"Libertatia, A Fictional Anarchist Colony or a Reality Emerging?"

Today, anonymity in transactions is available {https://bytecoin.org}, currency can be sent by text {https://www.37coins.com/}, and peer-to-peer, decentralized trade is available {http://www.mastercoin.org/}, {http://openbazaar.org}. Tools have been available to mirror and redistribute content {https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs}, but the net remains under constant attack. For this and many other reasons, the net itself is being re-envisioned and re-decentralized to avoid censorship and corporation-state controls {https://maidsafe.org/}, {http://redecentralize.org/}.

By 2015, code will dissolve institutional power {https://darkwallet.is/}, {http://zerocash-project.org/} and add compassion {http://abis.io} in the form of decentralized social goods.

The answer to the system, is to 'unsystem.' {https://forum.unsystem.net/}

Timothy May, when writing in 1988 on 'Libertaria in Cyberspace,' was right.
{http://nakamotoinstitute.org/libertaria-in-cyberspace/}
He noted: "The key is that distributed systems have no nexus which can be knocked out." Over a quarter of a century later after he wrote the piece, it's clear that decentralization has done more - and will continue to do more - than was then imagined. And what it won't involve are the creature comforts that people are used to - imposing their views on the rest of society and the world and assuming that coercion and violence will carry their system along. We won't apologize for developing (participating in the ideas for, co-authoring, commenting upon, or using) code that removes (or minimizes as much as possible) the statist and centralized systems that have held everyone back for so long. It is time for such dinosaur systems to begone (or perhaps to live on in a progressive state of decreasing relevance as they are replaced by systems which do not involve voting or representation, but rather, involve distributed and decentralized participation of any number of forms, benefits one can claim or reject, and spending one can participate in voluntarily corresponding to one's chosen community or communities). Perhaps our children or their children will reflect on the history of the diminishing role of centralized "government" much as people in the mid-to-late 1700s increasingly looked upon monarchies: As things to be done away with.

May wrote on something called "Libertaria." It's said there was a place called Libertatia, a fictional anarchist colony in the 1700s where slaves were made free. Perhaps what is happening is that we are making, all of us together, our own Libertatias. Or perhaps we are just getting a better understanding of what it means to be free. What is this "freedom?" Part of it must mean that we should care for each other in ways that make sense to us, that are not forced upon us by any law or centralized system, and this will also mean that we must take great care to listen to each other, carefully and deeply, as we move forward. For without the ability to care for each other and our world, we are lost. Indeed, without caring and empathy as a basis for what we do next, we will be as lost as the warring factions that have so long asserted that there can be no other way (evenn as we find a path to build another world, nonetheless.)

~ @AnonyOdinn, May 30, 2014
"Somewhere between Earth and Sky"

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