kalmia Posted June 7, 2013 Posted June 7, 2013 I have been thinking a lot about the idea of how the only way for the free society to form will be for small communities of those who believe in the NAP will expand out. Much of what has given the state its power is the tools it uses to divide us, and those of us who believe in freedom are isolated and lack community. Of course FDR resolves some of the beginnings of this. If we think of how our brains function, they still operate with some primitive tribal functions including the number of people who we consider as part of our group. See Dunbars Number. We limit what we allow ourselves to consider based on tribal approval. Those who go into far out ideas like the ones discussed here, often are the types who have faced some sort of tribal rejection in the past. Having a group that is accepting of expanding our minds into ideas that are inconvnient to the power structures is necessary. We will always have that self censoring going on when we feel the need for approval from those who don't accept us. I have also listened to some audiobooks by Seth Godin. Tribes and We Are All Weird are useful for the purpose of this topic. HIs idea is that people best organize ow days around joining up with others like them rather than someone trying to impose an idea on the masses and changing their minds. FDR has in many ways formed in the way Seth Godin describes. Stefan put his ideas out, and those that understood and accpted their validity were drawn to him. Many other Internet communities have also formed like this. Look at social networking. It functions with this idea. I have been thinking of what defines a free society and where there are overlaps with groups that are kind of in there but not. For example libertarian fundy Christian types, liberals who accept some amount of peaceful parenting, CopBlock people, gun owners etc. There are many groups, and the overlap will be stronger with some than it will be with others, but drawing this up and determing the overlap will be very useful. I have not exactly seen this done as I am imagining, but I want to do it if it hasn't been done. It really needs to be open source as no one will get everything. I haven't yet drawn this up, but it's more of an ever-changing drawing in my head. If you have somethings to add, please do. Even coming up with lists of overlapping communities would be helpful. We could all work from this diagram in the future. I am thinking that we need to have somewhat local communities, and if we think of our social brains, that needs to be 50-150 people. If they get larger than that, they will fracture a bit, and there is nothing wrong with that. I think this is doable in larger metro areas. What portion of the population will have these people is another thing to consider. I imagine somehwere between 1 in 10,000 and 1 in 100,000. But this is mostly a guess based on what I have seen personally. I am not thinking self sustaining isolated communities at least at first. Think more along the lines of a club or church. People are connected to it, but they belong to other communities outside of it. As it builds, there will be more reason to do things within the community and the power of social ostracism will become greater.
In the belly of the beast Posted June 13, 2013 Posted June 13, 2013 Neat idea. I wonder if the Venn diagram approach might be too messy, however (unless inset/zoomed-in areas could be used where there is too much overlap). What would a taxonomic web look like? Here's an interesting ideological graph that I found. Broad, being too general for your project, but I thought it was a nice starting point for speaking with those not very familiar with libertarianism and voluntarism/anarcho-capitalism: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ViFzxqJ50Sc/TNPXWbbssNI/AAAAAAAAAAU/iGtq6d9tYUg/s1600/Scope%20of%20Government.jpg
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