John Balkam on Nostr: Eff it, let's post two Life Economy posts on a Saturday. 8 PRINCIPLES FOR THE LIFE ...

Eff it, let's post two Life Economy posts on a Saturday.

8 PRINCIPLES FOR THE LIFE ECONOMY

What will it take to bring about the life economy?

We need strong core values and grounding principles that individuals, families, and communities can live by.

In addition to the 4 pillars of the life economy, which we defined as courage and love, sound money, security in abundance, and unite and collaborate, here we take a crack at establishing 8 principles of the life economy:

FREEDOM

The vast majority of us are loving, caring, and conscientious people. We can be trusted to do the right thing. Somehow, the minority have convinced the majority that we are wicked, and need to be watched over like little children.

We don't need corrupt governments telling us what to do. We don't need large corporations dictating our culture and way of life to us.

We need freedom. Freedom to succeed and freedom to fail. Freedom is foundational. And we must value it above all else.

NATURAL LIVING

The death economy has been defined by replacing natural ways of living with artificial and unnatural ways of living.

We all innately know how we want to live. We want to have meaningful relationships. We want to do meaningful work. We want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. We want to spend a great deal of our time in nature. We want to have leisure time for activities that feed our spirit.

We can turn away from all of the unnatural ways of living that have been foisted on us in the modern world. It will take hard work to break bad habits, but when we remove everything that's artificial from our lives, anything that's left is what's meant to be there.

RESPONSIBILITY

We have outsourced so much of our lives to the "experts" and the "authorities." To what end?

A life economy requires individuals and families to take responsibility in a radical way. It means that we don't trust the "experts" and the "authorities" by default. We trust ourselves and our own inner wisdom. We take ownership over all of our actions - especially our mistakes.

The "experts" and "authorities" have proven themselves to be irresponsible at best, and downright malevolent at worst. The best antidote for this issue is for individuals to take responsibility for themselves.

NON-AGGRESSION

The non-aggression principle is fundamental to the life economy. It states that no one may use violence against another individual unless an aggressive individual uses violence against you first.

This principle values self-defense. What madness convinced us all that we are not allowed to protect ourselves? That we must rely on the police and the military for security? If individuals don't protect themselves, individuals will be preyed upon by groups of aggressors, manipulators, and corrupt actors.

A vibrant economy and society must be rooted in non-aggression. When we blunt our aggressive instincts but train ourselves to defend against potential aggressors, we are ready for anything and we can focus on being productive.

OPEN-MINDEDNESS

Fear, ignorance, and closed-mindedness have held us back for long enough. They kill productivity and cripple healthy living.

Open-mindedness and tolerance for the opinions of others are crucial to rebuilding society.

DECENTRALIZED POWER

"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Global government, global health organizations, and global goals = global insanity.

There can't possibly be a free, prosperous, healthy society with power concentrated in a small number of hands.

Power must be handed over to individuals and small groups. There should be as little government as possible, and where there is a government, it should be decentralized and checked many times over.

Let's be honest with ourselves; we have given up our power to corrupt centralized governments, corporations, and organizations for way too long.

We must break up old, large, corrupt organizations, and form new, small, principled, decentralized organizations.

COOPERATION, NOT COERCION

The death economy is built on coercion. We will build the life economy on cooperation.

We are a tribal species, and we operate best in cooperative tribes. It's only natural for us to peacefully cooperate within our group and with other peaceful groups.

Large federal governments maintain their power through their monopoly on violence. They coerce us to follow their laws, pay their taxes, and fund their wars. It is only once we do not cooperate with centralized governments that we'll be free to cooperate with each other in a peaceful way.

INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SOVEREIGNTY

The time of kings and queens is over. The time of corrupt democracies and bureaucracies is also (almost) over.
It's time for individuals and families to hold the power.

Most here on #Nostr will be familiar with the book, "The Sovereign Individual." While it is definitely possible for individuals to become sovereign in the 21st century, no man is an island. I believe what we're going to build toward is the possibility for individuals, families, and small tribes to be sovereign through the life economy.

It may take a generation or more, but we will get past these violent sovereign nations in time and replace them with a more autonomous, empowered individual and family.

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