First, I must apologise to you, my core audience, for the month-long break I have taken since my last post and video before my Brexit interviews; I have moved - moved country! I have come to the beautiful peninsula of Bodrum, home to some of the greatest ancient Greek thinkers and the birthplace of many great ideas which galvanized the development of the West. If I may digress a little further, this place is renowned for stealing the hearts of its visitors, as it did mine, not least because of its uniquely arresting bays and coves, and dry warmth softened by gentle breezes, but also because of the history of the place, e.g. the ruin of one of the seven ancient wonders of the world - the tomb of Mausolus, from which we derive our word mausoleum. What is more, Bodrum is the meeting place of the Property and Freedom Society, baby of the greatest Libertarian philosopher of our time, Hans-Hermann Hoppe. One can see why and I will make it my job to provide you with a first-hand look in good time...
But, to the point at hand: I was not the only one who left Europe, so to speak. Though I left the territories called European, the United Kingdom left the centralized, protectionist European Union. Not moments after the votes had been counted in favour of the 'leavers', the threats of economic apocalypse came. Britain would sink beneath the waves; however, such talk was followed not only by the US, Canadian and especially the German governments saying they want to continue strong trading relationships, but European right-wing parties immediately voiced a desire for similar referendums (N.B. not referenda). Scotland, which voted with a majority in favour of remaining will now most likely have another referendum as to seceding from the UK, London too would seem as though it would wish to secede as a city-state from the rest of England; on and on the secesssion must go, for this is the way of the West.
There can be no middle-ground between individualism and collectivism and the West, because of the foundations of our cultures and the interaction between this and our biology has led to the favouring of individualism, especially in the Anglo-Dutch world. Nature presents us with a battlefield over resources and our genes determine overwhelmingly which side we are on - the strong middle and higher classes or, rather, the capitalist class; or those without, who are incentivised to push the irrational slave ethic of socialism, using coercive power to violate the private property rights of those with. Secession is a victory for the capitalist class, those who choose to recognise private property rights and have no biological incentive to wish them away. Its logical conclusion is the secession of all indviduals from any coercive power and, as such, would be the greatest thing ever to happen to those less fortunate. I feel justified in my optimism, the market shall prevail over all unsustainable political projects, and what is the market but the realm of individual choice. We have seen this week, a huge victory on the side of the market and those who excel in it for the benefit of all. But, the war is not over. Wherever we can, we must push for greater secession and dispel the illusion of the benevolence and legitimacy of an untouchable corporate body called 'the state' until all that is left is individual actors, using means to achieve ends, not one of them mysteriously immune from justice.
The battle will be fierce. Even now exaggerations are made, such as that leave-campaigning politicians lied to coerce voters their way and that they are now backtracking - an easy thing to do when only one side of the story is sought. The weak-minded are swayed by such propaganda and have suddenly 180'd to hypocritical desires to retrospectively tweak democracy (the god which has failed again but which cannot be directly spoken ill of). Be sure that the political class will continue to catastrophise and declare Brexit the root of all evil. We, who want freedom, must be equipped with the facts and be ready to defend this secession and indeed all secession. We must be the optimists and we must shine a light of truth so that the path to freedom can be made visible to others. The enemies of freedom will not be merciful when they cast up smoke and mirrors. Fight on, a new enlightenment and a brighter future await.
