I don't think that the anti-war stance of anarchocapitalists and voluntaryists is intrinsically repugnant to those in the military or formerly serving who already have some inkling of what is at stake here.
It will not help to soften the stance, but rather, to take more indirect routes. Adopting again military strategies, if you can't make a frontal assault, disappear to the sides and flank them. I also have not failed to see a utility in understanding military strategy to weaken the resistance of supporters of incumbent establishment philosophies, by taking indirect approaches. In this regard I think you are right on with what you are saying.
Just because we soften our approach, does not mean we are surrendering, nor should we consider surrendering our positions, because fundamentally, they are unassailable. But without numbers, we cannot mount an assault from this redoubt. Rather, we should fan out, blend in a little more, and poke and prod at these people with questions that make them also begin to have questions. Sowing the seeds of doubt towards the efficacy of conventional, accepted mainstream ideas about how to run and secure society, should naturally be of interest to any person who has undertaken any amount of military training or seen combat. It is always better to get 'hearts and minds' than to shoot them in the head.
Brilliant post. We are on very similar wavelengths with this.
My role in the military was specifically unconventional warfare, psyops, civil affairs, construction and training. Each and everyone one of those things plays directly into any sort of strategy of challenging, or overcoming a sitting power structure.
Thank you! Upvoted and followed for sure!
I follow people who both like what I say, and whose posts I also like, so, right back atcha.
You would have to agree therefore, with your grounding in military strategy, that cryptocurrencies are a very fundamental challenge, one that ultimately the power structure cannot in fact fight against. Like the rebel Romanians in the Transylvanian Alps who kept the communists at bay for 47 years, cryptos have advantages that spread their resources so thin that they can take down one little thing, like they did with the Silk Road, but politically and tactically (and strategically) they can't attack distributed network databases that are not centrally controlled.
I have been saying for a while now, and more cogently since I learned a bit more about insurgent tactics, that we are waging an insurgency against the system, to take back our lives. To me, Steem in fact represents a major step forward. It's like Bitmessage, but the whole point is rather than to hide our communications, to make them impossible to delete.
Absolutely! That was part of the reason I went into a fugue state the first time I found bitcoin.
I wrote up this article a while back and just reposted -- it kind of touches on the topic of fundamental changes in power structures: Cryptocurrencies and Unconventional Warfare
Would love to hear your take on that if you get time. Thanks lok1!