Part 2: Paths to Freedom

To outline the initial steps and efforts that might individually be made as society struggles to transition from democracy to freedom--

Understand Freedom

Our first step toward freedom is to recognize that democracy is in fact a society founded on principles of aggression.  Yes, it is true that the Constitution proclaims individual rights and sovereignty, but unfortunately it also legitimizes majority rule, which tramples the very same.   And as pointed out earlier, prosperity cannot come from aggression.  If we want to live free from the devastating effects of aggression, we must understand that we must free our society from the chains of democratic rule.  

Vote to Roll Back Government Power

If enough of us understand and embrace the principles of individual sovereignty and inalienable rights, there is nothing that we can’t accomplish at the ballot box.  If every vote is aimed at reducing the power and jurisdiction to government to naught, there is nothing to keep the aggression of democracy from being but a memory.  However, this is an extraordinarily difficult task requiring nothing short of a miracle.  Metaphorically, it is equivalent to Aladdin having to choose to use his first wish to set Genie free, not his third, which is miraculous enough.  If we are to set government free from the magic lamp of democracy, we must willingly give up all of the entitlements and pleasures that government promises to present.  And we must decide today, with our first wish, to set Genie free.  If we pretend to wait until our third, in hopes of collecting promised entitlements or future favors, the spell will never be broken.  As John Lewis once said, “If not us then who, if not now then when?”  We must dig down deep, not merely deep enough to give up what the government has promised to us, but also to give out help to those who will stand in need in the absence of government coerced charity.

Exercise Civil Disobedience

When the consent of the governed is peacefully and intelligently denied from an abusive government, a very important victory is won.  In so doing, the individual has reclaimed their divinely endowed sovereignty and exposed the injustice of a forceful hand.  However, it is critical that judgment and discretion be used to match the gravitas of such a demonstration with society’s capacity to bear it, otherwise the heroism is soon to be forgotten as our hero rots behind bars or beneath a grave, being branded as a criminal.  Refusing to blindly obey and humbly submit  to injustice is the most powerful weapon against tyranny, as Gandhi proved to us.

Run For “Public Office”

All honest jobs can accurately be considered to be public office as any legitimate good or service benefits society as a whole.  A janitor who cleans toilets in a paper mill helps to make the plant operators that much more productive, and thus printing that much more affordable, and thus the dissemination of printed information that much more efficient, and thus real wages for everybody that much higher.  Democracy falsely considers public office to be separate and apart from healthy economic activity, a powerful post that can either be filled by a self-sacrificing patriot or a self-serving career-politician.  It is folly to assume that public office is necessarily separate from a productive career.  When the real comforts of our modern life are contemplated, who is really to blame? Is it politicians or entrepreneurs?   Sitting in a leather chair while soaring through the clouds, or instantaneously communicating for free via video chat, or enjoying fresh bananas from Ecuador in your home in Lost Springs, Wyoming, all this came from those who are really serving in public office.