yeah, while the government is effective, it is dangerous to try to take its territory away from it

but we have to congregate, there is many aspects to the why of this but a big one is network effect and being able to more effectively drive adoption of bitcoin payment systems, as well as - importantly - providing services to enable them

no need to outright declare sovereignty, better to just quietly get everyone in the village on board and interdependent, even the local police and town council, and it becomes easier to expand the zone of freedom

in Robert Greene's book, i forget how far in maybe Law 12 or something says that it's better to be the advisor to the king than teh king - the one who takes the blame is at more risk of contest whereas the ones who whisper in his ear can hold power more easily

adopting a similar approach, to not front the power structure but rather to just kindly and friendly ingratiate yourself and bring friends who also take this softly softly approach is the way to go, then we can have a more potent impact and increase our freedom by sharing in it with others who don't fully understand what's behind the movements - they just trust the movers