Libertarians must be obsessed about liberty now.
Talk to people everywhere. Pass out flyers. Print out business cards. Make a website. Start a newspaper. Rent a billboard. Make songs and movies about freedom.
You might be the last one defending freedom, but you must live with your conscience.
@Zardoz @prisondoc @freepatriot The Parasite knew quite well they wouldn’t get too far in the American milieu while anchored to Traditional Monarchy; Thomas Jefferson and his “Life and Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth” is emblematic of precisely the sort of project they were going for — cut out anything/everything suggestive of Divine/Supernatural provenance in the Gospel narrative - turning the Son of God into a good-natured-yet-rebellious carpenter with a philosophical bent.
The Talmud commands tbat Jews obey the sovereign Lord. The relationship of Jews to soverign power is one where sovereigns benefitted by having Jews squeeze the people, and then provided the sovereign with a scape-goat when the people had enough Jew shennanigans.
Rinse and repeat.
@Zardoz @prisondoc @freepatriot They did; as did most of Europe’s monarchs. It is very much cyclical.
But the American Republic didn’t fare much better - and itself fell to the “80 Year Curse” by the time of the American Civil War.
Republics are a lamentable compromise, which start out pretty good - but end up selling out the great-grandkids. Hard Localism would undoubtedly be better 😄
IMHO in this reality, God has set up mechanisms for CHURN. Neither shining cities on the hill, nor towers of Babel have staying power. For there to be free-will, there must be choices, so neither the angels or devils are allowed to perfect their kingdoms. There must be CHURN for free-will to thrive.
God has had to create an entire infinite universe to establish these conditions for free-will.
@Zardoz @prisondoc @freepatriot CHURN is a good word for it. You’re spot-on the entire scope-and-span of human history is perfectly coherent with the notion of an Almighty God creating ideal conditions for billions of free-willed agents to make up their own minds whether to love the Creature or the Creator 🙏🏻
What is drawing me to Christianity closer and closer is the thread of Christianity that is interested in discovering God's Law not ESTABLISHING God's law.
Eternal Law is as close to Truth as we can get on Battlefield Earth, and there is a part of Christianity that teaches humility and "meekness" (in the old definition of meek) for revealing God's Eternal Law.
This is stark contrast to the (self-acknowledged) arbitrary absurdity of Judaism, The cruelty of Islam, and the Nihilism of secular humanism.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica — as I slowly, awkwardly develop an Orthodox Christian phronema (worldview/mindset), I’m reevaluating my political beliefs. Was raised conservative Mormon, rebelled into post-9/11 progressivism, fled woke ideology, was drawn to voluntaryism, and then “culture is upstream of politics” played a part in planting myself in the Orthodox church. Now I’m re-exploring ideas like autocephaly and monarchy, and would like to learn more about localism.
@MountainJay @prisondoc @Zardoz @freepatriot Learning about Localism is really only a little bit of abstract theory, and a lot of learning practically about how to live meaningfully and productively with your literal neighbors in your specific geographical area. Putting down roots, getting involved in the community, and becoming indispensible - that sort of thing.
Sometimes what gets missed is the ability to discern and resist outside threats - like datacenters or other NIMBYs. But those are again rather particular to your own near region.
If Our Guys went out of their way to simply get to know who their White neighbors are, and be on speaking terms / first name basis, they will already be way ahead of the curve.
The Modern World works hard to keep us in isolation.
@MountainJay @prisondoc @Zardoz @freepatriot I’m still very much a Traditional Monarchist - but that’s what my sense of Localism is based on; or maybe more accurately they’re based on each other. A wise king has much to gain and little to lose from many strong healthy Localist settlement/cities.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica — seems I’m on the right track then, having dove into those practical aspects for several years now. Parish life is especially grounding in that regard. The prolific breeding of our Muscovy ducks has helped, too. 🤣
Unfortunately, as you say, resistance to incursions like data centers and flocking seem to be pretty weak, even in this conservative, rural area with a surprising number of “don’t tread on me”-type flags and bumper stickers.
@MountainJay @prisondoc @Zardoz @freepatriot The way things are now, such vulnerability is by design. I know of no “permanent” solution, in this milieu - as it seems the primary motivation for the State in permitting any local flourishing is to provide fodder for what could be best described as a form of dekulakization. They come to reap, eventually.
The only universal advice I could think to offer is to support and encourage the fighting-age men to organize and practice all sorts of redacted activities - such that, when said reapers come, the Local community can make it hurt.
In many (not all) jurisdictions, however, having a solid bloc of committed sympathetic attorneys familiar with the ins-and-outs of property rights, zoning laws etc etc - is still plenty sufficient. The details of all that are quite fuzzy to me, but I completely understand the need.
Eventually, solid organized Localities that survive things like massive upheavals and civilizational collapse are well-poised to become autonomous city-states.
