[Lnc-business] Food for Thought

Sat Sep 3 11:19:37 EDT 2016

Weekend inspiration!

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Starchild <sfdreamer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Great stuff David, thanks for sharing! Love the Arundhati Roy quote – that
> is going into my quote file. And I'm with you on basically everything else
> you say here.
>
> One piece of additional food for thought, though – and to the extent it's
> a criticism, it's of myself as well, because I have often done the same
> thing – It's generally to hold up the Ubers, the Airbnbs, and the Googles
> of the world as our examples, because they are the big companies with which
> we and others are most familiar.
>
> But we should consider that lots of voters focus on Clinton and Trump for
> similar reasons! And the effect of doing so is similar in both cases: It
> reinforces the dominance of the big players at the expense of the little
> guys who are often more libertarian.
>
> The larger and more established a company is, the more likely on average
> it is to be in collusion with the State and to exhibit other un-libertarian
> characteristics. Of course there are exceptions, but as a rule I think it's
> safe to say that smaller businesses tend to be more pro-freedom in their
> business practices.
>
> How many small businesses, to use one example that's a pet peeve of mine,
> make a practice of automatically recording your phone calls without your
> consent when you call them up, and not even giving you direct access to
> those recordings should you want to listen to them later? I have yet to
> encounter a small, local business that does this. Conversely, it seems rare
> these days to find a big corporation that *doesn't* violate your privacy
> in this manner.
>
> Thus when talking about the sharing economy, I might try to cite Lyft
> instead of Uber, Misterbnb instead of Airbnb, etc. There are likely other
> even smaller competitors that would be even better to cite, if we take the
> time to learn their names.
>
> Anyway, the idea of undercutting government with bottom-up, voluntary, and
> peer-to-peer type solutions is definitely one we should keep in mind as we
> develop goals and strategy.
>
> Love & Liberty,
>                                  ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>                               (415) 625-FREE
>
>
> On Sep 3, 2016, at 6:13 AM, David Demarest wrote:
>
> Food for thought:
>
> “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to
> it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our
> music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer
> relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories.” – Arundhati Roy
>
> To paraphrase Arundhati Roy’s inspiring quote: “Our strategy should be not
> only to confront empire”, we need to understand that when we limit
> ourselves to a top-down legislative election strategy, the empire has the
> decided advantage. A top-down strategy confines us to playing on their turf
> and the empire is too good at it. Do we really want to become ruling
> authorities too? No, that is what we are fighting against. But you say, how
> can we defeat the evil empire if we do not get candidates elected?
>
> Our best strategy to level the playing field and overcome the empire is to
> undercut it. To bypass it. To circumvent it. To do an end run around it. To
> delegitimize it. To make it irrelevant by taking back our empowering
> responsibilities. We need to outperform the empire, not by relying solely
> on a top-down election tactic, but by pursuing an even more powerful
> strategy, the bottom-up approach. We must throw our moral support behind a
> voluntary bottom-up grassroots entrepreneurial peaceful freedom revolution
> fueled by peer-to-peer technology and peer-to-peer voluntary-society
> concepts.
>
> Our bottom-up strategy starts with social media that cuts out the empire
> middleman in the communication of ideas. Social media gives all of us the
> freedom to digest unfiltered information and especially our young that will
> become our future leaders. As we leverage social media, our peaceful
> revolution will catch fire with peer-to-peer mobile apps like Uber that
> thrive, no surprise, by also cutting out the empire middleman. The
> peer-to-peer genie is already out of the bottle and the evil empire cannot
> put it back in without the risk of strangling their ill-gotten source of
> revenue. The authorities know they are damned if they do and damned if they
> don’t. The only strategy left to them is to ignore it and hope that it will
> go away. We must not and will not let that happen.
>
> We need to celebrate the “Uber-ites” among us, employ their powerful and
> empowering keys to freedom and become independent peer-to-peer
> entrepreneurs in our own right. Then and only then will we open the
> top-down door to elect Libertarians at all levels of government that will
> quickly put themselves out of business as they dismantle the empire.
>
> As we hammer the empire with our bottom-up peer-to-peer fist, the specter
> of authoritarianism will fade away into history with our shout of freedom
> ringing in their ears: “May the peer-to-peer force be with you!” – David
> Pratt Demarest, September 3, 2016
>
>
> *The War on Majority Rule Cronyism Begins NOW*
>
> ~David Pratt Demarest
> Secretary, Nebraska Libertarian State Central Committee
> Region 6 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (IA, IL, MN, MO,
> ND, NE, WI)
> Nebraska State Coordinator, LP Radical Caucus
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*Caryn Ann Harlos*
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