You don't need a revolution to escape the system. You need secession. You need a withdrawal of support for the existing systems. You need to revoke the legitimacy which you extended to these organizations. You need to do it, and everybody else needs to do it. Nobody organizes this. People just learn, scandal by scandal, bureaucratic snafu by bureaucratic snafu, that the system is irreparable. It cannot be reformed. It must not be captured. It must be de-funded. The secret of liberty is not revolution; the secret of liberty is to de-fund the existing centralized order.
http://www.garynorth.com/public/12619.cfmI just read the link to the garynorth article - it was unconvincing. However, he wrote the article in response to an article he'd read in the "leftie" Guardian newspaper. I've just read that article (in the Guardian) - and it is excellent - it is
here.
I never thought I'd be so enthralled by the ideas of a former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity.
His name is Robert David Steele. Well worth a look. To give you a snippet :-
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"We have over 5 billion human brains that are the one infinite resource available to us going forward. Crowd-sourcing and cognitive surplus are two terms of art for the changing power dynamic between those at the top that are ignorant and corrupt, and those across the bottom that are attentive and ethical. The open source ecology is made up of a wide range of opens – open farm technology, open source software, open hardware, open networks, open money, open small business technology, open patents – to name just a few. The key point is that they must all develop together, otherwise the existing system will isolate them into ineffectiveness. Open data is largely worthless unless you have open hardware and open software. Open government demands open cloud and open spectrum, or money will dominate feeds and speeds These are interesting times.
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The whole point of Open Source Everything is to restore public agency. Open Source is the only form of information and information technology that is affordable to the majority, interoperable across all boundaries, and rapidly scalable from local to global without the curse of overhead that proprietary corporations impose"
Isn't that why we are all here (on this forum) ?
Open Source Everything. I like it