Very good insights, Caleb... and +1 for pointing out the value of reaching people through the arts. I, too, see the arts as a largely overlooked, underutilized but very powerful communication tool. For instance, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, in spite of all of it's non sequiturs and politically charged, shoddy "reporting" and obvious bs, still managed to instantly transform me from a tacit supporter of GWB to an overt opponent. (Obviously, I've come a long way further since then!)
The reason I do not personally focus much on the arts, is because I have virtually no artistic ability of my own that I am aware of, unless you consider writing an art.
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Indeed, looking for ways to make it easier to do #1 is not only productive, it is an absolutely critical, though relatively minor, component of the strategy.
First, you create a rough outline, identifying the most direct and effective routes to achieving the goal of a free civilization. This I have done, as illustrated in my previous post. Then you start honing these approaches all the way down to the nuts and bolts applications, creating solutions to each obstacle you encounter along the way. That is what I am in the process of doing now, and one of those obstacles is the AMOG's near stranglehold on employment, through their act of compelling virtually all employers to be their tax collectors, else ultimately look down the barrel of a gun.
It is instructive to note that, for those who have made the paradigm shift, and fully grasp the true nature of our social environment -- the 100% parasitic, individual-enslaving AMOG vs. the 100% productive, individual-empowering Free Market Civilization -- it is a small matter indeed to stand firm in the face of the gun. But while the threat of their gun is virtually a laughing matter to me, and anyone else who has made this paradigm shift, one area where they have real power over me, and others like me, is wherever they maintain control over the provision of genuine services.
Let me illustrate:
If I were self-employed, the only tool they have at their disposal to try and extract their taxes from me is the gun. It is to my benefit, not theirs, if they choose to use this tool -- for I am fully prepared to reverse it right back at them in a well-orchestrated jujitsu move, by broadcasting far and wide the repulsive spectacle of the AMOG's evil core to those who blindly and unwittingly support it.
However, I am not currently in a position to be self-employed; that is one of the obstacles I must create a solution to (and I will). In the meantime, in order to maintain my effectiveness, I have to have an income source. In fact, I cannot very well create the solution of self-employment without at least a nominal amount of startup capital. So it follows that I have a very real need for the service of employment. I have presently no real opportunity for obtaining a decent income, which is necessary for my effectiveness, through under-the-table employment. So, I am temporarily backed into a corner and must turn to conventional employment for a decent income.
That is where the AMOG has some fleeting power over me: By compelling my conventional employer to withhold taxes from my earnings, as a condition of being provided the very real and needed service of employment, I am temporarily powerless to keep 100% of my earnings out of the hands of the AMOG. I do take steps to reduce to a bare minimum the amount of plunder they take from my earnings, however, because that is in my power to do.
Same goes for roads: The AMOG's driver licensing and vehicle registrations "services" are not services at all; or at least they are not services that I have any use for. Thus, their only tool to get me to pay for those non-services is the gun. Again, their guns have no power over me: I am prepared to reverse the impact tenfold to them when, and if, they attack me.
The roads themselves are a different story, however: If I want to be effective, I have to be mobile -- and efficiently so. I need the very real service of being provided roads to travel on. Since the AMOG presently maintains control over the provision of virtually all road service, they have me backed into a corner: I am compelled to turn to a service that is provided by the very institution that I detest with every fiber of my being. This, too, is ultimately a temporary condition, for as the AMOG is itself compelled to retreat, roads will either become privatized or made obsolete by new transportation technology provided by the private sector.
This, by the way, provides an important glimpse into what makes the Free Market Model able to both outcompete the AMOG, and once in place, be virtually indestructible: Nothing under the Free Market structure is ever imposed at the point of a gun. Enforcement, strictly a method of the obsolete and criminal AMOG, is replaced by crime prevention technologies. The worst that can happen to a perceived criminal in the coming Free Market Civilization is that he will be very effectively denied valuable services by conventional service providers. His threats of force will be just as laughable as the recent episode of a would-be bank robber who tried to rob a bank through the drive-thru, and kept trying to frighten the teller into compliance by brandishing his gun even after he was decisively informed that the window is constructed of bulletproof glass. Members of the ostracized criminal class will be left with only two options for survival: Turn on each other, which leads to the rapid decimation of their numbers, or lay down their weapons and produce values to be traded peaceably amongst themselves in their own little black market (which, by the way, they will be perfectly left alone to do so).
Value denial is a vastly more powerful form of regulation than the impotent gun and fists employed by the AMOG, and since the AMOG relies on the gun rather than value production, they are at a severe and permanent disadvantage.
While others are fiddling with the controls of the very mechanism of enslavement to try to achieve freedom, I am designing the mechanism that will back the AMOG into a corner until their final act is to be literally laughed out of existence.*
*I first read the phrase, "laughed out of existence", in reference to our current guns-and-fists model of government, back in the eighties. It was a favorite phrase of the Neo-Tech author, Dr. Frank R. Wallace. It took me twenty years to come to the realization that that phrase was meant quite literally, and is very well within our reach -- in fact, inevitable, if the AMOG does not succeed in wiping out existing civilization first with its toys of mass destruction.
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