#introduceyourself

#introduceyourself @ towardliberty

Hello Steemit,

Let me take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Ryan and I'm from Houston, Texas. I am a graduate of the University of Houston and recently quit my job to work from home and spend more time with my family.

I keep a small personal library and often find myself talking the wife’s ear off regarding something I have just read. I want to channel these moments into a series of posts and explore these ideas with you all.

My political views favor practical solutions for decentralizing decision-making in politics and government. I don’t believe we are going to vote our way to the good society.

Buckminster Fuller’s dictum on social change strikes me as spot on:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

My goal is to promote the replacement of legacy institutions and governance structures with emergent, consensual and horizontal forms of association.

This is a call for peaceful anarchy but I have a slightly different perspective than the typical libertarian anarchist.

I am working on developing my own holistic or dialectic vision of libertarianism. This is an approach that eschews the rhetoric about government being a violent and criminal organization and instead focuses on the fact that government is ultimately based on widespread legitimacy and consent. The idea that the state is some external or alien entity sucking the life out of society is something I have grown to see the limits of. I hope to share this message in order to help create a better libertarianism.

Aside from politics and economics I also have a love for retro television shows and commercials. Growing up in the 80’s and early 90’s, I feel like I experienced a golden age of television. I realize this is nostalgia talking but there was something special about this era. And in the spirit of preserving it, I collect and curate clips of classic television from my childhood. I share many of them on youtube.

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