Today the train is stopped in some socialist station. We have others socialists trying to move the train to a more socialistic station, and we have classical liberals, minarchists and anarchists, trying to move the train to the other direction, to a more libertarian station. (I also don’t think the train is on a straight line… the line has multiple directions). The socialists today are the ones pointing guns to all the rest in order to keep the train stopped. And I think the minarchist station is far better (or less worse) than the current station, so we could join forces with minarchists in the direction of a lesser evil station, although we don’t want to go to that station either, but the fact is that we are in a station.
And even the anarchists want the train stopped in a station with everybody else there.
The train would be the framework of society, and the anarchist framework is one where property rights are fully respected. If we are able to get the train there we don’t want to let the train move back to the last station either. Indeed, we enable individual secession, and we would let the train go back to the last station if they let our wagon on our station, and it is pretty much like Patri’s idea. Besides, this it looks like by allowing secession we are the only one who permits some wagon disconnection.
But I don’t think we are talking about migration here. We are talking about changes in the society we live, and we are in fact trying to get society to other station.
]]>If “the train” is “working on seasteading technology”, then what we are all working on is not “reforming a single government” but “creating the technology to make it easy to start new experimental governments”. Which means that once we reach our destination, we can split up into groups of people who share a common vision of an ideal society. No one needs to block the tracks, and no one needs to open fire.
It would be naive to suggest that there will be no conflicts between entities (nations, PDAs, whatever) in the resulting world of competing alternate governments. But this approach does greatly increase the common cause – every minority movement, every radical vision of a new society, benefits from working on the technology to make it easy to start new countries.
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