The proverb The enemy of my enemy is my friend suggests two parties with a common enemy can work with each other towards common goals. A liberty discussion important to me is what choices individuals, ideological tribes, and ideological tribal alliances can offer to future generations; most importantly how we can restore and safeguard their genuinely free choice. This includes finding alternatives to social structures that may at first be peaceful, but that can be quickly converted into violence-initiating hierarchies. I predict many of the other things we inter-tribally bicker about today will be seen in several generations as primitive micro-minutia.

I describe myself primarily as a non-sophist philosopher, simply meaning philosopher; but it's a word so abused I add non-sophist to clarify. I claim not to have beliefs but rather conclusions based on logic and evidence, and am happy to be told of errors or updates in either. Therefore my ideological tribemembers are anarcho-libertarians (to include most of those calling themselves voluntaryists, nonaggression anarchists, and various anarcho hyphenated variations) and my tribal alliance is with most who accept or are moving towards the nonaggression and self-ownership axioms:

"The basic axiom of libertarian political theory holds that every man is a self owner, having absolute jurisdiction over his own body. In effect, this means that no one else may justly invade, or aggress against, another's person. It follows then that each person justly owns whatever previously unowned resources he appropriates or 'mixes his labor with'. From these twin axioms -- self-ownership and 'homesteading' -- stem the justification for the entire system of property rights titles in a free-market society. This system establishes the right of every man to his own person, the right of donation, of bequest (and, concomitantly, the right to receive the bequest or inheritance), and the right of contractual exchange of property titles." - Murray Rothbard, Law and Property Rights ^Note

Thus I¹ repent of and disavow the toxic culture of initiating emotional and physical violence² I was born into and until recently repeated. I sincerely apologize if these former actions included you and I'm open to further discussion if you so desire. I further apologize, including to myself  ³, for all the resources wasted⁴ and for all the former dysfunctionality.

My thing is truth⁶. Recently I've been converting my lifestyle to nonviolently resist coercive facades and falsehoods such as government. This includes verbally disagreeing or simply leaving the area when people spout falsehoods countering self ownership and nonaggression. So please be aware:

- I'm of the atheist persuasion and I consider most religions as the Orwellian context of "metaphysics",⁷ as child abuse and brainbinding. If you want your children religionized, you may not want me around and I'll respect that in word and action until they're no longer children. At that point it's up to them, not you.

- I don't recognize any authority that I didn't personally and voluntarily contract for. I recognize the firepower and rape rooms some so called authorities have, but that's all.

- To me the word argument is a good thing in the context of logically debating point-by-point; i.e., making a case. If you consider truth secondary to point by point logical examination, or if you simply repackage others' thinking as "truth," you and I will spend minimal time communicating.

- Yes, most people will say I'm "way out there", "certifiably insane", "self-loathing" or even an example of why promises limiting government such as the Bill of Rights are out of date.

- I often hear the argument "There's never been and never will be a successful anarchist (or libertarian, nonaggressionist, voluntaryist, etc.) society." My reply:

    -- This is the argument for practicality over morality. It's identical to the one used against abolitionists that ending slavery was impractical. Abolitionists countered that practicality was no excuse for immorality. The argument for practicality over morality, also called positivism (or in Henry Kissinger's words, "realpolitik") over natural law, is a fruitless and bottomless pit for three reasons: It's immoral, we can only speculate about the future, and history has shown morality over practicality to most enable most human flourishing.

    -- To me the the term libertarian has so many different definitions to so many different people that it's an almost useless word, and common Orwellian usage of the term anarchy refers to violent chaos. I'm talking about the AnCap society, short for Anarcho-Captalist. Anarcho refers to society not based on a minority of people taking or being given a monopoly on force. Capitalist refers to a society being based on voluntary cooperation between people; i.e., if an individual or voluntary group of individuals are productive and have a surplus, that's capital. The individual or the group can morally use that capital without owing part of it to anyone else unless they've personally and voluntarily made a prior contract. If coercion is used in connection with productivity or the surplus, it's something other than capitalism; e.g., criminality, socialism, crony capitalism, etc.

    -- To say something, e.g. abolition, is impossible because it's never been done before is false logic. As was the case at the beginning of the 1700s abolition movement, the AnCap society large enough to replace tax farms is at least 100 years away. Rather than being based on one chaotic crisis after another, it's based on:

      --- Human mental health such as children being raised nonaggressively, honestly (i.e., not lies such as religion, Santa Claus, government schooling, corporate media), starting their adulthood at 14 or 15, capable of knowing when they're being scammed, etc.; as opposed to being traumatized into the present industrialized world's dumbed-down life-long childhood patterned after Prussian serfdom; or in the case of the killing-fields and similar areas, traumatized into never having a childhood. Picasso stated that every child is an artist, that the trick is to remain one once grown. I assert the same is true of being a philosopher; i.e., being an individualist rather than a forced collectivist.

      --- Governments being rolled back eventually to zero and any remaining assets being sold in an orderly manner for entrepreneurs to provide services to those who voluntarily pay for them. Of course I can't predict 100 years from now, let alone in detail, but I see the transition along those lines. I don't see the transition happening world-wide all at once, so where it does take place, the people will need to deal with governments seeing AnCap society as low hanging fruit.

(To comment on this essay: PeteWalkerBlog.org in the very top post. Last updated 01-15-2013. Content-related factual inputs welcome, but not so much my-side-against-yours type opinions. This webpage, including essay text, is open source if not taken out of context and if credit is given to http://petewalker.org/.)

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¹I was born when Harry Truman was the U.S. president, I had paper routes from age 11 to 14, when I had four at one time and one of my customers hired me to work at his business. Several years later he and I had a falling out, then for four years I worked on and off in between hitchhiking through almost 40 U.S. states as a party animal hippie. When a young lady and I had a baby on the way, out of ignorance I did 19 years in the USAF but became a Libertarian and took a severance package rather than retiring because military retirement is unfunded and thus paid for by the unborn and recently born -- taxation without representation. My vision at that time was to have a business, but ignorance and being a family breadwinner pressured me to work in a public school for fifteen years. What happened then is explained here. So I'm presently converting my lifestyle to focus on the rollback of The State (capitalized because it's a title of nobility). I call myself a laborer-writer in the Eric Hoffer tradition, with the writer part also being in the Herman Melville tradition; i.e., my writings may not be ever be recognized, or they may be recognized 50 years or so after my passing. I write because I'm a writer nonetheless.

²Explained at unserf.com

³Written by Bob Dylan:

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty trapped
countless fire and flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preached
sisters led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

⁴To me waste is any action or inaction unnecessarily reducing happiness.

⁵Government is a category, meaning it exists only as a concept inside of the human brain. In the physical world, there's only people who transfer wealth using greater firepower than possessed by those who create wealth. If the general public recognizes a group's right to do so, the group is called government; if not, organized crime. To explain what I mean by public, I define special interest as a minority who can, if they decide to and can pull it off, benefit at at the expense of the remaining majority; i.e., the public. Individuals on each side may change as events change, but the principle remains constant. I observe present human society as having four social classes, the parasite oligarchs, their enforcing parasite nobility, the producers, and the escapees who produce only for each other. This social structure is made possible by the mental unhealth I call brainbinding. What's stereotyped as social class is part of the instinctual charade to hide wealth transfer. Stereotypes take the form of who associates with who and for what reasons. These associations take the form of strata in areas like education, style, wealth, profession, contacts, etc. Whether all the above is done by conspiracy, social inertia, or both is an interesting but merely academic question often becoming an unproductive tangent to problem solving.

⁶Some truth is none of my business and not my thing. If the U.S. president is photographed glancing at a very young lady's posterior, that's none of my business -- it just makes a really good example of what's none of my business. If the U.S. president blatantly lies to the public in speech and action, it's my business because he (or she in the future) as a managed actor/actress uses lies and violence to victimize the public as explained in the previous footnote.

⁷Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the ultimate nature of reality, being, and the world. In Orwellianized culture, metaphysics defaults to the mystical to help deprive people of genuine philosophy. Without genuine philosophy there would be no scientific method and there will be no further progress in human happiness.

⁸A small "l" libertarian shares the perspective of a political or apolitical doctrine that emphasizes individual liberty and a lack of governmental regulation and oversight in matters of the economy and in personal behavior where no others' rights are being violated or threatened. The scope of small "l" libertarianism includes anarchy and minarchy. ( A Capital "L" Libertarian is a member of the Libertarian Party, the third largest political party in the U.S. I mention all libertarians because presently I consider them all among my allies.)

In recognition of the changing times and the changing English language, I modified my self-chosen Anarcho-Capitalist (AnCap) label to Anarcho-Capitalist-Subscript-One or AnCapOne for short; anarcho meaning the institution of government needs to be nonviolently starved out of existence like the parasite it is; capitalism1 meaning in the words of Gary Chartier from the book Markets Not Capitalism:
     "There are at least three distinguishable senses of 'capitalism':
     capitalism1 - an economic system that features personal property rights and voluntary exchanges of goods and services
     capitalism2 - an economic system that features a symbiotic relationship between big business and government
     capitalism3 - rule – of workplaces, society, and (if there is one) the state – by capitalists (that is, by a relatively small number of people who control investable wealth and the means of production)"

BTW I disagree with about half of that book, but that's a separate topic other than to say that to me, the above capitalism2 definition defines fascism and the capitalism3 definition defines the warlord society. I consider myself politically and economically literate, and most people to be socially engineered into the opposite; i.e., a minority of red-pill people and a majority of blue-pill people, and I choose to communicate to each in words they understand.

⁹Concepts and Instances Separate the People from the Sheeple

Human nature is the inherited regularities of development common to our species; culture is a set of ideas that cause their holders to behave alike in some way and usually differentiate groups. Until and if transhumanism becomes mainstream, we can impact future generations' human nature but not our own. But we can and do manage/mismanage it through culture.

We manage culture through memes. The idea of controlling fire spread among our ancestors and allowed them to eat more and better meat, thus enlarging future generations' brains. Controlling fire was a meme: An idea that spreads from person to person, displaces other memes, and sometimes changes future human nature.

Memes are reason or anti-reason, and meta-memes pass or discourage new ideas. The reason-meme of planets orbiting the sun was discouraged by the Inquisition anti-reason-meta-meme, but later encouraged by the scientific method reason-meta-meme. However, court (pseudo) intellectuals ensure new anti-reason memes abound to replace old ones. Present mainstream examples are the left-right paradigm, the cliche of not discussing religion or politics, and the scapegoating of human nature.

Instances and concepts are the building blocks of memes. In his 30 minute talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIlOtkBhRvI, Stefan Molyneux says to control concepts is to control the world. The fact admitingly goes back millenniums because concepts versus instances is at the heart of reason and anti-reason.

An instance is tangible, aka concrete; a concept is an imperfect and intangible record, aka abstract, in the mind. It could be of an instance like "human" or of an instance grouping like "family". An instance is a perfect representation of itself; a concept is an imperfect virtual copy based on perception. An instance is a single thing; a concept is an artificial label for that thing or a category label for a group of single things. An instance is a physically joined thing; a concept may or may not represent something physically joined. A human is an instance; a family is a concept. Its members may be metaphorically joined, but not physically. A person with a metaphor in his or her mind can touch you, but the metaphor itself can't because it's only a concept. Thus instances are of the natural realm -- science defines human; concepts of the artificial realm -- culture defines person and family.

If I have three bolts of red, white, and blue cloth I have three instances of cloth. If from them I accurately cut out the pieces of a USA flag, I have about sixty more instances of cloth. If I accurately sew them together, the sixty become one instance of cloth in the form of a USA flag. If I publicly damage it or a similar flag, I stand a good chance of being beaten, arrested, or even killed as in 1930s Germany. Not because of the instance of a flag, but because of the desecration concept.

We humans keep livestock, and for an ultra-elite global tribe called the Superclass, present mainstream culture enables their most profitable livestock to be us other humans. They keep us on tax ranches euphemistically called countries. The borders are virtual fences around large territories where most of us are open range livestock. The Superclass discovered the rest of us to be more creative, productive, and easier to domesticate when we choose our own occupations, locations, and believe ourselves to be free. Superclass members sometimes trade us to each other via emigration or extradition.

Though less common, penned and butchered human livestock are also profitable. Some of us are penned for non-victim crimes as a cloaked version of chattel slavery and to help intimidate potential nonconformists. Superclass members also sometimes disagree among themselves over borders and territory ownership, and settle such issues by using us to destroy things and pen, torture, or butcher each other and sometimes opponent Superclass members.

Some of us resist domestication and are at a higher risk of being penned or butchered. However most resisters partially escape and a few fully escape. To be undomesticated is to be mentally free of illusion and physically free as much as possible. Some say you're either free or not; no middle ground. But I agree with Harry Browne, who in his 1970s book Living Free in an Unfree World (you can google the .pdf and find it free) said most people are only about 30% free when they could be 70% free, and he explained how. I define freedom as the absence of illusion and initiated coercion, so I consider myself 90% illusion free and 50% physically free, for a 70% escapee rating.

Thus to be domesticated is to live in a world of The Establishment's concepts rather than one's own; a world where concepts can be false metaphors for things worth mindlessly blowing out of proportion from their original nature. A world of perverted common sense and perverted honor. A world of helping domesticate others and acting against those who resist. A world of sheeple.
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Meta-Endnotes:

Paragraph One: The human nature definition is from E. O. Wilson, although where I say "development" he says "mental development". The culture definition is from David Deutsch with me adding "and usually differentiate groups", a point from Wilson.

Paragraph Four:

- An energy instance is physical world energy joined into an event of physical impact due to electricity, gravity, pressure, chemical reaction, or similar forces.

- The near-human mind, e.g. chimp or AI, is a separate subject; as is an event of physical world energy that can touch an individual also being an instance.)

- The Establishment refers to those holding as best they can to keeping the status quo in place because it benefits them at the expense of others. I capitalize The Establishment, The State, Government, etc., because these are groups of people enjoying covert but none the less full titles of nobility because they can initiate violence in ways non-nobles are prohibited from. A double-standard scam.

Paragraph Six: I could similarly make a USA flag out of other materials or even digitally; but the digital version would be a virtual instance.

Paragraph Seven: The superclass has their own tribal culture. The alleged leaders of each country have extremely more in common with each other than those they oversee.