A Shooter's Guide to Militant Libertarianism

I. Thank you for having me.

II. How the Communists, a group of disciplined fanatics, destroyed a better order and replaced it with one of their own. (Anecdote - 12 people, 6 revolvers)

A. How we cannot change a decayed social order as it is easier to destroy rather than to build.

  • 1. Lothrup Stoddard -- heredity based decay

  • "Civilizations, unlike living organisms, have no appointed cycle of life and death. Given a high-type stock producing an adequate quota of superior individuals, and a civilization might be immortal.

  • Why, then, has this never occurred? It has not occurred mainly because of three destructive tendencies which have always, sooner or later, brought civilizations to decline and ruin. These tendencies are: (1) the tendency to structural overloading; (2) the tendency to biological regression; (3) the tendency to atavistic revolt. Here are the three grim Nemeses that have dogged the footsteps of the most promising peoples. Let us consider them in turn.

  • 2. Lindstedt's Theory of Social Entropy, "In a closed social system, the people by default demand stable environmental factors which effectively negate necessary change by sapping both the will and ability to make that change. Thus the social order declines and is driven by fate because in a vast ocean of mediocrity there is not enough the disorder of genius to effectively make change possible."

  • a. Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin -- We have been weighted in the scales and found wanting. Therefore the social-order barbarians will destroy us. Prepare for your fate.

    III. Rallying the people who matter: Make Rebels instead of Converting Tories -- The John Galt maneuver: Cornering the market on intelligence.

  • A. Isaiah's Job and Nock's remnant: (Anecdote)

  • 1. It is the minority of thinkers who matter. A competition of elites.

  • B. Rally the people who matter instead of wasting time and effort in a futile attempt to change the overall system.

  • C. Practical Militant Libertarian Measures:

  • 1. Form County committees as fortresses of strength in Indian country.

  • 2. Form ties with the Militia and Patriot movements, as there are already Libertarians there

  • a. Anti-drug war conservatives who believe 2/3 of drugs smuggled in by George Bush and Clinton through Mena.

  • b. Don't make fun of their religion and conspiracy theories: You don't have to believe, just don't make fun.

  • D. Go with the Right. The Left is the bigger threat. And in a world where the scarcest resource is thought, Libertarianism will eventually rule.

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    The above is an outline of a speech given to the Greene County Libertarians June 18, 1996.


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