There’s a movie from the early 1950’s called “The Day the Earth Stood Still” that is based on a short story called “Farewell to the Master”. The premise is an Anarchist from space, Klaatu, comes to Earth to raise awareness of much greater potential for humanity. The military/government is of course threatened and shoots the poor well meaning guy several times on several occasions.
The space Anarchist is accompanied by a powerful indestructible robot Gort who can dematerialize weapons among other things. Klaatu finds a group of more level headed people, a group of scientists who agree to listen. His message: "Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We will be waiting for your answer".
It’s my belief that the community of Anarchist and Voluntaryists that is emerging today are very much in the same situation as Klaatu. We know there’s a better way, but the system and the machine they’ve built to maintain “control” is simply not compatible with it.
We don’t have a Gort to dematerialize weapons but what Gort represents, we do have. It’s called the Neocortex, and everyone has access to it… whether they know it or not.
This is the challenge as well as the reality we face.
I suggest we come up with a simple message much like Klaatu’s. We don’t need to threaten anyone with obliteration, an ultimatum or any violence at all, we simply show those who are willing to listen that we intend to develop human potential far beyond what is even conceivable today and they can either join in on that wonderful and exciting adventure or doom themselves to living in the Dark Ages as essentially animals, predator or prey.
I’m taking an educated guess that the probability is high that the smart people will join us… and at that point we proceed onto the adventure. With the smart folks on board, the threat the rest represents will diminish rapidly over time.
That’s my plan. Join me?
Party at my place!
