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110 sats \ 2 replies \ @nullcount 28 Oct \ parent \ on: Memoir prompt: are you fighting for your own freedom? the_stacker_muse
For me, this is the opposite of freedom. Reclusive behavior is a symptom of anti-social thinking. The myth of the Lone Wolf is attractive and overly romanticized. Very few great things were produced by one human alone.
Freedom for me is the ability to freely communicate/trade/organize with others in voluntary structures that produce more than the sum of their parts. In the book Atlas Shrugged, the "world" has become bureaucratic and authoritarian causing society to decay and collapse because brilliant people are no longer allowed to organize how they please.
Having "F*ck You Money" gives one an increased ability to act in spite of authoritarians and build one's way towards a more voluntary organization of brilliant people. After all, offering a large salary for another's time and experience is an effective way to make them voluntarily work for you.
In this way, sovereign people can build their own Galt’s Gulch - a safe place for smart people to build the future while avoiding the tyrants.
I think the character of Akston was a warning by Rand. Don't let the tyrants win by withdrawing from society into a prison of your own mind. Instead, find/build a community of like-minded people that can support your unique talents so you don't have to run a diner in the mountains.
Reclusive behavior is a symptom of anti-social thinking
i vehemently disagree with this perspective; this perspective is rooted in fear of abandonment by the rest of society; now, if ur society is all straight from the sewers of hell... u may feel much better in the mountains by the river; seriously, if one polls a 100 people, many wud wish for such an escape;
Darthcoin, for example, is retreating into his humble abode for the same reason that a city dweller wishes to escape the zombie apocalypse; nonetheless, that man is constantly online, educating and expressing wishes of how things shud be emproved since they have deteriorated;
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I think you are right.
I chose the quote because I've always appreciated how it shows the "collectivist myth."
On the one hand, the lone wolf may not be helping himself/others; on the other, they are doing the individual work (maybe to a fault) that collectivist attitudes can eclipse.
I think there is a healthy middle ground. Meaning, between the two extremes of 'lone-wolf in the mountains' and NGU/generational-wealth maxi who 'participates' in freedom money by hodling, there are the stories of individuals using the tech helping themselves (and others) to be free.
Just some of my thoughts, though they may be wrong.
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