Where you position yourself in this map?
It's all about how you position yourself and know WHO you are... If you put yourself inside the "state cage", then you are bond to respect the rules imposed by that CORPORATION. States are corporations.
Out entire system is based on people's belief... belief in authority, belief in borders, belief in states etc... We are the slaves of our own belief.
Mate, that chart wasn't drawn so ppl could 'position' themselves on it.
Plus, you failed to notice that I didn't once talk about states, I talked about nations, which are quite a different concept (so much so that only recently has the idea of the 'nation-state' been propagated).
Finally, you have also failed to engage with the main point that I made - that borders have always existed in the human realm and are a universal phenomenon in other realms too. Borders aren't a question of 'belief'; humans make borders because they observe them everywhere in the physical and biological worlds and understand that they have utility (even existential utility) in human society too. And by existential in the preceding sentence, I mean that sometimes they mean the very assurance of a nation's (not state's) continued survival.
People can go off and build a hermit's hut (or a rather squalid looking hole in the ground), that's fine, there's a long (and sometime noble) tradition of that. But if such ppl think that they can then tell the rest of society that they need to 'follow my higher truth' and abandon all normal functioning of society then they are kidding themselves and in danger of falling into delusion.
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nice to meet you agent Smith...
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Your puerile slur sadly mirrors the intellectual level of your "I am the enlightened one" philosophising. (Which you've just demonstrated you can't even defend properly when challenged on any point.)
However, we both appear to love bitcoin and loathe shitcoiners, so hey, we still have some fellow feeling & shared values there at least.
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I am not here to convince you or debate with you your own position towards slavery (that you defend). It's your choice to be like that, is not my damn business. I have no obligations to prove you nothing. Take it or leave it.
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We're on a forum, a place to discuss things, not just hand down our self-professed truths from on high to others, which is the position you mostly take, from what I've seen.
And btw, I've read The Sovereign Individual and appreciated the original & scholarly work within. I'm not at all adverse to ideas of self-sovereignty (and am happy to discuss them), but the ideas need to be solid and developed, not half-baked ones that mostly fall apart under any scrutiny (such that their promoter falls back on slurs and evasions rather than trying to respond to that scrutiny, which any proper philosopher would welcome).
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You still get it wrong. This is not philosophy from books, this is real life experience, during many years. Being sovereign doesn't mean you've just read some books, but practice it and especially FIGHTING THE SYSTEM with any means. As I said I am not here to convince you to do what I did all my life. It's your choice to be slave and I have nothing against your choice.
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If you were actually learning from real life experience, you would have learnt that borders and boundaries serve useful purposes. I made the point earlier but let me put it more starkly for you : if there weren't literally billions of borders & boundaries within your own body right now, being defended but also allowing some controlled passage, then you would dissolve into a pool of gloop right now. And even gloop has some structure; you would end up even more amorphous than that.
Also, what do you know of my own life and my own life experience? Again, you seem to think you're the only one who has ideas about, and experience gained, from practising sovereignty. When there are plenty of better sources developed from thought & experience than what I've seen you offer up.
Stay _____ and stack sats. (Fill in the blank)
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