Building a Parallel Polity: Sketching Out the Road Ahead
I occasionally say on Twitter that conservatives should stop giving to the Republican Party and use the money to build autonomous parallel communities. What does that look like? Let's sketch it out.
My regular readers will know that I argue several things at once in regards to the current moment. One is that the state is the enemy. By “the state” I mean that collection of entities which employs scientific managerial techniques towards the goal of human progress in the areas of science, technology, economics, politics, law and social engineering. I also argue that to bring down the state in all of its forms, if it can be done, will mean the end of modernity, its benefits and its evils. The human cost of that would be high, in the millions or billions must die category. Also, I have argued that in the process of picking and combatting an enemy, that the enemy will come to define you. This chain of thinking leads me to the conclusion that we need to simply do our own thing, do the right thing. That implies founding, building and living within a parallel community, a parallel polity. What would this look like? I have been giving this a lot of thought as of late and want to t…
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