Statism is Dying - Freedom is Rising: The Weekend Vigilante April 5, 2014

Hello from Anarchapulco,

I’ve got good news!

I rarely like to give myself much praise on things as I truly don’t think I am especially talented at most things… but one thing I may have a knack for, if my life history has been any indication, is seeing opportunities and shifts before most of the population identifies it.

In 1993, I quit my job at a bank within weeks of hearing about the internet as I had been waiting my whole life for it and knew it was going to change everything.  I then, because I was into the stock market (and had wanted to be a broker) started up a financial portal, as they used to call it, called Stockhouse.com in 1994 and it went on to be worth $240 million at the peak of the tech bubble in 2000.  In the early days of the internet it felt very much like bitcoin does today.  People were skeptical that it would really catch on!  And that is if they even knew what it was at all.

I recognized in 2005 that the West, the US in particular, was headed downward in terms of its economy, money and rising government controls and a rising police state.  I also felt that precious metals would rise significantly due to this (and they have risen dramatically from 2005 levels).  Because of that I started The Dollar Vigilante in 2009 and it has grown tremendously in popularity as many of the things I had been saying would happen have happened.  

And then in 2011, when I first heard about bitcoin at $7 (currently near $500) I immediately jumped on it recognizing it would change the world of money and banking and have been one of it’s loudest backers having been on mainstream media and countless alternative media promoting it as being an evolution in money and banking.

And so, now to the good news!  Good news, that is, if you think the world would be a better place if it wasn’t so heavily communist-style centrally planned through coercive collectives called government who have a monopoly on violence (police, regulations, prisons) and theft (taxes).

I first learned about the philosophy behind the idea of liberty over ten years ago and so have a decade of experiences by which to identify a shift.

When I first heard about these ideas from people like Doug Casey and then others like Stefan Molyneux the word “libertarian” was not well known.  In fact, in 2004 when Doug Casey told me I was a libertarian I asked him what that word meant.

Over the ensuing years it has become a very well understood word, especially since the last Ron Paul presidential run.  

For more information from a person who wrote the book, “The New Libertarianism: Anarcho Capitalism” in 1972, here is a man who has been of this mindset for forty years and he tells of how the pace of acceptance of these philosophies in the last few years has dwarfed the few dozen people who molded and believed in these concepts then like Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Jeffrey Tucker and Wendy McElroy thirty years ago.

But now it is moving beyond that.  Not only are the words and ideas growing dramatically but even in mainstream media it is going even beyond libertarian.  Forbes magazine in just the last few years has almost turned into an anarcho-capitalist or anarchist publication.  Most of the stories on Forbes don’t look all that much different from what we are writing here at The Dollar Vigilante… a site and style that used to be considered extreme.

No more!

It’s not even fairly free-market leaning media like Forbes now.  Time magazine just released what can only be described as an anarcho-capalist story called, “The Government Is A Hitman“.  It starts, “What the invisible hand of free-market innovation giveth, the dead hand of politically motivated regulation tryeth desperately to take away.”

It goes on to talk about how the evil and oppressive government is using its monopoly on violence to stifle the free market innovation of Uber, Tesla and AirBnB.

Time… which I always used to call Slime, writing an anarchist style article calling the government a hitman?

There used to be a time… two or three years ago where when I said things like that it was extreme.  Now it is in Time magazine.

I’ve also been very outspoken about people considering getting both their ass and their assets outside of the US.  This, also, was called extreme just a few years ago.

Now, the Huffington Post, a popular notoriously pro-government and liberal site is posting articles like, “Looking To Escape America?” which gives a guide of the best places to go if you want to get out of the USSA and go to “foreign lands of opportunity”.

Escape from Amerika?  That is the tentative title of my upcoming book… (and a big topic at our upcoming Crisis Conference in Cabo) but now the HuffPost is writing about it? 

Now everyone is calling themselves libertarian.  Liberal, Bill Maher, on HBO says he is a libertarian.  Neocon, Glenn Beck, says he is a libertarian.

I have found the tables are being turned and if you don’t at least claim to be a libertarian or an anarchist then you will be laughed out of many gatherings.  Three or four years ago if I said I was an anarchist and government is an unneccesary evil a sizeable part of the crowd would be shaking their head in dissaproval or even walk out.  Now it is commonplace for me to say the same thing on a panel at a conference and have almost everyone agree with me… and if there is one person on the panel who doesn’t they will often apologize to me for not being an anarchist yet.

In May I’ll be speaking in LA at an event call United We Stand (get tickets here) in front of tens of thousands of college kids who are all libertarians.  

There are massive changes going on.  A grand awakening.  And it is all evolving at a near exponential pace.

The next ten years will likely even shock me.  It will shock me how bad it is, in some respects, with a complete collapse of the monetary and financial system which will hurt many and will likely shock me how good and exciting it ends up being… because if enough people wake up the advancements in human life will be one for the record books.

Watch any video or TV show from the 90s and look how archaic it looks.  On Seinfeld, for example, Jerry has a tiny little 12″ monochrome screen Mac and none of them even have cellphones!  Half the show is them looking around for each other or calling landline phones doing the same.  And they mentioned the internet only once with Jerry saying, “I should get on there,” when told you can get information on it.  That was only twenty years ago.  Imagine what the next ten years will look like if we can get past the collapse of the current statist and collectivist systems… which is a near certainty now.

Don’t even bother watching a video from the 1940s or earlier… they already seem like they are from another planet as millions of people fought, killed, starved and died all for nothing.  It may as well be fiction now as it is so far removed from what we know today.

Meanwhile, the dychotomies of people still living in the statist and collectivist past and those who have already moved on to the individualist future make for good comedy.

As one example, here is a story from Mother Jones saying, “This Machine Can Tell Whether You’re Liberal or Conservative“

It goes on to say that liberals tend to act a certain way when they see images and conservatives do also.

What this statist article really tries to imply is that people are actually born as a liberal or conservative.  This, of course, is ridiculous.  It is possible that most people who as adults vote one way or another have brains that work differently.  But it doesn’t mean that you are born as a democrat or conservative.

It means that you may, once brainwashed and indoctrinated into this system, lean towards on side or the other.  Once indoctrinated you may lean more towards wanting to steal money from people to kill other people not born in your geographic vicinity or desiring to kidnap people and put them in cages if they do something you don’t like (conservative).  Or you may lean towards wanting to steal money from people to ruin people via making them unproductive (welfare) or destroying the economy due to your inability to understand how economics works.

But both sides are actually emotionally and mentally damaged irrational people.

It made me wonder what their conclusion would be if they attached an anarchist to their device.  Seeing as how they only have two possible outcomes (the two political mafias in their geographic vicinity) it would have to be wrong everytime an anarchist was tested.

Or, to state another way, if you are a rational thinker the device won’t work, as Facebook friend, Karen Shapiro pointed out to me.

Conservatives have a higher level of “disgust sensitivity” and liberals less, but with a sounder mind the item shown is judged on its merit and extreme emotions either way are left out of the calculation. The machine scores the interaction as neutral.

Conservatives are more hierarchical and prefer harsher punishments while liberals are more forgiving. A more concrete mind would be neither; you earn things, or you don’t. You make bad decisions, and there you have it. And as they tend to stay away from judging others when possible they would, again, screw up the machine’s ability to weigh one emotion versus another.

Conservatives do not try to convince others as much as liberals that their view of government programs is just, while liberals tend to think that if they can get others to see things in the same light there would be agreement and hand holding. A rational mind understands that government itself is inherently evil as a force of coercion and, again, doesn’t weigh in on the matter of convincing others (they can do what they want if it doesn’t interfere with others), again, giving an indecisive score.

At the conclusion, the indecisive scores that would be shown of an anarchist would likely be interpreted as the subject having a very low IQ (some degree of mental retardation), which garners pity from the liberals (who would then want to steal money from others to ‘help’ you) and derision from the conservatives (who would then want you kidnapped and drugged in a government institution).

Anarchists just don’t fit the left-right paradigm and therefore aren’t included as even an option in these studies.  But quickly the right-wing statists are beginning to see all the benefits of libertarianism.  They love the “small government” idea… they just don’t know that an anarchist’s idea of small government is the individual.  And the left-wingers love libertarianism’s take on doing what you want with your own body.  They just haven’t figured out that anarchists want every body on Earth to be able to do whatever they want as long as they don’t damage or steal from others.

They’ll figure it out soon enough… and that time might come faster than anyone thinks.

UNTIL NEXT WEEK

My nearly month long sabbatical here in Acapulco is coming to an end.  Later this week I’ll be taking my life in my own hands and flying through the USSA to Kanada where I’ll be speaking at the Canadian Bitcoin Expo.

Then, a week after returning I’ll be speaking at a conference we are sponsoring, the Mexico City Bitcoin Conference, in my butchered Espanol to a growing audience of Mexican bitcoin enthusiasts and entrepreneurs.

I’ve even been requested to go meet with some immoral Mexican government bureaucrats to try to inform these low IQ, irrational people what bitcoin is and why they should possibly, hopefully, not use their violent tactics to make people in Mexico stop using bitcoin.

And then, to fill out the month of April I’ll be in Cabo at the end of the month for our own TDV Wealth Management Crisis Conference.  And, while I have been very optimistic about the future in this version of the Weekend Vigilante, we still need to get through the coming collapse of all these violent and thieving collectivist monetary, financial and political systems before we get there.  So if you have a significant amount of assets that you haven’t properly protected from the ravages of the Western governments in their death throes you should run, not walk, to the Crisis Conference at the end of this month.

It will be much more enjoyable to watch the collapse of this system and the evolution to a much more decentralized, open, free, moral and peaceful system if you survive the collapse with most of your assets safely outside of ground zero (the US) of the coming monetary, financial, economic and political collapse.

I hope unlike with the internet, precious metals and bitcoin I don’t have to tell many people “I told you so” this time.

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