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In this 1984 world where up is down and down is up, being normal doesn't feel normal at all. That is, unless you have people by your side who see the world the same way you do. That's what TVP is all about. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

Creating a Voluntaryist world requires us to create friendships and bonds with other Voluntaryists.  Yet it's easy to be so fed up with "people" that we can have little or no desire to put in the effort. Today I'll talk about creating the environment from which most all friendships emerge, even Voluntaryist ones. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

The very fundamentals of what makes funny things funny are everywhere in Voluntaryism. Because comedy and tragedy can be one in the same depending on what perspective you choose.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

What needs to happen on the technology end, and in what order before TVP launch. Getting some of that out on the table today. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

The very job of government police is to imagine your thoughts and thereby predict your behavior. And that's why they will always be steps ahead of you unless you are willing to reciprocate. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

You never fully understand any concept or skill until you are able to forget everything you already know about it and reconsider it with new eyes. How else would we ever know when we're wrong? Life is too short to go around with mustard on your chin, even if having mustard on your chin is the norm. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

Today I discuss different separatist movements and the lessons I've learned for what to do as well as what not to do. What has worked, what didn't and why and the adaptations from these lessons that I have applied to TVP. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

What factors determine whether your actions are offensive or defensive? Aggression is always seen as self-defense when your team does it. But is it really? If you have all the tools you would need at your disposal to make self-defense easy, can you really say that a preemptive attack is necessary?  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

The most difficult problem to get rid of is the one you don't even know you have. And those whom you are carrying the weight for are tickled pink about it. Today I attempt to reveal the true burdens of not joining a Voluntaryist Community.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

Wishing for Voluntaryism to become normal and accepted isn't going to change anything. If you don't want to loose your mind waiting for the world to fix itself, you need to find or create those microcosms where things are already as they are supposed to be. And it all starts with just showing up. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

There is a huge difference between a Legal system and a Justice system. Why will the Voluntucky Justice system work? Because it involves the required checks and balances needed to have a just system that are absent from the State Legal system. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

The Voluntucky Project ain't for everybody. Today I dig much more deeply than I have in the past, into the philosophical part of anarchism/Voluntaryism and why seeking purity in your philosophy is achieving it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

Great news on multiple fronts! Milestones met for The Project and for human history. But much left to do. And.... Oh! Moonshine classes! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

In order to do what I do, you gotta be Real comfy in confrontational situations. But not everyone is. And that's okay... for now. But avoiding the State and depending on loopholes within the system is a guarantee of large-scale future confrontation. It's what we've been doing our whole lives only to repeat the pattern of one step forward, and three back. Here's how we fix that.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

We instinctively try to categorize any group of individuals we see. Is it a government? A cult? A mob? A religion? A business? Do we make up a whole new term for it? Can a group that is generally one thing have some of the characteristics of another and still remain that thing? Check out today's show for a clear explanation of exactly what The Voluntucky Project is as well as a new weekly segment on the progress of The Project. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

When standing up for principles is punished, right action often brings pain. But nothing about that changes until some people are willing to do it anyway. As long as the world incentivizes immoral behavior, it will run rampant. If you want to change the world, change the incentive package.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

In this "cross-cast" episode, Shawn Sanders and I talk a lot about the defense mechanisms within The Project, modern technological capabilities that make Voluntaryist communities much more possible than they've ever been, and the sometimes overwhelming temptations to shelve the NAP for the sake of the NAP.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

Thanks to listener input, the first change has been made to Membership requirements, and a design flaw that could have hindered Project Goals significantly in the future now has a very solid firewall. And I'll let you decide if further changes need to be implemented.  And when, exactly will the Charter and Membership documents be closed to change so that actual Membership can begin? The goal line is set. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

Probably should have done this show before episode 12. Before any Voluntaryist community can be started, a certain number of obstacles will need to be identified. Then we can figure out how to best get over, under, around or through those obstacles. And in a free market, the best ideas will prosper most. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message

The U.S. is an experiment that has failed but people will still continue to use it until something better is created. And then that thing, be it Voluntucky or some other idea, must be tested against others. If it fails, then it should fail. And multiple experimental communities happening at the same time will be the only way to find the best option that fits You! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevoluntuckypodcast/message