20 years ago the Cypherpunks of the new Internet era came up with vast ideas describing privacy, anonymity, and encryption. Some of them brought these ideas to practice. Today we live in a world where we have the tools to bring about a new era of living. Life without third party intrusion and meddling in our wealth and private affairs. Decentralized services are making us all nodes in a mesh pattern of pure human action. The ideas of anarchy are coming to life. Things like TOR, I2P, Bitcoin, Bittorrent, the Pirate Bay, online data houses, the Silk Road, Open Bazaar, Defense Distributed, 3D printing, mesh networking, encrypted chat and messenger services, so many ideas are spontaneously rising. These are the subliminal messages of anarchy dropped into the eyes of society. The idea is the very root of Agorism to create a wonderful Counter-Economy and completely Vacate the State. Now the information era is upon us.
After the financial crash, many went to the streets to “Occupy”. The idea was to Occupy government and all things related. To get the voice heard and spread true direct democracy. Yet this a fallacy. Just as you cannot decimate an idea. You cannot ask a parasite to help you out. The idea of Occupy Wall Street was to simply be heard and get help from the government. More government is the last thing people need. Being heard by the government never happens. When you cry that the children and students in your country are in debt, it’s utter absurdity to cry for more government. They are the very creators of the problem. Look what it got Occupy. They brought in the police state. They showed everyone around the globe who was boss by shutting you down with a gigantic slap on the face. People got beaten, and pepper sprayed on camera. For what? For more government the very beast who is starving you? Today I ask you to starve them. Join the counter-economy. Vacate the State.
The idea is to Vacate the State and its edicts by any means necessary. The oligarchs laugh at us. So we ignore them. If you are to occupy anything; occupy yourself and become an individual node in a decentralized land. Choke the state with counter action and economic freedom. We can be a better infrastructure. We can build a better noncoercive tomorrow. We can starve the state by using Cryptocurrency. We can house vast amounts of transparent data on the Bitcoin blockchain. Start our own marketplaces, escrows, trusts, and organizations without the need for third-party validation. Reputation systems are coming which will be just as powerful as anonymous private systems. A new era of enslaving information to be instantaneous and global electronic transactions for everyone. Technology and information will replicate biology in a manner that all of it will be distributed until there cannot be a third party. No sign of authority. It will be too blurry to recognize authorities in a decentralized land. Until we’ve completed the task of vacating all elements of their system.
We Vacate the State. Vacate Wall Street and the central banks. We Vacate the Military by encouraging others to walk away and starve the military industrial complex with our counter economic actions. War feeds off of our use of the dollar and sovereign currencies. We Vacate the Vote by not participating in their election systems by simply walking away from that charade and opting out. We Vacate Taxation by avoiding it at all costs. We Vacate Public Schools and let the young learn rather than be subordinated. Not to fall in line but to create a new.
The tools are now here to unleash the beast of direct action and many are doing this every day. Ensuring privacy, anonymity, and reputation and trust systems on the very same tokens. We must show our intentions of a stateless society with practice and proof. For emulation to grow and gravitate towards a noncoercive and nonviolent future. It must be done in front of the people for them to see. The cry for Occupy Wall Street is dead. The idea and the movement is VACATE and to claim pride in the shadow economy. Vacate the State by any means necessary. We vacate and create a new.
For more information on the “Vacate” mission, check out these Facebook pages:
Vacate the State is an overall message to opt out and withdraw consent from the State.
https://www.facebook.com/VacateTheState/
Vacate Wall Street Every day, put another dollar into Bitcoin, Gold or other alternative currencies until the banks are empty.
https://www.facebook.com/VacateWallStreet/
Vacate the Vote Encourages opting out of the polls and the voting process.
https://www.facebook.com/VacateTheVote/
Vacate Public Schools A page to inform and educate about the dangers of government indoctrination institutions.
https://www.facebook.com/VacatePublicSchools/
Vacate the Military Stop recruiting kids, don’t join the military or support it, seek conscientious objector status or go AWOL.
https://www.facebook.com/VacateTheMilitary/
Vacate the Mainstream Media Question the integrity of mainstream news outlets.
https://www.facebook.com/VacateTheMSM/
Vacate Taxation Encourages avoiding taxation by any means necessary.
https://www.facebook.com/VacateTaxation/
Written by Jamie Redman
Damn dude. There's some POWER behind that voice/writing.
Up until today, I've only ever read your news stories - which are great. So cool to discover these new depths of your insight and passion.
Appreciative for your guidance. The world needs such powerful, intelligent voices to help lead this revolution you are foreseeing.
Exciting times... :-)
Great Article Jamie! Love what you do for bitcoin and decentralized technologies!
"The oligarchs laugh at us. So we ignore them. If you are to occupy anything; occupy yourself and become an individual node in a decentralized land."
What a powerful statement. Cryptocurrency and decentralized technologies offer so much more than we can even fathom at the moment.
I was part of END THE FED, OCCUPY and the TEAPARTY. Each time it was because I wanted decentralization. The difference is that the tech is actually here now making a difference. Although END THE FED never got coopted like OCCUPY and TEAPARTY it did die out as a movement. Thats what movements do. They fizzle out.
Cryptocurrency is bigger than a movement, it is a new society being built on the principles of freedom. These principles protect the individual from the collective and the collective from the individual.
In the end Crypto will bring people together. That's why i work on the Nexus Project. To bring people together and create a better world.
Thanks for the props Keith, I agree we now have the tools to stab the beast. It may bleed out slowly but we have the power to finish it off now.
Its true on one hand but.. don't you give it the value of steem, btc, or eth because you can turn it into dollars and you can actually buy stuff?
iaw: you need the state money to actually do stuff with the virtual money?
People will not need filthy fiat in the end if counter-economics is practiced. Eventually, the circle will close and state monopolized systems will fail as the end result.
Powerful stuff there. Thank you.
Although, there are truths in there, the fact is, the govt rule will only worsen and tighten as times go by...