The most refreshing Substack to read is yours. Some guy was hammering away, calling me all kinds of things, yesterday for one of your posts I restacked. I finally went over to his account and it said, "not a bot" to which I thought....defnitely a bot...block. LOL. I don't understand why this concept is so hard to see for people....unless you've lived under a rock, the past 5 years have shown us, a piece of paper means nothing, no matter who wrote it or its intent when tyrannical overlords want to bulldoze over, they will and the billions they spent on propaganda and marketing to convince people to stay home alone and mask up is experiential proof....but yeah, those same people in the same system are suddenly going to relinquish their thirst for power and greed and put the people's best interest at heart...never going to happen....even in a landslide! Onward...do no harm, take no shit....Great work as always!
Thank you so much, and very well said in every regard.
I try to be understanding when people yell, when they are coming from a patriotic place. I was there once, and I understand the fear and anger and cognitive dissonance that these revelations produce. But still, some people are so rude about it, and that is just not needed!
The problem, Angela, is this is a philosophical declaration with no answers and it holds no one accountable for coup attempt in American government. People might be mad because this is like saying, "You've been evicted," when you live there and you pay the mortgage every month on time. The other issue with this are people who actually put their bodies in harms way on Constitutional principle. I'm not afraid of those people. I'm afraid of cowards who say "civil war is over" before a single shot enters the diaspora because their battle plan is to lay prone without an iota resistance to criminal oligarchy. They never really believed they were Constitutional stakeholders in the first place. Even if, legally, they possessed all the rights and privileges of American Constitutional citizenship.
They are only in “default” if you contract and give them authority over you. What is immoral and corrupt by its existence cannot simultaneously be moral. Legal is not lawful. Everything is an offer that requires consent.
Angela, tell me in plain terms how you intend to enforce this contract. Then I will tell you, if you have any real stake, it might actually involve some form of a fight -either legal or physical- where force is involved so that you shall not be robbed.
I found myself thinking this morning about something my fellow firefighters said to each other about 15 years ago, we stopped saying “Stay safe”, and started saying “Be Brave”, when we parted. There is no safety in life. It can be taken in a minute. No police officer should come to work thinking he is going to be safe. Not with the way they exercise their sovereign, I mean, qualified immunity. They are agents of the state, whose job it is to protect the state from us.
Robin Hood was a freedom fighter, not a thief. Be Robin Hood.
We are very much on the same page. Indeed, I have made the same points about Robin Hood, and about the “stay safe” expression. I did not undergo the realization as a firefighter or anything of the kind, but one day, I simply realized that it was a weakling aspiration, and that I far prefer “stay FREE.”
Great points. It's hard to understand anyone anymore believing the cops will keep them safe--I guess the indoctrination dissolves faster from some of us than from others.
Every capable adult is responsible for providing for their own safety and security, and for their dependents, whether you do it yourself or voluntarily contract with a provider of that service, no different than food, clothing, shelter, or education.
When something is broken and thoroughly contaminated, even when it has some sentimental value, you just have to throw it out and make something new, something clearly innovative, with improvements based on painful experience. The thought of a constitutional convention to amend it in today's conditions is something I see as a great danger, one to be resisted at all costs. I am sure most here would agree that what would come out of it would institutionalize all the worst that is happening now. Time to be responsible and take charge of our own lives and move on.
It's because it is actually inconvenient David, and it's scary to people who have been programmed for fear and inadequacy, and taught to blame others for everything they don't like about life. Taught to envy those they think have more and covet what they have. They don't know the difference between those who are successful financially because they are producing something worthwhile that is beneficial, and those super rich from their subtle but horrendous crimes who are clever thieves and connivers largely hidden in the shadows. They are ignorant of the benefits and authenticity, the satisfaction and self esteem that arise from a life of self sufficiency and cooperative independence and freedom from so many annoyances inflicted upon so many of us by the horrid bureaucracy we live under which is becoming monstrous in its intrusion on our lives with the advent of modern technology. They are ignorant of the real danger. When you begin to realize who you are the fear begins to diminish and real courage is reborn.
Amen. The path of least resistance is so tempting to those with very limited vision, the easiest path of all is downward in this world, falling into the ditch is always easier than climbing out of it. But you are going to have to develope some self discipline and make the effort at some point unless you want to live in the mud.
Refreshing. Next level. The scope of my headache from listening to the yammering these last few years about " but the constitution guarantees me/us...let's do lawfare and lock up all the baddies...my amendment 'rights'...democracy!" With zero grasp of how we have all been played and why and where we are on the real timeline (hint: no one is watching things like the "Summit for the Future" ...cuz "Election for the leader of the Free World, Yay!") Its exhausting to even try to engage or search for like-minded to collab and cooperate regarding the Swim to a shoreline. "Just start growing your own food (under the chemtrail skies) and you'll be free(er) from tyranny" and " buy more guns and ammo so they can't take your land and you can defend the CON-stitution with the rest of us cuz we are gonna defend the 2A like gangsta CON-servatives". "Wait, what do you mean about the UN? You mean the PEACEKEEPERS? Camps? Like our parent-respite FUN summers in middle school?? Don't you know FEMA helps people in 'natural' disasters and the EPA keeps our environment clean? Stop being such a negative Nellie. No one is out to " get us" cuz we have a BILL OF RIGHTS and they can't take that away. THATS WHY EVERYONE IS COMING HERE NOW...AMERICAN DREAM! We are the model of Freedom and citizen gubment (of the ppl for the ppl by the ppl) for the world...Just vote for the good guys who want to make kids healthy again and it will all turn out fine. Just hang in there-your Medicare benefit (?) card is in the mail, bro! and you get 'free' (forced) healthcare soon!!"
So here we go, may as well swim forward in hopes others will have already washed ashore I suppose...gasping for air even before entering the water filled cave. "Respiratory-virus"-poetic.
At least we may have coconuts when we arrive... if we are lucky.
This reading began as heresy, but evolved into the acknowledgement and reluctant acceptance of fate if left on the current trajectory. These inspired documents were written for an informed and moral people. (Perhaps a false foundation from inception?) Then our progenitors killed God and promoted “enlightened man” to oversee the demise of a civilization devoid of humility that can no longer admit its weaknesses. The leviathan has built its own “reality” to be ultimately subsumed by uncontrolled and unconstrained tyranny. Uh! Democracy!
In aviation terms, this is vessel we are riding in is taking on the characteristics of what is called a “flat spin”.
In a previous installment (last week, I think), I briefly touch on Hoppe’s analysis/contention that the system itself makes the people who live under it less moral and informed. So even if we decide to agree with Adams’ contention that the system can only work with a “moral and religious people,” its demise may be baked into the cake from the start.
Christopher is daily confirmed as e.g., Sasha Latypova reports that a yankee occupation force judge claims its murderous degenerate regime has general sovereign immunity. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/george-watts-v-dod-case-dismissed. What else do you need to know about the complimentary program of the first coup against the Articles of Confederation, that secretly composed tissue of lies and abuses laughably referred to as the constitution? Not even Jefferson thought it should endure.
Can you stick around over the next couple of months as I unpack some ideas? And perhaps help augment the project through the miracle of collaborative intelligence?
The biggest problem with the constitution is it offers false hope. Even it it was perfectly worded to to align to freedom its just a piece of paper at the end of the day. If you can get a sizable portion of the population to not care about their freedom, something that is all too easy to do, then it doesn't matter what it say. Freedom can only be derived from individuals understanding, valuing, freedom and conducting their lives in such a manor. No recites are needed.
Speaking of democracy I was watching a Youtube from Nostr World 2024 and the following quote had me thinking of The Freedom Scale and where you are going with it. “We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.” David E. Clark IETF RFC 7282
You might enjoy this Youtube presentation by an anarchist named Rabble, titled Nostr: Past, Present, Future. Not only might the Nostr community have interest in The Freedom Scale, but Nostr’s ability to obsolete censorship may be useful to you in the future if the status quo deems your ideas a threat. Nostr aims to decentralize social media. If Kamala and the Censorship Industrial Complex come after Substack, Nostr might be the counter-measure.
It could replace Twitter or Facebook or Substack. These have a centralized architecture. One throat to choke. Nostr is a protocol that decentralizea social media. Apps are built on top of it. Mass censorship is neutered.
I'm very new to systems like Nostr and Mastodon, but some poking around on Reddit led me to this Nostr page that compares itself to Mastodon. My big takeaway is that Nostr aims to correct some of the censorship vulnerabilities of Mastodon. An architecture that is hardened against censorship is the essential value.
Nostr is a social media app protocol. It is not a social media app. The social media app's are built on top of it. If you pull out to around 27:00 in the presentation, in less than 3 minutes you can get a sense of the app library. It is my understanding the protocol today is storing only text, but that text can include URL's that point to a censorship resistant storage service like Rumble. One of the things that is fun about watching the presentation is to see how the philosophy of liberty saturates the practical work of building the software.
I wonder if people had a chance to live truly free for a while verses how they live today, which would they choose? I think about how far I would have to go to achieve maybe even 70-80% freedom. The government has made it far too easy to remain a slave because in a way it is slavery "lite". Just enough that they can tug on our chains if we get too feisty and try to get out of Dodge.
But that is rapidly changing as government can no longer placate "all " the slaves it controls. It has begun to eliminate them as that was what the fake pandemic was all about. Yet it allows more potential slaves to enter freely across the southern border. Is that to "persuade " the fake election and provide for terrorism in our cities?
One only has to look a bit deeper, beyond the media misinformation and government propaganda to see that the US government has become an monumental failure unless Marxism/communism is your thing. Trust is falling, faith is in a downward spiral and hope is starting to see massive cracks.
" Yet it allows more potential slaves to enter freely across the southern border. Is that to "persuade " the fake election and provide for terrorism in our cities?"
—Maybe. Maybe it is also to get foot-soldiers for future actions—foot-soldiers who do not live in the communities they will be paid to oppress.
Y'know, like they did with Shay's Rebellion, when they got a militia from the other side of the state to put it down…
Hearing notions like “Trump will come in and fix everything“ is always amazing in multiple ways. Not in the least, because (fitting to this blog), even if he was a good guy and turned the country towards freedom, what da heck ensures that this will not all be turned around again after the next election?
In the event of a true crises which the Federal government could not print its way out of and both the trade and budget deficits suddenly become real, the equilibrium in the political economy that generates our hyper-centralization may break and the constellation of many different special interest groups, big, medium, and small across the country may just start expressing themselves in geographic and sectoral terms for the first time in several decades, then we might just get a significant amount of political and economic decentralization, in which case the constitution would be “restored”
Yes. Collapse and failure of the main system will open up possibilities. All the more reason to be ready, so that the opportunity is not squandered, co-opted by new authorities, or allowed to decay into chaos.
The most refreshing Substack to read is yours. Some guy was hammering away, calling me all kinds of things, yesterday for one of your posts I restacked. I finally went over to his account and it said, "not a bot" to which I thought....defnitely a bot...block. LOL. I don't understand why this concept is so hard to see for people....unless you've lived under a rock, the past 5 years have shown us, a piece of paper means nothing, no matter who wrote it or its intent when tyrannical overlords want to bulldoze over, they will and the billions they spent on propaganda and marketing to convince people to stay home alone and mask up is experiential proof....but yeah, those same people in the same system are suddenly going to relinquish their thirst for power and greed and put the people's best interest at heart...never going to happen....even in a landslide! Onward...do no harm, take no shit....Great work as always!
Thank you so much, and very well said in every regard.
I try to be understanding when people yell, when they are coming from a patriotic place. I was there once, and I understand the fear and anger and cognitive dissonance that these revelations produce. But still, some people are so rude about it, and that is just not needed!
Yes, I agree. The ad hominem attacks are pretty much expected at this point, it's a hard pill to swallow.
I still try to stay patient and calm and see if we can get past it. But often enough, the anger is just too great!
I don't know why some of us are tasked with the job of Catalyst in these times, but I guess somebody has to do it.
It’s a calling. Perhaps even literally, as in we are being called by some force beyond our ken to play this role.
Definitely is.
The problem, Angela, is this is a philosophical declaration with no answers and it holds no one accountable for coup attempt in American government. People might be mad because this is like saying, "You've been evicted," when you live there and you pay the mortgage every month on time. The other issue with this are people who actually put their bodies in harms way on Constitutional principle. I'm not afraid of those people. I'm afraid of cowards who say "civil war is over" before a single shot enters the diaspora because their battle plan is to lay prone without an iota resistance to criminal oligarchy. They never really believed they were Constitutional stakeholders in the first place. Even if, legally, they possessed all the rights and privileges of American Constitutional citizenship.
Rights do not come from government.
Despite their origins, legally, this government has a responsibility to uphold and prosecute towards the writ of personal liberty. They're in default.
They are only in “default” if you contract and give them authority over you. What is immoral and corrupt by its existence cannot simultaneously be moral. Legal is not lawful. Everything is an offer that requires consent.
Angela, tell me in plain terms how you intend to enforce this contract. Then I will tell you, if you have any real stake, it might actually involve some form of a fight -either legal or physical- where force is involved so that you shall not be robbed.
Enforce what contract, for whom? I'm not sure what you are asking. The Public and the Private are not the same.
I found myself thinking this morning about something my fellow firefighters said to each other about 15 years ago, we stopped saying “Stay safe”, and started saying “Be Brave”, when we parted. There is no safety in life. It can be taken in a minute. No police officer should come to work thinking he is going to be safe. Not with the way they exercise their sovereign, I mean, qualified immunity. They are agents of the state, whose job it is to protect the state from us.
Robin Hood was a freedom fighter, not a thief. Be Robin Hood.
We are very much on the same page. Indeed, I have made the same points about Robin Hood, and about the “stay safe” expression. I did not undergo the realization as a firefighter or anything of the kind, but one day, I simply realized that it was a weakling aspiration, and that I far prefer “stay FREE.”
"Be Brave", "Stay FREE", love them both!
Love them both, but there is no freedom without courage. That’s why Aristotle called courage the first virtue.
🔥
Great points. It's hard to understand anyone anymore believing the cops will keep them safe--I guess the indoctrination dissolves faster from some of us than from others.
Every capable adult is responsible for providing for their own safety and security, and for their dependents, whether you do it yourself or voluntarily contract with a provider of that service, no different than food, clothing, shelter, or education.
It's move forward and start anew or slowly languish and die. Those are the choices. I care enough about future generations to fight for their freedom.
Right! Who was it that said that the best societies are one where old me plant trees in whose shade they themselves will never sit?
Instant gratification is for toddlers.
When something is broken and thoroughly contaminated, even when it has some sentimental value, you just have to throw it out and make something new, something clearly innovative, with improvements based on painful experience. The thought of a constitutional convention to amend it in today's conditions is something I see as a great danger, one to be resisted at all costs. I am sure most here would agree that what would come out of it would institutionalize all the worst that is happening now. Time to be responsible and take charge of our own lives and move on.
Let me highlight the last sentence: “Time to be responsible and take charge of our own lives and move on.“
Yes, yes, and yes again. I don’t understand why few folks actually do this.
It's because it is actually inconvenient David, and it's scary to people who have been programmed for fear and inadequacy, and taught to blame others for everything they don't like about life. Taught to envy those they think have more and covet what they have. They don't know the difference between those who are successful financially because they are producing something worthwhile that is beneficial, and those super rich from their subtle but horrendous crimes who are clever thieves and connivers largely hidden in the shadows. They are ignorant of the benefits and authenticity, the satisfaction and self esteem that arise from a life of self sufficiency and cooperative independence and freedom from so many annoyances inflicted upon so many of us by the horrid bureaucracy we live under which is becoming monstrous in its intrusion on our lives with the advent of modern technology. They are ignorant of the real danger. When you begin to realize who you are the fear begins to diminish and real courage is reborn.
I can only agree with that. It surely is easier to search for scape goats.
Amen. The path of least resistance is so tempting to those with very limited vision, the easiest path of all is downward in this world, falling into the ditch is always easier than climbing out of it. But you are going to have to develope some self discipline and make the effort at some point unless you want to live in the mud.
This is the only way to have a meaningful live in the long term.
Yes, and lucky is the person who learns that lesson early.
Refreshing. Next level. The scope of my headache from listening to the yammering these last few years about " but the constitution guarantees me/us...let's do lawfare and lock up all the baddies...my amendment 'rights'...democracy!" With zero grasp of how we have all been played and why and where we are on the real timeline (hint: no one is watching things like the "Summit for the Future" ...cuz "Election for the leader of the Free World, Yay!") Its exhausting to even try to engage or search for like-minded to collab and cooperate regarding the Swim to a shoreline. "Just start growing your own food (under the chemtrail skies) and you'll be free(er) from tyranny" and " buy more guns and ammo so they can't take your land and you can defend the CON-stitution with the rest of us cuz we are gonna defend the 2A like gangsta CON-servatives". "Wait, what do you mean about the UN? You mean the PEACEKEEPERS? Camps? Like our parent-respite FUN summers in middle school?? Don't you know FEMA helps people in 'natural' disasters and the EPA keeps our environment clean? Stop being such a negative Nellie. No one is out to " get us" cuz we have a BILL OF RIGHTS and they can't take that away. THATS WHY EVERYONE IS COMING HERE NOW...AMERICAN DREAM! We are the model of Freedom and citizen gubment (of the ppl for the ppl by the ppl) for the world...Just vote for the good guys who want to make kids healthy again and it will all turn out fine. Just hang in there-your Medicare benefit (?) card is in the mail, bro! and you get 'free' (forced) healthcare soon!!"
So here we go, may as well swim forward in hopes others will have already washed ashore I suppose...gasping for air even before entering the water filled cave. "Respiratory-virus"-poetic.
At least we may have coconuts when we arrive... if we are lucky.
It is my hope that by forging an entirely new path, we will be able to shake some things loose.
I hope you will be there for the journey!
This reading began as heresy, but evolved into the acknowledgement and reluctant acceptance of fate if left on the current trajectory. These inspired documents were written for an informed and moral people. (Perhaps a false foundation from inception?) Then our progenitors killed God and promoted “enlightened man” to oversee the demise of a civilization devoid of humility that can no longer admit its weaknesses. The leviathan has built its own “reality” to be ultimately subsumed by uncontrolled and unconstrained tyranny. Uh! Democracy!
In aviation terms, this is vessel we are riding in is taking on the characteristics of what is called a “flat spin”.
Well said.
In a previous installment (last week, I think), I briefly touch on Hoppe’s analysis/contention that the system itself makes the people who live under it less moral and informed. So even if we decide to agree with Adams’ contention that the system can only work with a “moral and religious people,” its demise may be baked into the cake from the start.
Christopher is daily confirmed as e.g., Sasha Latypova reports that a yankee occupation force judge claims its murderous degenerate regime has general sovereign immunity. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/george-watts-v-dod-case-dismissed. What else do you need to know about the complimentary program of the first coup against the Articles of Confederation, that secretly composed tissue of lies and abuses laughably referred to as the constitution? Not even Jefferson thought it should endure.
Well and rightly said.
This essay begs the inevitable question: if the constitutional republic has failed and cannot be reformed, what do we replace it with?
Can you stick around over the next couple of months as I unpack some ideas? And perhaps help augment the project through the miracle of collaborative intelligence?
I'll be around and am happy to contribute.
Excellent.
Natural Law, and widespread education in ethics.
The biggest problem with the constitution is it offers false hope. Even it it was perfectly worded to to align to freedom its just a piece of paper at the end of the day. If you can get a sizable portion of the population to not care about their freedom, something that is all too easy to do, then it doesn't matter what it say. Freedom can only be derived from individuals understanding, valuing, freedom and conducting their lives in such a manor. No recites are needed.
Right on—well said!
Speaking of democracy I was watching a Youtube from Nostr World 2024 and the following quote had me thinking of The Freedom Scale and where you are going with it. “We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.” David E. Clark IETF RFC 7282
You might enjoy this Youtube presentation by an anarchist named Rabble, titled Nostr: Past, Present, Future. Not only might the Nostr community have interest in The Freedom Scale, but Nostr’s ability to obsolete censorship may be useful to you in the future if the status quo deems your ideas a threat. Nostr aims to decentralize social media. If Kamala and the Censorship Industrial Complex come after Substack, Nostr might be the counter-measure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUsk7cqZyKU
Thank you; I will check it out!
What is the closest analogue to Nostr? (I.e., what is it mean to “replace”?)
It could replace Twitter or Facebook or Substack. These have a centralized architecture. One throat to choke. Nostr is a protocol that decentralizea social media. Apps are built on top of it. Mass censorship is neutered.
Thank you. Is it better than Mastadon?
I'm very new to systems like Nostr and Mastodon, but some poking around on Reddit led me to this Nostr page that compares itself to Mastodon. My big takeaway is that Nostr aims to correct some of the censorship vulnerabilities of Mastodon. An architecture that is hardened against censorship is the essential value.
https://nostr.com/comparisons/mastodon
Very cool; thank you for sharing this.
Does it allow more than white text on black in the actual application?
Nostr is a social media app protocol. It is not a social media app. The social media app's are built on top of it. If you pull out to around 27:00 in the presentation, in less than 3 minutes you can get a sense of the app library. It is my understanding the protocol today is storing only text, but that text can include URL's that point to a censorship resistant storage service like Rumble. One of the things that is fun about watching the presentation is to see how the philosophy of liberty saturates the practical work of building the software.
I heard of Mastodon, but didn't realize it also had a decentralized architecture.
Frankly, I would like to run my own server at home. But that takes labor cycles I don't have time for right now…
Another one with similar goals and architecture is Flote.
Do you know what the salient differences may be between them?
No, sorry, I do not. But Nostr and Mastodon both look like worthwhile efforts.
And Flote—maybe like Nostr, but not as big yet?
No document will ever work unless there are consequences for breaking the laws they provide.
Writing in consequences certainly would have improved things!
I wonder if people had a chance to live truly free for a while verses how they live today, which would they choose? I think about how far I would have to go to achieve maybe even 70-80% freedom. The government has made it far too easy to remain a slave because in a way it is slavery "lite". Just enough that they can tug on our chains if we get too feisty and try to get out of Dodge.
But that is rapidly changing as government can no longer placate "all " the slaves it controls. It has begun to eliminate them as that was what the fake pandemic was all about. Yet it allows more potential slaves to enter freely across the southern border. Is that to "persuade " the fake election and provide for terrorism in our cities?
One only has to look a bit deeper, beyond the media misinformation and government propaganda to see that the US government has become an monumental failure unless Marxism/communism is your thing. Trust is falling, faith is in a downward spiral and hope is starting to see massive cracks.
" Yet it allows more potential slaves to enter freely across the southern border. Is that to "persuade " the fake election and provide for terrorism in our cities?"
—Maybe. Maybe it is also to get foot-soldiers for future actions—foot-soldiers who do not live in the communities they will be paid to oppress.
Y'know, like they did with Shay's Rebellion, when they got a militia from the other side of the state to put it down…
Hearing notions like “Trump will come in and fix everything“ is always amazing in multiple ways. Not in the least, because (fitting to this blog), even if he was a good guy and turned the country towards freedom, what da heck ensures that this will not all be turned around again after the next election?
Exactly! But people, lacking imagination to see beyond what is, assume that what is is all that can ever be.
I would have ended on "the best way out is always through" - Robert Frost A Servant to Servants
You probably won't be surprised to learn that I did consider that as an possible last line :-)
In the event of a true crises which the Federal government could not print its way out of and both the trade and budget deficits suddenly become real, the equilibrium in the political economy that generates our hyper-centralization may break and the constellation of many different special interest groups, big, medium, and small across the country may just start expressing themselves in geographic and sectoral terms for the first time in several decades, then we might just get a significant amount of political and economic decentralization, in which case the constitution would be “restored”
Yes. Collapse and failure of the main system will open up possibilities. All the more reason to be ready, so that the opportunity is not squandered, co-opted by new authorities, or allowed to decay into chaos.
I agree Christopher! You layed it out so well and so succinctly.
Thanks!