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Will Tyndale's avatar

So vast a topic, well laid out too. Where to start contributing to the ideas?

1) Separateness by religious convictions. A neo-Quaker group is my interest. One which clearly disallows military participation at Federal level. Permitted would be the city-state militia and possible national militia (similar to very powerful Chechen Nation within the Russian Federation).

2) Illegal for land to be sold outside of kith and kin citizens of polity.

3) Illegal to have foreign ownership of business within polity. No franchises, chain-stores, and the owner must live and work within the community.

4) Full Citizenship is not immediate. Several Generations are required before elligible for governance and leadership in polity.

5) The town-center is not owned by developers and rent-seekers. The town is owned and developed by the town. Rent is kept at a non-profit level (similar to non-profit Credit Union Bank covers its costs and salaries). The town decides what tenants occupy downtown. Low rents allow lower prices for goods and ability to compete with the likes of Walmart and Amazon outside the polity’s borders.

6) Finance and banking is a big topic. But Credit Unions and a separate currency are obvious. Forbidding usery as Christ preached and the Muslims have done successfully is wise and Godly.

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

Hello Kruptos. Both Johann Kurtz and th3e Librarian of Celeano linked to you today, so here I am! Happy to be here.

As I read this, the thing I am struggling with is getting my teen kids to buy into it. We are very much on the wrong foot in this regard. Maybe they'll consider a career working with real things, but we are a long way from getting them to focus their lives within a day's walk (we as a family haven't, to be sure). And the easiest way to fall off of the purview of the government is to get off line; and that will be asking a lot of them.

On a more hopeful note, what you are talking about rings true with our human nature, being made in the image and likeness of our creator. AI may be a match for the rule followers (doctors, engineers, lawyers); but it cannot comprehend a high school dropout.

I would say "count me in." But I look at my marriage, my church, my community: the Holy Spirit can bring what you are describing about, but that is the only way; there is too much, that is too easy, working against it.

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