Society benefits from tolerant tribalism because it prevents the emergence of “One Big System” of an authoritarian bent and prevents divisions and strife along tribal lines. Tolerant tribalism is where you identify with a tribe but you do not have intolerance toward other tribes in your community or society. Tolerant tribalism is unity in diversity, intolerant tribalism is hatred and authoritarianism.
The tendency to always view an ethnic group, race, religious group, Party or a other group as always good or bad, with no exceptions, is a form of intolerant tribalism. Intolerant tribalism is when your identity with your perceived tribe is the only thing that you consider it right or OK to be part of. It’s beyond simple tribalism, where you adopt a tribal identity of some kind but don’t have intolerance toward other tribes.
Feeling your tribe is the best isn’t intolerance. Feeling your tribe is best and others are just a pure evil that needs to be expunged from society is intolerance.
Those who argue against all forms of tribalism, even tolerant tribalism, are coming from the perspective of atomized individualism wherein we are all separate but non-differentiated and are only subject to One Big System (OBS) which everyone is subjected to. Tribalism forms voluntary identities and purposes shared by numbers of people and is a necessary intermediary between OBS and the individual. Without some form of tolerant tribalism we become mere nameless cogs in the machine!
For example, Christians believe Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to salvation, but they recognize the humanity and dignity of people of all faiths and don’t assume everyone in any faith community is all this or that. There are those who become intolerant tribal toward others, and in the name of Christ, but this is a contradiction of the Gospel and of core Christian ethics.
When your tribe and the leaders and/or institutions that represent your tribe, like a politician or a news source, cannot ever be wrong while the others are always wrong, you lose the power of critical thinking. You cannot see things objectively and are likely to miss good ideas and opportunities that are presented by other tribes you have foolishly dismissed.
Often, people infected with this malady of intolerant tribalism do not know or refuse to use basic rules and principles of critical thinking. They generally don’t really have a “true north” set of ideals, principles, or values that govern their thinking. Not using or knowing these things makes intolerant tribalissts easily controlled by the tribal leaders they associate with, to the point where it becomes hero worship and idolatry. Knowing your true north and using critical thinking and logic in light of your core beliefs, values, and convictions prevents you from falling for intolerant tribalism. It prevents you from missing good ideas from other tribes. It keeps you safe from hero worship.
The intentional tribal identity of our new platform, Upadaria, as “Upadarians”, is a purely voluntary identity based on explicitly shared ideals, principles, and practices. It is a tolerant tribalism that welcomes others, even within that same platform, on the basis of shared human dignity and a love for freeedom for all.
A society riven by intolerant tribalism is a society headed for some form of crisis where one tribe wins power and lords it over others in some authoritarian fashion or where the tribes fly apart, resulting in upheavals and even potentially civil war or secession, or some form of insurrection. Eventually, violence follows intolerant tribalism.
As for tolerant tribalism, it does not cause division, it can engender organic unity across diverse groups. Tolerant tribalism prevents the individual from beyond absorbed by an OBS while also preventing them from becoming separated from or hostile to the larger society.
Intolerant tribalism is bad for any society and if we adopt it, becoming blind to any flaws in our tribe and to any good ideas from other tribes, we shorten our own horizon of opportunities and we increase the chances for upheaval and crisis in our society.
Regal Blue Media will be launching a new niche, boutique platform, called “Upadaria”, catering to a mostly, but not exclusively, Christian audience seeking personal fulfillment of God’s potential for their lives through mutual self-reliance. This user-backed “virtual-to-local” community, we believe, is the future of the digital commons and is the proper capitalist response to fears and concerns about a few firms dominating the marketplace.
It is argued that “Big tech monopolies control the public square in terms of economic exchange and the sharing of information and public opinion.” Those who find themselves at odds with this alleged “big tech oligarchy”, it is claimed, are effectively shunned from the economy and public discourse, what they call “deplatformed.” We propose a capitalist response to what is really a case of earned market dominance by the creation of user-backed niche communities which mesh together to organically create a larger decentralized digtial ecosystem.
It is argued that if the entities that, allegedly, control economic exchange and public discourse are using their ability to control access to these things to hinder free speech in ways government, which used to control these things, cannot legally do, the net effect is not a free society. Increasingly we may be forgiven for the false impression that the accepted orthodoxy of a few people at the top of these platforms controls the discourse and shuns dissent on ideological grounds.
But it’s not necessarily what you think, it’s not so much ideological as it is good old-fashioned greed. The ideology of big tech is monopolism, which doesn’t mean they have achieved monopoly status. It is not necessarily a good response to cancel the corporations so much as to invent our way around them. Demonizing big tech and ascribing motives to them that may be fantastical and inaccurate won’t liberate the digital commons and may introduce government controls that are worse than the monopoly power big tech wields.
What some call “the big tech oligarchy” who, it is argued, seem to be determined to use their marketing position as arbiters of the digital commons (in their own best interests). This is a situation, it is feared, where economic life and public discourse are controlled in a manner that is favorable to this “oligarchy” maintaining their monopoly while disrespecting the basic dignity of the human beings they were meant to serve.
The goal isn’t ideological, it is to take and keep more market share and to shield themselves from possible competitors while keeping government at bay. This isn’t monopoly per se, people will argue whether there is a monopoly, but it is monopolism, that is, a desire to gain as close to monopoly advantages as they legally can.
There are those who debate a need for reforms meant to nuetralize this dominant market power over the digital commons. There is a desire to push back against this “oligarchy” and its perceived control over the economic life of most people and their seeming ability to literally decide the content of our public discourse.
While the narrative is that the big tech oligarchy are driven by ideology, the truth may be more complicated. There are conservatives who have used and continue to use big tech to promote themselves and there have been people on the left, especially the anti-war left, who have endured deplatforming.
Some are focused on the narrative assumption that this “big tech oligarchy” are anti-conservative zealots trying to help Democrats win. One suspects that if Republicans were more favorable to the monopolism of big tech, they would have better access to the platforms. Many, especially those who adhere to the ideological bias assumption, are focusing on using the power of the state to prohibit these platforms from moderation of their content according to the standards they deem best suited to their needs.
The danger to this approach is that such powers to dictate how private firms choose to moderate their content or who and what they desire to associate with can cut all ways, not just the way we might want it to cut.
It is problematic for many that a “big tech oligarchy” has the power to control so much economic activity and sharing of content, news, and opinion that those who do not have access to their systems are generally at a decided disadvantage in our society. The existence of such a massive marketplace dominance, many argue, is akin to a concentration of power in government, against which America’s founders crafted a Constitution that involves checks and balances and a federalist system that keeps power from concentrating at the center and the top.
Those who may argue that the monopoly powers being used by big tech are not ideologically motivated have a point. But the reality of power, others retort, is that if, say, the top 10 platforms decide to deplatform someone who has not violated the law for speech or opinions that even most people would disagree with, than that person’s right to free speech is effectively meaningless. Or so the narrative runs.
This, however, is not the goal of big tech or the greatest problem. Their goal is to have as much of the market share of advertising dollars and audience size as possible and to prevent the emergence of competition while creating a political situation in which those most favorable to them are in office. This concentration of marketplace dominance is antithetical to a free market, but having the government step in to punish “the big tech oligarchy” may itself be a worse cure than the disease.
Freedomists are not likely to be fans of big tech and its monopolistic ambition, even if monopoly itself is yet to be achieved. The issue here is centralized marketplace dominance, which goes against our instinct toward decentralization as much as possible. Our opposition is principled, not ideological. But our instinct for a capitalist response tends to go against a knee-jerk authoritarianism over the platforms, telling them how and when to moderate content, is
What is the response?
In general, the best response, we propose, is to undermine the monopoly through creating a new digital commons that is NOT simply a re-creation of alternative massive platforms but that is an interconnected mesh network of diverse autonomous and user-backed niche digital communities. Efforts to create the next mass platform will necessarily come against a system that is more sensitive to the needs of the advertisers than to the users and the irreducible complexity of creating an alternative structure that can attract a comparable audience size and advertisers.
The new approach may look more like a thousand cuts against the monopoly holders. It may be thousands of user-backed niche communities that find ways to connect to each other in a decentralized mesh.
Where government can be useful is if those who pursue monopolism go off their platforms to collude in order to prevent the market from operating freely. If banks close accounts to businesses simply because they are creating alternative digital commons structures, in collusion with big tech monopolists, this may be actionable from an anti-trust perspective.
Those banks who have ended relationships with personalities and groups whose rehtoric harms their brand through that association aren’t facing public blowback, again, because most people don’t LIKE the deplatformed personalities or groups. But if this became a general trend targeting personalities and groups who have not been overtly offensive, the legal and public relations problems would become insurmountable.
The “free speech platform” approach is problematic for a few reasons. First, it is irreducibly complex in terms of attracting a comparable audience that would be of interest to advertisers and, second, because it would cost billions to build and market. At this stage, it must still rely on an ecosystem that is more sensitive to the needs of the marketplace giants than to small would-be competitors. Finally, and overlooked, is the fact most people don’t want to be on a platform that gives space to actual Nazis or totalitarians or any of the other socially unacceptable extremes. Moreover, they don’t want vulgarity and smut, except in the adult websites they subscribe to.
The inability of these “free speech platforms” to compete even on a technical basis, they often crash, or to gain access to the digtial ecosystem to reach a mass audience is abysmal to date. By allowing some speech that is definitely beyond the pale of social acceptance, these platforms have given an easy justification to ecosystem giants, which dominate economic exchange providers (e.g. credit card companies and payment processors), domain name registrars, and hosting providers, to deplatform them. The pushback from the public against these behemoths is muted because very few people want to defend actual racists or neonazis.
The clawback of a distributed and decentralized control over the digtial ecosystem and the digital commons will take time and resources from diverse communities of people. If, however, users continue to refuse to want to pay for access and demand freebies, they are showing that the only way to thrive as a platform is through the exact approach being taken now: cater to corporate backers, treat users and their data as a commodity, and obtain market dominance.
No corporation, sensitive to the pressure of activist communities and thought leaders and to their brand, will back mass appeal alt platforms that allow things most of the public tends to feel negatively about. On the other hand, if such a community had a core of 30 million paid users who tended not to populate the platforms, advertisers would bend over backwards to reach them, regardless of branding issues.
The alternative niche communities, backed by paid subscriptions, will have the means to form their own niche ecosystems and then connect to other autonomous niche ecosystems. This doesn’t spell the end of the free user, ultimately even paid communities will tend to collect free users, even if only through a free email list.
Instead of simply deplatforming one erstwhile competitor, with easy justification based on content deemed hateful by most people, the marketplace giants would be forced to deplatform hundreds and thousands of niche communities whose ONLY “crime” is providing an alternative digtial venue. This would run afoul of antitrust laws in an obvious way, therefore it is unlikely.
Because of the backing of paid users, which could garner advertising support in the future, the ability of these niche communities to invent around the present digital ecosystem or to wage legal challenges on an anti-trust basis would grow and grow as time goes on.
The demand of some to a right to actually USE the existing platforms to attack and undermine the existing platforms is unlikely to gain public support and if it gains official support it can be used against even those invoking it.
These platforms, as “monopoly” as they aspire to be, grew through an ability to meet market demands, both free users as a commodity and the 1% of firms that spend 80% of the marketing dollars that fund these platforms. Like it or not, the functionality of these platforms when compared to their would-be competitors is far superior. In short, the “big tech oligarchy” earned its special status through excellence. Undermining its position of marketplace dominance, through free and fair competition, may require a marketplace response that isn’t merely a re-creation of mass market alternatives.
Regal Blue Media is funding, with the backing of partners, the first prototype for these niche ecosystems, one that both caters to more socially conservative Christians or people of a Judeo-Christian worldview, without allowing any kind of hate speech, bigotry, or intolerance directed at any other group of people. This will be a user-backed platform through paid subscriptions, with a free email list as the open end of its funnel, that will succeed or fail, in part, on the basis of the willingness of those who decry the “tech oligarchy” to choose to become a paying customer rather than the commodity sold to the actual customers.
The concept of a niche ecosystem is that participation is based on prior agreement to transparent common standards and to common ideals and purposes while funding is from users, as opposed to users being the commodity sold to advertisers. Our gamble, and it remains to be seen whether it is justifed, is that users will want pay for access to features and content to avoid being the commodity. The idea is that when access is free, the provider is more sensitive to those who want to “purchase” the user data and sell to them, as opposed to the users.
Quite simply, a “free to use” platform cannot actually be freedom-oriented or user-centric, it has to cater to the wants and needs of the major firms that provide over 80% of its funding.
The proliferation of these niche ecosystems, paid for by users, and their connections to one another over time, so that one might broadcast a message to many of them at the same time, will answer the complaint that we have an unhealthy monpolistic digital commons and ecosystem that is increasingly insensible to legitimate market demand.
Efforts to rein in “the big tech oligarchy” which tend toward duplication of massive alternative platforms and government regulation are essentially going in the opposite direction of what is necessary and possible. Creating multiple niche ecosystems, backed by paid subscriptions, that connect to one another is not irreducibly complex and it is simply not possible, under present law, to “deplatform” all these alternatives without facing legal consequences.
Our platform, called “Upadaria”, will not allow bigotry or hate speech, it envisioned as a user funded niche community that caters to social conservatives of a Judeo-Christian worldview in a positive and life-affirming manner, being more for something that against anything or anyone who may not fit such a profile.
What we are aiming for, partially through our own development of multiple niche communities, is the proliferation of diverse, user-backed communities connected to a free, pluralistic, and decentralized, alternative digital ecosystem and digital commons. No, in such a network, there won’t be space for the intolerant, hateful, and racist “communities” whom no other community of decent people wants to connect to.
Let the hateful and intolerant build their own things, the market won’t support them and no platform should be compelled to host them.
The “problem” isn’t ideological and it isn’t the “censorship” of actual intolerance. The main problem is a digital commons and digital ecosystem with a small group of major market leaders that cannot be sensitive to user needs and wants because their platforms aren’t user backed. But the solution is to build alternatives that are not irreducibly complex and that cater to niche communities while enabling interconnectedness among those user-backed communities through a decentralized ecosystem.
Our response is to build an alternative platform that is user backed, but definitely not welcoming of actual hatred or bigotry, and that caters to its users as a niche community based on predefined common standards and goals.
Willem IV- OPINION: The drawn-out drama of the results of the last Israeli election is now apparently over and a new coalition government has been announced. Sadly, it seems, the real winners of this hobgoblin coalition led by formerly right coalition hero Naftali Bennet and “centrist” Yair Lapid, are the Islamists who desire to destroy the Jewish state.
This weak and freakish coalition, united only around hatred for Bibi Netanyahu, will likely begin a rapid retreat for Israel from the world stage. Indeed a retreat from Israeli territory cannot be ruled out either. Look to see access to the Temple Mount more limited, settlements abused or abandoned, and general retreat across the board in favor of the Islamists. Hamas may have lost much in people and resources, but they now have distant and indirect ideological cousins inside Israel’s cabinet.
The bad news from Israel is that “centrist” Yair Lapid and rightist Naftali Bennet have formed a monstrosity of a coalition with right and left parties as well as an Islamist Party. The new Israeli President, Herzog, is a former Labor leader and unlikely to be a friend to the cause of a strong Israel. For those who desire a strong Israel pushing her foes back, this unwieldy coalition can be seen as a dark cloud of uncertainty and trouble.
Israel may have won the mini-war with Hamas, but with this coalition, it has lost the peace.
The root of the problem, in the estimation of some, was Netanyahu’s refusal to step aside and let another right coalition leader take the helm. Naftali Bennet has joined arms with a slick former TV newsman and “centrist”, Yair Lapid, leftist parties, and a pro-Islamist Party. These are mostly unpopular parties, drug in to get to the magic 61 MK’s at ANY price, whose anti-Zionist agenda will have far more weight than is merited by the vote. Their desire to win has led them to gain power at the expense of their own avowed principles and perhaps to detriment of Israeli security.
Israelis who supported Bennet and his Yamina Party, Yamina meaning “rightwards”, were unlikely to have desired such a Frankenstein government of leftists and Islamists. Meanwhile Yair Lapid’s “Yesh Atid”, meaning “new future” Party, may be dragging Israel into a past more reminiscent of Olmert, who unilaterally decamped from the Gaza strip out of a misbegotten notion of “land for peace”, than any kind of future Israel can be proud of.
The possibility of this coalition urging the US to move its embassy back to Jerusalem, to assuage the Islamists, and their insertion of the Palestinian question into peace talks with other Arab powers cannot be dismissed. This isn’t a prediction and is unlikely, but it is as unlikely as this coalition.
Netanyahu’s fall from power may be permanent this time, his many foes from every side having made a game of the often Byzantine tangle of Israeli politics, losing sight of everything but the desire to be the big man on top. On the other hand, Bibi has come back before and could again. But his opponents want to eliminate him permanently through the use of politically-motivated prosecution, they want him in jail and there doesn’t seem to be groundswell of popular support for him.
Of the two coalition leaders, the greatest betrayer of his own principles is Naftali Bennet, whereas Yair Lapid, who began his career as a news “reporter” and whose political party, Yesh Atid, pretends to be centrist, is a typical anti-Zionist party committed to a “two-state solution” and avowedly against the role of religion in Israeli society.
Most Jews in America will applaud this change, but it remains to be seen if, after recent events, Israeli society will have the stomach for such a coalition, even if Netanyahu isn’t popular.
One may count the life of this hash of a government, and its popular support by Israelis, in terms of weeks or months. It won’t last. The people didn’t give a mandate to such a government.
Willem IV- Beginning today, I shall “microblog” here as the President and CEO of Regal Blue Media and the Publisher of the Freedomist to share simpler, shorter thoughts and witcisisms that might entertain and edify. I also introduce my new pen name, Willem IV, as in the fourth of a line of Williams, but resorting to the original and simpler version of William.
Willem IV- Two recent cyber attacks on critical supply chain infrastructure in the US have exposed our dependency vulnerability that must be addressed unilaterally through a path of independency. A new book, website, and eventually cryptonation platform will provide a guide and pathway to build freedom through independency in your life and community.
In early May, the Colonial Pipeline, carrying around 40% of fuel for the US east coast was cyber attacked with ransomwear by an alleged Russian hacking group named “Dark Side.” And on June 1, less than a month later, cyber attacks against a Brazilian-owned meat processing firm with operations in multiple states, and which produces 25% of US meat products, was also cyber attacked.
Both incidents revealed three things: the centralization of market production by a very few firms, cyber attack vulnerabilities in their operations, and the rapidity with which supplies to consumers can be severely limited or cut off. If one feels that all the rudiments of civilization are extremely fragile and could be swept away rapidly and without notice, these cyber attacks are proof of this.
The efficiency of centralized economics, whether by dint of government control or the narrowing of the competitive field to a few large providers, begins to lose its value as one considers the cost outside of the immediate price of consumer items. A cheaper product may be obtainable through mass production and centralized control, but the non-monetary costs may be exceedingly high, especially if one cost is that it doesn’t take much to decimate the supply chain.
Americans may be shocked to learn that more and more of their crucial infrastructure and resources are foreign owned and thus unresponsive to things like patriotism or the sociocultural values of the population. They may also be shocked to learn how such foreign ownership results in bureaucratic responses connected all the way to a foreign city, which makes these crucial parts of the supply chain even more vulnerable.
This is even more true in many counties outside the US, many of which rely on US, Chinese, or European supply-chain owners whose decisions do not reflect, or respect, their values and interests.
What all this means for you, if you remain in a state of dependency to a centralized economic system, is that you have no real economic certainty or security. Your access to needed supplies is vulnerable, often you are depending on foreign decision-makers whose hearts are not aligned with your values or any love for your country.
What kind of response is needed? We need a comprehensive and whole-person, whole-needs response that relies on locally autonomous bodies of people with maximum organic cohesiveness engaged in mutually profitable free exchange and voluntary cooperation.
We need to intentionally and unilaterally connect with people whose values and affections closely resemble our own convictions to create alternatives to the centralized supply-chain. Anything less than this keeps you in a state of dependency to the whims and failures of people whose decisions are not aligned with your values or interests.
A new book, website, and eventually a cryptonation platform, will outline the concepts and methods of a new civilization. This includes complete decentralization of economic, social, cultural, and political life through unilateral local connections within a global support network that will address this and other issues. Using the backdrop and creative device of a future history written in 2147 AD, The Blue Book of Upadaria is a tour de force in all the frameworks and blueprints of that new civilization founded on things like virtue, liberty, and independence.
The Book is also part of an overall plan involving a website with e-learning features and news/content based on these ideas, the eventual creation of a cryptonation platform beginning as its own social media/social networking platform, and an international NGO focused on mutual self-reliance, missions, and providing refuge. This will also include the development of Branch Societies, such as The Upadarian Society of America, the Upadarian Society of West Africa, the Upadarian Society of The European Union, the Upadarian Society of India, and the like.
These genesis structures, supported by paid subscribers and members, will facilitate efforts by individuals and autonomous local groups to pursue unilateral independency through mutual self-reliance and through adopting something like this form of nationhood that provides a strong but non-invasive organic cohesiveness.
The practical actions needed to translate the concept of local economic autonomy for life’s necessities, thus protecting against the disruptions possible in a centralized supply-chain, are explained in detail. Whether one adopts the exact model, based on organic cohesiveness through a shared intentional nationality, the basic concepts and principles can be broadly applied.
At the heart of this approach is a combination of freedom-building efforts. First, this involves finding and using gaps for freedom that promote individual and local self-reliance through unilateral actions. Second, this involves creating safe-havens or freedom sanctuaries through cooperation on a freewill basis. Third, this involves engaging in local civic activism through consensus and voting en bloc that results in local governments backing the rights, physical safety, and economic self-reliance of their citizens.
The “revolution” to take back your land, anywhere in the world, from those whose decisions positively violate your values and interests, while undermining our human dignity and basic human rights, will be waged through individuals and autonomous local groups that connect virtually on a global scale for mutual support.
As people exercise unilateral mutual self-reliance, self-preservation, and self-determination, their lives, their associations and communities of trust, and their local governments begin to reflect a high standard of freedom through very tangible independency. Breaking the chains of dependency takes work and is the only way to be safe from sudden and arbitrary disruptions to the supply of your basic necessities.
The renewal of the land and its liberation from those who respect neither your values nor your interests begins one person, one family, one small group of people, and one locale at a time. The agency of this change, the intentional adoption of a new form of nationhood that provides organic cohesiveness, is one of the core breakthrough ideas of The Blue Book of Upadaria.
The inspiration provided and the blueprint laid out by The Blue Book of Upadaria are such that one doesn’t need to adopt the proposed form of nationhood to glean wisdom and useful ideas from its pages. Whether you go full in on the proposed global emergence of this form of nationhood, which is a spiritual nation whose God is the Lord, or just use its overall ideas, you will find a concrete path to go from dependency to independency.
The Freedomist disavows and rejects, and we condemn, a statement by former General Michael Flynn in which he agreed that a military coup was necessary, allegedly over election fraud.
Calling for a military coup in this country at this time, or any time, is reprehensible and beyond the pale. We have voiced a suspicion that authoritarians on the left might use the January 6 storming of the US Capitol during election results counting to criminalize their opponents. We are equally suspicious of authoritarians on the right who would use the pretext of election fraud allegations to excuse such a totalitarian response.
General Flynn is being irresponsible, perhaps seditious, in fact calling for a military coup IS sedition, just as all the attacks by leftist authoritarians during the previous administration using the Russia collusion narrative.
Authoritarianism is always wrong and cannot be tolerated.
We call on General Flynn to renounce his statements supporting a military coup and we urge the authorities to investigate whether any laws were broken. Supporting President Trump does not justify such seditious langauge, period, and President Trump should denounce such talk immediately.
Supporting President Trump does not justify this kind of seditious language.
“I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here?” an attendee asked Flynn during a Q&A session at a conference called the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” in Dallas, Texas, on Sunday.
“No reason. I mean, it should happen here,” Flynn responded, to cheers from the crowd.
By Willem IV- Actual capitalism, not its gross mischaracterization or misappropriation, is glorious and would lead to universal opulence if actually achieved.
We don’t rail against the gross imbalance of the distribution of wealth as an indictment against the rich, unless we can identify and prove actual unethical and/or illegal activities.
Our focus is on the inherent threat such imbalance poses to the stability of society and on lifting up the disadvantaged so that prosperity is the universal norm almost everyone obtains.
Our focus is also on the individual’s right to access the market in order to obtain wealth and success through serving and being served by others in a voluntary free exchange.
Finally, our focus is on identifying and constraining injustices and both structural and systemic biases or hindrances to wealth creation by and for the least among us.
We firmly believe actual capitalism is bounded by the ancient and sacred moral standards of the Kingdom of God and the righteous and just standards of Yeshua. But this has always been the case: capitalism, even before it was named, was always based on the ethical orthodoxy of historic Christianity and a Judeo-Christian worldview. The aim has always been to lift up the low places and to help the disadvantaged and left behind.
The misappropriation of capitalism by modern versions of feudal lords who render workers and customers serfs is baneful to economic justice. And economic justice is one of the pillars of capitalism as understood by such foundational thinkers as Adam Smith. The use of a false form of “capitalism” to perpetuate the fears and utopianism of state controlled economics is a dishonest, bad faith opposition. The “capitalism” they oppose, cronyist oligarchy, is also, ironically, opposed by the principles and standards of capitalism.
The aim of capitalism predates even the use of the word capitalism. Our aim is universal opulence, bounded by voluntary moral and ethical standards that affirm life and human dignity, starting with lifting up the most disadvantaged among us. Anything short of that we oppose.
Wealth isn’t finite. We don’t need to take from the upper 5% to make things equitable for the lower 40%, as an example. What we need is to raise the bottom 40% up, through capitalism bounded by Judeo-Christian ethics, which will change the overall distribution of wealth without merely reducing the wealth of the few in order to simply redistribute the same pie without increasing wealth overall.
If the rate of wealth attainement increases among the lower ranks in terms of wealth and income at an even higher rate than those at the top, then less extremes of wealth inequality will be obtained. If opulence is universal, it won’t matter how rich any group of people are, a wealthy society which has few poor and which has the means to ensure nobody is left behind is a stable society.
Our goal must not be to simply ask bureaucrats to use the police if need be to take from the most wealthy and pass that back to the disadvantaged, with strings attached, but only after the bureaucracy gets its cut and politicians use it to buy votes. This is terribly inefficient and leads to corruption and its net effect is a decrease in total wealth and the general distribution of poverty among more and more people.
Do not heed the siren call of state control of the economy, through massive taxes and regulations, regardless of their bogeyman fears or utopian promises. Do not equate capitalism with the baneful acts, like worker exploitation or consumer fraud, that it opposes!
Seek prosperity. Seek capitalism.
Capitalism is glorious and even in its limited form, encumbered by the two evils of cronyist oligarchy and state controlled economics, it has exceeded any economic methodology known to human civilization. True and complete capitalism would produce universal opulence without a morbid imbalance of wealth, especially without a government that cotnrols over 27% of all economic activity and whose policies tend to concentrate private wealth into the hands of an oligarchy.
The collusion of cronies and politicians and their support by bureaucrats and the un-free press isn’t capitalism. Call it whatever you wish, but capitalism, when fully actualized, would lack any of these negative characteristics.
Capitalism is free, equitable, fair, and just and generates wealth for all from the bottom, up, and not from the top, down. In true capitalism, wealth EMERGES from people far from the top and trickles upwardl to reward the most innovative and to provide funding for the public good.
Everyone cannot be a millionaire, but almost everyone in every demographic and community throughout the whole land can and will enjoy opulence and those who fall on hard times or cannot care for themselves will not be left behind.
In capitalism, when we achieve it fully, there is more than enough wealth to ensure that nobody needs to go hungry, lack housing, be unsafe, endure abusive policing, suffer medical crisis that they cannot afford to pay for, lack education, face structural or systemic discrimination, or be left behind due to falling on hard times or not being able to fend for themselves.
Neither cronyist oligarchy nor state controlled economics can even come close to delivering on such a promise. The glory of capitalism is that it alone can deliver its promises and all we have to do is nurture it and get out of its way!
Bill Collier- As the President of The Capitalist League and coauthor of The Capitalist Manifesto, the definitive guide to the true meaning of capitalism, I am an advocate for human dignity and universal opulence which capitalism alone can provide for in the economic realm.
Capitalism advances human dignity and prosperity through the power of economic self-determination. Freedom of association and exchange, ownership and property rights, as well as profit earning and wealth preservation drive equitable prosperity for all. These are the only means to achieve universal opulence that leaves nobody behind!
Examples of exploitation and abuse, cronyism, and official manipulation and interference are not an indictment of capitalism. Those who practice such things do so AGAINST the principles and values of capitalism, whose truest aim is universal opulence.
The libel against this noble, equitable, and just economic ideology and the manipulation and violation of the free market as a moral necessity have confused many as to the true nature, principles, and goals of capitalism. Capitalism alone is the champion of prosperity and economic justice for every single person, especially the poor.
Capitalism is the heart of economic justice and the only path to economic prosperity that is felt universally and that repsects human dignity. All the fake forms of capitalism, basically cronyism, and the tendency to use this to libel capitalism and excuse the evils of a planned economy, are forms of economic injustice against the average person.
Economic justice is when all persons have an equitable pathway to prosperity through economic freedom and stewardship of their own means and abilities bent to serve their needs. Capitalism has abundance which allows for private and public means to ensure that nobody is left behind while few need benevolence or a social safety net to survive and yet all who need these things can access them.
In a capitalist economy, that which is essential is affordable and prosperity with abundance is shared by almost all while none of the poor are left behind.
This is how we know capitalism isn’t being used according to its principles and practices: essential goods and services are not affordable to all and prosperity is not shared by almost everyone, so that very few are what we would call poor.
When the engine of universal prosperity, which is capitalism and only capitalism, is interfered with through cronyism or centralized economic planning, then we can say economic injustice has occured. When people cannot begin an entrepreneurial effort without artificial limits, when profit is not gained and owned on the basis of one’s investment and contribution, and when the cost of goods and services is manipulated through market interference by government or any entity, then we have injustice.
Capitalism, when properly understood in its spirit and intent and according to its laws and standards, is the only true path for economic justice for all human beings. The stereotypes and misrepresentation of capitalism by both its ideological foes and those who claim its mantle while violating its ethics are delusions meant to keep you from seeing what is possible for your own economic liberation.
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Willem IV- It may be very hard to see, but a loving and all-powerful God leads us down a path we ourselves would choose if we only knew the arc of our entire history and the true nature, scope, and possibilities of our eternal destiny, which is shaped so much by what we do and endure in this short life.
The necessity of these experiences, good and bad, happiness and suffering, pleasure and pain, in terms of our eternal pathway and destiny cannot be fathomed in this life.
God does know what our eternal soul needs and must be shaped and formed by in ways we will not understand until we see Him face to face. If we fix our hearts and gaze on eternity and on our Creator, and if we have faith in His wisdom in plotting our course and experiences, we would see that “all things work together for the good of those who love God and are the called according to His purpose.”
And by “the good” we mean a good that is beyond the temporal, a good that is forever but that cannot be obtained except through the paths He lays before us.
Some may say, “if God was loving, He wouldn’t need to use suffering to shape us in any way!” But you assume that is the way things can be, you do not have faith that “He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
The truth is that suffering “must needs come”, in this life, and God has said it. God cannot lie and God is love. When we realize how truly miniscule this temporal existence is compared to eternity, when we see how light even the very worse and most horrible affiliation in this life is in comparison to the reward, we may see that we really have zero reasons to complain.
As to suffering, God has endured more than we could barely in the slightest endure or know. If God did not even spare His own Son from suffering, but loved Him and loved us, then how do we say “if God loved us He would not allow ANY suffering?”
I take it as an article of faith that if it was possible to shape us and prepare us for eternity without any suffering, that God would not allow any suffering. Therefore, since He does allow suffering, I take it as a necessity that I being a finite mortal being cannot comprehend.
It SEEMS simple that a God who is all-powerful could create a universe without any suffering. But as God is real and God is a rewarder of those who love Him, and as suffering does exist in this life, but not in eternity, then there is no question to me as to its necessity even if I do not understand WHY it is necessary.
The question I had to resolve as I grappled with this classic question on why suffering was even allowed by a loving God was: is God real and does He reign? Then I asked, “does He love me and His Creation?”
Once I became convinced He was real, that He loves me, which I have felt and seen in ways I cannot present to you or explain, then I saw that if God allows it, then it is good, even if in my finite and mortal being it looks and feels awful.
Watching a loved one die, being faslely accused and ruined financially, being extremely violated in horrible ways, and even being murdered in a terrible and agonizing ordeal, are all things even those who love God suffer in this transient mortal coil, which we shed in due time and which, while it shapes us, is forgotten as it were.
We have to realize that God Himself endures and bears this suffering with all of us. From the gas chambers of the Third Reich to the abusive parents one may endure today, from the victim of rape, to the sufferers of dementia or cancer, God experiences and endures all this Himself with us. He is touched by our every affliction and as bad as it feels, if He did not take it on with us, it would destroy our very soul for eternity.
It may be if we truly had a transcendent view of Creation and of our own existence, we would not even see our suffering in the same way, as something bad and awful, we would see it as something necessary, beneficial, and transfigurative for our eternal souls. It would seem rather like medicine than a “punishment.”
To get out of your own way and to see eternity operating in the here and now is supernatural and transfigurative. It is also possible to those who love God if they seek Him through the Word, through prayer and worship, and through fellowship and counsel with fellow Believers. Alignment of your existence in the day-to-day and how you spend your time with God and His Word begins a process of tearing down the veil between us and our Creator and reveals more and more of who He is and how much He loves us.
If you spend little time in His presence through things like reading the Word, prayer, worship, fellowship, and the mutual counsel of fellow Believers, then it is not a wonder that you struggle with such earthly questions about transient matters that will not matter in your eternity.
Those who dwell in Him do not have all the answers to things we cannot comprehend in this life, but they know His love and can live in that, come what may.
I know the suffering I even now endure, things that cause pain in my flesh, break my human heart, and peirce into my soul, are on a path I myself would have chosen, knowing the price I would pay, to get to where I wanted to be for eternity.
Imagine the person who loves God and experiences some brain ailment, like dementia, alzheimers, or some mental illness like depression or schizophrenia. They endure a period, perhaps years, where they cannot comprehend or interface with reality and it seems they have lost their faith. But this path, even this, they themselves would have chosen to get to their desired eternal destination. This is necessary for their eternal welfare and benefit.
I know that a loving God only allows such things because they are necessary in ways I cannot begin to fathom or explain, though I imagine in my simplistic way that a loving God would never have allowed them. I know He is and He loves me, therefore I know this is a necessity or it wouldn’t exist.
This may not be the answer you want to hear. I can only pray that you come into His presence and experience Him in your inner man, deep in your soul, outside of this temporal reality, outside of time and space itself. Then you will have a focus on the eternal good instead of the transient things of this short and limited life that will pass quickly.
God is good and He rewards those who love and serve Him in ways that totally outshine any price you pay on the necessary path that leads you to your eternal fate! You either believe this or not, you either enter into His presence or you don’t. But no logical answer from any finite mortal being will satisfy your desire to understand that which it has not been given for us to understand!
Suffering and pain in this life, no matter how powerful and awful, are quite literally a nano-moment compared to eternity and the price we pay in this life, while necessary to shape us, is microscopic in comparison to the reward we gain.
Bill Collier- Modern Midianites, led by ruling class elitists and their minions, are acting in ways that use your life as a mere commodity. The modern spirit of the Midianites seems to be on the march and is poisoning everything it touches, from your children’s minds to the economy and everything else!
(Our analogy does not mean we label people Midianites, in fact Jesus died for those “Midianites”, the focus is not on such people as individuals, our focus is on the spirit and trend of the times, which resembles a Midianite invasion.)
It feels like you are their intended prey but there is a path of liberation! God has a better plan, one the spirit of our modern Midianites cannot prevent or hinder.
Spoiler alert:
Nationhood, led by modern “Gideonites”, like the 300 followers of Gideon, is the key for the future, but not the nationhood of the 20th century corporate-controlled nation-state!
If you aren’t exploring the BIBLICAL model, and application, of “nationhood” (ethne), then you aren’t even asking the right QUESTIONS that will result in your liberation from controlling influences and a corrupt ruling class!
If you aren’t considering what it would be like to be a modern Gideonite, like the 300 who followed Gideon, stepping out of the realm of 20th century thinking, then you are not truly on the path of liberation.
What can save us from this chaos? Who can prevent us from watching our lives become prey and our entire culture going up in flames, figuratively sacrificed to the spirits of Baal and Molech by Midianite hordes assailing our lives?
Let us begin to find answers by exploring the truth about our present reality and circumstances and making it plain.
Politics is run by and for modern Midianites. These are self-absorbed egomaniacs, like the people who you couldn’t stomach in high school and college, people who would do anything and defraud or violate anyone necessary to get elected to student council or be the most popular and cool in school. These people are all too often children of privileged people, as Gordon Celente says “born on third base”, then “walked” to home, usually through some form of unfair legerdemain.
Quite simply, politics is literally a rigged popularity contest where the “cool kids” manipulate the process and pull dirty tricks to suppress any would-be competitors. It’s dangerous for society, not just wrong. It is a plague on many lands in every major world civilization today!
And let’s not discuss the “media!” These so-called “watchdogs” never see any truth they can proclaim with courage or confront any lie that it is inconvenient to expose. They are handmaidens to authoritarianism. They aren’t “free press”, they are propagandists!
They would smear Gideon and his followers with lies while writing about how “wonderful” the Midianites were even as this band of godless aggressors pillaged every home and village and left the whole population destitute and in chains!
(The news media have always sold themselves, but the extent of the fraud and lying has rarely reached the dizzying heights of today’s press and the concentration of ownership by the press, in so few hands, has never been greater.)
It is neither unreasonable nor impolite to accurately describe these people and their corrupt institution. The “press” today, as an institution, is abysmal and corrupt and the “exceptions” in this case prove the rule!
Few professions, outside politicians, are as corrupt and “anti-truth” as most modern “journalism” has become. They don’t “report”, they defame, incite, cover up, and misrepresent to advance an authoritarian agenda using a woke cancel culture methodology. The New York Times, as an example, has become nothing more than a smear merchant for the unholy spirit of the modern Midianite horde!
Does this look like the Biblical history of the Midianites who invaded Israel and were like locusts on the land? We see and hear their spirit in the imposition of a radically insane agenda being “taught”, in schools and colleges. We see the spirit that acts like treacherous locusts in all entertainment and in the bureaucracy as well as the boardroom. We even see this spirit in the religious world, claiming to follow Christ but hitting back against every tenet of historic Christian orthodoxy.
All of this is about power, not dialogue or ideas, it is deconstruction for the sake of invalidation. Once invalidated and marginalized, you are delegitimized and they take power.
The issue is not the wealth of the rich, as socialists propose, so long as it wasn’t gotten by unethical and/or illegal means. The issue is that such concentrated wealth and power and a system that funnels wealth and power from the producing inventors, investors, and creators/workers to these few people at the very top will tend to dehumanize people. This sort of system produces things like authoritarianism or upheaval.
Corruption and authoritarianism have always been around. It has always been sometimes bad for most, worse for some at least some of the time to most of the time, and always more or less skewed against the average person in favor of the ruling class. Now it is worse for most, most of the time, and the concentration of wealth and power is reaching historic proportions.
Again, this is not a critique of the rich for being rich. The fact someone uses their power to violate the rights of others would be a worthy critique, but this is true whatever their wealth. The real problem is the fact wealth and power are in few hands and increasingly there are issues with how limited the scope of opportunity and feeedom are for average people.
How bad is it? As an example, never before in modern history have the thought-leaders and shot-callers in the West been so openly and PROUDLY corrupted as to question the very concepts of marriage and family, of our identity as men and women, or of the validity of God’s standards of righteousness and justice. The depth and breadth of corruption, the reaches of the amorality, and the concentration of wealth and power are at historic levels.
You would be forgiven for feeling helpless and hopeless in the face of this sheer depraved corruption. A society that can only produce “leaders”, from political to thought leaders and celebrities, who have no grasp on reality and whose morals are non-existent, is a society in self-destruction mode!
A society, and any civilization, that tolerates a corrupt ruling class, whether out of compulsion or by frewill, as in voting it in, is in self-destruction mode! The immorality and corruption of the rulers can either reflect a society’s corruption or lead to corrupting influences which eventually permeate all of society from the head down.
But there is hope, we propose. It is a hope that doesn’t come from any source or means you may be familiar with. You may not have ever heard of this thing before, it seems to have been deliberately suppressed. We can say that the answer to the modern spirit of the Midianites are modern Gideons, or Gideonites, who are not afraid to do exploits for their God, even when the entire land seems hopelessly occupied by a (figurative) Midianite horde!
Confronted with seems like a godless horde of spiritual barbarians, many who follow Yeshua are seeking answers in those institutions they associate in their mind with the Kingdom of God. But, like Gideon’s parents and the religious rulers of his day, the Midianites are here but nobody is standing up to them!
In truth, lack of knowledge of this path to liberation is most entirely the result of hidebound ignorance and lack of creativity among the thought leaders of historic “Christendom” and the modern church culture with its 20th century extra-Biblical traditions and rules. They mean well, but they are stuck in the church culture of the past and cannot see the future, yet. When they do respond to the Midianites, it is as if they only know how to fight yesterday’s battles which they have read their forebears fought in: it begins to look reactionary and archaic.
The old paradigm of top-down, centralized and depersonalized nation-states and corporations with the same status as humans, and hierarchical clerical church structures ordained by the tax authorities and limited to state-approved functions and roles, is a late 20th century system that isn’t relevant to the future. The strict compartmentalized structures of society, all controlled from top and center and all subordinated to the politicians and those who control the politicians, is an industrial age model that may have had its use but that, today, is a hindrance to forward movement.
We live in a world where some 26 individuals hold more wealth than 50% of the world’s population. That is beyond wealth inequality, that is gross wealth redistribution at the level of instability that can only produce upheavals or even totalitarianism. By this we mean the system that concentrates such wealth and power, not the actual individuals who may have used the system to its full advantage. It isn’t about these people, it’s about the lack of wealth being generated for everyone else.
A society with massive inequality of wealth and massive concentrations of power thereby is extremely vulnerable to a small critical point of failure, to corruption, and to dangerous upheavals which invite totalitarian responses, either to keep the status-quo or to overthrow it.
The solution isn’t to take the wealth. Ot isn’t revolution or eating the rich.
Our solution is to generate new wealth on our own. Wealth is not finite and the existing pie is not all there is. Wealth is a product we can create on our own, if we choose to and know what to do.
Again, we must stress, our aim isn’t to take from these people and distribute to the poor, our aim is to produce new wealth, through intentional economic activity among ourselves, that has both a Biblical foundation and a modern, future-looking approach and application. The industrial age wealth pyramid isn’t going to change, it will be transcended!
Modern Gideonites, we propose, will embrace and apply a shared nationhood, using a future-looking 21st century and beyond paradigm, instituted organically and on a globally distributed scale, founded on a Biblical basis, and using the web to broadcast its vision, gather people, and support its efforts. This may very well be the only effective response that in no way threatens societal stability or promotes violence or upheaval.
The world that remains mired in the old paradigm is trending toward a concentration of wealth that is dangerous and the existing nation-state structure is incapable of responding in a stable, peaceful, and effective manner that tend to promote wealth instead of shuffling it around. It is alarming and freedom-denying.
People look to the world of religious leaders and institutions, but no real help is coming. The thought-leadership of modern church culture keeps going back to 20th century ideas and solutions, using new packaging. They cling to the past and its leaders, which we honor but must advance beyond, building our future on their worthy foundations and revering their memory.
The 20th century church culture, rooted in an old paradigm defined by old industrialized systems of top-down and centralized control, and strict compartmentalization of all institutions, isn’t sufficient. This doesn’t mean churches should go away, but it does mean we need to decompartmentalize our institutions and structures using a Biblical model of nationhood to start.
Being stuck in a 20th century paradigm that is ill-fitted to the needs and possibilities of the 21st century and beyond is making this kind of massive theft and growing authoritarianism possible. Even those who oppose all this cannot resist or overcome the onslaught so long as they also remain mired in the paradigm of the last century!
The church culture of the 20th century, still perpetuated and adhered to in the religious world, won’t liberate you from sociocultural and socioeconomic systems of influence and control that prey upon your life. It fits within and refuses to go outside of its industrial age compartmentalism and its top-down, centralized, and hierarchical systems of authority and direction by the few over the many!
Again, this isn’t meant as a slam of our church heroes or to say the present local church has no place in the new paradigm. When we decompartmentalize our lives, our associations, our structures, and our institutions we find a more expanded and holistic role for the local congregation (synagogos), not a diminished role! We also find structures and institutions within the Ecclesia, the whole community of all Believers, once thought to be outside the purview of “the Kingdom” that we can build among ourselves now.
If the relgioous establishment doesn’t have answers beyond its 20th century church culture, don’t think you can turn to politics and civic action as THE alternative, thinking you can make things better if you can change laws and policies through elections. The government won’t protect you because the government is a perpetrator and has been corrupted, it is unreachable by the masses and most elections are manipulated outcomes which, whether fraud is involved or not, have pre-ordained possible outcomes.
We aren’t saying stop going to church or stop voting. We are saying these things are not the only possible answer and, because they remain stuck in the past, they cannot possibly address the present crisis in its fullness.
The Midianites of today have either occupied or substantially weakened every institution and structure in every major civilization on this earth and constitute a global threat to human rights, to forward movement, and to human dignity.
So what is the solution?
In a word, it is “nationhood”, adopted and promoted by modern Gideonites. It is the deliberate and transfigurative creation of nationhood among us and the accompanying sociocultural and socioeconomic structures among individuals whose source of provision and protection isn’t the state but is God Himself.
This is a 21st century civilizational paradigm shift that doesn’t even see “nations” the same way people were programmed to see them in the last century! It is modern Gideonites in their thousands rising up peacefully and deliberately within every land but connecting through global networks, like our web 3.0 cryptonation platform and our international NGO, to unilaterally build that which is needed to liberate tens of millions of people.
But here is something that has always been true and that will always be true: God is still in charge!
We propose, and we believe, that God has a blueprint for humanity which we must seek to know and follow in order to tap into His blessings. This blueprint is rooted in the ancient, eternal, and sacred truths of the Kingdom of God, which is among us, but it adapts to and is applicable to the present and the future.
We call the institutions of God’s blueprint for human civilization “agencies of God’s provision.” These are institutions like marriage, family and extended family (oikos), local congregations (synagogos), communities of trust (koinonia), the local assembly of all Believers (ecclesia), nations as spiritual constructs (ethne), and civilizations whose worldview and framework are based on Biblical ideals.
Modern Gideonites being deliberate about these agencies of God’s provision, within the framework of spiritual nations whose God is the Lord and a civilization based on Biblical ideals rooted in God’s standards of righteousness and justice, in love and grace, is really the ONLY way to navigate through this insane time.
It was “weird” how God directed Gideon and his 300 Gideonites to “attack” the Midianites. They had a pitcher of water, a torch, a trumpet, and, almost as an after-thought, a sword. We modern Gideonites have the agency of nationhood, a web 3.0 cryptonation platform, and intentional private associations and organizations within a global network to stand against the modern Midianites.
Again, let’s not forget that God is supreme and all the powers on this earth cannot stop that which God ordains and blesses. Let’s not forget this, let’s keep in mind that if we build according to God’s blueprint, then we will experience God’s blessings regardless of what the shot-callers who rule this civilization do. They are actually more powerless than they want you to feel.
Read this carefully and prayerfully:
– Focus on following God’s blueprint and you will not be limited or controlled by the ruling class and their minions who run the present major civilizations and institutions on this planet today, including the Western, the Chinese, the Islamic, the Japanese, the Indian, the Russian, African, and the Asian civilizations. –
GOD IS DOING SOMETHING BOLD AND NEW!
We believe God is raising up modern Gideonites as founders of our new spiritual nation, Upadaria is its name, as a prototype for many more existing and new nations of people who make Yeshua their King, and as a vanguard people for a new civilization that will rise all over the world even as the major existing civilizations continue a path of self-destruction.
This bold, new path of liberation isn’t what you were looking for any more than one would expect Gideon’s 300 to grab a pitcher of water, a trumpet, and a sword to dispatch tens of thousands of Midianites. It is what God has provided. It is impervious to whatever measures and means the ruling class want to employ because it is provided for and ordained by God.
But if you are looking for such liberation and you reject the ordained plans of God, which exist within the pages of Scripture and which we believe are meant for such a time as this, then you will not escape the control of the depraved ruling class. Your life will continue to be a commodity they own.
Liberation from the influence and control of the ruling class, their minions, and all their manipulated structures cannot and will not occur if you neither know nor follow a heavenly blueprint! This is the kind of “revolution within” that begins by intentionally creating the structures and institutions of family and extended family, local congregations, communities of trust, and nationhood as a spiritual construct, all within the framework of a new civilization founded on Biblical ideals.
We propose that nationhood, led by modern Gideonites, is THE key thing to building these other agencies of God’s provision and that the birth or conversion of nations whose God is the Lord will result in the emergence of a new civilization.
Such nationhood is indeed prescribed in Scripture but has barely been explored and understood until today. We believe that making nationhood central to the efforts of modern Gideonites and discovering its true meaning and application is meant for such a time as this. Discovering nationhood from a heavenly blueprint perspective is for such a time as this, it is, we believe, part of God’s unfolding plan for the advancement of human civilization.
Nationhood between people within a marriage, family and extended family, and communities of trust is the primary vehicle for overcoming and defeating efforts by the depraved ruling class and their minions to use your life as a commodity. It is ancient in its origins but uniquely tailored for this time as something we can embrace, pursue, and build among and in collaboration with people all over the world.
When we who are modern Gideonites create our own intentional nation, founded on its own ideals, principles, practices, and mandates, between individuals who adopt this nationality as their own, we step out of the control of the present system and we enter into the realm of God’s unlimited potential.
In this sense then, Upadaria is a path of liberation for followers of Yeshua who desire freedom from the influence and control of any top-down, controlling ruling class and their minions whose policies tend to use our lives as a mere commodity that enriches themselves. Upadaria may not be the only spiritual nation whose God is the Lord, we certainly don’t think that is God’s plan, but it may be the only ready-made alternative and option that you have access to.
Like the 300 who followed Gideon, modern Gideonites are not afraid, not distracted, and not closed to unusual or unprecedented solutions, so long as they know they are backing God’s plan.
Unlike other efforts and ideas, the vision for Upadaria as a spiritual nation with its own globally distributed sociocultural and socioeconomic structures, connected via the web, and an emerging new civilization founded on Biblical ideals, is ready-made and contains well-researched blueprints and frameworks you can use “off-the-shelf.”
The spiritual, peaceful, and organically emergent “Upadarian Revolution” is laid out in a plan of action you can pick up, adopt, and adapt in your life from the most intimate scale of your own inner man to the largest scale of globally distributed structures and institutions. It is not a political or in any way violent/military uprising of any kind, it is spiritual and then sociocultural and socioeconomic in its actual activities. But for all that, not all the armies or political states or any powers on this earth can stop its progress because GOD IS OUR PROVIDER AND PROTECTOR!
As the major civilizations and powers on this earth enter a stage of terminal self-destruction, we believe God has given us an ark and refuge of His protection, provision, and blessings called the Upadarian nation and the Upadarian civilization. He will raise up other nations of people, following a similar Biblical framework of nationhood based on the universal nationhood of all Believers.
Whether or not this makes sense or whether or not you agree and embrace this vision is not our concern. We make a Gideon’s call and only Gideonites ordained by God to lead in building this new nation, through the agency of a virtual Commonwealth and an international NGO with country-specific Branch Societies, will come forward and lift up the torch, carry the water, blow the trumpets, and bear the spiritual sword of such a spiritual nation whose God is the Lord.
Many who even now are confused and cannot bring themselves to embrace and join in this vision will flock to it after it begins to make itself known and manifest. This is the pattern we see in the historical lesson of Gideon, hence why we call the founders and early builders “Gideonites.” But many who today do not feel the call and are not selected by God for this work will one day join us!
If indeed you see the modern Midianites “like locusts” polluting the land and turning your life into their commodity, and if you want a path to liberation, it may be you were born into the Kingdom for such a time as this, to be among the vanguard of a new spiritual nation which ifself is the vanguard people of a new civilization founded on Biblical ideals.
So how can our new platform, what we intend to make into a web 3.0 cryptonation platform for freedom seekers, to the Christian first, then also the world at large, facilitate the practical application of the Biblical model of nationhood in your life?
A web 3.0 cryptonation platform can connect people virtually and then also locally to make the most of nationhood as a practice and way of life rooted in the ancient and sacred but adapted to the present and the future. Liberation comes from within, one person, one family, one “community of trust”, at a time, all over the world.
As the world’s ruling class and their minions set whole civilizations, societies, nations of people, and countries on fire, we who embrace a Biblical framework for practical, and globally distributed, nationhood framework, can experience a “new birth of freedom” with security and prosperity for all. That is the promise.
Our new platform, styled after a fictional “Commonwealth” set in the year 2147, will provide the knowledge, tools, features, resources, and connections you need to both learn this model, and its Biblical basis, and apply it in a practical way for your own liberation.
The platform will begin more or less as a combination of a learning community with courses called “Experiences”, a social networking and social media site, and a limited eCommerce platform. You will be able to learn through an immersive participatory experience, you will be able to connect with fellow travelers, you also be able to express and broadcast yourself, and you will be able to promote your business, services, or ministry to the world.
The web 3.0 Cryptonation platform will be a paid subscription site, thus eliminating the need for corporate backing. Through its content and features you will gain knowledge and skills for liberation, connect with people for mutual support, and pursue your own dreams and visions.
The aim is solutions, not reactionary dependency or petitioning the ruling class through public support and elections to change. We don’t see them changing.
Upadaria is a place of liberation, of freedom, of opportunity, and safety, and sanctuary for those who seek a life not owned as a commodity by the ruling class of today’s major civilizations, especially the Western and Chinese who are vying for global dominion. The Upadarian nation, the Upadarian civilization, and the Upadarian platform are the alternative to dependency on the ruling class and their minions.
As the web 3.0 cryptonation platform becomes a more virtual to local movement and as an international NGO and Branch Societies are built to support those who adopt this way of life, physical spaces and refuges will begin to be established all over the world. In these spaces the governance standard and norms of the internal sociocultural socioeconomic system will be aligned with Biblical ideals and the ancient framework for human civilization itself.
We will build unilaterally and intentionally through freewill participatory association alone, without recourse to any form of coercion or control from above.
From ancient pathways and sacred foundations, a new spiritual nation as the vanguard of a new civilization emerges through a virtual to local 3.0 cryptonation platform with global participation. Upadaria is a pathway and a means to total liberation!
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