Many people see injustice in the world and vigorously seek to remedy it. They travel to far away distant lands to right some of the myriad wrongs daily committed. While this is certainly commendable, I believe there is a far better way to improve the world. It is far easier to direct, command, and micro-manage other people. It is far easier to tell them how they should live their lives according to our provincial understanding of their experience. It is far more difficult to recognize the faults and imperfections in one’s own character and strive to remedy that. If you truly want to improve the world, present it with one thoroughly improved unit, yourself. Do not ask that others emulate your life, rather endeavor to live a life worthy of emulation. People recognize value when they see it.
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.
Voltaire
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
The crowning achievement of civilization is the power of human mind. It is the greatest tool and natural resource available to us. It is what transforms every other natural resource available to us. It is what has lifted us out of the Dark Age of fear, abject poverty, shortened life spans, and high infant mortality. Through the cumulative ingenuity of countless intrepid entrepreneurs and inventors, Free Market Capitalism has provided an abundance of wealth that has catapulted our comfort and standard of living into the stratosphere. Our lives are no longer threatened by trivial infections or the natural world.
The only remaining threat to our existence is our own rigid authoritarian dogma. We are held back by those individuals who obstinately to cling to barbaric notions of domination and violence. The power hungry control freaks clamor incessantly about the need to be afraid of your neighbor, this religion, or that group. They declaim that the only panacea is to give them more currency and more power over your life. They are the horse and buggy carriage that vainly endeavors to rationalize its existence in a world of spacecrafts and Maglev trains. Its irrelevancy is becoming more apparent with each glorious innovation. In a world of bustling productivity, it is not necessary to fight evil with violence. Simply strip it of its power by inundating it with a tsunami of innovation. It will be unable to stand its ground and will be forced to retreat back into the abyss from whence it emerged, utterly defeated without a shot fired.
Please enjoy my recent conversation with Shane Buell. Herein we discussed his path to Voluntaryism, Danilo being his “Red Pill” to anarchy, Seeds of Liberty, as well as some of Shane’s favorite pages to admin for; Psychologic Anarchist, Anarcho-Consciousness, The Pull out Method, and his newest page Autonomous. We also covered; Facebook friend requests and paranoia, converting government agents and Bernie supporters, speaking from conviction and having no fear, Luis Mises from Emancipated Human, controlling emotional reactions, logical and moral consistency, Ron Paul, Agorism, Counter-Economics, New Libertarian Manifesto, Statism – Backwordz, eradicating the belief in illegitimate authority, the synergy of philosophy with psychology and spirituality, Sterlin Luxan‘s Relationalism and Compassionate anarchy, repeating ourselves every 6 months when deprogramming another semester of new anarchists, unschooling and deconditioning, meditation and yoga, combining philosophy with psychology and spirituality for freedom of the body, mind, and spirit, Philosophy, Spirituality, and Liberty, Melissa Rajkovich, Taxation is Theft, religion and spirituality, our preference for Christian anarchists over “atheist” statists, Statism is the most dangerous superstition, being humble and consistent at The altar of Logic and Reason, voluntaryism as a philosophy based in humility, Voting Is Violence, govern yourself, how watching politicians debate is like a torture scene from Clockwork Orange, Evolution, not revolution, peaceful nonviolent resistance vs fake anarchist window breakers, and alternatives to police like Cell 411 and Dale Brown’s Viper Threat Management and more!
Resolve to serve no more and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over but simply that you support him no longer. Then you will behold him like a great colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.
-What kind of practical application or layman’s perspective can be laid out?
-Why do parents own their children?
-How the assertion of control and comprehension dictates responsibility for one’s actions.
-Why it is necessary to seek greater clarity which leaves nothing open for interpretation.
-And how self-ownership is recognized in fictional stories that so many of us love.
The ability to invoke a concept is rarely enough to maximize the usage of that idea to the benefit of Humanity; both as a whole and as individuals. We can claim to own ourselves and be free from tyranny but are we truly free when we simultaneously assert some ideologically clouded idea to intervene into the lives of others for their own good?
Consistency with the application of ideas is paramount if we want to be considered by others to be respectful and insightful enough for the consideration of pursuing voluntary connections with. Without voluntary connections trust cannot be truly created. Beneath the shadow of legalities trust is only there to avoid the ridiculous annoyance of the state. And so, without the creation of true voluntary trust the strongest form of loyalty can never be cultivated.
This is the importance of understanding self-ownership. Our failures to understand the ideas we invoke lead us to glass ceilings we know as government. No matter the thickness or duration the government has been crafted for, it need not exist if we understood more as a whole species the purpose of self-ownership.
