Relationships are the Key to Undoing the Nation State

Even during a "great reset," the relationship should still represent the core of the anarchist philosophy. We cannot overcome tyranny and evil if we do not remember to love deeply.

Indeed, the State and all of its machinery are built atop an edifice of cold, uncaring bureaucratic processes. If we do not fully radiate love and connection, we will fail to convey the voluntaryist heart, which will also negate the voluntaryist mind.

In order to move the dial forward, I constantly try to show what it means to love my partner in an unswerving fashion. I listen to Cecillia. I do my best to explore her needs and work to meet them. I embrace her during the highs and the lows, no matter what. It's through these exemplary acts that other people also learn to love.

I've always said that anarchists aren't just moralistic philosophers. They are cultural therapists.

To express love and maintain an open heart helps to create more anarchist communities. It helps wake people up from the robot-like stupor foisted upon humanity by a system that works diligently to nullify our internal worlds.

Remember: on the surface, the State is nothing but physical violence cloaked in silky, feelgood wordplay. Below the surface, it is a demoniac threat that employs spiritual leechcraft. The State subsists by eating the emotional content of society. Keeping people numb and emotionally illiterate is what allows the politicos to commit atrocities without question.

Let's move beyond that tired, puerile malarkey.

We start to create a new society when we truly embrace those closest to us. It's this honest and deep experience of love that represents the end of the totalitarian nation state.