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Barbora, Martin, Slovakia, 30 June 2009

Liberty Camp question: May I ask a question?

The trickster god and LSD merchant dressed up as a critically-important Libertarian philosopher and labeled by the misnomer “Samuel Edward Konkin III” was not a God or a god, nor a thought leader nor particularly important.

I submit for your consideration, as compassionate beings and as my captive audience and niche market, the idea that the Agorist slogan of “Agora! Anarchy! Action!” has it precisely backwards.

For billions, including YOU, right where you are standing now, action precedes agora, and cares precisely fuck-all about anarchy. It just does it. And it just does it quickly and efficiently, most of the time, almost by accident.

Just do it.

I strongly suggest that you consider the proposition that we might one day come to agree that the opportunity which exists in the broader libertarian context which is typically labeled among left-libertarians as a “problem” actually is a problem of emphasis, it is a problem of language, and it is a problem by which we fail to communicate with the stinky, filthy earth creatures WE NEED MOST to Arise!, take to the streets, go out of their tiny little cages and tiny little minds in the atomized industrial cities in order to enter the homes and lives and even bodies of their nearby conspecifics, and actualize an actual change in our actual circumstances such that our actual communication problems actually all disappear. Right now, or at least some time prior to next Tuesday. Action!

Such an event, such a permanent revolution, will not occur via mechanisms such as educating youngsters about the ideals of dead philosophers. It will not come about by virtue of those ideals being correct or consistent. It will not come about by means of setting an institutional agenda to make sure that we have the right message and are transmitting it via the right channels at the right times to the right recipients and with the right representatives. It will JUST HAPPEN.

Get out of the way!

As libertarians and Libertarians, it seems we have great faith in markets as a generally applicable rule. Meanwhile, we have almost no faith at all in people just doing it by themselves, in their own minds, in their own bodies, in their own families, in their own communities, in their own world, in their own universe and multiverses. And meanwhile, they are just doing it. They trade actively and passionately in close approximations of truly free markets already, even though the criminal, unjustifiably immoraly and inconsistent State continues to exist, in your mind and theirs. And they’ve never read or perhaps even heard about Mises, Popper, Rothbard, SEK3 and the rest of the suppressed pantheon.

I believe and feel and know that the fact is that at the Liberty Camp this week, I personally created more value for me than anyone else. And I did it by largely ignoring the fucking program and producing merry chaos along the way as an unnecessary, controllable side-effect that ought to be well-managed if such things are to go smoothly. I either inspired, independently conceived or incubated something like five new truly free-market businesses. I also successfully taught the Language of Liberty to one of my conspecifics who shall remain nameless in the interest of Agorist Opsec, inspired another and became almost instant friends with several more — none of whom were part of the Camp program! And this reality means that I am starting to live free RIGHT NOW while I must recall the necessity of being compassionate toward those around me who aren’t doing it terribly much, but merely sitting around talking about doing it instead.

And then I was sort-of purged from The Management, at one level, as a counter-revolutionary, though we did part ways with the consensus that we still love and support each other anyway. And the purge occurred around my own reaction to a response from a group of passionate, committed, fully consistent libertarians who reacted WRONGLY to me coming into the room and waiting my turn and asking a question of the general form: Is it okay for me to ask a question now?

The responses were things like: “What kind of question!” and “No!” and “That’s not on the agenda!” — even before they knew what the question was! (And by the way, no, I’m not going to tell you what the question was.)

And I found that my feelings were hurt, so I left the room and decided that I was going home. And nobody really expressed a great deal of concern, in my view, toward the idea that that fact itself had any particular value or importance for actualizing what we’re all trying to accomplish.

Discuss. With passion, compassion, and revolutionary fervor for the MASSIVE CHANGE IN BRAIN CHEMISTRY occurring right where you are sitting now. Or die. Meanwhile, I’m gonna go jerk off.

Yours, et cetera,

Sri Syadasti

PS: A3 is still groovy. Just swap the emphases around and we’re home.

Love is the message

If we hold that:

A: Love is the message, and

B: The medium is the message, then:

C: Getting the message will get you SEX!

Discuss. Right now!

The neuroelectric circuit

Would you like to believe that you can free your mind — right now?

YES WE CAN!

And we can do it.

Just do it!

Do it now. Do it because your country wants you to. Do it for… do it for love! Do it for… do it for God and CHILDREN and justice in your neighborhood. Do IT for consistency! Do it for philosophy. DO IT FOR AMERICA!

We can do it! Together! We can do it for fun. We can do it for PEACE. We can smash the state (and avoid collapse, mass starvation, conquest by hostile aliens, etc.*) before next Tuesday! We can create a voluntary society based on love and compassion. And we can do it for MASSIVE PROFITS!

Would you like an action plan to improve your life? Do you want to guarantee your retirement and your children’s future? Do you want to know just how EASY all this is? How you can make it all happen by accident? And all for the very special introductory price of $19.95?***

INSTANT SUCCESS — or triple your money back!

I would like to invite you, right now, to get out of your chair. Please: put down your laptop. Please leave your iPhone on the table. Please turn the volume WAY UP LOUD! Please start the music. And, please, get into your body — and go out of your mind!

Turn on, tune in, drop in. Drop in any time!

Shut up and dance!** Get off your ass and get on the path. The path to TRIUMPHANT FALLIBLE FRENZY!**** Arise!

ACCESS ALL AREAS.

DJ Misjah & DJ Tim, “Access”, X-Trax, 1994

Whatever you do, DO NOT DOWNLOAD AND WATCH THIS FILM (isohunt.com, search for “arise subgenius”). You have been warned.

Collaborators will be shot. Prosecutors will be transgressicuted. Deviation and counter-revolutionary talk will not be tolerated.

That is all. Return to your assigned work allocations and dwelling units.

* By reading this sentence you agree that neither nostate.com, Rabbi Guano Infusion PhD. (deceased) nor Michael Jude Gogulski shall be held responsible for damages caused by reading this sentence.

** Seeing this footnote indicates your legally binding consent that should you lack the appropriate number of functioning limbs necessary for dance in your jurisdiction that neither nostate.com, Rabbi Guano Infusion PhD. (deceased), nor Michael Jude Gogulski shall be liable for loss of life, liberty, productive capacity or future potential profit brought about by seeing this footnote or other means.

*** If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

**** Do not over-meditate.

I am going home.

Message transmitted.

What Sort of Libertarian Are You?

Presentation to be delivered to the Liberty Camp attendees in approximately 30 minutes.

Needs notes, but … meh. No time.

Powerpoint 2003: Download

London Cops Waterboard Pot Suspects

With comments by Brad Taylor at the Free Agents Network:

http://www.fr33agents.com/164/london-cops-waterboard-pot-suspects/

Liberty Camp question: Are you a criminal?

Today I discussed crime and punishment in my groups, pointing out the difference between moral crimes and crimes in law, and then offering also the suggestion that a change from a punishment model of crime control to one based around restitution is possible, desirable and likely to emerge in a truly free market.

Right near the beginning of the discussion, I asked group members to indicate if they were criminals, by raising their hands, and led off by sticking mine up first.

Eventually, and rather quickly, every hand went up.

There is honor among thieves, though the “thievery” in play here is of the legal kind, not the moral kind (think: mp3). This represents and opportunity for building community among libertarians, which is largely ignored by the mainstream libertarian movement.

Camp attendees who are following my blog are encouraged to read “The penalty is always death” (which I presented in abbreviated form in several sessions anyway), and the linked “Clown suit defense” articles.

Ya Neda!

If the Neda Soltani video is a hoax, it is an excellent one.

I cried for three hours, until I fell asleep, after watching it. I wailed like a child, completely out of control. I wanted to smash things and kill people, and right now. It bypassed all of the filters I use to shut out the horror of our reality in order to live as good a life as I can, and to be effective in reducing that horror. I got drunk out of my mind to kill the pain I felt. The next day I awoke shaking, drained and in shock. It took hours for that emotional reaction to clear and for me to get my mind back. And watching that video is still affecting me, at the level of my feelings.

And I took action as a result of my feelings. Immediately. Revolutionary action.

If that was propaganda, it was brilliantly executed. Whether it is or not, it is an excellent argument against any state anywhere and at any time.

That is all. Return to your assigned work allotments.

OFFLINE

Dear Friends,

I was very stressed and exhausted the first 2 days of Liberty Camp here in Martin, Slovakia, because I was trying to do this and support a number of online projects at the same time and keep up with my email and keep up with my usual copious intake of alcohol, etc.

Then yesterday, my laptop broke.

I didn’t panic. I felt relief. There are a few important things I must do while I’m on the road, the rest is gonna have to slide until I return home, around 8 July. Meanwhile, my energy and my attention are being extremely well employed here, in teaching, learning from and building community with the extraordinary people around me.

So, if your email or other contact goes unanswered for a long while, please know that it’s not because I don’t love you. It’s because I’m busy working to build a better world for you and for me and for all of our conspecifics right this very second.

Peace,

Mike