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In the future...

Bitcoin will protect our property rights.

Nostr will enable our free speech.

3D print will guarantee our self defense.

But for sovereign individuals to survive and thrive we need to imagine the institutions that will allow us to live in a free, open and voluntary society. Where cooperation and trade are not dictated from above by kings and parliaments, but built bottom up and constantly evolving to fit our needs.

Some authors like Vernor Vinge (The Ungoverned), Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) or Heinlein (The Moon is a harsh Mistress) have tried to imagine what would replace nation states and governments in a voluntary society.

Others like David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom), Murray Rothbard or Bruce Benson have theorised.

More have studied what institutions historical stateless or decentralised societies used for conflict resolution and to provide the services that we have come to rely on the state for.

Solutions and ideas are out there. But how to go from idea to reality? How to meme a freer world into existence?

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Flix 5d ago

What is clear to me is that without a conscious, determined effort to build a new order, even with the freedom potential of the tools we are building, we will just replace the people at the top of the centralised hierarchy with new rulers.

I don't have the answers.

Flix 5d ago

One idea I have that has the chance to spread libertarian, ancap and agorist ideas to a much wider audience is to adapt books awarded with the Prometheus award to popular media. TV, movies, shorts, series...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Award

When people see something working, even if it's in fiction, it becomes much more real to them than any theory.

Of course Hollywood would never faithfully adapt 'The Ungoverned' or 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'... but in recent times the scope of what can be done through crowdfunding, independent creators, or with AI has broadened.

Original ideas are in demand. I see a huge untapped deposit of them in libertarian literature. It smells like a market opportunity to me.

Flix 5d ago

Hey nostr:nprofile1qqswft34d8euqh383rns727g6dmhu8styneuglznjk28zkj7u0fuaygpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuenjv93hgctvd9ax2epwdejhgr9x3ac this seems like something that you might be interested in.

DarthCoin ₿⚡️ 5d ago

Not in our lifetime...

Yes we've spark a little light of hope with bitcoin and other stuff, but is not enough.

People are (still) too stoopid for this stuff and will take another generation until something like a real free world will come.

I am more inclined to think that the world as it is today is going on the wrong direction and all our effort is in vain.

Is more like who survive longer now...

Flix 5d ago

We don't need to do it all in our lifetimes, just start it.

If we can build a few citadels, they can serve as examples for the next generation.

But yes, the near future looks grim. Survival and saving what we can should be the priority for now.