I'm Back: Stop Fixing the State, Start Building a Nation

From Tim Moen · 28:16

Show by Tim Moen

After two and a half years away — including two years in the belly of the beast doing political action — I'm back. With a blue wave in the US midterms and Alberta separatists defeated in the referendum, a lot of freedom lovers are licking their wounds. I'm not here to pile on. I'm here to commiserate and offer an alternative: stop trying to win the state's game, and start building voluntary nations. In this episode: why nation states are born from conquest and run like tax farms, why democracy is a suggestion box on the plantation, why replacing corrupt rulers with "noble" ones misses the point, and why Balaji Srinivasan's Network State points to a better path. What would it take for you to pledge allegiance to a nation you chose? Tell me in the comments. Subscribe on Substack to follow where this goes: https://timmoen.substack.com/subscribe Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:15 I'm back after 2.5 years 1:34 Blue wave, Alberta referendum & licking our wounds 2:37 Why does political action always fail? 5:43 Even 75% for independence wouldn't do it 6:58 Nation states are born from conquest 8:59 Democracy: the suggestion box on the plantation 11:34 The arc of moral progress & the nation state 13:21 Upgrading the pen (house slave stuff) 15:55 Conspiracy theories & the man in the mirror 18:06 Preaching to the remnant (Albert Jay Nock) 20:29 What if we created voluntary nations? 21:44 Patriotism as fidelity to principles 22:28 Balaji's Network State 24:52 Network archipelagos 25:20 Focus on solutions, not problems 27:00 Contribution, founders & the future 27:15 What would it take to pledge allegiance? #NetworkState #Libertarian #Alberta #VoluntaryNations

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