In your country, as in mine, we’re told that we live in a civilised society and this rationale is used to justify all manner of restrictions and regulations imposed upon us by people who’ve been given authority. Ask yourself, from where did that authority originate? Who gave that authority? Now ask yourself, have you ever been asked, explicitly, to agree to a constitution? And have you ever been invited to ponder on what that really means?
The frontier families, and Franklin on their behalf, understood what that meant (http://disq.us/p/2uubkb9). We’re all born individually sovereign under God’s law, natural law, and simultaneously we’re born into a society in which others have chosen to trade freedoms for perceived security. I’m awakening from my slumber and, like a number of others here in England (and our British brethren), am working towards re-establishing the sovereignty I never knowingly gave away.
I sense that healthy distrust of 'authority' is taking hold. Legitimate governments promote scrutiny. It is illegitimate governments that talk of censoring 'misinformation'.
I'm beginning to sense the same and I agree that legitimate governments, like legitimate people, welcome scrutiny.
I'd add that legitimate governance is built, and can only work, from the ground up, not top down i.e. the individual remains sovereign and when they chose to join the group, be it a cooperative or a community, then nothing changes other than their acceptance of the the agreed compromises for the common good. Of course, this doesn't scale, and hence I foresee a breakdown of your federal system and a breakup of the United States and, likewise, the United Kingdom (the European Union is already in a state of irreversible decline and I think the breakdown of the Euro will expedite it's collapse).
The United States is supposed to be fifty autonomous states, very much like the European Union. We were never intended to have such an overpowering central government. Either the states shake it loose, or you may be right about a disintegration of the USA.
Our main problem is the democratic and republican parties, which I sometimes refer to as the demublicrat party. They have robbed us if local autonomy and made us subjects to laws that aren't on the books, and we never voted for.
On the other hand, it might go the direction that Ted Gioa is predicting. It is clear that the monoculture is unable to keep a lid on all the individual thought going on. It might turn out well after all. Check out items 3,4,5 in his recent essay.
Maybe mine and Ted’s thoughts aren’t mutually exclusive. I get the vast majority of my information from podcasts and Substack and absolutely none from TV or print media anymore. I share your optimism.
Yes so much so
Hannah Arendt thought America would not become totalitarian as Americans are extremely individualistic
That makes sense if it was done via a party
But what if it is done by the deep state
Using false flags and assassinations
Those dudes in Germany back in 1930s were big on assassinations
They even made attempts on the philosopher Rudolf Steiner author of the Philosophy of Freedom
Something I am pondering
In your country, as in mine, we’re told that we live in a civilised society and this rationale is used to justify all manner of restrictions and regulations imposed upon us by people who’ve been given authority. Ask yourself, from where did that authority originate? Who gave that authority? Now ask yourself, have you ever been asked, explicitly, to agree to a constitution? And have you ever been invited to ponder on what that really means?
The frontier families, and Franklin on their behalf, understood what that meant (http://disq.us/p/2uubkb9). We’re all born individually sovereign under God’s law, natural law, and simultaneously we’re born into a society in which others have chosen to trade freedoms for perceived security. I’m awakening from my slumber and, like a number of others here in England (and our British brethren), am working towards re-establishing the sovereignty I never knowingly gave away.
I sense that healthy distrust of 'authority' is taking hold. Legitimate governments promote scrutiny. It is illegitimate governments that talk of censoring 'misinformation'.
I'm beginning to sense the same and I agree that legitimate governments, like legitimate people, welcome scrutiny.
I'd add that legitimate governance is built, and can only work, from the ground up, not top down i.e. the individual remains sovereign and when they chose to join the group, be it a cooperative or a community, then nothing changes other than their acceptance of the the agreed compromises for the common good. Of course, this doesn't scale, and hence I foresee a breakdown of your federal system and a breakup of the United States and, likewise, the United Kingdom (the European Union is already in a state of irreversible decline and I think the breakdown of the Euro will expedite it's collapse).
The United States is supposed to be fifty autonomous states, very much like the European Union. We were never intended to have such an overpowering central government. Either the states shake it loose, or you may be right about a disintegration of the USA.
Our main problem is the democratic and republican parties, which I sometimes refer to as the demublicrat party. They have robbed us if local autonomy and made us subjects to laws that aren't on the books, and we never voted for.
On the other hand, it might go the direction that Ted Gioa is predicting. It is clear that the monoculture is unable to keep a lid on all the individual thought going on. It might turn out well after all. Check out items 3,4,5 in his recent essay.
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/i-dont-give-investment-advice-but?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=296132&post_id=143108779&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=z324w&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Maybe mine and Ted’s thoughts aren’t mutually exclusive. I get the vast majority of my information from podcasts and Substack and absolutely none from TV or print media anymore. I share your optimism.