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Crisis And Opportunity

We might be living in a very different world five years from now. If we want this to be a better world, we have to put our hands into history.

Notions of stability, freedom, and personal identity are tied up with authoritarian ideas. This must be broken.

A weakened political system provides unprecedented opportunity to carve out anti-authoritarian autonomous zones. To do so requires networking, spreading ideology, and working for resilience. Providing valuable services and goods can help gain influence (see A Quick Look At Insurgent Political Influence). Think counter-institutions – economic and social counter-power.

Be careful – authority will attempt to co-opt what it is unable to destroy with force.

Thoughts?

(cross-posted at fr33 agents)

This entry was posted on Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 11:20 am and is filed under info share, libertarian. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Crisis And Opportunity”

  1. chris lempa Says:
    October 17th, 2009 at 9:44 am

    Great post Darian. Please consider expanding on these thoughts in the next issue of ALLiance.

    I think alternative media along with more localized economies will help lead to a more free society. Blogs, newsletters, pamphlets, micropublishing (http://www.corvusdistribution.org) are changing the scope of media. Farmers Markets, swaplucks, and neighborhood “garage sales” can start to do the same for economies.

    We should all be doing something in the counter economy everyday.