Thinksquad: While I agree with your sentiment that “economic -isms are a matter of opportunity and preference for free people”… It does seem weird to demand freedom everywhere except the place you spend the majority of your waking life (your workplace). Sort of like a libertarian religious fundamentalist; you CAN worship as you please, but, come on guy, who sounds the call of liberty just to find someone to boss them around privately? It’s like anarchists forming a voluntary simulacra of the federal gov’t

You can call me Bobby, I run a little site called Thinksquad. I have an associates degree in industrial design from the Art Institute of Seattle. A bachelors of arts from the University of Washington, and graduated with a double major in philosophy and political science from Rutgers University. I also spent 10 years in the Air Force from 1994-2004, having spent five tours in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan. I am now a strong advocate of the non-aggression principles, voluntaryism and peaceful parenting.

I believe in anarchism without adjectives, because no one really knows what will work best until we have the chance to try. Local communities should be free to try any non-coercive system, and residents should be able to move somewhere else if they don’t like the way things are going. Through solidarity, competition, and sharing of information eventually a system of social organization would evolve that will be superior to anything that we could imagine today. And even if we were right, we’d only be guessing without going through that process.

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24 Jul

intheoryandinpraxis asked: While I agree with your sentiment that "economic -isms are a matter of opportunity and preference for free people"... It does seem weird to demand freedom everywhere except the place you spend the majority of your waking life (your workplace). Sort of like a libertarian religious fundamentalist; you CAN worship as you please, but, come on guy, who sounds the call of liberty just to find someone to boss them around privately? It's like anarchists forming a voluntary simulacra of the federal gov't
Great question!!
A top down economic approach or a bottom up economic approach, still have people who control something. I know you are looking at this from the bottom up so let’s look at it then. If I play on Tumblr all day while you work in the field to pick my food, can it, and drive it all the way to my house, is very fucking nice for me. But the community and the people who live there, are my rulers. They can say, Hey thinksquad, you are abusing us, and if you do not shape up, well you are out. So now I am being bossed around by my community. the bottom is my ruler, instead of one person it is a group of people.

24 Jul