The fantasy of a voluntary society is "dangerous"? Not sure how you drew that conclusion.
I will continue to be the change I wish to see in the world, and I will continue to see it, because thoughts can become reality. I've seen it happen.
Wow, that's every bit as (seemingly) dishonest a reply to what I wrote as I have ever gotten from Gene, the Christian Anarchist, but I'll chalk it up to misunderstanding.
No, Ian. I don't believe the possibility for and desire to create a voluntary society is "dangerous." I want that kind of society myself. But imagining that anything other than interacting with the world and other people as they actually, really are, will fail to achieve it. Pretending that the universe, whatever that means to you, will deliver that society to you as a result of your willing it to be, by focusing your desire for it in you mind, will lead to perverse incentives, a misallocation of resources and effort, and ultimately, disappointment. Positive thinking is fine, but it will not
actually change the universe or bring you opportunities for action. Wishing for bikes doesn't bring them to you door.
Reality is what it is, and sometimes it does not deliver you the opportunity you want, when you want or even need it. No amount of positive thinking or visualization will change that fact. I could not have LoAed my congenital heart defects away, they required multiple surgeries and a lot of painful recovery. I still have to take my blood pressure meds daily, and if I traded them in for The Secret's style of positive thinking, I'd likely die young or need another surgery very soon. If I spent my money on lottery tickets and my time visualizing a jackpot win, that would be personally disastrous, and apparently, it has been done in the name of LoA. Intention and desire alone do not affect the universe, only action does. That's reality. It doesn't work the way you keep saying it does. Believing that it does may lead to a personal disaster for you, which I think would be sad. That's what I meant.