The Sovereign Individual - /XMR/ book club

For those reading The Sovereign Individual or following along with the discussion, here is an interesting supplementary video for this weeks chapters:

https://youtu.be/WrNOT2OiykE

>"A Call to Return to the Land"

Essentially the video advocates people to leave their 9 to 5 careers behind to form tech-minimal self sufficient communities based on family values, farming, bartering, and aesthetics. The viewpoints and goals outlined in the video seem to be tailored towards disaffected middle class people in western societies, which is logical since they are losing the most ground due to inflation with no riches or gibs to prop up their quality of life.

While the video only has ~70k views, it has overwhelming applause in the comment section. I think this is an early validation of the predictions in Chapter 9 about a neo-luddite reaction to diminishing quality of life in failing nanny states. It will probably get more violent and nationalistic in the future when the lower class gets involved, but for now I think the trend will remain non-violent, and mostly contained to middle class types.

If we can identify new-forming Subreddits, YouTube channels, Tik-Tok channels, or other communities involved with this sentiment and demographic, we can shill XMR to them and possibly get Monero integrated into a grassroots movement that is only beginning to to take form. These types of people crave liberty. They will love Monero for that reason, and in fact they need it because they are literally getting financially cancelled.

For example the Asha Logos guy who made the video got banned from Patreon for his "Subverted History" series and was apparently forced to adopt crypto to continue receiving his donations. I imagine he would be very open to the idea of Monero given his values and plan laid out in the video. Yet, he has no XMR address listed, and probably doesn't even know it exists.

>>54838435

I've read it before, staying on the maxipad topic the amount of retards who think the book is somehow describing bitcoin is astonishing. They describe a PRIVATE electronic currency that enhances the individual's ability to circumvent the state by virtue of its PRIVACY.

It is almost the antithesis of king shitcoin, there is no tax evasion in bitcoin world.

/XMR/ general weekly book club - WEEK 4 being late edition

I messed up to a degree. I had an uncorrected typo saying chapter 10, instead of chapter 9 and forgot to update the main site. Hopefully, everything is in order in this post. Also posting this late because, I hoped to wait till the thread is over, so discussion wouldn't be cut off/split between threads. Without further ado, let's get to the actual book.

This is the fourth week of the book club, entailing chapter 9 of the book "The Sovereign Individual" by Sir William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson.

Now the description:

>Chapter 9: Nationalism, Reaction, and the New Luddites

>He writes, “Continuing intensification of communications and transport, instead of favoring national consolidation, has begun to work in a contrary sense, inasmuch as its range transcends existing political and ethnic boundaries.” 2 As the world “becomes smaller” and communications improve, the accidental and “intrinsically absurd” claims of nations and nationalism are bound to weaken.

The title does a pretty good job of describing the contents. Staring off, it presents how "sharp discontinuities" will manifest themselves as we transition to the Information Age. Afterwards, the authors examine nationalism and societal duties from a biological viewpoint, explaining how sentiments from large hunter-gatherer tribes were translated under the nation-state and why it is ultimately just a tool for consolidating power. Applying this logic to the transformation of the Information Age provides a clear understanding why nationalistic and protectionist sentiments were able to rise alongside progressive ideals, with both serving to ease the masses' discontent from the coming transition's negative effect. However, this won't suffice for long as politics is not the ultimate power that many desire it to be, ultimately resulting in the masses of people with dropping real wages and governmental benefits to turn violent.

Questions:

1. The authors exemplify language as one of the things that was bound to be nationalized with the introduction of the printing press. Interestingly, a very similar phenomena played out with currencies, with national banks consolidating the a national currency. Is the same bound to happen in the transition to the Information Age? If so, in which way? If not so, why not?

2. Because nation-states are current "governments of employees" a majority of the population is a "tax consumer". Will smaller sovereignities be able to form in peace or by accident of nationalism? Or will guerilla warfare (perhaps supported by the transformation of warfare thanks to innovations such as the FGC-9) will be more commonplace?

3. Will "alternative" countries be the primal destination of for the new Sovereign Individuals, or will they settle for for cheaper rural areas?

But as always, feel encouraged to share your own thoughts, opinions, or summaries.

To keep the pagecount, (as well as some personal reasons for a lack of free time), now going for chapter 10 ending by the 14th of May. The site will be updated Monday morning with this post and discussions. See previous weeks' ones at

>https://xmrbookclub.neocities.org/sig/week3.html

>https://xmrbookclub.neocities.org/sig/week2.html

>https://xmrbookclub.neocities.org/sig/week1.html

>https://xmrbookclub.neocities.org/sig/index.html

>>54882660 >>54882669

The masses are predictably reacting to the changing Metapolitical conditions of the world, their collective discontent building and transforming. For many the idea of nationalism and political solution is crushed due to things such as Covid policy mismanagement and the highly contentious presidential election. Hence why the US saw energy grid attacks at all time high in 2022, "Racially motivated" online extremist ranks growing, and a new trend of passport bros who are voting with their feet. The last group are the smartest of the bunch. They recognize the situation in the US is an absolute cesspool of schizophrenic psyop madness and diminishing quality of life. Those who stay to try to fix the situation, or battle against it, or wait it out, or "return to the land," or build enclaves of like minded individuals, or re-elect trump etc. are coping hard and fighting an uphill battle. They aren't surfing the waves, they are treading against them with bricks tied to their feet.

Meanwhile the more adaptable ones who leave will increasingly find enclaves that support their ideology and way of life, with agreeable tax circumstances and potential to live life relatively unimpeded. This requires one to embrace globalism, to release oneself from the tyranny of place.

OP