From the Monday Steem Desk, September 18th, 2017: The Inevitability of Anarchy / Upcoming Show Announcement / JP Morgan's Crypto Creep
It's a holiday today here in Japan, so I am not at my usual between-classes-coffee shop spot, but we're pressing on from home today, with another edition of the Steem Desk!
This is the Monday Steem Desk for Monday, September 18th, 2017!
Saw this post on Facebook today, with this fantastic quote from my friend:
It truly is just a matter of time before philosophical critical mass is reached. The numbers in the graphic above seem to bear this out. Individuals are beginning to see through the mob-rule-in-disguise charade known as "democracy" and "statism."
Even those that do not fully consciously accept the objective, immutable, metaphysical reality of individual self-ownership, but become more and more dissatisfied with the status quo and--intentionally or otherwise--begin to drop out and participate less and less in statist behaviors and practices, those that understand the principles and are capable of being thought leaders, will fill the void left by the state, as it becomes increasingly irrelevant.
Anarchism is an individualist philosophy that says each man is his own leader, ultimately. Individuals will have to accept their self-leadership responsibility, or follow those who are already leading themselves.
Upcoming show announcement!
Tomorrow's #VJLIVE will be pre-recorded (so actually not "live") but will be uploaded for viewing at the normal time, Tuesday, September 19th, 10:30 PM JST (Japan). You'll be able to watch the show in the Voluntary Japan YouTube channel HERE.
I'll be joined by a very special friend and guest, and we'll be talking about the MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) movement--what it is, what is isn't, and how it relates to Voluntarism/anarchism.
DON'T MISS IT!
Dark Cryptocurrencies.
With the recent large JP Morgan Bitcoin buy-up coming right on the heels of CEO Jamie Dimon's warnings that the coin would "explode" and fail, it is clear to see that the bankers are not only afraid of the crypto market getting "eating their lunch" they also want to buy in and take over. As always, dear investor, don't let the fear mongering scams of the big banksters scare ya! HODL!!!
HODL!!!!!!
Check out this excellent interview with antivirus software multimillionaire John McAfee talking Bitcoin, Monero, JP Morgan, and the beauty of dark cryptocurrencies such as Monero.
That's it for this edition of the Steem Desk!
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
Will definitely go through your VJLIVE..All the very best for your upcoming discussion with your guest on "Men going their own way".Although you have mentioned about dark cryptocurrencies but we believe that it won't break down or fail..
Monday steem desk great
In our life we being influenced by some others thinking, moto, guidance etc... So we have to follow themselves if we consider they are in right path..
Hope your holiday will go through a busy schedule, knowing from your postof"monday steem desk"..Good-luck for a successful show of MGTOW... Looking for ward its conclusion display... Have a great and super fantastic vacation day...
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I'm not convinced that the large percentage not voting are doing so because they are anarchists. I think they are apathetic. Which unfortunately doesn't represent the assertion of self ownership that is the hallmark of anarchists, but rather represents the submission to perpetual juvenility of the collective.
They don't vote because they are so used to someone else taking care of large parts of their lives that they can't be bothered to even show up for charade of citizen rule that voting represents.
To me, that large number of non-voting citizens doesn't represent progress or promise, but instead represents the reason why unfortunately, anarchy will never be able to emerge as a stable system -- because anarchy is always contending against its own success.
Self organizing systems like society evolve to meet the conditions they are faced with. When life is hard, humans are tough and adaptable because the weak die. Thus tough conditions actually make us individually and collectively stronger. And eventually, this toughness and collective strength produces success. But then this success allows us to live in a less severe environment, which paradoxically weakens us.
Thus if you were to establish a successful anarchistic society, it would be very productive, but then you would have to contend with the softness and weakness this productivity and affluence would create in the successive generations. The successive generations, raised in affluence, would have a different picture of the way reality works than their anarchistic parents did. And they would fall victim to the mind fuckery of impossible ideas like collectivism because, deprived of interaction with causality and the real world, they would have no learning experiences of how the real world and causality actually work. They would be mesmerized by the idea of collective decision making and democracy, and would then turn around and vote to end anarchism, which they would not see as freedom but instead would see as callous disregard for the suffering of others.
The only way anarchism could remain stable is if you allow people to fail and then learn from their mistakes, and only when they have learned to value independence and learned the necessity of self reliance, be allowed to join the community. You would have to enshrine the anarchistic equivalent of the Amish Rumspringa.
The way it is now, that large block of non-voting people are not and will never be future anarchists. They are instead sheep who trust the shepherds to keep them safe and keep the food coming. And if they are ever deprived of safety or food, they will turn out in record numbers to vote for whatever demagogue promises to set things right, by whatever means necessary.
Entirely possible.
"Allowing" individuals in and out of a community can only legitimately be done based on private property, so the idea of a society barring people from entering by any other authority would not be a voluntarist conception.
Hmmm.
There are two responses to that. One response is to value the idea of voluntarism higher than any other consideration, and thus to say that, if it violates voluntarism, then it has to go.
But that way is to value ideology over reality or practicality. Which makes us no different and certainly no better than the collectivists.
The other way is to recognize that we need to consider not just the primary or initial effects of changes to the system, but also to anticipate the secondary effects as well, because those secondary effects will have consequences that are just as real and permanent as the primary effects were. We can't just stick our head in the sands about the outcome of choices because it offends the ideological world we have created in our heads.
So if we see society as an adaptive, self organizing system, and we can predict what will happen when we make changes to that system based on the feedback process that all self organizing systems use to achieve equilibrium, and we can anticipate the consequences of the ideology, which is that the ideology will eventually bring about its own demise, then which one ought to go? The ideology or the practicality?
I'm curious why you feel private property is at odds with voluntarism?
Or perhaps I should say, private property owned by more than one individual?
I did not make that argument.
Man going their own way..wow nice topic..it will help to develop the hidden original meaning of democracy......people will know their own status and believe in their own controll....looking forward.....
I'll be catching up tonight!
thanks for taking time to share this to us even at your busy schedule...
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