Etienne de la Boetie2, author of Government: The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! & Founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation gives an introduction to VoluntaryismWe are excited to announce the release of the full videos from Liberty on the Rocks, – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference including a bonus video from Senior Mises Institute Fellow Dr. Bob Murphy on the Market for Private Military Defense.  All the videos can be found on the website of the conference at Sedona.ArtOfLiberty.org AND on CiVL, the new streaming platform for intellectuals, libertarians, and voluntaryists where the content is available for the “big screen” on Roku, Fire and their app.  Check it out at: https://watch.civl.com/programs/the-voluntaryism-conference-2024Etienne de la Boetie2, author of Government: The Biggest Scam in History Exposed, delves into the provocative ideas that challenge conventional views on governance. Etienne argues that government, far from being a legitimate or moral institution, serves as a mechanism for control and exploitation driven by intergenerational organized crime using “government” as a technique to rob and control populations. He introduces voluntaryism, a philosophy advocating for a society free of coercion, where interactions are voluntary and markets fulfill the roles traditionally held by the government. Etienne discusses concepts like the non-aggression principle, the power of free markets, and the manipulation of public perception through media. This episode sets the stage for a thought-provoking journey into a society without rulers, where peace and prosperity arise from individual freedom and spontaneous order.Transcript & SlidesMy name is Etienne de la Boetie2, I am the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation. I’m best known for the book “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!, where I make the case that government is best thought of as a technique for robbing and controlling populations. It’s always illegitimate because it’s impossible to have a legitimate moral government for some reasons we’re going to outline further on, but it’s impossible to delegate rights you don’t have yourself to a representative to represent you doing something that you don’t have the ability to do yourself. It is impossible to be bound by a social contract you did not sign. And if my lovely fiancé and I can’t vote to rob you because there’s two of us and one of you, it doesn’t matter that there’s 10 of us, or 158 million of us, or 338 million of us, or that we “vote” to have an organization work on our behalf to do something that we don’t have the ability to do ourselves. And so, “government” has really been the biggest scam in all of human history; it’s been a way of robbing and controlling populations and tax-farming human labor. And we really don’t need government. And we’re going to break that down in a little bit. But the subtitle of the book is: How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the “Government,” Media and Academia. Our thesis is that the government works hand in hand with monopoly media to control the information that the population receives and make them believe that government is legitimate, desirable, and necessary, even though it is not. And so, on 50 different television channels, news channels, you’re going to see all of this arguing over the election. Vote for the blue “government” candidate, vote for the red “government” candidate. But you’re never ever going to see the alternative which is: We Don’t Really Need “Government”! The world is a self-organizing place, it produces spontaneous order and everything the government does would be done better faster and cheaper by the free market and so that’s really the case that we’re going to make today. That everything the government does, that is not redistributive… I.E. you can’t rob Peter to pay Paul, but most of what the government does is provide services that include: Delivering the mail, running a train system and the managing aircraft into airports and things like that. All of that could be done by the free market much better. This has been the best-kept secret in all of human history because it’s the one thing that the rulers don’t want you to know about: There’s an option on the menu that involves no rulers! And so just to give you some examples: Google and Facebook turned down our advertising, they would not advertise this conference. The Art of Liberty Foundation is regularly censored on Google. We’ve had links de-indexed off of Google. We can prove that. We’ve been shadow-banned. We’ve been demonetized. We’ve been de-indexed. And so, this is really the thing that government does not want you to know that you really don’t need its mandatory services. So, what is the alternative? If we do not have a government, how would we organize society? How would things get done? Who’s going to build the roads? And that really is the good news message that I bring you today, that everything the government does would be done better, faster, and cheaper by the free market. And so, that’s widely known as voluntaryism. And what does that mean? Well, number one, it means that all relationships between people must be voluntary. Nobody is able to force you to do anything that you don’t want to do. Nobody has the ability to extort money out of you if you don’t want them to extort money out of you. Nobody has the ability to force your children to go to a school that you don’t want them to go… to learn about a curriculum that you don’t feel comfortable with. Nobody gets the ring of power because there isn’t a ring of power. And that’s when I say that’s the only “ISM” that’s fair for everybody. Every other “ISM,” whether it be communism, socialism, or constitutional republican ism, all of those other political “ISMs,” has a ruling class that has rights that you don’t have, and that has an exemption from morality that you don’t have, that has the ability to use violence and extortion and coercion on the rest of the population, and moneyed interests so easily rig that system that it’s frankly a joke. On our Substack at ArtOfLiberty.Substack.com, I have an article titled: Why (and How!) You Should Help Your Kids Steal Their Student Council Election. In it, I break down five or six different techniques that are very simple behavioral psychology techniques that would allow a moneyed interest or just some people working together behind the scenes to easily rig not just a student council election but, frankly, the elections that the population is going to be participating in next week, where they’re going to be voting on unauditable black box voting machines and with mail-in paper ballots. Moneyed interests so easily rig the system that it’s useless. It simply doesn’t deliver the goods. And so, the good news message is: That we really don’t need government! Also inherent in the idea of voluntaryism is really this idea that the world is a self-organizing system. It produces something called Spontaneous Order. And everything that the government does would be done by the rest of society better, faster, and cheaper without the waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion. And so, on the slide I want to show you two visual examples. I’m really known for my visualizations… most people are visual learners, and they come to insight much quicker if you show them an image versus just trying to explain it to them.The alternative to voluntaryism is something called Statism, and Statism is essentially the indoctrinated belief in having a state. It is the indoctrinated belief in having a government, whether that government is communist, whether that government is a constitutional republican government, whether that government is a democracy, or that government is a monarchy. If you believe in having a government, then you’re a Statist, and you believe in having a “State,” and if you believe in having a State, you believe in using violence on your friends and your neighbors and your colleagues to put your preferred ruler into power over them. And there’s a karmic debt that comes with that.That’s why I say that Voluntaryism is the only political “ISM” that’s fair for all and that leads to harmony and prosperity for all because we don’t have to be fighting about these things at the political level. One of the examples I gave last night is going on in these elections right now. There’s a real knife fight at the school board level. And if you lose in San Francisco, you get critical race theory or LGBTQ studies imposed on your child, whether or not you want them to learn about that or not. If you lose in Oklahoma, you get fundamentalist Christianity pushed on your children, whether or not you’re a fundamentalist Christian or not. If you lose in Minneapolis, you might get some flavor of Islam pushed on your kids.In a world without government, YOU get to decide what school your child attends. YOU get to determine if it’s Waldorf, Montessori, homeschool, vocational education, or a gazillion other kinds that the market offers instead of the one-size-fits-all, we’re going to fight about this at the ballot box, and the winner takes all and the loser just gets stuck with whatever they get stuck with. On the right-hand side of the slide, you’ll see a visualization of voluntaryism compared to a few other political “ISMs.” And what you’re looking at is in the light blue box, almost at the bottom, you see Minarchism. Minarchists are people who believe in having a minimal government. And so strict constitutional conservatives would fall into the category of minarchists. And minarchism is really saying: “I’m willing to act violently on peaceful people to acquire fire protection, police, military, courts and roads.” And then that little box is nestled in a purple box where you’ll see Conservatives. Most conservatives are willing to act violently on peaceful people to acquire unemployment insurance and limited health care, limited housing, education, and things like that.Then that box is nestled in socialism, and they want to have universal health care in addition to everything and all of the other boxes. Then communism – all the other boxes are nestled in that, and communists are willing to act violently on peace. people to acquire housing, food, energy, clothing, and everything else in the list.Under those boxes is the dark blue box for: voluntaryism which says: “I am not willing to use violence against peaceful people. I will seek to acquire desired services through voluntary relationships” we don’t need to act finally on anybody the world self-organizing system and that we will seek to acquire and meet our political and socio-economic goals voluntarily. Peacefully through cooperation and collaboration with others. And so that really is what sets us apart. Voluntaryism is a little bit of the rebrand of peaceful anarchy. Now, for a lot of people who are tuning in from around the world, that name may scare you because anarchists have been associated with everything from violence to communism when, in reality, all anarchy means is “No Rulers.” It does NOT mean “No Rules”. It simply means “No Rulers, but “the rulers” because they don’t want you to know that there’s an option on the menu called “No Rulers.” They have used control of the media and even control of the dictionary. I break it down in my book “Government”- The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! how they’ve changed the meaning over time so that the word for “No Rulers” now means: “Chaos and Dystopia” when that could not be further from the truth. You know, we don’t need government. And so, I mentioned that it’s a provider of services and whether whatever that services, whether it’s armed protective services that they call the police, or dispute resolution that they call the courts, all of these things could be and would be provided. And we will demonstrate to you today throughout the conference that it can be provided by the free market, mutual aid societies, homeowners’ associations and co-ops, insurance companies, nonprofits, and genuine charities.There’s a moral case for voluntaryism, and it really is centered on something called the Non-Aggression Principle(NAP), which states that nobody has the ability to use violence or aggression on anybody else. And while that sounds like so basic that you would teach that to a kindergartner, you’d be amazed at how many people. give the government an exception from the Non-Aggression Principle and say: “Oh, well, the governments just got to do that because without it, how would we have roads? How would we have courts? How would we have all of these things that we desire? The other side of this equation is if you advocate for government, whether you’re advocating for “blue government” or “red government:” You advocate for violence to be used on your friends, your neighbors, and your colleagues to impose your desired ruler over them and “voting for violence” has, as I mentioned, a karmic debt. So, there’s a moral case for voluntaryism.There’s also a logical case for voluntaryism: everything else is immoral, unproven, or has failed. You know, a lot of people think communism looks good on paper, but it simply doesn’t work, doesn’t deliver the goods, and leads to bloodshed and murder and violence. Society falls apart, and everybody forgets about it. And then the young idealistic youth want to try it again, but… this time… they will get it right! It’s just not logical, and the non-aggression principle should apply to everybody, or else it would be dumb to give your potential political opponents an exemption for morality. There is a utilitarian case for voluntaryism. Free markets produce the goods! Commerce benefits both parties, OR the trade does not take place. Now when I say commerce or capitalism, many people associate this with the system we’re under right now. Which is NOT capitalism at all, and it’s not a free market at all! It would technically be called “cronyism” or “crony capitalism,” where the banks are given the ability to create money out of thin air. And they’re buying up the world with their little paper tickets, providing unlimited capital to certain favored corporations, and these favored corporations are buying up and monopolizing the world. The unfairness of the world we live in today is made possible by the government, which has metastasized, making all of the evils in the world worse. There’s also the “I-Don’t-Want-to-be-a-Chump” case for voluntaryism because Statism is being openly andobviously propagandized to the population using various unethically manipulative techniques that I break down in my book. The Award-Winning Documentary Theatres of War Breaks Down the Pentagon and Intelligence Agencies involvement in 1000+ Movies and 1000+ Tell-a-vision ShowsThe government is “running game” on the population! The “government” is weaving the American flag into 1000+ movies and 1000+ television shows that we know of. They’re using an advertising technique called anchoring to build up the audience to a moment of high positive emotion and then show you the flag. They’re going to put the flag on the back of NBA backboard so you subconsciously associate the exhilaration of the goal with the flag. They’re going to run a gazillion other little tricks and techniques on you. Once you see it you can’t unsee it and nobody wants to get “chumped!” I’m going to tell you that my organization is called the Art of Liberty Foundation. We’re a startup public policy organization. We’re approaching the problem from a principled, voluntarist perspective: that government is illegitimate and undesirable on its face. And I’m going to wrap it up there. About the SpeakerEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, a startup public policy foundation exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” from a principled voluntaryist perspective. He is the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! – How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the “Government,” Media and Academia – available at Government-Scam.com and Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All – available at Voluntaryism-Book.org.  He organizes the Liberty on the Rocks – International Voluntaryism Conference each fall in Sedona that brings together voluntaryists from around the world at Sedona.ArtOfLiberty.org. He publishes the Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation at DailyNewsFromAoLF.Substack.com and Five Meme Friday, a weekly survey of the best of the alternative media at ArtOfLiberty.org/Subscribe and all his original writings and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.Substack.com and ArtOfLiberty.orgCheck Out the Rest of the Conference On CiVL!Get the Rest of the Conference on CiVL, the new free streaming platform for intellectuals. libertarians and voluntaryists at: https://watch.civl.com/programs/the-voluntaryism-conference-2024Like the Conference? Pre-Order the Book! If you liked this presentation from the 2024 Liberty on the Rocks conference in Sedona, then you will love the Art of Liberty Foundation’s upcoming book, Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone leads to Harmony, Prosperity, and Good Karma for All. The book is in the same image and meme-rich format as “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!, featuring “the executive summary of the executive summary” to rapidly understand the important issues. If you or anyone you know has any doubt that the free market could provide all the legitimate, non-redistributive services provided by government, better, faster, and cheaper, without the waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion, then this is the book for you. You can pre-order a copy of the book through our $25,000 Indiegogo campaign to launch it and get it into wide distribution at voluntaryism-book.org.

I also expose the big secret behind Elon Musk: Are He and Jake Paul Artificially Created “High Status Monkey” to Steer Perception with X?I had a great conversation with Dr. Barre Lando and Mike Winner of Alfa Vedic, and it appears to be going viral because my inbox is blowing up with new subscriptions to both Substack, Five Meme Friday and our newsletter! I went on some epic rants, but I suspect the one that is generating all the interest is where I break down my educated speculation that Elon Musk is an artificially created “High-Status Monkey” designed to steer human perception with Twitter / X.Let me explain in more detail: It turns out that monkeys and humans have an innate biological desire to see higher-status monkeys/humans. This was discovered/proven in a series of experiments conducted by Duke University Medical Center researchers Robert O Deaner, Michael L Platt, and Amit V Khera. in 2005 who hooked up male rhesus monkeys to a video monitor also connected to a hamster bottle containing cherry juicy juice. The study was entitled: Monkeys Pay Per View: Adaptive Valuation of Social Images by Rhesus Macaques. As long as the monkeys kept drinking the juicy juice, the various images would keep scrolling across the screen. At any time, the monkey could stop the image by NOT drinking the juice (delay of gratification), so in essence, the monkeys could pay to see certain images.It was discovered that the male monkeys would pay to see two different types of images:Rear female monkey hindquarters/perineum (monkey pornography)Kinda obvious… but what was even more fascinating is that they would pay to see pictures of:Higher Status Monkeys! Monkeys live in a tribe called a troop. Every troop has a defined pecking order where the male monkeys are ranked by their ability to beat up the other monkeys. The researchers found that the monkeys would pay to see pictures of higher status monkeys in the troop/tribe. Monkey #3 would pay to see pictures of monkeys #2 & #1 but wouldn’t pay to see pictures of monkeys #4 – #20.Was Jake Paul Created & Steered on Cartel Media Platforms like YouTube, where this Jake Paul music video has generated 302,000,000 views. High status in humans includes the ability to beat up other humans, which is evident with the current societal fascination with the Mike Tyson – Jake Paul fight, where much of the population is having their attention steered. But human high status is also dependent on celebrity and wealth, both of which have been given to Elon Musk to create the highest-status monkey on the planet. Is Elon Muck DARPA’s boy who takes technologies invented on the tax-payer nickel and privatizes the profits for organized crime “government” insiders? Is he a created frontman designed to steer the perception of the masses who are being tricked into giving him their attention using basic behavior psychology?Does his purchase of X/Twitter supercharge that ability to steer perception with the ability to promote his tweets (Which lower-status humans are willing to “pay” to see) AND the ability to algorithmically promote controlled opposition voices placed into X feeds? In contrast, authentic voices are demonetized, de-indexed, and shadow-banned.Is that why there is hidden Freemasonic symbolism and numerology in X’s logo? See our article: Etienne & Jason Christoff – Why is 666 Hidden in Cartel Company Logos, Trump’s OK Sign and Twitter’s New Logo?Other Facts About MuskElon Musk Is Not a Renegade Outsider – He’s a Massive Pentagon ContractorElon Musk is introducing his new right-wing fans to the idea of implementing a carbon tax, and it goes about as well as you would expect.Mentioned in the PodcastThe Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents By Alan Macleod, Mint Press NewsFlashback National Security Search Engine: Google’S Ranks Are Filled With Cia AgentsTiktok: chinese “trojan horse” is run by state department officialsAbout the AuthorEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, a startup public policy foundation exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” from a principled voluntaryist perspective. He is the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! – How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the “Government,” Media and Academia – available at Government-Scam.com and Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All – available for pre-order at Voluntaryism-Book.org.  He organizes the Liberty on the Rocks – International Voluntaryism Conference each fall in Sedona that brings together voluntaryists from around the world at Sedona.ArtOfLiberty.org. He publishes the Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation at DailyNewsFromAoLF.Substack.com and Five Meme Friday, a weekly survey of the best of the alternative media at ArtOfLiberty.org/Subscribe and all his original writings and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.Substack.com and ArtOfLiberty.orgOur IndieGoGo for my new book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! has raised $1901 from 41 backers or 7% of our $25,000 goal in less than a week with 28 days left! You can get some great perks for pre-ordering at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/voluntaryism-why-we-don-t-need-government

Where is Voluntaryism Working Now and What Does a Voluntaryist Future Look Like? I was interviewed by Ryan Cristian right before Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference where we kicked around aspects of Voluntaryism including:Voluntaryist & libertarian communities including Cheran, the Mexican town that kicked out the Mexican federal government and the cartels, Prospera – on the island of Roatan off the coast of Hondouras, which negotiated limited sovereignty from Honduras to create a business-friendly community with one of the lowest regulatory and tax burdens on the planet, and the Free State Project in New Hampshire which is moving thousands of libertarians, voluntaryists and peaceful anarchists to the state to roll back “government.”Ryan Cristian was live-streaming from Liberty on the Rocks and over 12,000+ folks tuned in or caught the replay. We will be syndicating both the conference proceedings and Ryan’s superb “Behind the Scenes” interviews with the speakers shortly so stay tuned! Great Comment on the Video from The Deoccultist:I love the comment people have regarding anarchy (Voluntaryism): “If we had anarchy/voluntarism some psycho would try to take over.” They say that as if the said psycho would be successful. This kind of reasoning is very revealing of how ignorant we are of morality. The only way we COULD have a functioning anarchist society is if the majority of the people no longer believed in “authority” and understood it as immoral. Anarchy (Voluntaryism) isn’t some political position with a centralized power, it’s the absence of the belief that people can rule others. So if a psycho thought he could take over and be a dictator, he’d be laughed off the stage. If he tried to use violence, we’d take him down in a nanosecond. But statists still have all that programming rattling around that “government” is natural, normal and necessary so the first thing they fear is violent domination.. which is ironic since that’s exactly what they support now. The first requirement for anyone to be able to see the illegitimacy and moral wrongness of “authority” is true conscience. Without that deep understanding of what right and wrong actually are, the belief in “authority” is still possible. While most people may have good intentions and have a basic understanding of “don’t harm others,” it’s not deeply understood enough to the point of applying it globally. And while more and more people are starting to see the evil machinations of government, they’re still looking for a savior whether it’s some religious avatar, a politician, a mystical force, an alien race, or even AI. There’s no universal conscience, no sense of personal responsibility, no courage, no agapé love. It’s still very much “ME ME ME, screw you.” So, we still have a long way to go.. and we need to be the most persistent and belligerent moral educators if we’re ever going to reach that critical mass.About the AuthorEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News on Substack and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media.He is the author of The Covid-19 Suspects and Their Ties to Eugenics and Population Control/Reduction and Solving Covid – The Covid 19, Eugenics, and Vaccine/Drug Scam TimelineOur IndieGoGo for my new book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! has raised $1702 from 34 backers or 6% of our $25,000 goal in less than a week with 37 days left! You can get some great perks for pre-ordering at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/voluntaryism-why-we-don-t-need-government

Don’t Waste Your Time Voting to Rob Your Neighbors and Legitimizing A Corrupt System in Organized Crime’s Rigged Poker Game Today! For a Deeper Dive, Please See My Articles:Why (and How!) You Should Help Your Kids Steal Their Student Council ElectionVoting is Violence! – Mark Passio and Etienne Break It Down Live from PorcFest 2023Please Don’t Vote to Rob Your Neighbors This Election – The Printable Flyer!About the AuthorEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News on Substack and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media.He is the author of The Covid-19 Suspects and Their Ties to Eugenics and Population Control/Reduction and Solving Covid – The Covid 19, Eugenics, and Vaccine/Drug Scam TimelineOur IndieGoGo for my new book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! has raised $1635 from 32 backers or 6% of our $25,000 goal in less than a week with 39 days left! You can get some great perks for pre-ordering at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/voluntaryism-why-we-don-t-need-government

Would you help us with a pre-order and support our campaign? Surprise! We don’t really need “Government!” New Book from Etienne de la Boetie2 breaks down Voluntaryism!Etienne Note: The book is expected to ship in early December in time for Christmas delivery! We are taking pre-orders to get the cost of the 1st print run down as low as possible and get a marketing campaign behind the book. If you liked “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!, you are going to LOVE: Voluntaryism! ”Government” defined the problem, and Voluntaryism provides the SOLUTION! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/voluntaryism-why-we-don-t-need-government/Have you ever imagined a society free from government extortion, waste, fraud, and abuse? What if we could harness the power of the free market, mutual aid societies, nonprofits, and more to do everything a government does but better, faster, and cheaper?In a bold move that challenges the very core of global political systems, Etienne de la Boetie2, the author of “Government – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!”, is set to release a transformative new book: “Voluntaryism – How the Only ‘ISM’ Free for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All.”Etienne de la Boetie2 takes you on a journey beyond the veiled extortion and inefficiency of monopoly government. His new book, Voluntaryism, and its accompanying video site reveal how a world governed by the free market, mutual aid, and voluntary associations is not just possible but already operational in various forms all around us. With your help, this message can awaken a global movement towards genuine autonomy, prosperity, harmony, and real freedom! Why Your Friends, Family and Colleagues Need VoluntaryismMany people support “government” because they think it is legitimate, desirable, and necessary (even if it isn’t) because they have never been exposed to the alternative:  The world is a self-organizing system that produces spontaneous order, and everything the “government” does would be done better, faster and cheaper by the free market… and in many cases, already is! Did you know that:A private armed protective services company called Detroit Threat Management is doing a better job of protecting the residents than the monopoly Detroit police department?Etienne Note: The Book will have Images and QR Codes that will “screen pop” videos, lectures, and documentaries for a deeper dive. Try this one out to see a short video on Detroit Threat Management! Dozens of mutual aid societies used to provide many of the same benefits as unemployment, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and competed with each other on which group offered better benefits for their members. A non-profit has open-sourced the recipe for a $30 “epi-pencil”to compete with “patented” $300 Epi-pensParents are fleeing the “government” school system in droves, taking public school teachers “private” and paying them in homeschool co-op situations, while new private school models like Acton Academies are getting the cost out of private education while startups like Prenda.com are providing the back-end tech-stack for parents to launch their own micro-schools. A private non-profit organization called the North Maine Woods is protecting 3.5 million acres of mostly private land… twice the size of Massachusetts—while offering comparable rates for many of the same hiking, camping and four-wheeling amenities as national parks. The country of Canada privatized its air traffic control system in 1996and planes aren’t dropping out of the sky in Canada!Reward Tiers:Digital Reader – $10: Get the ePub version of “Voluntaryism.” ✨Enlightened Reader – $17.76: Receive the ePub Versions of both “Voluntaryism” AND “Government – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!” Paperback Supporter – $40: Enjoy a Paperback Copy of “Voluntaryism” complete with exclusive stickers. Swiss-Flip Enthusiast – $50: Own a unique Paperback “Swiss-Flip” Copy of both “Voluntaryism” & “Government,” offering the problem and the solution in one book, plus stickers and a virtual ticket to Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference – Saturday, November 2nd. Hardback Collector – $75: Treasure a Hardback, High-Resolution Copy of “Voluntaryism” with stickers, an Art of Liberty Foundation T-shirt and a Virtual Ticket to Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona 2024 – The Voluntaryism Conference – Saturday, November 2nd. Supporter Bundle – $100: The Hardback, High-Resolution “Swiss-Flip” version of “Voluntaryism” + “Government,” an Art of Liberty Foundation T-Shirt, plus stickers, and a virtual ticket to Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona 2024 – The Voluntaryist Conference on Saturday, Nov 2nd.. Founder Bundle – $250: A Signed Hardback, High-Resolution Swiss-Flip “Founder’s Copy” of “Voluntaryism” + “Government,” Art of Liberty Foundation T-Shirt, stickers, plus 1-Year Sponsorship of the Art of Liberty Foundation with access to paid articles on all Substacks, and a basic ticket to Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona 2024 – The Voluntaryism Conference – November 1st-3rd. Distributor Bundle – $500: Share “Voluntaryism” with your network! 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Should Peaceful Anarchists “Rebrand” as Voluntaryists? Etienne de la Boetie² of the Art of Liberty Foundation, Anton Bueckert of Nevermore Media, and Paul Cudenec of Winter Oak discuss the potential overlap of anarchism and voluntaryism as forms of resistance against the criminocratic, oligarchic, and kleptocratic globalist tyranny we all now face! A broad and grassroots populism needs to form, Etienne believes we’re in the middle of a one-way revolution which might be going supernova.Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Odysee / Rokfin / RumbleListen/Download on SoundCloud*Support Geopolitics & Empire!Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsThe Art of Liberty Foundation – Important News is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.WebsitesEtienne de la Boetie²’s Art of Liberty https://artofliberty.orgLiberty on the Rocks Voluntaryism Conference https://sedona.artofliberty.orgArt of Liberty SubstackNevermore MediaNEVERMORE MEDIA anarchism for grown-ups Paul Cudenec SubstackPaul CudenecAn exploration of deep dissentPaul Cudenec’s Winter Oak https://winteroak.org.ukAbout the GuestsEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News on Substack and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media.  He is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on voluntaryism and government illegitimacy, criminality and corruption. The Art of Liberty Foundation is a start-up public policy organization focused on spreading voluntaryist/libertarian ideas through effective media tailored to visual learners, busy people, and short attention spans.  The foundation produces books, articles, podcasts, memes, videos, infographics, and monographs that explain the basics of voluntaryism and libertarianism while exposing the illegitimacy, illogic, and immorality of government in addition to its criminality and corruption.NEVERMORE is an anarchist multi-media project which aims to revitalize the anarchist tradition.Paul Cudenec is a contemporary anarchist writer who very much fits into the organic radical tradition. In 2020, he became known for his outspoken criticism of the totalitarianism being rolled out worldwide on the back of the Covid crisis. Winter Oak is a totally independent not-for-profit organization with a serious aversion to the global mafia’s “development” agenda and a commitment to truth, freedom and social justice.*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)Get more info on Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference at Sedona.ArtOfLiberty.org Check out Liberty on the Rocks – 2023 – The Sedona Sessions which is now streaming on CiVL – The free streaming platform for intellectuals, libertarians, and voluntaryists at https://watch.civl.com/programs/liberty-on-the-rocks-2023-the-sedona-sessions including Etienne’s 2023 keynote: Weapons Against Evil – The Scam of “Government” Revealed for All To See!

James Corbett just released his presentation to Liberty on the Rocks 2024 to Whet the Appetite for the Conference… Both Hysterical and Insightful Good news, comrades! This year the Ministry of Toothbrushes will not only meet its production quota, but exceed it! And what’s more, the technocrats have devised the one and only toothbrush that you will ever need (or be allowed to purchase)! . . . But some are questioning whether government is needed to produce toothbrushes at all. Let’s nip that heresy in the bud, shall we? . . .SHOW NOTESLiberty on the Rocks 2024 – Use coupon code Corbett5 for 5% off (and to support James Corbett)Liberty On The Rocks 2023 – The Sedona Sessions – Now streaming on CiVLPandora’s Box – “Part 1: The Engineers’ Plot”Economic Calculation in the Socialist CommonwealthLeonard Read’s “I, Pencil”