What you are saying today is just what I needed to here….I heard Hannany’s program stating he’s blowing the whistle on Washington and keeping them accountable etc… Nobody can hold them to anything. They manipulate the Metals market and every other market and do whatever they want to pretty much anywhere they have influence and most people have no idea. Thank you for your wisdom. We can do what needs done in our on lives and make adjustments and still resolve to be happy. Keep up the good work.

Hi jack
Great show as usual. I agree with you that our votes rarely mean anything but, I believe the real work is done by planting a seed in our fellow Americans brains. I don’t preach freedom but just throw a little into conversations here and there. I’ve had a little success in doing this. You have a much further reach than I do and I think if you tell people it doesn’t matter then they won’t pay attention at all and that has got us into this mess in the first place. If you put a bar graph of levels of freedom over time next to one of the people paying attention to politics, I bet they would look similar. The mainstream used to make fun of ron paul and now the republican party is quoting him. Glenn Beck just came out that he is leaving the republican party. If he said he was not going to vote, how many of his listeners would follow suit? What if he said he was going to vote libertarian? We need to pull together and fight. It’s taken hundreds of years to take this much liberty away. It’s not going to change back in an election but the ship is slowly turning. Where will this country be for our grandkids if we just opt out?

I am enjoying the series. It is nice to have someone talking about our unalienable Rights what they mean and look like in practice.

You talked all around and implyed 2 vary important things.

1. The control of others is a violation of their Liberty. Control of others is at the root of our eroding Liberty. Control of others is enslavement and as long as we continue to force our ideas of how the world should work on others we violate their liberty. Every side is calling for the other side to be enslaved no wonder we are losing liberty.

2. As long as we do not let others excersie their right to be wrong we enslave or selves and our time to the violation of their liberty.

We find control of others and can hear it the statements “There should be a law”, “Somebody should so somthing about X”, “So that it does not happen again”.

I’m not sure that an anarchist could have said anything to you Jack that would necessarily have made a huge difference; it’s an individual journey as well as the argument and observation of the world. The way I see it anarchy has the drawback of being a negative term, not only because of the “chaos” meaning but because it implies no rulers, instead of a way of living and associating with others peacefully and voluntarily which is a positive concept of action. Indeed anarchy/voluntaryism is all around us every day when people decide to cooperate and trade instead of stealing, scamming, or cheating others.

You also said you were worried about bringing everybody. I believe freedom is absolutely not for everyone. In North Korea people worship Kim Jong Un as a living god, but in South Korea people have hi def tvs, good food, and a productive economy. Many of the people in NK are simply not ready for anything more. How much of that difference is due to fear, i.e. people accepting restrictions on their own freedom in order to get restrictions on others? As a wise man once said, in order to truly be free you have to allow others to be free. And not everybody can do that.

I love this episode. Thank you.

Shoot, the first edit of the podcast had my name in it, but you seem to have corrected your edit to remove my name. Darn that would have been almost as good as winning the membership. So if it comes up again, feel free to use my full name.

Thanks again for the show and all you do.

I’ve had a few business dealings with billionaires, and people that were extremely wealthy, some famous, most not. I can’t really say I gave it much thought before listening to this show, but I have to say that my experiences line up well with what Jack said in the show.
(If you’ve never had this experience, it’s kind of hard to describe) but there are certain people that just by simply being close to them, you feel like you need to be armed and on high alert. And then, when you’re not around them anymore, you have an almost uncontrollable instinct to want to take a shower. That has been the case with me and each ultra wealthy person I’ve come in contact with.
Now, if you meet a guy who’s a self made man or woman and has $50-100 million, you almost certainly will come away impressed, and often times inspired.
Strange how that pattern could even be possible, it kind of defies logic in a way.

On the bit on focusing on yourself. Even Anthony Robbins (the Motivational speaker) says: If you can’t help yourself, how can you help anyone?

I was in my anger phase when I said all those mean things to the cops on your forum several years back. I was in my depression stage when I came back after a year of not posting to say more mean things, and got myself banned. I haven’t changed my mind about police, but I don’t bother calling them out for their thuggery anymore, for all the reasons you have mentioned here about Acceptance.