I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up.

[chriscase]

My name is Chris Case and I've been listening to Free Domain Radio since 2012.  Free Domain Radio has really helped me to tap into a far more logically consistent way of perceiving and relating to reality than I'd previously been aware of.  

 

Before I had encountered Stefan's videos, I was a minarchist, pulled in by the Ron Paul movement, before that I would have identified more as a liberal, if only by default, because I didn't agree with what the republican controlled STATE was doing, in the wake of the events of 9/11 and this was also what many of the professors I looked up to in college were pushing.  

 

It took awhile to sort it all out; but I found that the clarity I gained, through listening to Stefan and similar thinkers such as Hoppe, helped me to understand things from the ground up.  I feel as if I am standing on a firm foundation now and for that I am eternally grateful.

 

I was relatively unaware of anarcho-capitalism, until about 2012, when I came across Stefan's work.  Prior to that I had focused primarily on survivalism, parenting and preparedness.  In fact, I used to listen regularly to The Survival Podcast with Jack Spirko and I learned a great deal from him; though I found this could only take me so far.  

 

It didn't take but a couple of months of turning over the ideas and turning over in my sleep, before I became completely comfortable with this anarcho-capitalist stance on societal organization; with the idea that society could and should be run without the monopolistic entity often referred to as the STATE.

 

Now I see the idea, that the state is an essential aspect of society, as patently ridiculous, and I feel as if I understand why I believed in it for so long.  I believed in it because I was conditioned, from a very early age, to believe that the STATE was the tool for bettering humanity.  It was a play on my own empathy.  I was conditioned enough to believe that serving the state and working through the state was the way to better the world.  Now I understand that NOTHING could be further from the truth.

 

Changing over to being an anarcho-capitalist caused a huge weight to be lifted off of my shoulders.  No longer did I see political action and concern over the doings of the state to be a worthwhile pursuit.  That's not my problem anymore, trying to work within a broken system.  Instead, I focus more on my own pursuits, on those I CHOOSE to associate with: developing my own mind, my own expression, alternative ways of thinking and doing, outside of the statist sphere.  

 

Its a great deal of work; but its far more effective than anything I've ever done in the political sphere: waving placards, signing petitions, writing my CONgressman, etc.

Now I'm trying to better myself, better my family life, better my children and better my financial/professional situation; so I can create my OWN freedom, rather than begging at the feet of the rulers. 

 

I have QUITE a history, which I'd love to share with you in the due course of time.  I want to open up in a place where I'll be understood.  I am tired of places like facebook, where there's such a mixed bag.  I find that many of the people I have encountered there are interesting; but often are too flaky to really get anywhere with.  I want to develop real friendships, real relationships that mean something.  I am so tired of these people who don't know themselves and just waste my time and leave me holding the bag.

[ancapzeebo]

I was a wretched statist for most of my life before turning to minarchism.  Stef also helped me wake up to anarcho-capitalism.  Welcome aboard, brother.