correct in recognizing that as an individual you must invoke reason to calculate opportunity costs for interacting with those who not only reject freedom but collectively initiate aggression against you. Distance is rational, misanthropy is rational, and I think it is of primary importance to remind ourselves and others that there is no separateness. When the collective stories have collapsed, and materialism dissipates into hunger, those of us who have established voluntary relationships will be highly visible. What will become of us then?
I think in these strange days it is essential that voluntaryists act expediently and efficiently to exercise our virtue of selfishness lest we fall short of establishing enough network/resources to help anyone but ourselves. Time is not on our side. I myself am intent to become a naturalized citizen of the Lawful Hawaiian Government and renounce my US citizenship. It confronts me less that my future obstacles are characterized by aggression initiated by the unlawful US government. Like old Patrick Henry said, I gotta be free or dead. I will never submit to tyranny.
Thank you for sharing your insights. I believe you have identified a great deal of common ground. Enjoy Anarchapulco 2019.
Woodchuck Pirate
aka Raymond J Raupers Jr USA