Most libertarians don’t even know what they want. They can’t quantify what would be a step in the right direction.

I can. I’ve talked with thousands and thousands of people. And I’ve defeated rigged courts and rigged juries. I know my history.

What libertarians want is simply a society whereby economic calculations take into account predictable individual rights: they want to be able to keep what they own, and use it fully. They expect that they own their own bodies, and that the areas where goverment claims ownership in these areas, they are wrong.

This is not a difference of opinion, anymore than it is a difference of opinion that one owns one’s own wallet, yet a totally illegitimate theif also believes he owns it. The morons here claiming a right to other people’s money for “research” are not even at the gradeschool level of the libertarians –they don’t even have the philosophy worked out.

So what does someone who wants a free country do?

One makes the freest country freer, and one makes the least free country freer (damage control).

How?

Well, we were much more free and innovative in the USA before we lost proper jury trials. This is noticeable change, in the direction of tyranny.

I haven’t met 30% of the population that agrees with consistent liberty (libertarianism). But I have met 30% of the population who can comprehend jury trials, and why they are important. As soon as I show people the history, they agree with me. If I had even a few dozen paid employees, I could take over 1 state for libertarianism-in-effect, by taking on the court system of that state.

This won’t happen. Because everyone has a stupid, poorly-thought-out reason why it won’t work, and I’m too poor to do it myself. The people pursuing this strategy are the best the libertarian movement has to offer, but they’re also doing everything wrong, because they seem to lack a basic understanding of human psychology.

Maybe this dooms us to tyranny.

Prediction: Seasteading efforts will be raided and destroyed by governments, resulting in death of all or most involved. You see, the illegitimate parasites want what you’ve created, and they want it for free. They want to steal it, and they have the power to do so. The average cop is vastly less intelligent and vastly more violent than the average KAI visitor or ‘seateader’.

However, I CAN think of a way seasteading will work. If the libertarians are all rich, and this becomes a club for the rich, while the poor languish in oppression in the mainland. If that happens, the governments will LOVE the people who set it all up. After all: it will “prove” to their tyrannized subjects that they are free, (without offering them the possibility of actual freedom). Basically: if the seastead is open to all, and threatens governments with a loss of their slaves, then governments will shut it down. If not, it will be the same thing we have right now: nominally more freedom for the rich, no freedom at all for the middle class and poor.

Do you really want freedom? Build strong freedom movements in the western states and NH around jury rights. Pay educators to do the hard, difficulty, crappy work of handing out jury rights pamphlets in front of courthouses. But hurry up and figure out what I already know: you don’t have much time.

In IL, MA, and MD, it is now illegal to video record government agents in public. That’s literally the law in those states! And the sentence for gathering evidence of police brutality, or governmental crime and lawbreaking? It’s equal to that for rape (at least in IL).

Still, if the freedom movement cared to do what works, has worked, and will always work (talk to people using the right memes), they could achieve very, very, very rapid success.

I doubt it will happen, but it’s a nice idea.

And better than getting nuked at sea for being smarter than a sociopathic monkey named Joe Biden or Barack Obama.

Here’s to hoping the libertarian movement gets grounded in reality: ASAP.

That being said seasteads or some equivalent may be necessary to drive technological innovation in the GNR fields. The success of religious fundamentalists in the U.S. of cutting public funding for stem cell research they felt was morally questionable makes me worry about the future of scientific research in general. As advances mount in technologies which can fundamentally alter what it means to be human, opposition movements will organize to block even private research efforts. Seasteadings may offer a refuge for cutting edge research which would otherwise be banned by most conventional nations.