This issue keeps coming up. What is more important? Is it raising awareness, or securing freedom right now?
They aren't mutually exclusive. If you have more actual freedom, you can spend more time raising awareness and recruiting customers.
I'm leaning more towards "Raising awareness is most important right now." Everyone is somewhat crazy. Most people react with hostility the first time they hear "Taxation is theft!" "Everyone is crazy!" makes raising awareness very important.
If everyone is crazy, then it's practically impossible to find trustworthy agorist trading partners.
Is it possible to fully crack your pro-State brainwashing without showing the symptoms of a "mental illness"? I'm not sure. Having someone explain something to you is easier than figuring it out on your own the hard way. However, pro-State brainwashing is really severe.
It isn't just false logical beliefs. There also are false emotional beliefs. If you have high logical intelligence then you probably have low emotional intelligence. This is the "abused productive" personality type. Parasites make it hard for people with high logical intelligence to learn emotional intelligence. Conversely, if you have high emotional intelligence you don't work on developing logical intelligence. This is the parasitic personality type. It's easier to learn how to exploit others, than learn to do things for yourself.
Once you fall into the productive or parasitic personality type, feedback from others keeps you on track. You work on being more "abused productive" or parasitic, rather than learning the complimentary skill.
Is it possible to raise the complementary skill without having a "mental illness"? It seems that I still needed to make more progress on cracking my pro-State brainwashing. That's the reason I had a relapse. I may have reached another higher level of emotional awareness.
What is most important? Is it raising awareness of "Taxation is theft!" That's something you can logically explain to an openminded person, but most people are restricted by their pro-State brainwashing. Is it raising awareness of productive/parasitic relationships? It isn't easy for an "abused productive" person to raise their emotional intelligence. Is practical agorism most important? It seems that understanding productive/parasitic relationships is a more serious problem than "Taxation is theft!" or practical agorism. You don't just have to crack your logical pro-State brainwashing. You also have to crack your emotional pro-State brainwashing, and that's a lot harder.
For now, it still seems that "raising awareness" is the best use of my time. I'm planning to branch out into other things. I might find a way to raise awareness while operating an on-the-books business, but that's hard. Practical agorism is profitable but risky. Agorism is really risky when most/all your potential trading partners are insane.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Raising Awareness vs. Practical Freedom
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>It seems that understanding productive/parasitic relationships is a more serious problem than "Taxation is theft!" or practical agorism. You don't just have to crack your logical pro-State brainwashing. You also have to crack your emotional pro-State brainwashing, and that's a lot harder.
That’s quite profound, FSK. I’m reminded of this quote from “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”:
“But to tear down a factory or revolt against a government or avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic pattern of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.”
Dionusual reminds me of a book recommendation to make to you F.S.K.; have you read the Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. If you haven't read it you should.(when your feeling better of course)
For me It began because of the study of history. I like military history and have studied the civil war in depth. In school I was taught about the war from the victors preservative. Out of school I learned the true reason for the war.
I felt jilted and lied to, and my feelings were hurt. I couldn't believe the people I looked up to would muddle the truth and deceive me so.
that led to OMFG what else is going on here that I have falsely thought was truth.
Then came the beginning of the quest for the truth. Which has turned into almost a paranoia and a personal questioning of the nature and operation of our government.
But at the same time a person has to silence his own mind just to preserve his health. And accept what is as just that which is.
I know there is a stinky smell out there. But I also know I can still be calm and happy with all that stink around. but I do feel obligated to spread the word. Like I do as often as possible.
Fritz
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