"[...] the campground smells like freedom, which turns out to be a whole lot of bacon."

[james_davis_nicoll]

As pointed out in email:

Last weekend, a group of libertarians and anarchists gathered in the woods of northern New Hampshire for the annual Porcupine Freedom Festival, aka PorcFest.

I went up for breakfast.

The audio download.

Comments

Re: I listened to that.

[janciega.livejournal.com]

I listened to it to. I thought, if it's this much trouble to find even a common currency for a WEEKEND, how the heck do they expect it to work on a national level?

Answering my own question: It won't. These people are living in a fantasy world.

Re: I listened to that.

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

Either that or they have some "clever plan" to pull a fast one on the gov't.

The truth is that as we move away from physical currency, such as the dollar bill, it becomes easier and easier to follow where the money goes, and how it's spent. That's why grocery stores and others offer a "discount card."

You only need physical cash if you're doing something that you don't want the gov't following.

--Hawk

Re: I listened to that.

[(Anonymous)]

"You only need physical cash if you're doing something that you don't want the gov't following."

Except, governments aren't the only ones that do that "following" thing -- e.g., crazy ex-husbands, e.g., loan-sharks, e.g., etc.

TSM_in_Toronto

Re: I listened to that.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Well, I would like to get rid of the dollar paper and move completely to the dollar coin, as well as get rid of pennies. I almost always use cash in person, but pay bills online.

Re: I listened to that.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

"bitcoins"

Re: I listened to that.

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

One of the inherent problems with libertarianism is that it is impossible to organize large groups of libertarians. If a libertarian creed ever goes big, it will by necessity include a larger than normal dose of hypocrisy to keep it's followers mostly sorta pointed in one direction.

Re: I listened to that.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

This has been a "feature" of the anarchist movement since, oh, the invention of anarchism. Apparently very few dedicated and motivated anarchists are also good at taking directions and working in a group. Who knew?

Surprisingly, it's not unknown for anarchist event organizers to discover this until after events turn disorganized, leaving baffled committee members in their wake.