Mark Edge: The Freedom to Leave
“There is only one freedom. The freedom to leave.”
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The Free State Project pursues political change through migration to New Hampshire. These conversations examine its strategy, the culture it attracts and what a concentrated community of libertarians can achieve within an existing state.
“There is only one freedom. The freedom to leave.”
"Most people we've met and had any level of conversation with — they're all libertarian, except they just don't know the term, and so they don't know the philosophy either. But they do know that they want the government out of their pockets and out of their bedrooms."
"I'm for all the liberties. If you're only for one liberty... If you're only involved in one thing and you have one passion then maybe find a different place . But if you're for all of it. If you want to live and let live, then this is your spot."
"Trump gave a speech saying that he's ending Elizabeth Warren & Biden's 'War on Crypto'. We're trying to say to him, 'Then release the prisoners of war if you ended the war on crypto'."
"In some countries, we get our power from god. I'm some countries, we have a king who got his power from god. In some countries, it's just whoever is the baddest dude. Those are all answers, but the American answer, as I think of it, is: government operates from consent."
"The entire world wants the same thing. We all want freedom. We all want personal responsibility & individual liberty. "
"I don't believe that taxation is theft, and the reason I don't is because if you can go to Próspera and opt into their fee scheme, then you are no longer tax cattle."
"The sweet spot is when the short term and the long term are aligned... ...For most libertarian Americans, their life in New Hampshire will be better than wherever they are. So it works for them in the short term, and you've got that aspirational, transcendent thing in the distance that you're still chasing after...
"Society is primarily authoritarian and t hey train us in authoritarianism from an early age and they reward authoritariansim and all the stories are authoritarian. So, to actually have that amount of programming, for normal people it's so hard to break out."
" I think that what we're going through is pretty new. For most of human history, there has always been a frontier. So there was always a space where new people could push into and there's certainly some sort of ideological conformity among the kinds of people who are interested in that. They are different in some w...