Intentional Communities

Shared values are a starting point; land, ownership and decision-making determine how a community actually works. Patrick Hiebert and Rahim Taghizadegan discuss freedom-oriented villages and private communities, including the scope for greater independence within existing national laws.

Patrick Hiebert | The Cost of Staying Put

"It's 30 hectares that we've reserved for building our own city this time. So we're working with the Tipolis architecture guys and saying, okay, let's design a European town in this one."

Rahim Taghizadegan | Exit Is More Powerful Than Voice

“Politics is overrated, generally.”

Patrick Hiebert & Alex Voss: Building Bitcoin Citadels

"These are the pillars of our thought... and there's going to be no wavering from that. "

Jody Underwood: Homesteading, Microschooling & Living Off-Grid

"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."

Patrick Hiebert: Building Off-grid Libertarian Villages in Latin America

"When the crap hits the fan in the world, people need places to go and we can't create them fast enough, we can't create them big enough. If ten percent of the world's population says 'I want to go there' we're never going to be big enough to handle that, b ut the people who are making that choice now to have that...

Nicole Reese & Oscar Correa: Regenerative Neighbourhoods, Holacracy & Pioneer Communities

"People are exiting society to build their own bubbles where they grow their own food, are self-sufficient, and have also learned how to consciously design human relationships. Many of the most successful of these projects refer to themselves as 'research centers for peace' because they're exploring alternative gov...

Marnix van Suylekom: Buying an Abandoned Village in Spain

"W e have to go back to doing more with neighbours, with family with friends. That's one way of replacing big government. Yes, you can replace it with a Free Private City and a service model, but you can also replace it with actual communities, and the actual community is, I think more attainable. Particularly for l...

Kosta Korenkov & Albina Tokarchuk: Digital Nomads Buying Property in Montelibero

"Montelibero seems like a great, great place to be with great people to have around. And I think it's a combination of those two factors. First, you have your own place to come back to, and then you have people to spend time with, which is also very important while you travel. On the road, you meet lots of random pe...

Rahim Taghizadegan: Bitcoin Citadels, Geopolitics & CBDCs

"A dystopia always has a different side: a utopian one. The question is, is it possible to have a Bitcoin utopia while the world is dystopian? So that's a challenge to Bitcoiners. And I think it's a great challenge. It challenges you to think about what hyperbitcoinization may mean and what it looks like ."

Jose Birkin: Montelibero, Libertarian Governance & Tokenomics

"This is one of the things that we are proud of: We built a road under anarcho-capitalsm. Who's going to build the roads? We are going to build the roads! This is the living proof that the system works. We, libertarians, are responsible for our own land."