hedgeless_horseman's Revolutionary Call to Arms
"The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism."
-Murray N. Rothbard
This ZeroHedge comment, today, by JamaicaJim, caught my eye and started me thinking:
New Gallup Poll – Americans Consider Government A Much Bigger Problem Than Guns
JamaicaJimWed, 01/06/2016 - 08:39 | 7004045
That the US Government is corrupt is not the question. They are.
The questions are;
WHAT CAN THE AVERAGE CITIZEN DO ABOUT IT?
HOW CAN THIS BE STOPPED?
For the life me, I do not have those answers.
THAT is the issue; what can someone do?
In the movie, Wayne's World, Garth and Wayne are lying on the hood of the Mirth Mobile and staring up at the stars. Garth whistles the theme to Star Trek, then he says, "Sometimes I wish I could boldly go where no man has gone, but I'll probably stay here in Aurora." Many of us are like Garth, wishing to be bold, and maybe even revolutionary.
But the State isn't very worried. They know that we are far too comfortable, and also too afraid. That we will probably stay right where we are.
But some of us may sense that ours is a false comfort, like the turkey in the days before the holiday.
In today’s keynote luncheon at RIMS 2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, best-selling author of The Black Swan, told the story of a turkey who is fed by the farmer every morning for 1,000 days. Eventually the turkey comes to expect that every visit from the farmer means more good food. After all, that’s all that has ever happened so the turkey figures that’s all that can and will ever happen. But then Day 1,001 arrives. It’s two days before Thanksgiving and when the farmer shows up, he is not bearing food, but an ax. The turkey learns very quickly that its expectations were catastrophically off the mark. And now Mr. Turkey is dinner.
For those of us that don't want to be a turkey, and that seek a way out of our false comfort...that want to be bold and revolutionary...we must also find a way to overcome our fear. FEAR. False Evidence Appearing Real. The best way I know to overcome fear is with knowledge. Knowledge allows us to see false evidence as false. Knowledge also allows us to be bold, and to take action, rather than be timid, staying right where we are. Knowledge enables us to be revolutionary.
"A battle of wits was to be fought, and the Boy in Blue was unarmed to-night."
-Abby Buchanan Longstreet
If we want to be a bold, fearless, and an effective revolutionary, then we need to arm ourselves to-night and train for the fight. To that end, please, allow me to suggest this sequential course of action.
hedgeless_horseman's Revolutionary Call to Arms:
- Read Propaganda, by Edward Bernays.
- Read Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.
- Get rid of your television. Preferably, take it to the dump and destroy it in an extreme and violent fashion.
- Read Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Make a commitment to not use mind-altering substances for 90 days. If you fail, go to an AA meeting and restart the 90 days.
- Read The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve - 5th Edition, by G. Edward Griffin.
- Visit a coin dealer and buy some gold or silver Canadian Maple Leafs.
- Read 1984, by George Orwell.
- Make your very own set of Fallacy Flash Cards from the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
- Hold three fallacious posters accountable on www.zerohedge.com by citing their fallacy.
- Read The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat.
- Make a list of your natural rights.
- Read The Constitution of the United States and The Bill of Rights.
- Read Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
- Research your two senators and one congressman at https://www.opensecrets.org/ Make a list of their 10 biggest donors, and send the list to your "representative" in an email or letter.
- Read War is a Racket, by Smedley D. Butler.
- Read On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, by Dave Grossman.
- Watch the online video of the TED Talk, A radical experiment in empathy, by Sam Richards.
- Read Anatomy of the State, by Murray Rothbard.
- Be a volunteer judge at a high school debate.
I pray that many may find the strength and courage to complete this revolutionary training, and to go boldly where no man has gone.
Peace!
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Organization is important, even with the idea of open sourced everything. We must remember those in power have vast resources and are good at things like sowing descent into the population. The information networks are rife with opportunities to corrupt the masses.
There are ways around this, but they have to be thought out very carefully.
We could all start doing the smart things for good reasons. Money, generally speaking in long terms, aint always a good reason to do stupid shit. It is far more satisfying to do good, or smart things, than more stupid shit for money of all things.
Great things are ours for the effort. This took me just a few weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rusxfrJKAnY
Imagine what somebody smart could do?
Now we can do the things only big money could. Out smarting the rule changers by leaping way out infront in great ways. Tesla did just that. Hennry Ford, too. Just look at the impact them boys had on the planet. Way back when, some cat built the first timepiece. Before that, someone else came up with the wheel. Before that? Well, all we know for sure is the hammer was the first tool.
Those are revolutions. This shit is a never ending pissing contest.
So, I've also been thinking about this and here are few things that have come to mind and a few things that others might be interested in thinking about.
We know about networking with like minded people. The great majority of the time, it's not what you know, it's who you know.
Get into Ham radio and join your local club. Usually a bunch of smart, nice folks with similar mindsets. Also, they generally work closely with local authorities in emergency preparedness, so you might get an inside glimpse into the local workings. Again, you get to meet and network with people who will directly impact you locally.
Go to a CERT training course. Community Emergency Response Teams. Sure, it's funded by DHS and you get on lists, but you're surley on them already, anyway. Again, you get to meet like minded people, and if the training is conducted by the local DHS authorities, you get to meet them and potentially, their friends.
Become a reserve sheriff's deputy. You get training, meet local law enforcement, make some friends, and get a feel for what they think and believe. In addition, you might be able to educate some people along the way.
Read "Why Johnny Can't Disobey" http://www.wnd.com/1999/03/5833/ From near the end of the article. "Unfortunately, most of us have gotten the message that it’s dangerous and costly to be different, and that disobedience requires exceptional courage. With sufficient practice, however, when the need arises, perhaps we may have the strength to force a moment to its crisis."
I think another one of the important points in the article is this, referring to the Milligram experiments on obedience "Most importantly, subjects became disobedient in large numbers only when others rebelled, dissented or argued with the experimenter. When a subject witnessed another subject defying or arguing with the experimenter, 36 out of 40 also rebelled, demonstrating that peer rebellion was the most effective experimental variation in undercutting authority."
One day, you might be that voice, among the Emergency Management Team, among the law enforcement officers, or in your community to keep things from spiralling into a dangerous situation.
This, in addition to "disintermediation" of various systems (I think that's CH Smith's term?).
Anyway, those are a few of the thoughts I had, kind of like agent provacetuer, but in reverse.
Dude, did you even read this article? You're advising becoming an enforcer agent for the state?
Yes, and did you read the bold print? If you are an agent of the state, and state gives orders that would be contrary to the good, say, go collect everyone's guns, or, put everyone in a camp, then you will need to be that voice that stands up and says "no".
Get it?
And between now and then, should that day ever come, you can educate those that are in the state and remind them about their oaths and the constitution, or quote kissenger and what the elites thing of enlisted men, or smedly buttler, or whatever you think they might benefit from learning.
What if because you stood up and said "no", half of the other state agents followed your lead and said "no"? You just single handedly reduced their force by 50% without resorting to violence, and most likely got armed and trained people to come over to your side.
Plus, you get a badge and will probably have a little bit of wiggle room, just like other state agents get, when it comes to minor, or not so minor, infractions.
If you can't beat them, join them, then beat them.
Bold print says rebel, dissent, and argue with authority and peers will follow your example. Not join up with authority and hope to reform it. If you are a cop, you are the authority. You are part of the problem. You are the one called upon to systematically violate people's rights every day, be it a gun grab, evicting a homeowner for failure to pay taxes, or writing a ticket for fishing without a license.
Even if you just drive a desk or get donuts you directly support your law enforcement brothers in committing these same acts. The only way you could wear a badge and be blameless is if you never actually did a single thing in the capacity of deputy sheriff - which is not feasible.
If you were a full time employed cop, then yes, I would agree, you could very well be part of the problem. There are bad cops. And the ability of the state to project their will is dependent on the willingness of the participants to obey and follow their commands and to use force.
From the article:
The Milgram experiments continued with thousands of people — students and non-students, here and abroad — often demonstrating obedience behavior in 60 to 65 percent of the subjects. When the experiments were done in Munich, obedience often reached levels of 85 percent. Milgram found no gender differences in obedience behavior, except that women exhibited more signs of internal conflict. Significantly, Milgram said, “There is probably nothing the victim can say that will uniformly generate disobedience,” since it is not the victim who is controlling the shocker’s behavior. Even when the experimental variations included a victim who cried out that he had a heart condition, this did not lead to significantly greater disobedience. In such situations, the authority figure dominates and the victim’s cries are for the most part ignored.
Milgram’s findings demonstrated that an authority figure’s power had to be somehow diminished before there would be widespread disobedience, such as when an authority was not physically present and his orders came over the telephone, or when his orders were challenged by another authority. Most importantly, subjects became disobedient in large numbers only when others rebelled, dissented or argued with the experimenter. When a subject witnessed another subject defying or arguing with the experimenter, 36 out of 40 also rebelled, demonstrating that peer rebellion was the most effective experimental variation in undercutting authority.
Read that, then re-read that. You need to become a peer.
The point here is that as a reserve deputy, you are privileged to the training, inner workings, and will have contact with those tasked with carrying out or enforcing bad orders or laws. And having access to that system can be beneficial. You could wait to dissent, or you could begin as soon as you are part of the system, learning who are the "bad apples" and bringing it to the attention of the supervisors or civilian authorities or whatever. If you are the one receiving the "shock", like in the experiment, there is likely nothing you can say to stop the person carrying out the orders. Whereas, if you are a peer within the system, you have a much much higher chance of stopping the "shocks" and having others become disobedient.
Just like the state plants agent provacatuers, you would be planting yourself within the state.
And if you don't want to, you don't have to. The post asked for actionable suggestions, and that's what this is, just a suggestion.
I don't dispute the Milgram study's findings. They are astute additions to the discussion and I thank you for raising them. How they can be employed is an entirely another matter.
I challenge your advice that joining up with the police makes any sense as a viable way to achieve freedom. Imagine you were delivering your same advice to the Founding Fathers:
"Don't rebel, dissent, or disobey your British rulers. Instead, join up with their enforcement arm, the British army stationed in the U.S.. Every day as you are raiding the colonists' homes who are rebelling and hauling them off to jail, try to talk your fellow British soldiers into questioning the authority of the King. That way when the orders come to really crack down, maybe all the soldiers will disregard their orders and desert." Yeah, good luck with that.
Or imagine your same advice being given to Germans looking for a means to resist the Nazis: "Join the SS! While you are rounding up people for camps, try to talk your fellow soldiers out of their wicked ways. Then disobey the orders of your superior officer. That will set an example that everyone will rally behind." Yeah, right.
The difference between part time cop and full time cop, the difference between reluctant aggressor and gung-ho aggressor, is only one of degree, not substance. How many hours and in what capacity you will be assaulting people in the name of the state, not whether you will be assaulting people in the name of the state.
If you want to create a close community including privately befriending cops to try to appeal to their human nature to help them see what they are doing is wrong, by all means do so. Becoming a cop, however, cannot advance freedom.
Well, the difference is that you aren't joining them as they are committing the crimes, you are joining them before hand in hopes of preventing them in the first place. And, if not preventing them, then maybe getting some of those who would have blindly followed orders to oppose those orders. The whole purpose of the Milligram experiment was:
"In an effort to understand obedience to malevolent authority that had occurred in Germany, Stanley Milgram devised an experiment to put acts of obedience under his microscope. Milgram attempted to understand why otherwise civilized people had engaged in an extremely immoral act"
And I think you are still missing the whole point. If you dissent from the outside, as the experiments show, you will not be listened to, but if you dissent as a peer, your voice will be heard. The whole point was to dissent, but from a preferential position.
I never advised following illegal orders, rounding people up, or otherwise oppressing citizens. Just the opposite.
There is no before vs. after distinction to be made here. Police already commit crimes every day, right now. They bust a man for smoking a joint (victimless crime). Strip a child away from his parents (state takeover of the family). Kill a guy for selling cigarettes (punishing challenges to police authority). You suggest a liberty lover join and contribute to such activities?
And I understand the Milgram principle very well. It's intuitive. If I join the mafia, contribute my time, energy, and skills to kill people in cold blood as favors for other capos for several years, then of course they will listen to my voice as a peer in a way they never would have if I were just an outsider. And yeah, as one of them, I might even be able to cash in those chips to temper some of their behaviors, but only after I've built up chips to cash in by first committing worse. All in all, I will accomplish nothing to fundamentally put an end to the Mafia racket.
Likewise if I join Goldman Sachs to become an investment banker and spend a career becoming very successful at the art of robbing people of their money, I might end up getting appointed to the Fed where I can use my hard earned credibly as a robber-banker to influence a FOMC vote so they only print $3.99 Trillion instead of $4 trillion. I will accomplish nothing to end the Fed.
It boggles my mind that you suggest not just sleeping with the enemy but outright joining the enemy as a path for a would-be revolutionary. Your argument focuses narrowly on the power that credibility with bad actors affords. It ignores the only way to earn such credibility is to put in time aiding and abetting and becoming a very accomplished bad actor oneself.
If you become a reserve deputy sheriff thinking from that position you will change how police function, you are mistaken. After years of you relentlessly enforcing state dictates on innocents, when the order finally comes down to confiscate guns and you hesitate in any material way much less refuse out of principle, you will be fired, ostracized, and harassed before being prosecuted for dereliction of duty and violation of orders associated with public safety.
I understand your point of being part of a system that is corrupted and contributing to the system. Where was it suggested that by becoming part of the system you would need to actively contribute to the corruption? If you live in the US and pay your taxes, are you not also actively contributing to all the crimes committed not only by the federal government, but also the local police because you are paying property taxes, directly as an owner, or indirectly as a renter?
Why do you insist that by going this route, you must become a "bad actor"? Why do you think you will be arresting people for victimless crimes? It's called discretion, and you could just as easily let someone go who was committing a victimless crime as a "bad actor" could handcuff and beat a person claiming while self defense. You can't control others actions, only your own.
Never was a suggestion made that illegal orders be followed, that people be arrested, or that you yourself become a "bad actor". You could very easily take those liberty principles into the field and lead by example. Additionally, as a reserve deputy, you don't depend on a pay check and have more freedom to speak out or exercise discretion. As Sinclair said "it's hard to get a man to understand something when his pay check depends on him not understanding it".
I'm interested in hearing your suggestions.
You are suggesting you can become a registered, authorized, sworn member of the police force, carry a badge, yet pick and choose which orders you will follow according to your own personal values. Working as a policeman doesn't work that way. It's a hierarchy. You'll have multiple layers of higher ranking police above you telling you what to do. You have some discretion in some grey areas around how you do what you are told, but that's about it.
For example, you might be called upon in your first week of service to provide backup to a team of officers busting into a local man's home at midnight who is under suspicion of smoking marijuana. Will you immediately stand up and refuse to participate because you know drug use is a victimless crime? If so, your police career will be short.
Even then, say you are assigned to only drills, no live duty. What do you think those drills are for? Private criminals never attack en masse. Those drills are to prepare you for when there is a signifigant conflict between the police and "criminals against the state," i.e. the men in Oregon right now. When called upon to do this, will you then stand up and refuse to participate? Or will you drive the police car carrying the police snipers that take them out?
Moreover, let's say you are assigned to something as innocuous as washing police cars. But wait, resources are fungible, so your contributions free up police budget that can be used to obtain the latest cell phone tracking gear so the police can monitor the conversations and movements of your fellow citizens at all times. You have no influence over how these funds are spent, of course. But you helped make it possible. By electing to be part of the team, you can't escape aiding and abetting the team to achieve its overall goals.
The overall goals of the police are to enforce the laws - all of the laws. Including the evil ones. At this point 95%+ of the laws are for victimless crimes, i.e. crimes against the state which are not true crimes. As a policeman, there is no way you can carve out the 5% of the laws that legitimately protect private property. You can't only pursue private criminals. Any more than you can claim you'll work at Taco Bell yet only support healthy food because you'll decline any task except dicing the tomatoes. The Manager won't let you carve out your work responsibilities that way. Even if you could, you'd just free up other employees to serve more processed cheese nachos and other unhealthy food.
Acquiescing to a threat by an aggressor is not comparable to volunteering to join the team of an aggressor. Volunteering to work for the police of your own free will is categorically different than paying taxes, which are involuntary and imposed on you. Taxes are extorted from you under threat of force. The same police force you propose joining will be the ones who will show up at your door to seize your assets and imprison you if you do not comply with all tax laws.
My suggestions would take up a long post of their own but would involve devising non-self-destructive ways to work against unjust authority, dissent from it, non-comply to it, undermine and expose it's facade of legitimacy. Ways that don't aid and abet that authority in the process!
Cool post. I have written before that we cant forget about the virtues of community. The need to be kind. The need to care for others. Giving up our humanity (well... the good side) is not the right way to go. Getting involved in capacities like you mentioned is fantastic.
STOP BORROWING FRN'S
FUCK THEIR MONETARY SYSTEM
No debt. The first step.
Savings, in the form of personally held commodities.
No cable TV - there is plenty of stuff to do apart from watching mass media rotten tripe on the boob tube.
Get off the grid as much as you can - do solar power, LED lighting, minimal appliances.
Shit can most of your entertainment budget - earmark it towards savings in silver and gold. There ain't gonna be any Social Security checks arriving at your door in the brave new world coming.
Learn stuff - how to use hand tools, how to build stuff, repair stuff, dressing out deer or water fowl, preserving food, gardening, blacksmithing, reloading, medical skills, something that will serve you well and others too.
Be a fucking Boy Scout. Be Prepared.
Don't be a sheep, waiting for the bolt gun between the eyes.
+1.
And, my favorite... be a pain the ass to the terminally indoctrinated.
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111
hh, what's your reasoning for preferring canadian maples over american eagles?
if it's just a matter of premium, why not go for austrian philharmonics which are lower premium still?
i will not purchase anything with the queens image on it!!!
buying from the US mint is no better. But I agree about the queen. Her image ruins some of the most beautiful coins. Its a shame brits, maples, and all the aussi coins have her on there. I used to have (boating accident, you know how it goes) some of each, and the reverse side of all of them are very nice
"And whose image is upon this coin?"
They replied, "Caesar's".
Then Jesus answered, "Then render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's."
Personally I will opt for Lady Liberty as I will render my dues to Liberty and Freedom rather than to the hag sitting on the throne in England.
But I do like the purity of the Canadian Gold Coins.
If you read the full context, I'm pretty sure Jesus was saying "You don't owe Caesar shit." To paraphrase.
"Then Jesus answered, "Then render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.""
...so says the Council of Nicene 300 years after the death of Jesus who was controlled by the Emperor.
U.S. Buffalo gold coin. Has images of victims of U.S. government, an Indian and a buffalo. Original property owners and original fauna. Fitting tribute. No authoritarian iconography.
American Eagles are American currency, and arguably they are callable by the bankrupt American government. Maple Leafs and Krugerrands are both widely recognized, and not the currency of my homeland's government.
On the other hand, they are legal tender and can thus be exempted from confiscation under the guise of a coin collection. This is what happened in 1933. Bullion rounds are not exempt as collectibles.
Plus, that maple leaf gives you a warm fuzzy feeling inside. The eagle is, unfortunately, a compromised symbol - has been, since forever and a half ago.
Speaking of a warm-inside feeling, I am told that smugglers prefer the 10 Tola bars, with their smooth-rounded edges.
www.bullionstacker.com for the best prices
I'll never understand the merits of in-the-ass smuggling... Would rather pay duty to take some maples across a border, and some day that will be ill-legal too.
Anyway, good article HH. I just went a couple of months without "mind altering substances." Feels good, but I like my beer. Prost!
sb, you have to see christopher walken and the gold watch, then you will understand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFtHjV4c4uw
hh, thanks for the clarification.
i wouldn't turn over any PMs to the bankrupt govt even if they asked me to, i'd rather go up to canada and sell eagles there if it came down to it.
but it's an interesting point to consider.
There is a better way.
Pictures or it didn't happen.
posted upthread or downthread?
Perhaps too cryptic. Translation: What's the better way of which you speak?
Induce a stall. Bring this whole show to a screaching halt. Buy a simple strike all of it stops. Its the real labor that makes it work. Unfortunatly it is not working for the ones doing the real work. In Poland one strike did it rather painlessly Its worth noting. The Berlin Wall came down in one night. The first night the guards stopped holding the regular people back. No tanks, guns, A10s none of that stuff. No they did it in style! With beer and music,dancing in the streets. Ask anyone there it was a great time.
This system is failing as it was set up too. A reset is coming. Me I dont want a repete of this cycle. Lets just do the good things instead? The stall takes the ability to use force down to a much less insane level. Then we will need to get busy moving in a new dirrection. Open source is very good and opens things up for everyone. The key being the lack of force needed to make it all go, I guess its like that thing about being a grown up. Its not a date like the 18th birthday. Its the day one gets ok with doing what one should without being told what when or how. Then doing it and doing it well.
Me I dont like how we do the transportation thing. So I will show how I think it should be. If you like it great download the files. If you dont thats ok too. Do your own or buy whatever suits you. Most of the choices we make are made by force. We would make much better choices without that force.
PS What you guys think of my car? Pretty cool hu. Its going to ge scaled up to real size one day. The back half is at the printers now.
I think what you're suggesting (if I understand it correctly) is already happening to a very large degree. Those in power really screwed up when they commercialized the internet. They were probably high on power thinking that since they can see everything and shut down any router at will, they'd be able to control it. What they didn't understand were the unintended consequences of allowing the point-to-point, virtually free, geographically irrelevant, instant communications between any two people on the planet. Now there is way too much information for them to be able to control and they've given the intelligent people on the planet the ability to out-think them. And the masses aren't even organized yet. Just wait until they get organized!
The problem I see with what you're suggesting is that yes, it would work, but enough of the masses have to be educated toward a common goal before they'll move as a unit. Until that happens, they're easy to dominate using the same old tactics - fear, uncertainty, doubt, violence, etc.
If you're curious about a way to organize such an open source system, see sapiocracy.com.
There might not be any need to get all that organized. One problem with getting organized is the leadership can be corrupted as we have seen. It has indeed already started in the open source community they clearly can see it. The only question is can it reach critical mass before the clowns can start the war to enslave the planet.
If all the grown up were on the same page it would be very interesting to see. Good luck corrupting a leaderless revolution.
I dont need a leader or anyone else to tell me what needs to be done. Thats something best done by sound reason and logic. Because great ideas dont need to be forced on good people. Like AC power was such a great idea nothing could stop it. So to with the idea of doing everything just plain old better.
Bit buy bit these open source folks are gaining ground. Its very refreashing to see people that know they dont need to lie about any aspect of it. They just lead by example and others rather than following a leader walk along as equals. Dont follow me walk right beside us as we do the good things using as little force as possible.
That 3d printer is a great tool. Some day it might have as good an impact on society as the hammer or AC power. Although it has its limits being that its a prototyping system for now. Its only going to get faster and more capable rather quickly.
Using my car as an example. It can be printed on a printer 6x6x4 in segments. Open source so it can be customized to the needs of the buyer. As it should be because we are grown ups and will make up our own minds about whats best for me only. Thats the easy thing to sell. Free choice works best.
I will pop in and check out that website you got. It sounds interesting.
I believe you're wrong about not needing a lot of organization. The opponent in this case has vast wealth and organization. You have to fight that somehow. People without leadership are like cats - they won't form a strong enough force as a whole.
Also, be very careful about trusting "open source." Just because you think you can see all of the source code doesn't mean you can see all of the machine code and it does nothing for embedded hardware or compromised peripherals. In other words, it isn't completely "open source" unless you know what all of the hardware systems are doing at the machine level. Human-readable source is only one part of a multi-part system. Those in power have known this since the 1960's. (eg: Look up Multics and USAF studies. Then look up "compiler virus." Much of it is redacted in the 1972 study, but there's enough in there to indicate that the USAF was very aware of the biggest vulnerabilities. With enough research you can detect that these kinds of things are scrubbed from university curriculums.)
I'm not going to argue about who needs to be told what to do. Unfortunately, the majority of people do respond to being told what to do and that is a significant strategic factor. It is relatively easy for those with organization to tell the masses to do something and enjoy the fruits of their success. That's largely the problem we have right now. My solution is to normalize everyone's opportunity to contribute and structure the system such that anyone has only themselves to blame for not being in control of their own situation. By the way, if you cooperate with a group, human nature forces the inevitability that you will have to compromise - you cannot escape this; it is math.
The open source guys are gaining ground, but not in the most important/powerful areas (mainly because they do not yet understand that they're partially blind because of their naive trust of "open source.") There are ways around these problems, but in order to understand them, you have to first understand the blind spots and that's unfortunately way beyond the pay grade of most computing professionals.
You're right about new technologies like 3D printing. They're still in their infancy. They can also be used to do fabrication that is literally impossible through any other means, like printing arbitrarily shaped sintered tungsten alloys.
Yep I noticed the they dont have their stuff all that together just yet. The parts they dont get are few and so far they seem very receptive to good questions. One of the things I look for is the ability to say. I dont know. That makes the learning curve alot shorter.
Excelent post. You have given me some good things to think about. Thats rare these days.
No worries. Intelligent conversation is fun. And rare.
The Berlin wall thing was rather an interesting event in both speed and will. Its to bad there is not more first hand accounts of it.
Just another rehashing of the same process that's been going on for thousands of years. I'm ready for a real change.
Step 1 The stall. Taking the beasts ability to use overwhelming force off the table.
Step 2 Barter town to set true values.
Step 3 An open source society that does most things in the open without forcing it on everyone.
Read the Constitution? What in blazes does the document establishing America's 1789 military coup have to do with real freedom?
Oh, so you're more of a supporter of totalitarian monarchy then? Buffoon.
Totalitarianism is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.[1] Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda campaign, which is disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that is often marked by political repression, personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror.
......and your unenlightened point is (rhetorical question); oh and that means I do not require you to answer.....in fact I insist on it!
Ha, you just described every so called "Western Democray".
I believe that was the entire point of his post...
Put it this way, the mafia have nothing on our governments, it's just a question of perceived legality!
More under-reported real news your governments (Mafiosi) would rather you did not see, because they helped facilitate it......
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2016/01/1000-depraved-migrants-ra...