During all the chaos and violence associated with the Defund the Police and BLM Riots, statements were made on how the rich could tolerate living around this danger because they lived in gated communities and had private security protecting them at home and elsewhere.\u00a0 And that got me thinking, maybe that\u2019s what we need too.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean that we can all afford to live in the enclaves of the rich and famous.\u00a0 Obviously, we can\u2019t.\u00a0 But maybe what we\u2019ll be looking at as a way to survive is a form of gated community.\u00a0 In the same way that people buy condos and have to adhere to the rules of the community maybe we\u2019ll need to organize into closed communities that will protect us from a long list of societal ills that the Left is unleashing on us.\u00a0 Undeniably this type of setup will have to be located in a red state.\u00a0 Otherwise, the federal and state governments will attempt to crush it based on some kind of anti-discriminatory nonsense.<\/p>\n
You might ask why would someone living in a free state like say Florida need to go to all the trouble of getting involved in a restrictive collective relationship?\u00a0 This is a fair question.\u00a0 Being a contrarian myself I can see how having to toe the line on a laundry list of personal choices would be annoying.\u00a0 But the reason would be to ensure the safety of you and your family and to preserve other freedoms that otherwise will be infringed on living in Post America.\u00a0 So, the trick is to figure out what requirements are absolutely necessary to allow this sort of collective to function correctly and protect the members from harm but otherwise maintain the maximum freedom for the individual.<\/p>\n
So now you can see I\u2019m founding a state!\u00a0 Here I am Plato planning out my Republic.\u00a0 But really what I\u2019m trying to do is found a town.\u00a0 What is needed is a planned community in the sense that it will include schools, recreational and social organizations, homes, a hospital, police department, fire department, cable television company and a social networking company.\u00a0 In fact, it probably should have its own general store, barber shop, beauty parlor, pharmacy, hardware store, restaurants, theater, lawyers and a host of other things I haven\u2019t thought of yet.\u00a0 In other words what you want is a self-sufficient community.<\/p>\n
You can immediately protest, but all those things will be uneconomical.\u00a0 Walmart and Amazon make hardware stores and general stores obsolete.\u00a0 And how can a one-horse cable company and social media site compete with Comcast and Facebook?\u00a0 Well in all four of these examples they can\u2019t.\u00a0 But they can provide services that their alternatives cannot.\u00a0 The hardware store can be associated with the local tradesmen; plumbers, carpenters, electricians who can perform the jobs that require more experience and manpower than the average do-it-yourselfer can muster.\u00a0 The general store can stock the crafts and other products that the community produces.\u00a0 The cable provider can eliminate the channels that nobody wants and provide local access for community projects.\u00a0 And the social network can be used for actual social networking around the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
It might even be desirable for the community to have its own energy infrastructure.\u00a0 Purchasing a gas station and heating oil company along with a power company to provide electricity for the community might make sense.\u00a0 So that\u2019s about what I see as the extent of the community.\u00a0 In the next installment I\u2019ll try to think of convincing reasons why it makes sense.\u00a0 But if we devolve into the kind of place you see in California I could see localities doing everything they can to try and maintain their quality of life by cutting themselves off from the danger and dysfunction all around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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