How to Be Czar of Your Fiefdom

In this video, I talk about Julian Assange and RFK, the Porcupine Freedom Festival, Larken Rose with "If You Were King" and the authority problem. I look at money as a means of organizing labor and YOUR job as czar to design a self-organizing system of distributing the wealth to enable the best for families and communities—as they define it. I reinvent the police and homeowner's insurance in my fiefdom.

On my last video, The Intoxication of Power & Its Antidote, long-time YT viewer Gan wrote, “I lived without money for several years. Most people treated me nice (especially at farmer's markets) but I made note of those that didn't and no longer do business with them.”

I thought that spoke well of human nature and Gan’s character. His profile pic is below and he says he looks forward to when he can use his own face again.

I mentioned that I’d been meditating with Julian in mind. I didn’t expect it to do anything for Julian but it make me feel present and keeping company. And if bodies are not real and minds are joined, maybe it helps him too. Gan answered:

I saw RFK Jr speak the other day at porcfest. He's promising a pardon for Assange and Snowden day one and even said he would look into one for Ross Ulbrick. Naomi Wolf spoke too, as did my favorite author Larken Rose who also showed the pre screening of his new movie "The Jones Plantation".

First, why did no one tell me there was a Porcupine Freedom Festival?

The objective is to get 20,000 libertarians to move to New Hampshire and take over the state. I think that my model is a ‘porcupine where you live’ system.

Lately I’ve been asking friends, as a way to shortcut conversations, to rate themselves on a scale from 0 = Government is on your side to 100 = Government is out to kill you. I’m at 110. Sasha Latypova wrote on her Summary of Everything and Quick Links:

Overall characterization of what is going on: the federal and most of the state governments are gone and captured. Whatever is running the federal gov agencies (e.g. HHS) really intends to kill you, or at least substantially injure you, damage your reproductive capacity and repossess your assets in the process. The aim is to reduce the population and terrorize the survivors enough to establish a totalitarian control over much of the world’s territory. Nobody is coming to save you, your survival and that of your children is in your hands only. Do not comply.

Larken Rose, who I hadn’t heard of before, is definitely not complying. His book, The Most Dangerous Superstition, defines the Most Dangerous as a belief in authority and authorized violence, which is what allows governments to function. In this video, he asks what you would do if you were king. Give money to the poor? But then you first have to take it away from someone else, and punish them if they don’t give it to you.

I go a step further and say that, in order for the money to have value, you first have to take away the right of other people to own the products of their own labor. And authorized violence separates the ‘author’ of the violence from the one who commits the violent act, so that our own moral authority is given over to someone else.

As Larken illustrates, ruling doesn’t simply require a non-corrupt person doing nice things. There is no way of getting other people to do what you say, even if you think they’re good things, that doesn’t require force.

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What is money? Money is a means of organizing labor in the interests of whoever creates it. Right now the banker-capitalists create the money and their interest is in having power over everyone else. So they give you money to work for them if you give them more power over others, either directly or by making them more money.

But money doesn’t have to serve that purpose. Your job, as czar, is designing a money system that distributes the wealth in a way that enables the best for families and communities however they define it. What is wealth? Wealth, as the UN defines it, is natural, physical and human capital: the land and everything above and below it, the built infrastructure, and the knowledge and skills of the people.

This is the legacy, the inheritance from a previous generation. It should incur a debt, but not to the bankers. It’s a debt of thanking the previous generation and passing on the gift in a better form to the next. This wealth backs the local credit system I call carets, in the form of mortgages and student loans. It doesn’t absolve the debts but turns them into debts to ourselves, in ways that serve the community.

You may have noticed that, in enabling the best for families and communities, I didn’t mention individuals. That’s because any time that you skip levels—going from the federal, state, or local government straight to the individual—you’re disempowering those who are taking responsibility for others. And authority and responsibility always need to go hand-in-hand.

Parents and children should decide what they want to learn and who they want to learn from, not government. If you’re taking responsibility for a place or for people, you need the authority to determine how to do that. If you’re taking responsibility for feeding people or caring for people, no federal agency should override your authority when they’re not shouldering the responsibility.

In the video, I compare the job of distributing the wealth as regenerative assets to dividing the inheritance for a family as a living thing, not Solomon’s judgment to cut the baby in half. Fair doesn’t always mean equal. Equal turns living assets back into a dead commodity so it can be split evenly. In a divorce, this means children don’t just lose their family but also their home, their school, their neighborhood, their friends, their context.

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What you can do as a community that owns its own labor is limitless. In my fiefdom, I wouldn’t have dedicated police. I’d let people cross-train in different modules for firefighting, crisis intervention, earthquake preparedness. So there wouldn’t be roving bands of hammers driving around, looking for nails to pound. They would have the skills to respond to emergencies in their neighborhood, along with other roles.

Helene and I have been talking about property insurance. This is a way that money is made from money. So people would pay in but, unless there’s a crisis, the money wouldn’t be used. And if there was a crisis, since you can generate money for your own labor for free, what you’d need to pay for from the outside would be materials.

So the fund could be used to help people prepare for fires and manage the forest, clearing firebreaks and using livestock to keep the brush down. It could help with earthquake retrofits and bolting to foundations. It could even pay to put power lines underground where they wouldn’t cause fires.

But here’s what would be really fun. I’ve talked about having sibling cities all over the world. For anyone who wanted to go and help in a crisis, the fund could pay for their time with a living stipend. So the community hit by the crisis would only need to pay for the materials to bring in someone with medical skills, construction skills, etc.

That would create a network of communities taking care of each other, which is definitely not what we have now.

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Addendum: Although I say in the video that RFK pardoning Assange is reason to set aside my anarchy and vote for him, since then Alex Baden posted:

Did you see RM's tweet today? Looks like if there was a rift, RFK just repaired it:

"My friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr, had this to say about me in an interview by the Vermont Daily Chronicle this week. High praise. I am grateful and honored.

'I think Robert Malone has tremendous integrity and tremendous courage. And here’s a guy who’s spent his whole life at the center of the vaccine industrial complex, and invented the key technology of the mRNA vaccine, and was in a position where he could have made himself a billionaire during the pandemic. Instead, he took a much more difficult role that destroyed his relationships, that destroyed his credibility in his own industry that put him in a very challenging place economically. It takes a lot of guts. If you’re Bob Malone, every day of your life is really hard because people are coming at you from every angle.'"

https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1673400784590114816

Here’s the interview, in which the reporter’s leading question is “What do you admire the most about [mRNA vaccine inventor and Covid-19 vaccine critic] Robert Malone?” : https://vermontdailychronicle.com/rfk-jr-interview-worry-about-geoengineering-praise-for-gutsy-inventor-robert-malone/

I’ll be following up on this in another episode.

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For another comparison of my system in raising a family to my monetary model, this is The Caret System:

I describe the crisis in parenting that led me to develop something I called the point system when my daughters were young. I compare this to the system of community carets in my book, How to Dismantle an Empire. Both encourage 'adulting' and taking responsibility for homes, businesses and each other.

and to see how things could be different, this is When Mothers Ran the World:

In a recent essay on The Rings of Power, Charles Eisenstein differentiates between feminine power and 'honorary men.' The Dawn of Everything by anthropologist David Graeber and archeologist David Wengrow tells the creation epic of The League of Five Nations and the Jigonsaseh, or Mother of All Nations. As we enter our dark winter of the soul and look at the cult of immaturity in so-called leadership, they show us why we are orphaned by our culture and deprived of the feminine power of all of us.