It is not a question of what I want, but what is objectively required in order to achieve the relevant result.
Teachers, yes. "Leaders"... most likely not. The term is tainted, perhaps beyond any immediate redemption, much as is the case with "anarchy", which is why I coined "autodiathism", from the Greek for "self-determination".
The perennial trouble with leaders is that they invariably become rulers and thereby tyrants. Best not to even allow that much mental leeway, lest people fall once again into the old habits to which they are now so deeply bred.
The task of restoring a population such as ours into a state of proper human relations is just this side of impossible. Look at FSP, for example, a far less ambitious endeavor. Where have they gone? Basically nowhere. I grant that the choice of New Hampshire was idiotic beyond all calculation, given it has always been and remains a haven of leftist-tyrannical stoogery, but even so I would have thought they would have made better progress than is readily evident after +/- twenty years. But I remain skeptical because you never know what may be going on beyond appearances.
I have written before that such changes will take time - most likely lots of it. FSP bears this out, given the next to zero apparent change and the minuscule scale of the endeavor vis-à-vis the fifty states, many of which are vastly larger and more deeply and seemingly hopelessly corrupted with the mental poisons of Empire. I believe in leading by example and FSP appears to have failed in this regard. I see no great flocking of liberty-smitten masses to a bastion of hope, but rather a whole lot of the same old thing.
Liberty has not failed us. We have.
Once again I raise the issue of just how near hopelessness we truly are and remind people to temper their expectations accordingly.
So it would appear that, as I would always recommend, we begin at the beginning: teachers. Who will they be? Who will train them? What shall comprise that training? It can be done only through conspiracy because the meaner has no concept of any of this, save that it frightens and repulses them with great violence and intensity. Clearly, those are not the people to whom to devote one's energies. Consequently, we are presented by observed truth of circumstance a key element of the marketing strategy: attraction over promotion. Promoting liberty is a lost cause at this time. But in leading by example and leaving a trail of bread crumbs to one's door, the adept sits patiently and waits to see who, if anyone, comes a knockin'.
We now have two vital initial steps: establish the orthodoxy of proper human relation, which is precisely that of proper freedom, and engage in a campaign of attraction to see whether we really have a cause worthy of pursuit. Then train those, if any, in that orthodoxy and send them forth to cast the pheromones of liberty hither-thither and repeat the cycle of waiting to see who comes nibbling. It is the precise strategy used to introduce illicit and mostly dangerous drugs into a small town or city. Give it away for free and see who comes back for more.
This is what I mean about developing a plan - a strategy. But what I have described thus far is only a beginning. There is much more to it and without the details, you leave the fate of humanity to the whim and caprice of the devil himself.
I'm not sure this is true. Firstly, the hell with "trying". One either
does, or goes home and accepts what
is, while forgetting what might be. There
is no movement worthy of mention as of this writing. All I see is a raft of people who claim to want to be free, yet manifest no obvious determination to attain it. Talk is cheap. Action is what counts and I see precious little of it. I also see tons of rank stoogery by the very same people who go on about "freedom". America, through the election of Trump over Clinton in spite of the now apparently huge efforts made to ensure the opposite result, has taken a step in a BETTER direction. Once again, I have not written "right". And what do the people even here at RPF do? Bitch and complain and accuse him of being one of Themme with no convincing evidence. Had this been the "left's" situation, they would have rallied around and taken the small victories and reveled in them, only to retrench and prepare for the next small step forward. But no, the hoity toity freedom lover damns to hell anyone having the nerve to be imperfectly human and fail the purity test. That is why we will never win. Until this stupidity is given the deep-six, you can kiss your hopes a fond bye-bye.
I don't trust Trump to the door, and would never suggest it to any of you. But you can learn to recognize steps that improve the general situation, vis-à-vis those that drive us closer to the point of no return, beyond which hope is effectively extinguished in toto. This is national politics, meaning I don't even trust Ron Paul in that context. You need to learn to recognize good when it comes, no matter whence or how seemingly meager. Had Obama done good, I would have recognized it as such. It matters no whit whether it came of an adept operator or by the pure accident of an ignorant bumbler from Kenya who just got lucky.
Key principle of revolution: trust nobody in politics, ever... even if he has a halo and stigmata. This is POLITICS, for God's sake. No man can be trusted there.
Key principle of revolution: become adept in recognizing even the least of gains, put away your personal bull$#@! (EEEWWWW...
TRUMP...), and treasure those winnings, regardless of source or circumstance. The starving man who wishes to survive doesn't turn his nose up when a cockroach scurries past. He eats.
As can be readily seen, the road forward is long and in terrible repair. Anyone wanting to see liberty survive, much less flourish, must be prepared for the difficult journey. I don't see too many of those.
You say we have not had the right leaders. Ask yourself why. Is it because they are not there? I doubt it. I believe they are not there because people don't really want them, all their talk to the contrary notwithstanding. I hope I am wrong on that point, but the question of why then remains unanswered.
Look at myownself: I've been writing philosophical essays on freedom and human relations for years. Nobody pays attention. If people would listen, I would risk wasting my time trying to teach them. However, I could spontaneously combust and nobody would notice. I suspect this to be the case with a great many others who would also be willing to serve as beacons. People want freedom, sure... so long as someone else provides it. And there you have it. On the other side, they want "free" and "government" provides it to them, courtesy of the suckers who work for a living. This is why Theye are successful and we suck ditch water. Their task is easy. Ours monumentally difficult. Theye are organized. We are like headless chickens. But the common thread is this: we want someone else to provide for us, like helpless, ill-bred, wanton, tantrum-pitching children. Gimme, gimme, gimme. There when the checks are being handed out and nowhere when a shovel needs to be picked up.
Shoot, I've even done a big part of the heavy lifting for the world - I sat down, took the time, and made the effort to identify and formalize a canon of proper human relations. It is actually in black and white - a paragraphs-long treatise on what it means to live correctly among one's fellows. Yet it sits fallow on a server in the great internet void, wholly ignored while the people who so tridently proclaim their desire and love of liberty sit with their thumbs in their bootus-holes, crying, wailing, and gnashing their teeth at the deplorable state in which America and the world finds itself. Oh,
the tyranny!
What is that old Christian adage: God helps those who help themselves?
Screw it. I became officially old on 2/1 - sixty. With any luck I will not last another ten years, and for that prospect I am thankful - not because I don't want to live, but because the world of men has become so hopelessly boring to me. It will be my pleasure to leave the circus to the small and timid, back-handedly sneaky souls who seem to revel in their servitude and the viciousness that is endlessly served unto them as entertainment and so many loaves. I will continue to write as I go along - after all, what else is there to do? As for expectations, there will be tyranny in ever increasing torrents - mark that, barring the good old reset event. At this point my only reason for the least shred of hope lies in such an event and I pray for it. That side of me, the one which has felt the sting of mens' roughshod trespass upon my sovereignty on a daily basis for sixty years, would like to live just long enough to see vast legions wiped from the book of life in forced atonement for their vast sins against themselves, as well as their fellows. The evil of the meaner cannot be overstated.
It is funny when I look back and consider that the only things that have ever brought be to harm have been other human beings. No wild animals, nor natural catastrophes have laid hands upon me. The erosion of my ability to exercise my inherent rights as a free and sovereign man has come solely at the hands of other humans. There is little to recommend us.
Therefore, for the nth time, I reiterate the question: what is the plan? Am I wasting my breath? Is there nobody here interested in the practicalities of reestablishing freedom? Has all the talk here been so much hot air? Seriously - what's the deal? If it's all just talk, we should fess up and proceed with the appropriate expectations. Otherwise, should we not be talking about this with some vigor? Thus far, only twenty five posts in a thread I would have hoped would be hundreds long by now, heading into the thousands. Our sincerity and industry seems to be coming into some question. Heaven knows, someone posts some idiotic one-liner and the thread erupts into dozens of pages of furious exchange. Surely we can spare a little effort on this, can we not?
Mewonders.
ETA: Not "teachers", but "guides".
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