You can criticize all you want but what are you doing to further liberty?
What change are you making?
Where have I heard this before?
By all means since we have no perspective on the proper way to handle the government and this entire fucked up statist society why dont you enlighten us?
It's because of people like you that people who are actually trying to achieve something aren't getting enough attention or being taken seriously.
There aren't any easy answers. Liberty in our lifetime is a fucking joke.
I'm partway hopeful about the
seasteading institute, although theres been a bad history of failed seasteading projects, so I'll see how this turns out. This is definitely the most professional and realistic attempt i've seen yet though.
Hopefully I'll move to
Zug in a few years, partly for tax reasons, partly because cannabis is sold in shops, and most other drugs are overlooked, partly for legal prostitution and euthanasia, and partly because assault rifles and other guns are legal.
I don't expect any major increase in liberty. I expect a slight decrease in gun freedoms (which aren't spectacular, although better than the UK), there has been a trend towards liberalization of drug law, especially at the canton level, but that could go another way. Immigration laws suck in Switzerland, although fortunately if you own a business its fairly easy.
I don't feel the need to give myself a fantasy that doesn't exist. There isn't anywhere I'm going to be as free as I want in the next 10 years, probably not in the next 50 years.
I'm gonna do w/e I can with the options available to me to further liberty.
Even if it takes my life and I dont accomplish anything I'd be happy knowing I fought for something I believe in to the best of my ability and stayed true to my ideals.
You say that there's no evidence of any possible change with the free state project but think about it like a basketball court.
You can practice free throws and suck when you first start but you keep taking shots until you learn how to make the shots.
What better way to figure out the best activism to practice and the best way to enlighten people?
You wanna criticize and bitch and moan but why not back off and stop giving other people shit for doing what they can?
You go three weeks without food. You try going through all that and not breaking down.
He is a hero to me regardless of how useless his actions may or may not seem.
Because of him I am inspired to move on and do everything in my power to contribute.
I have no one who has influenced me like he has.
I always thought a real hero didnt necessarily have to accomplish much but inspired the best in others.
But maybe I'm wrong and delusional for trying to be optimistic and doing what I can to live my life to the best of my beliefs and for the future of society.
There's no reason to emotionalize this so much.
I want liberty as much as anyone here. I'm not willing to bullshit myself in order to make myself feel better. Most places are getting worse for liberty.
I didn't once say that I think everyone should give up, not once did I say I had a better idea.
But this is what it comes down to with your kind, it gets person "well, what are YOU doing?!", because its all coming from an emotional place. Civ-dis feels. The "answer" can be principled. Stand up against tyranny, right can triumph over wrong.
Its also a handy alternative to the political system, because its much easier to realize that very little is going to change in politics, and its easier to bullshit yourself that "out of the system" methods can be successful, because theres less precedent of failure.
I'm "giving other people shit", for the same reason I "give people shit" about global warming hysteria. I don't have any criticism for your goals, just your methods, and as someone who actually cares about liberty, I don't like to see people wasting their time on things that have very little evidence of working.
If people are hailing someone as a hero for liberty who in my opinion is essentially making close to 0 impact for liberty.
I'd rather have libertarians living their life in the way they enjoy than wasting it on shit that achieves nothing.
If all you want to do is try hard, whether you make a change or not, then go for it, but if you actually give a shit whether you make a difference, you should embrace criticism as a means to test your own beliefs and assumptions.
You should be saying, "You're wrong,
this is making a difference, here's how...", not "if you don't have anything positive to say, shut up".
While I might seem like a bitching nay-sayer, I'm actually willing to talk about what will work to increase liberty, all this hopeful backslapping achieves nothing, and responding to criticism of your method (not your objectives) with "well what are you doing?!" is not a healthy attitude.