This is a great post, because it can help folks to become averse to political debate in lieu of political action. It also reveals a bit of depth of history of how revolutions become captive to political rhetoric, and abandon political action.

Here's a new ism to consider: realism. Just the facts, and nothing but the facts. Technology is possible that physics enables, and people tinker until they develop it. We'll continue to do so because that's a human trait. Throughout history technology has always increased the power of individuals versus institutions. The more advanced technology is the greater that power differential grows, and the faster technology disperses throughout the population.

Today, across all fields, the cutting edge of all technological advance is decentralization. This is natural. Nature, decentralized, is messy, redundant, and robust. As soon as bits of it can come back following some catastrophe, they do. Soon enough verdant and fecund ecosystems overflow landscapes to their carrying capacity. Centralization, on which institutional power depends, is neat, efficient, and fragile. Catastrophe often completely eradicates the mechanisms and the beneficiaries of centralized systems. Sometimes as little as one maniacal zealot with an assassin's heart is all that's necessary to drop nations to their knees, and allows others to take their clay.

Decentralization directly decreases centralization. Centralization is tyranny, institutions imposing power on individuals, while decentralization is actual freedom, individuals creating their own power by producing their own goods, services, and wealth.

This revolution cannot be stopped. It cannot be reasoned with. It will never end until all centralized mechanisms intent on oppressing individuals for the profit of the overlords running those institutions are dead, buried, and historical footnotes. As technological advance continues at an ever accelerating pace, the propagation of decentralized means of production increases concomitantly, and the power of individuals versus institutions grows exponentially.

Do some research into what novel means of production present windows of opportunity that benefit you economically, and adopt those that make sense in your circumstances. Proselytize. Every person becoming more free by doing the same thing increases your personal freedom. Since people will differentially adopt tech, direct trade between them further increases the benefits of their personal control of the means of production, because barter isn't taxable, and does not provide rent through parasitism to overlords in control of industrial means of production.

All we need to do to become the masters of our own fate, and pass on a world more free and prosperous is to do this and avoid becoming catastrophically involved in war or other institutionally induced catastrophes that potentially could reduce our access to tech, even reduce us (those that survive) to chipping rocks and scratching in dirt for a living.

If that's all we do, we win.

Take heart, because even a cursory look online, searching reprap, or CRISPR, or aquaponics, will reveal more links to people doing this than you can follow if you live for a thousand years. When billions of us do this, government becomes incapable of projecting power - and this is important - because to do so they need boots on the ground, thugs, that can kick in doors and arrest us. They can't nuke our cities, drone us en masse, or poison our wells, because we are the source of the rent they depend on for their power. They need to convince us to render them service, and have done this by controlling the means of production with walled gardens of centralized wealth.

When we control the means of production, nobody will serve them, and they can't make us do it.

Firearms are literally a thousand year old technology, and incomprehensibly obsolete in modern times for people that own their own means of manufacturing mechanisms that prevent thugs from projecting force on them. I won't go into detail, but little thought is necessary to grasp how better tech exists to secure people from firearms than firearms can prevent them from effecting.

You can speed things up, or you can just wait for others to do it. The more you personally undertake this process, the more secure and prosperous you will be, but you can do you, and the rest of us will do what we do, and eventually, we'll all win.

Peace!