International Man: It seems now more than ever that individuals have less and less in common with others who take place to carry the same government ID.
At the exact same time, like-minded people are finding each other from across the world.
What’s your take on this pattern? What does it suggest for the nation-state?
Doug Casey: As soon as upon a time, similar people concerned America due to the fact that of their desire for personal flexibility and monetary opportunity. That’s part of what made America what it is. Americans were the kind of individuals that were drawn to the perfects put forth by the country’s Founding Daddies.
Today America is drawing the wrong kind of people. They’re not individuals who always desire flexibility. Some do, naturally. However many are drawn to the enormous well-being benefits, complimentary healthcare, and free schooling.
Previous migrants might have been dirt poor and oblivious, however they needed to make their own method. The State didn’t subsidize them; it provided definitely nothing. But that’s not the case today. The character of America has altered, therefore have the kind of individuals who wish to move here. They do not wish to accept American values. They wish to maintain their Somali, Afghan, or Haitian worths. Most will not become Americans; they’ll end up being United Statesers. America, a republic sharing a typical culture, is being gotten rid of and replaced by the United States, a multicultural domestic empire.
America utilized to be totally unique, today the United States is simply another nation-state like all the others. Obviously, change is a constant in all areas of life. But I’ll miss the America of the previously times because it was a sanctuary for things like totally free thought, totally free speech, free markets, and entrepreneurialism. Oh well, nothing lasts permanently, and America had a respectable run.
With that stated, the primary threat to you is your own government, especially the United States federal government headquartered in Washington DC, and to a lower degree, state and local governments. Like other United Statesers, you’re not personally endangered by Iranians, the Chinese, or Russians– they’re on the opposite of the world. You are, nevertheless, straight threatened by the United States federal government and by other US residents. They widely, certainly extremely, now accept socialist and welfare-state concepts. Your fellow United Statesers don’t mind turning you into a serf. You’re mostly by yourself when it concerns trouble.
So at this point, it’s incumbent upon those of us who believe in American concepts to find their countrymen anywhere they are– not just in this geographical location, not just within the bailiwick of the US federal government. It becomes part of a worldwide trend, actually. It’s taking place all over the world in different ways.
The nation-state itself, which has actually been around since about the 16th century, is quickly becoming a metachronism, just like kingdoms and principalities which came before it and have joined the scrap stack of history. Individuals all over are losing their commitment to their nationwide federal governments, much the method our ancestors discarded their commitment to their kings and princes.
Federal government, in its present kind, is in fact on its method out. I state, great riddance.
International Man: The principle of “phyles” stemmed from a book by Neal Stephenson called The Diamond Age. The book is embeded in a future world where groups of people come together based upon what matters most to them, rather of incidentals they can not manage, like where you were born.
With the growing polarization and divisiveness in the United States and other nations, will the principle of phyles become more attractive to people?
Doug Casey: Absolutely. You can no longer count on individuals in your own country for much. You may not have anything in typical with them. You may not share anything aside from the same government ID.
The United States utilized to have a typical culture up until the 1960s. But since then, we have actually developed from a unicultural country into a multicultural domestic empire. People with “Red” views simply can’t relate to those with “Blue” views; in fact, they increasingly dislike each other. The circumstance has been greatly intensified with the Covid hysteria, masks, and now near-mandatory vaccinations. Antagonisms are approaching those of Europe’s religious wars in the 16th and 17th centuries. We’re not there yet, however things are moving in that direction.
The old idea of America is no longer pertinent. And a large part of the country– the SJWs, the progressives, the socialists, the wokesters, etc– are actively and actively attempting to damage it.
It’s regrettable but easy to understand. People wish to associate with others like themselves, who share things that are essential to them. It doesn’t matter whether what is essential to them is their culture, race, language, faith, profession, economic status, general worldview, or any of a thousand various things.
People are significantly going to form relationships based upon things which are important to them. Those things may have little or absolutely nothing to do with the federal government that rules over them. In reality, their “democratic” federal government will likely be honestly antagonistic to them.
Large groups of Americans and United Statesers will view the federal government as not just unimportant but an unnecessary and harmful parasite. The average person might not recognize that right now, but the idea will eventually filter through. The very same method it did when people almost all over started moving their commitments from kings and princes to nation-states, democracies, “the people,” and the like.
I understand this seems like an outrageous thought. “Democracy” is almost like a secular god– you aren’t supposed to blaspheme against it. But, in truth, it’s degenerated into something similar to a scam to validate the ruling class and the elite. In some cases, it’s no better than a mob rule.
I think individuals are discovering that, instead of geographically defined nation-states, philosophically specified phyles make far more sense.
International Male: Liberland and the Free State Job in New Hampshire are two examples where like-minded people are coming together within a physical area.
Does a phyle need that its members remain in the same geographic location for it to be reliable?
Doug Casey: That’s definitely ideal. The truth that a lot of libertarians have actually collected around the Free State Project in New Hampshire and Liberland are signs of that. They’re straws in the wind.
There are at least a half dozen things like that going on worldwide today.
It’s better if like-minded people are physically near one another. However with things like Skype, Zoom, 5G, and the rest of it, interaction has become great and, virtually, totally free all over worldwide.
And with transportation innovation as great as it is and improving– notwithstanding federal governments’ silly and counterproductive travel restrictions– you can quickly get to wherever you want. A lot of individuals are going to take advantage of that and go to enclaves where they can be around individuals like themselves.
What draws individuals together is not their nationality, their shared federal government IDs. Things like the Olympic games significantly over-emphasize the significance of the State. As do entities like the UN, the IMF, NATO, and hundreds of similar organizations– they amount to private clubs for government huge shots.
In truth, it’s rather breaking down for an individual to identify first as an American or Chinese or Brazilian or whatever. These are primarily just geographical accidents of birth and shouldn’t specify who an individual is.
What’s really essential is your character– that you think rationally and critically which you follow the 2 excellent laws: Do all that you say you’re going to do, and do not trespass upon other people or their residential or commercial property. I choose to connect with individuals based upon those things, not mishaps of birth.
In any event, to the extent individuals observe certain precepts that support their survival, they’ll remain together in groups willingly.
International Male: In your point of view, what makes a neighborhood successful? How can distinctions be managed?
Doug Casey: 2 aspects are very important. One is financial and the other is legal, philosophical, and worldview-oriented.
For a neighborhood to be successful, it has to produce more than it consumes and conserve the distinction. That’s how you achieve financial success either as a neighborhood or a person.
The other element returns to the 2 excellent laws that I discussed above: Do all that you say that you will do, and do not intrude upon other individuals or their property.
I was talking with Rick Mayberry on my YouTube podcast “Doug Casey’s Take,” and Rick pointed out, quite precisely, that you can evaluate whether these two excellent laws work, and you can do so clinically.
For the next week, you can check it out for yourself. When you associate with individuals, rather of doing what you state you’re going to do, don’t do what you say you’re going to do– and see what takes place when you steal other individuals’s stuff or assault them.
See how that works. Out of the thousands of possible phyles that may form, I ‘d certainly choose to belong to those who put those concepts initially.
International Male: How can similar communities and phyles protect themselves from the threat of force and browbeating from outsiders?
Doug Casey: Force, violence, and coercion from outsiders is constantly a worry. Defending oneself from the 20% of society who are what you may call potential trouble sources and the 20% of that 20% who are authentic sociopaths is essential. There’s been a lot of writing and thinking on the topic. I will not enter into it here, but I prompt everybody to check out “The Market for Liberty” by Morris and Linda Tannehill, which is complimentary on the web.
However your biggest concern is not outsiders– it’s experts.
It’s the State, your federal government, that’s the biggest danger without a doubt, along with individuals within your own neighborhood that the State is ineffective at safeguarding you from. In reality, the federal government is exactly where most of these types go. A phyle will naturally be better at protecting its members than the State is at securing its subjects.
Not all phyles would be humane, of course. However they can be extremely effective at self-defense. The Mafia is a phyle with criminal propensities, as are the Yakusa, the Crips and the Bloods, and thousands of comparable organizations around the globe. Their members are quite safe; few dare aggress against them as they are safeguarded by the group. The same holds true of police forces; crooks avoid hurting cops whenever possible.
If you’re a member of a phyle with defense capabilities, assailants will tend to leave you alone due to the fact that the repercussions of hurting one of its members could be alarming.
I think wise groups would arrange themselves for defense but with better ethics and better principles than mafias or police do. Policeman are loyal first to each other, then to their employers, and only then to the people.
Just like any issue that emerges, the marketplace will resolve it. You do not need to depend on political systems, which inevitably cause more problems than they resolve. As governments end up being more overbearing and break down throughout the Greater Depression, phyles will rise.
Think of who you desire in your phyle.
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