RE: Gaslighting Anarchy: A Brief Talk on Psychological Manipulation and Narcissism, and How to Protect Yourself from Unfair Argumentation
Your good man. This 'movement' thing is a little sketchy to begin with. Individual anarchy/individual voluntarism IMO shouldn't build social constructs or invest authority in social constructs, so this whole thing about 'unite' and 'align for the cause' is suspect.
I can see the position of trying to get into it long enough to decentralize it, but no way in hell should there be something to mimic it.
In many ways I think Larken is accurate, that it is best not to engage with the circus.
The fact that we have so many preferences aligned is interesting, but it probably shouldn't be bound. There appears to be some confusion in the basic principle that freedom should be the primary and order should flow from that freedom. What this push for unity appears to be trying to do is put order as the primary and then trying to get freedom from that order. Anyone who has looked at that history should know how that ends.
Good stuff.
Yes, I concur as well. This isn't about individuals or groups. It is about the objective, and that objective is individual liberty. Call it freedom if you want, but I don't like that term as much. Different people have different opinions of the definition. I prefer individual liberty because it is more clearly defined.
If a person is doing things to further individual liberty, then they are my friend. Are they doing something counter to it? Then I have a problem with them. How people work towards maximizing individual liberty doesn't matter to me either. As Friedman said in his interview, I'm all for having various different approaches.
Unity over objective? Never. I won't do it. To each their own though...
Exactly. Really well said.
Thanks for the comment and observations @joesal.