Episode-140- TSP Rewind – The Death of Personal Responsibility [ 1:13:51 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2430- The Death of Personal Responsibility and was originally and first published on May 2nd, 2019.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

Before we get deep into today’s topic I am going to go a bit deeper with some planned changes in the show’s format. Don’t worry TSP isn’t changing per se just some changes in the schedule, format, etc. to keep stuff fresh.

Then I want to discuss the subject of personal responsibility in the world today. I was recently asked by a guest if I really believed the quote buy Permaculturist Geoff Lawton…

“All the worlds problems can be solved in a garden.”

My response was, absolutely, but you need personal responsibility as well. The response came back,

“Personal responsibility of the gardener or the world.”

Well, both but first, the gardener! This is the key, the rest of the world is not ever going to be personally responsible for shit until the minority that actually see value in such things, shuts up about it and gets on with doing it. This is one of many reasons that politics is dead to me. I see the same bullshit from both sides and I ain’t talking the elected clowns at this point, I am talking about the people watching the circus and choosing a group of clowns to root for.

The left attacks the right, the right attacks the left, everyone agrees that government sucks and is corrupt but they want more of their kind. So here is another quote, this one is my own….

“Here is everything wrong with government, along with my plan to make government bigger and more powerful”

~ Every Politician Ever

So it is clear that the solutions exist outside of the State and its’ systems. It is also clear that the solutions are not really of interest to the average person. So what is the answer? You and your own back yard, side yard, friends, porch, life, bank account, children, etc. As always we are back to the “real circles of life”.

What are the real circles of life? There are three, they are…

1. The circle of concern
2. The circle of influence
3. The circle of control

I call them your real circles of life because you will spend every waking moment of your life with your mind and hence you inside them. The first circle is the weakest, these are all the things you are concerned about but have no real control or influence over. Like the SJWs crying on YouTube or the assclown circus going on in congress right now, etc. This also includes anything anyone is doing or saying that takes up your attention but you can’t really influence or control.

The second circle is all of the things you are concerned about and can influence but can’t control. If you are a parent of adult children, this is a perfect example. I personally feel I have a lot of influence in the life of my son, daughter-in-law and grand kids. When they want advice I give it, sometimes I see an issue and I give advice unasked. My son, however; is a grown ass man. It is his family, he makes the call.

Likewise some of my neighbors have started to plant trees due to my example some never will, I have influence but no control. Via this podcast I influence over 200,000 people and those they influence, but I don’t control a damn thing my listeners do or don’t do. I can tell you guys, my neighbors or my son that you need a household budget but I can’t make you write it up, nor can I make you follow it.

The third circle is the most powerful circle. It is all the things you both care about and control. If you want a garden and you have a yard, you can damn well plant a garden. The most important thing about this circle is not just that you can control your actions in it, but your thoughts as well. Don’t like gardens, then thoughts of gardens are not something you need to concern yourself with. Got it? The key here is you control what you think, how you learn, how you act, etc. And you don’t get to do this for any other human on the planet. Just you!

Some folks you may have more influence with then others. Such as a spouse, a child or in say a formal student teacher relationship, etc. In the end though humans are sovereign over themselves, at least they should be.

When we break it down that way, we realize quite logically that we should spend the majority of our lives inside our circle of control and in our actions alone we will naturally expand our circle of influence. As to our circle of concern it should be like weather radar. What I mean by that is simple, yea these idiots are doing idiot things, in this case this might impact me. In response I am looking to my circle of control first and influence second as to how I can mitigate that.

The only purpose your circle of concern should serve is education and entertainment. As such it is a means by which you can be proactive in your actions within the areas you have control and or influence on. When a tornado warning happens we move to the safe areas of our home. When we see one approaching a friend or family member who is not the type that pays attention we give them a heads up. Yet we never fool ourselves into believing by watching the weather app that we can stop a tornado or control it.

Sadly most people spend the majority of their waking hours where? In their circles of concern. That is what leads almost directly to a society totally divorced at this point from personal responsibility. In short we have become a society where the average person tells their neighbor to put in smoke alarms while smoke billows from their own roof.

Today we discuss how to change that.

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• TspAz.com
• The Granddaddy’s Gun Club
• Take Hold of the Flame – Queensryche

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Episode-138- TSP Rewind – Self Ownership Over Political Activism [ 1:18:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally  and was originally Episode-2348- Self Ownership Over Political Activism and first published on Dec. 18th, 2018.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

Today I was chatting with Nicole Sauce on facebook and discussing what to do for today’s show. One thing she suggested was perhaps, “why libertarians often come off as assholes and what they can do to better serve their marketing push“. It didn’t slip by me that Nicole said libertarians vs. Libertarians.

In libertarian circles capital L means the LP, as in the official Libertarian Party. Like most liberty minded individuals I had my time considering the LP a viable option. I even ran for Congress in Texas as an LP party member. That one stint at running taught me how dirty, bought and paid for and tightly controlled all government really is. All of that for a job that pays 600 dollars a month and for a hotel while you are in Austin?

So over time I became more a political atheist, first going from Libertarian to libertarian, then on to voluntarist/anarchist. That said I am still a libertarian. I think it was Ian Freeman of Free Talk Live, who I first heard say, “All anarchists are libertarians but not all libertarians are anarchists”.

You see libertarianism is grounded really on only two principles.

1. The NAP or non aggression principle. The simple version of this is simply don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff.

2. The Principle of self ownership. Simply meaning that you own yourself and no one else should have any claim upon you, your labor, your dreams, your choices, etc.

These two principles are actually one in the same. So why the redundancy. Well because one tells you how to treat others, the second tells you how to treat yourself. While the NAP prevents you from harming others, the principle of self ownership removes any and all excuses from your life. If you believe you own yourself, you are your own responsibility even when others violate the NAP in your life, and they will, daily.

The problem with Libertarian Politics is it sounds like beautiful music, right up until you try to play it for someone else. You quickly find that while the word freedom is elevated to worship status in the religion of US Statism, no one really seems to want it. Today we examine what all this means and what it means for you.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

• The NAP and Self Ownership and how they work for individuals
• Libertarian vs. libertarian vs. voluntarist/anarchist
• My story of running for office and why I ended any fantasies I had about government
• How you can see the trap of politics in the illegal immigration debate
• Why Self Ownership is more important to grasp then the NAP
  • The NAP will be violated on you daily, so just accept that
  • Self Ownership is something you control in spite of others actions
  • Self Ownership is about personal responsibility, not what someone else should do
  • Self Ownership drives home that freedom applies to everyone or it isn’t freedom
  • Self Ownership employs the Geoff Lawton Principle of – “if the designer is good, the more restrictions the more eloquent the design”
• Ways you can practice self ownership
  • Solve any and all problems you can solve outside the State’s systems
  • Build a business and use the 90% of the tax code that tells you how to get out of the 10%
  • Develop micro economies (practice agorism)
  • Use crypto curencies, gold, silver, barter, etc
  • Draft your own contracts, appoint your own arbitrators
  • MYOB – mind your own business
  • Influence others to take positive actions
  • Don’t delude yourself, in many ways we individually are not that important
  • Take care of yourself, reboot, etc.
  • Define your version of success and achieve it
• Final thoughts

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• Join Our Forum
• TspAz.com – Support TSP When You Shop Online
• Tax is Theft Video I Played
• Time – Pink Floyd

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-135- TSP Rewind – Can Insurrection and Unity Coexist [ 1:34:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1996- Can Insurrection and Unity Coexist and was originally published on May 2nd, 2017.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

When I started this show I was a minarchist libertarian, over the years I made the logical migration to full on voluntarist. Many people of anarchist ideology see no value to things like national borders or any “love of country”. I am not such a person, though I am labeled as such at times.

The truth is in all things I am first a pragmatist. It is great to know how things should be so that we can strive for that, but it is also important to know how things are, so we can adapt to and over come them in the now.

To me anarchy is something for humanity to one day rise up to, rather than descend into as the fear mongers would say. In the end though we have what we have today, and honestly in the US despite our flaws we do have many opportunities and recognized rights that many other nations do not.

Part of me loves my country, more accurately the ideals of my country, the ideal for instance that all men are created equal in regard to rights. That each of us should have the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I think that is a good common ideal to share among all free men and women, a source of unity.

Yet in every place our nation falls short of these ideals, I feel the spirit of insurrection should be alive and well. We all know that governments do not grant rights, they either protect or trample upon them. And once government takes a right away by increasing their power, they never give it back willingly. It is only thought rebellion and insurrection, that power is taken from the state.

Words like revolution, rebellion and insurrection conjure up images of violent resistance. Yet the state is violence, the state is force and the state is very good at these things, hence we do not strike the opponent where he is strong, rather where he is weak.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

• Insurrection is America, without it there is no America
• Understanding nations/countries vs. states
• Insurrectionist victories in America (note one can have victory without “total victory”
  • Civil rights
  • Gay rights
  • Gold Ownership
  • Home Brewing
  • Prohibition
  • Raw Milk
  • Cannabis
• It is better to rebel before you have to
• Ways to rebel
  • Grow your own food
  • Barter and side hustles
  • Partaking in the “gray market”
  • Proactive apathy
  • Self directed learning
  • Make high return untaxable “investments”
  • Learn about and use crypto currencies
  • Spread voluntarist ideologies
• A nation built on insurrection requires future insurrection to survive

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• Join Our Forum
• TspAz.com – Support TSP when you shop online.

• Real World – Matchbox 20

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Episode-134- TSP Rewind – How Preparedness Leads to Liberty [ 1:21:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1991- How Preparedness Leads to Liberty and was originally published on April 25th, 2017.

The following are the original show notes from that episode..

If you go find my TSP forum profile you will see a bit of text that says,

Liberty is precious, fight to keep it!

I guess it is about 8 years since I put those words on my profile and my view of the value of liberty has only increased since that time. Since day one I have said the real mission of The Survival Podcast is to educate people to the concepts of Self Sufficiency, Self Reliance, Independence and Liberty. To me those four ideas can’t be separated.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

• First let’s define the four pillars of TSP
  • Self Sufficiency – The percentage of your needs met by your own systems
  • Self Reliance – The duration in time you can live well without systems of support
  • Independence – The ability to control your own life on your own terms
  • Liberty – The freedom to fully exercise your independence
• Why people choose bondage over liberty
  • Programming and conditioning (domestication)
  • Fear
  • Misdirected morality
• How Preparedness Leads to Liberty
  • It removes fear
  • It directly addresses programming and domestication
  • It requires independent thought
  • It is counter to the norm, and requires action
  • It sooner or later pays off, so you know it works
• The things we should be taught are our personal responsibility as children
  • Food
  • Water
  • Shelter
  • Energy
  • Security
  • Finance
  • Health
  • Education
• Why the system will never take this approach

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• The Year 1991
• Join Our Forum
• TspAz.com – Support TSP when you shop online.
• Civil War – Guns and Roses

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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