This idea is ripe, IMHO. I have noted that Hive had all the necessary mechanisms for voluntarist government to be conducted long ago. It has a means of proposing governmental programs, voting on them, and funding them, and forthrightly discussing them at all stages necessary to an HOA. It does not have means of providing security, however, and there are some features of Hive that would be unacceptable on the ground regarding governance, such as pure plutocracy, opinion flagging, and complete dependence on external internet infrastructure, for example.
However, I believe that decentralization of the means of production can make lack of coherent security irrelevant for folks willing to create the means of providing their own security. Along with a network of decentralized makers ability to provide mutually redundant security from gangs of armed thugs are the potential to produce many, if not all, of the blessings of civilization, from food, shelter, and power production, to electronics, communications, and medical services. As decentralized production technologies like aquaponics, 3D printing, solar (and other) power, inkjet printing (which is able to print electronics on PET, including solar, LEDs, and logic circuitry, drugs by assembling molecular subunits, and even living cells), AI (not AGI, or anything more than is available presently, which purged of it's crippling politicization, would be very useful in automating household production, financial assets, even medical diagnostics, and much more) continue to develop, the ability of communities to themselves produce all the blessings of civilization is becoming inescapable.
That holistic capacity will not come without deliberate management and development direction towards that goal, but I am confident that will very rapidly be undertaken, if it's not already by more rational and covert entities. I have researched 3D printing capacity potential to high end machines, and the limitations we associate with such production capacity are largely eliminated when the price of printers exceeds $100k, which is not unreasonable for the potential independence that can provide folks with requisite assets. Relativity Space is 3D printing space ships, and has it's first prototype on the pad today, working out the very difficult process of actually launching it.
One of the more difficult aspects of voluntarist governance that can enable a community to successfully adopt it is political. Pure plutocracy won't work. It's been tried, and is being tried IRL, and we see that rather than forthright cooperation necessary to just governance, plutocratic power politics is a nightmare of duplicity, fraud, and various degrees of parasitism and predation. On Hive we're very sheltered from the bulk of horrendous consequences, but it's difficult to grasp the pathological prosecution of plutocratic power that would absolutely follow Nero's model of acquisition of real property, blockade food to secure capitulation, or force our daughters into prostitution, but it doesn't take long to grasp that other values are more important to societies than mere money.
You are right that the first step to resolving all impediments to achieving rational voluntarist government is to realize it's possible, that we aren't trapped in increasingly deranged legacy political systems, and the incredible paradigm shift ongoing in every field of industry makes it necessary. Overlords hell bent on preserving their wealth and power absolutely will do everything possible to prevent decentralization of the means of production from eliminating their parasitic pipeline to our production.
Thanks!
I've already seen some interesting replies to this and this one hits on one of the first things that came to mind as I was watching the video, which is, How would we protect physical property if the local government decided to take up arms and come for us? This is my primary concern regarding the sea steading suggestion @trostparadox mentioned above. It seems like this is an endeavor that would have to take place somewhat under the protection of a major government to secure the safety required to really get a foot hold somewhere... which obviously defeats the purpose, lol. Very interesting discussion around this concept. I'm looking forward to others' replies.
The protection of physical property will always be an issue, no matter where you are. Either you rely on the government to provide 'protection' (which can also include coercion), or you provide it yourself.
The advantage of seasteading is that, by virtue of existing international treaties, you can be or organize your own protective defensive force, if you are in international waters.
Check out The Seasteading Institute.
Here is their FAQ page.
I recall a few years ago a couple built a home on international waters, near Thailand, and was simply taken out by the Thai government. Without nominal security, or any organization to avail them, that's the last time I heard of them.
Liberland may have some relationships solitary households do not that can avail folks some security from violence, by gangs of thugs from any source. Some security obviously is necessary, because it is all too obvious predatory entities exist.
I haven't spoken with Vít Jedlička since 2018, so I'm not sure about the current status of Liberland.
As of 2018, Croatian forces were routinely and forcibly evicting or detaining any Liberland citizens trying to visit their 'homeland'.
The information I was availed most recently was of the opening of Liberland offices in Mexico after Anarchapulco, from Jeff Berwick's vlog. More than that I do not know.
Yes, I agree, but I was speaking from a best place to begin perspective, and I think sea steading in international waters would require too much priority on security for a fledgling project like this, whereas hiding it in plain site, so to speak, might offer early advantages due to having the structure already in place. Ultimately I agree, sea steading would be a viable option. I just think a transplant to it might be favorable to starting from scratch. These are only preliminary thoughts, though. I may come to see things differently with more discussion and new info to consider.
My preferred route to sovereign clay would not start with the clay, but first would involve creating suitable networks of folks that are developing necessary productive capacity. Means of security from gangs of armed thugs are potential, if cryptic.