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Bro.
You are doing it wrong.
No government. This is the only solution.
No steppingstone mentality is needed.
Discussion
Few are as anti-statist as I am, but we must offer realistic solutions, and what I have said is not even a realistic solution.
The most realistic thing that will happen to them is that they will be subjugated as always.
Fair enough. But I see your solution as a stepping stone with the same narrative, a state as a solution.
I think the first step is to dare to think bigger, to dare to see the horizon as it could be.
Like Thoreau's take:
"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. "
'When prepared for it'
That's an important point to keep in mind IMO
I am very pessimistic. People are not ready to be free. Just look at COVID, just look at how many people participate in the farce of democracy, or how few people embrace hard currency.
I always give the example of gold. For over 100 years, people have had the opportunity to achieve financial freedom simply by saving in gold, and how many have done so?
And now we're asking them to do it with Bitcoin? Only the elite save in Bitcoin.
How are we going to ask them to form a society without masters and not fall into chaos?
Separating the monopoly of force (the army) from the state would already be a huge step, and obviously it's not going to happen.
True.
But the thinking needs to be straight. Not what we want people to do, but what you are doing and saying needs to be on point, and to what future you want to see.
It's all about the thinking, the mind virus. And it's starts with you and what you say and think.
Changes don't come from steppingstones, it happens in big leaps.