This winter I posted about meeting up here in Niigata with fellow expat Voluntaryist @nicksikorski to talk Voluntaryism, permaculture farming, and my vision for Voluntary Japan.
Nick is currently in Nagano apprenticing under local farmers, and preparing to start an independent organic/permaculture/voluntaryist farming operation within the next year.
So what is "Voluntary Japan"?
Truth be told, there really is no hard, fast "vision," and I think it should be kept that way. There is no inflexible, coercion-based, cult of personality manifesto. Just these basic ideas:
All human interaction should be consensual and voluntary (self-ownership axiom).
All humans have a nature conferred capacity (read: "natural right") to self-defense.
Agorism, countereconomics, and black/grey markets are all useful tools for avoiding/chipping away at the state. (Ultimately these cannot solve everything, as the battle is a philosophical one, to be won alone, by the individual.)
Investment in gold, self-sustaining private food sources, self-defense, and COMMUNITY is a MUST.
Cryptocurrencies may also serve extremely useful purposes in liberating small communities/individuals from certain government restrictions, and in avoiding financing horrific state activities.
Love is the highest law, which is, in its essence, an empathic recognition in others of the axiomatic, immutable, objective reality of individual self-ownership, and the holding of life itself as the ultimate value.
With life held as a value, Voluntaryist property ethics are the ONLY OBJECTIVE AND LEGITIMATE MEANS/FOUNDATION upon which any community or society can be constructed which holds potential for minimum violent conflict.
(To see this explained in more depth, check here.)
VJ FAM
Anyone here in Japan, of any nationality or background, sharing these ideas:
If you don't mind, leave me a little comment. Would just be good to know you're around for now, and maybe we will cross paths in the future, or end up in the same little community in this lush, beautiful green landmass full of kind people, fire code violations, open-minded automatons, hot springs, a complete lack of open container laws, natural views of the human body, and healthy food I have come to know and lovingly refer to as "Voluntary Japan."
If you want to support the project, please consider a Steem donation or BTC donation (see qr code in pic above). Your coins will help to fuel quality content, organic farming, and a voluntaryist community being born in Japan. If you don't want to donate...don't! That's the beauty of it all!
~KafkA
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)
I got hooked. To be honest. Isn't that what all humans should strive for? And what civilization should aim to accomplish? I would like to learn more, I've been acquainted to the idea of permaculture and had a vision in mod that that's where I wanna end up at the end of my exciting life.. And this philosophy supports it entirely, if not the other way around.
Thank you for sharing you post that I can come across this. And gain an information that can potentially change my life.
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Oh, I hope not.
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That is not how I defined love, to be fair. Not speaking of magazine cover "romantic love" here.
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Exactly my point why "Love" should not be included in your "rules". Everyone defines it differently.
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I stated pretty clearly how I define it, and as per my definition, a minimally violent society is objectively not even a possibility without it.
Things are scarce, thus people have conflict over scarce things, thus a universalizable grundnorm is needed. The only universalizable grundnorm that holds life as a value is a property ethic based on reality, i.e. individual self-ownership.
By that logic (that if people have different definitions of things the concepts are meaningless) nothing can ever stand, and one is rendered a nihilist, which is a silly and self-contradictory position.
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i meant. How you define "love". Simply, much like God, one has their own special heresy. Misunderstanding at some point is bound to happen.
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Sure. Misunderstanding is part of life. However, don't aggress against non-agressors is pretty damn easy to understand. Nobody is claiming a blueprint for utopia, just a society based on reality, and not coercive destruction.
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What if someone owns a resource that results to some people's livelihood regressing?
Coercion is also not a clean-cut term for most people.
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It is pretty clean cut for most. Most of us live without and avoid it every day.
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