RE: I could be in jail in 60 minutes. I've been using myself as "stingbait" for 8 years, gathering evidence of corruption at Court. On Friday, I got what I needed, but at the cost of exposing myself to being jailed on contempt.
Russell's story is also engaging. I read up to the point where farmer #2 is released and the Ambassador orders the ship moved. I can guess that the colonists have "established" (if that word can indeed be used) anarchy on the planet and that the Ambassador will eventually discover that his search for an authority is futile as there is none.
I will keep this bookmarked also, but it is frankly unlikely that I will find the time for this "pleasure reading", as I am fully engaged in a hot battle in both State court and now in Federal District Court, and also am more than a month behind in my administrative work.
If we continue our conversation, that will remind me of these links and those reminders will enable me to find moments to read farther.
Yes, it works on 'obs'.
If i do some work for you i have planted an obligation on you and honor requires that you get it up off of you as quick as you can by either trading my ob for his, or working yourself.
Its quite ingenous.
Good luck in court, dont forget to ask for the prosecutor's evidence that you surrendered to his jurisdiction.
Otherwise he has failed to meet his burden to bring the issue to court at all.
Unless he can show for the record that you agreed to abide by the law the judge has no choice but to dismiss, if hes not a crook.
Is it in essence a "pay forward" barter system? Does it require individual morality, in that paying forward is not enforced? How does one know how much to pay forward; what is the unit of account and how are the units of "obs" associated with each receipt of something determined?
Hmm, im not sure it got specific that one hour of doctoring equaled ten hour of plumbing, it may have, but its been ten years since i last took time to read it.
Mostly it was about rejecting authority as a matter of freedom.
F-IW!
In the reality of my life yesterday, I used a beautiful and empowering authority (the Law) to defeat a renegade judge who was threatening me with the "awesome coercive power of the State" (also associated with the Law). He was disobeying the Law, and I was able to stop him by threatening (credibly) to bring enforcement of the Law onto him.
The duel was all about force and power and violence. The Law was my weapon. Anarchy was his weapon. I took the Law and I struck him, cutting off his head.
Anarchy doesnt use coercion, you mean chaos.
Anarchy is the mother of order.
Chaos is where foks run amok.
Saying that anarchy is the mother of order doesn't make it true. Please explain how that works. It seems to me that if there is no force imposing and maintaining order, some force will arise to change the order to make it more to the liking of the man with the force. What prevents this?
Lol, that is why the A is circled.
I didnt invent the idea, its 130 years old.
Your force maintains the order.
You are the boss of you.
Better have good neighbors if a bully tries to muscle in.
Neighbors that know an attack on one is an attack on all.
Under anarchy that is well known.
Interesting. I like, and agree with, what you've said. That is indeed the way that it should be, and the way that it could be. But it only works with a moral population. It only works, as you point out, if people stand in solidarity for each other, one for all and all for one.
I am your opportunity to prove that you and a few others here are capable of that. My case is so clear, so extreme, that if you won't stand with me in solidarity, then you yourself become proof that anarchy cannot work with people who are only as unselfish as you are.
None of that is meant to attack you personally. It is my opinion that urban society and the Invisible Fist of the free market destroys our humanity and turns us into selfish sheep who are not capable of attaining the character and integrity that is illustrated by the story of the farmers.