The concept behind a farmstead estate is a grouping of around 15 or so adults, including around 5 nuclear families and single adults connected to them who share ownership in a multi-faceted farmstead which raises essential food staples for up to 1,000 families.
Essentially a Upo Farmstead Estate (farmstead for short) is a homesteading partnership of around 5 families and attached single adults who create a profitable business selling food staples to customers, which can be partially limited to fellow Upadarians and fellow Christians, but also extend to the general public.
This concept takes the smaller application of homesteading to a new nevel of efficiency. By scaling things up, ot increases efficiencies and productivity. A small 10 are plot with fish farm, greenhouses, aquaponics, and small animal herds (goats, rabbits, chickens, for example), could outperform much larger farms.
The farmstead may also cover its costs through real estate investment and provide residential and/or commercial space to the public. In this case, a 20 acre farmstead may include 7 acres for the various components of food productivity, 3 acres for the peers who live there, 2 acres for around 12 residences and 5 commercial spaces leased to the public, an acre for refugees/transitional housing, and 7 acres set aside for nature.
The farmstead land would be part of a local Upo chapter land trust, which would be rewarded with a 10% tithe of produced foods in order to ensure aid to members and cover benevolence needs. The buildings would be owned by the peer residents and/or a cooperative owned by its peer customers. The business would be owned by its participants using a participatory ownership plan.
In areas with multipl Upo Farmsteads, there may be specialization and the various farmsteads may form an ad hoc or formal food production consortium to ensure that all essentials are locally grown in a sustainable manner. A local chapter organization may use its resources and crowdfund among members to provide seed capital for developing farmsteads which repay the loan and/or share profits with investors.
The development of farmsteads would be part of any area-wide “distributed city” plan enacted by an area chapter, the Shire. This would include education and training in homesteading, victory gardens, and farmsteading, from going food and raising animals, to technical methods and means, and business and marketing. Identifying, training, and funding people with the calling and skills to develop and manage farmsteads and to support homesteading and victory gardens is a necessary part of any distributed city planning regimen.
Farmsteads, whether linked to the Upadaria concept or not, are the essential element to local food freedom that will also enhance the well-being of nature and create local sustainability that frees people from the top-down centralized corporate food industry. Whether one’s cocnern is freedom, local autonomy, or the environment, an intentional program for developing, nurturing, and supporting farmstead estates is a ready-made solution.
Freedom is under assault and will always be the target of freedom-takers of every religious, political, and philosophical persuasion, but freedom is as stubborn as life itself and will always gain purchase on some ground, somewhere. The trick is to know where, when, and how that freedom will emerge and gain purchase so you can be there instead of stuck on some plantation, toiling away in a drone-like animalistic manner.
We will unilaterally build freedom in new ways, with new structures, and in the form of new communities and spaces ruled by the ideals and principles of freedom as defined and provided for by God!
If bondage is the natural state of humanity without the presence and influence of the Kingdom of God, then freedom is the transcendent state of humanity where the Kingdom of God in its essentials and elements is being activated in people’s lives. Too often we focus narrowly on the machinations and capabilities of the freedom takers without considering the superior power and supernatural resources of the freedom builders who, inspired by the Kingdom of God among us, are not limited or defined by the intentions of the bad guys.
Eschatology, the study of the end times, has done more to shift our focus from truth and light to danger and darkness than anything else. The perception, now over 170 years old, that the antichrist is at hand and that now we must but endure the tribulation and become martyrs has crippled the people of God and sent the forces of freedom on Christ into headlong retreat.
Those who do not accept the possibility of victory in this life are a miserable and sad lot who also tend to not be happy until everyone around them also joins in this pessimistic worldview. Their God is a God who leaves them powerless in this life, mere prey to the enemy, because somehow this glorifies God and is necessary in order for the end, and final deliverance, to come.
In the event the ACTUAL tribulation, not the hard times that weren’t the tribulation but that led Christians to abdicate the field to their foes, comes it is, at worse, 7 hard years followed by a massive victory. It is not the next hundred years being treated like an animal and only responding by saying this is proof the end is near.
The Kingdom of God will advance on this earth and nations will be converted right up until the end, the final battle. Never will the entire earth be free and neither will the antichrist ever gain total control. Our expectation is that the influence and witness of the Kingdom, mostly measured in saved souls and then sociocultural and socioeconomic impact that shapes the kingdoms of this day, will always advance, in many places it will prevail as never before, but the battle against the forces of darkness and bondage will also become more intense.
Darkness will become more vile but we will also see greater and more faithful fidelity here and there to God’s blueprints and frameworks for human civilization, for the nations, and for the Body of Christ. The faithful will gain insights, wisdom, and favor to advance into a more glorious future but those mired in darkness will stoop to lower depths and invent even more depravity.
The “trick” is to be in the side that is avdancing, to know what God is doing to advance the Kingdom, when, where, and how, and place yourself and your family right in the middle of that flow.
We posit that God is raising up a new Kingdom nation as the vanguard of a new Civilization predicated on Kingdom ideals, namely Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. The revival of older nations who once knew Christ, the conversion of nations who are alienated from the Kingdom, and the birthing of whole new nations whose God is the Lord is, for us, the future of the Kingdom advancing among us and it is in this work real freedom will be found.
The globe-trotting, morally barbaric ruling class who see humans as but a commodity to serve their happiness imagine they have the money, the armies, and all the major institutions and, therefore, resistance to them is futile. Sadly some Christians, equating these rulers with the antichrist and the end-times, also see in their power an invincible force we cannot escape except through a martyrdom or staying below the radar. The idea of confronting and overwhelming these freedom taking loons and building freedom which they cannot assail is unthinkable.
The new birth of freedom we envision will come through a Biblical concept and application of nationhood that is spiritual in its genesis, is unilaterally embraced and practiced in community with people on a freewill participatory basis, and that is protected by God in the same way ancient Israel was protected from the Midianites.
All over the world, whether it is your piece of land or an intentional community, a refugee camp or a whole city of refuge privately run by an international Christian society, freedom will gain new homelands and if or when the worldlings, whose hearts are set on their course by hell, turn their wrath toward this work of God, they will be throwing themselves into their own pit which they have themselves dug.
For those who cannot believe in such a hopeful and glorious future, for those who see giants in the land, and for those who fear stepping into our path lest they gain the attention of the ruling class, we cannot but pray for and love you. As for us, our focus is on building the new gaps for freedom, developing new structures, around a Biblical model of nationhood and a prophetic insight into the emergence of a new civilization.
We do not expect easy sailing. But we will give better than we get, we will be more a problem to the rising class and the forces of darkness than they could ever be to us. Our expectation and hope is for victory!
Socializing inside a Freedomist Club may not seem like a path to liberation and prosperity, but connecting with people just as committed to freedom as you is actually very useful and perhaps even necessary.
The main idea of a Freedomist Club is that it would be a physical space, as opposed to just virtual, where club members gather for social activities, for collaboration on freedom building projects, and to practice some form of mutual self-reliance. While much can be done virtually, there are things in person we can do to make connections that are difficult online. Moreover, having a social life you can enjoy with others who share your love for this country and our freedom is a refreshing change from watching fake news or arguing with woke communists online.
As we gather people and gain resources, one of our hopes is to create a charter/licensing program that allows Freedomists to get together locally and form their own Freedomist Club for mutual support, social activities, and, of course, freedom building activism in their own community. We believe Freedom must go on the offensive, albeit through peaceful and legal means and by winning hearts back to America’s true manifest destiny.
This true and God-given manifest destiny involves the deliberate creation of a free and pluralistic society of equals which includes every citizen and organically builds up an American identity that truly transcends race or anything that divides us and that is itself rooted in our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. While we insist the underlying core ideology of America is the spiritual constitution of our four core ideals as understood from a Judeo-Christian worldview, our free and pluralistic society is by no means limited to Jews, Christians, and people who may be non-religious but who embrace a Judeo-Christian worldview.
A Freedomist Club would potentially do the following:
1. It would be a social gathering place, with either an on-site restaurant that also serves alcohol or a lodge-type social quarters where people bring their own items
2. It would both include a library dedicated to American history and the history and philosophy of freedom and engage in public outreach to educate people and truly revive within them a love for freedom and respect for human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing that the woke communists and other authoritarians lack
3. It would conduct a campaign to secure a majority of voters, regardless of Party, who agree to not vote for any candidate or office-holder who does not support the Bill of Rights in their most generous interpretation, according to a high standard of original spirit and intent, and for the benefit of every single American citizen of every demographic, class, or wherever they live
4. It would operate a local people-powered free press using the RAWE News Model to be a resource, to be an advocate, to be a watchdog, and to do so in an entertaining and educational manner
5. It would create a Caucus of all local citizens who signed the Freedomist Pledge within the Club’s Meeting Hall to engage in discourse, make resolutions, and issue instructions and remonstrances to elected officials and anyone with a public trust, promising a boycott of their business/organization or a vote against them for not taking heed
5. Its members would agree, and form smaller groups for mutual support, to always have each other’s back in upholding their fellow member’s rights, persons, and property from all hazards and abuse by any entity, public or private, foreign or domestic- they would cancel the cancel culture
These Clubs would do many other things as well, as many as members can connect through their own collaboration and engagement with one another and as we, through The Freedomist website, email list, and Freedomist groups within our new platform (Upadaria), share ideas and insights from other groups.
We desire to see these Clubs at some level operating in every US County of more than 5,000 people and to see 3 or more within every single US Congressional District. Each Club will have the national legal and logistical support of a nationwide network so that in extremely unfriendly areas our members would be free to operate and broadcast their message, in accordance with the Bill of Rights.
Freedom must take the offensive in every US Congressional District and every town and village or city neighborhood where we can gather, organize, and mobilize fellow Americans as freedom builders. To do that, we must move from virtual to local, using the virtual to connect millions of people across vast spaces and also to connect local people who then meet and collaborate in face-to-face gatherings.
The war on freedom is decades long and the battles we must now fight to reverse this and begin building freedom in our lives, families, and communities must occur over many years even as we also fight larger scale battles to build freedom in our Counties and States as well as the whole country in all of its institutions.
Like Reagan, our goal is to peacefully end this long “cold civil war” between woke communism and American freedom, our goal is to vanquish the woke communists and replace them, through peaceful use of electoral, social, and free market processes, with freedom loving Americans who put this country before some alien ideology of power and control.
We aim to vanquish the woke communists, not just slow down their deconstruction of this country into a third-world totalitarian hellscape, a mass of undifferentiated beings without gender, family, or faith who are led around by nose at the hands of a power-made ruling class.
We want nothing less than to win over our fellow Americans to the cause of freedom and to make everything associated with this woke communist cancel culture authoritarianism absolutely baneful in the eyes of most everyone in every demographic and every locale in this land. Our aim is the total liberation and freedom from authoritarianism and even poverty for every single American citizen in this land.
We desire a free, pluralistic, prosperous, safe, and happy America built around such staples of civilization as family, faith, community, and a totally free and just marketplace of goods and ideas (all on a strictly voluntary basis) where nobody is left behind.
Freedom will win and enlightment will overcome deception and lies because no human or natural power on this earth can forever prevent the eternal universal laws of causality (the laws of Creation) from operating in their full effect. Freedom and enlightment are the elevated state of humanity in God’s ordained plans, bondage and deception stem from a sin nature inherited like a curable disease from our first ancestor, Adam.
The laws of Creation all bend toward a movement and evolution in the direction of freedom and enlightment: people and whole civilizations that remain willfully locked in bondage and lies will experience the consequences of defying the laws of Creation. When an old civilization becomes mired in the sin nature and its proclivity toward bondage and deception it fails and in its failure it causes widespread destruction and harm to anyone who remains dependent upon its structures and institutions.
Our focus is not on the sin nature, the fact our present civilization has become mired, or the coming catastrophic upheaval that will wreck this civilization over the next decades. Our focus is on another outcome that attends the collapse of old civilizations: namely the emergence of a new civilization from within and outside the borders of those lands dominated by that old civilization.
Those who embrace the new, if indeed the new is based on the ideals of freedom and enlightment which come from our elevated state, find ways to escape the negative consequences of the old civilization’s moral and spiritual collapse and, if enough people embrace this, can help entire lands and nations of people transition peacefully from old to new!
We can see the future by understanding the cycles of history and seeing both where we have been and where we are going. We can see what is possible and what is inevitable. We can see the present civilization is in rapid moral and spiritual decline and yet we can also see the emergence of the new civilization.
The four core ideals of the new civilization include a Judeo-Christian understanding and balanced application of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. These are not ideological platitudes! If you understand both their inner harmony, like “Democratic” versus “equality” and “Unity” versus “diversity”, and their interdependence with each other, like how each ideal is balanced by the others, you arrive at a disciplined approach to action, interaction, lifestyle and governance that is guided by wisdom to produce mutually and individually beneficial results.
The application of these core ideals of the new civilization, which alone is guided by four core ideals and not just one, opens doors and enables you to navigate life, relationships, and scaled-up associations with others in a profitable and stable manner. Every civilization is based on their own version of one, possibly more than one, of these ideals: they are the essential ideals of human civilization itself.
Those who properly understand these ideals from a holistic and people-centered perspective, with the aim being to harmonize with God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations, can more effectively build freedom on an organic and emergent basis with minimal top-down centralized control. We would say that without fully understanding these ideals en toto your methods and processes will struggle to produce freedom within a franework of righteousness and justice and on a purely freewill participatory basis.
The four core ideals are not our answer to racialist/racist systems, like nazism or identitarianism, nor to right-wing and left-wing authoritarianism.
The symbol for these ideals, the Upadarian Cross, is in many ways seen as the antithesis of the swastika or the hammer and sickle, but only because its invention came after these hateful symbols became infamous.
The two lines that cross each other and form a cross, one with hashes on its end and one without, represent diverse individuals or groups intersecting and connecting. The surrounding diamond represents the four core ideals which gives them organic cohesiveness without violating their individual spiritual sovereignty, their shared regency, or self-determination, in freewill participation with one another. This cross represents the idea that all human beings are created equally in God’s image and are owed respect and protection for their human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing by any society deeming itself righteous and just. Tolerance, respect, righteousness, justice, equality, and equity are the catchwords of the Upadarian lifestyle and governance discipline.
We prefer to say that the Upadarian cross represents the core ideals for a just and righteousness civilization, one that is fully based on freewill participation and not coercion. These ideals predate the baneful totalitarian and/or racist ideologies, and so we recoil at the notion the Upadarian cross is somehow our “response” to the swastika: the racist swastika is a counterfeit symbol rooted in hate that is a response to God’s love, it is the anyithesis of justice and equity, these things, as represented by the Upadarian cross, aren’t the antithesis to nazism, communism, racism, or totalitarianism!
Put another way, the Upadarian Cross represents core ideals that are fundamental to a just and righteous society based purely on freewill participation, while symbols like the swastika and the hammer and sickle are the antithesis to the Upadarian cross!
Whoever uses the Upadarian cross is affirming their love and respect for humanity as beings created equal in God’s image and is committed to tolerance, acceptance, and respect for the human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing of all other human beings on this planet. The Upadarian Cross is the symbol of the new civilization which we envision emerging in this world on a purely freewill participatory basis, that is, by people and voluntary groups or intentional communities, adopting these ideals as their standard of self-governance.
If you see something like Democratic equality and you think this means “majority rule” or “equal wealth distribution”, then your understanding lacks balance and harmony. This doesn’t mean you aren’t smart or noble, it is just what has been crammed down your throat without being shown the inner harmony of this ideal, its Judeo-Christian roots, or its understanding in light of the need to balance it with the other ideals. What is also lacking is an understanding how this and the other ideals can and should be used on an individual basis and within strictly voluntary groups and communities, instead of as a political buzzword that had no real value in everyday life!
The four core ideals are a blueprint for building freedom in your own life, relationships, and associations and by studying their deeper meaning, inner harmony, Judeo-Christian roots, and balance with each other, you begin to form a proper, balanced mechanism for mutual support and advancement that has no peer. If two or more people make these core ideals, again with their inner harmony and in balance with each other, the guide for their conduct, standards, and norms, they will tend to produce good results for all concerned.
Indeed, even if you simply use these ideals to make smarter decisions, once you learn and internalize them, your decision-making will improve and your habits will begin to organically enhance your life instead of dragging you down and holding you back.
Like the four core ideals, the Upadarian Cross stands firmly against things like racialism, racism, bigotry, intolerance, exploitation, and authoritarianism. But more than standing against these things, the four core ideals and the Upadarian Cross stand FOR the advancement of equitable and just freedom for all human beings, without exception.
Bill Collier- The possibilities of a dark winter, driven by the totalitarian ambitions of the Party in power and by the new varieties of “the virus”, are becoming ever more probable. Stocking up on essentials and husbanding your resources and money for dark times is part of the necessity, but so also is building mutual support, even if informally, among your local family and friends.
It is time to fortify yourself so that, like a mighty fortress in a dark winter fastness, you and your family can thrive and endure the coldest and most forbidding environment.
We can anticipate stock market swings, supply shortages, increased pressures to conform to the new cancel culture of alt-gendered depravity, more lockdowns and restrictions, and deplatforming of dissent, all under the twin guises of public health and allegations that all dissent equals insurrection.
Who can you trust to help you and have your back? Where can you live if you lose job and income? Do you have 6 months worth of necessities? What happens if you can’t get new prescriptions filled? How will you power your home or cook food and stay warm if utilities fail? What will you do for water if the water supply fails? How will you protect yourself or where will you flee to if violent rioters invade your neighborhood? Will local officials and local police back your rights against state or federal edicts or will they support the assault on your rights?
If you are not asking and finding answers to these questions, then this winter could be rather dark and foreboding to you and the pressure to abandon any semblance of your Christian or Jewish, or Muslim, faith in favor of the alt-gendered hedonistic culture and its authoritarianism may be too great to bear.
Three things should be noted: this may not materialize, it may materialize only here and there and not everywhere (albeit randomly), and, come what may, it isn’t likely to endure for more than another 3-9 months from when it begins. The force and means required to maintain such a regimen of top-down control and contravention of basic human rights are beyond the means of the present ruling class. They can’t print enough money or buy enough gangster goons to keep the pressure up forever: their hope is that through top-down imposition people will adopt their “new” barbaric ways and no longer need to be coerced so strongly.
The more prepared people are, the more connected to other people, the more likely this scenario will either fail to materialize or the shorter it will last once it begins.
A dark winter is very possible and the necessity to prepare and to intentionally connect to other people has never been greater in modern history.
The Freedomist plan to save America is a threefold approach:
– promote material independency and the increase of faith, family, and community
– promote local civic activism aimed at turning municipalities and counties into Freedom Sanctuaries that are self-sustaining and self-governing through a Town Meeting system
– develop an online and street level activist core which can mobilize thousands in any Congressional District and millions around the country
It is in part through our broadcasting of this vision and arming readers with reliable and actionable intelligence that the Freedomist hopes to gather enough supporters to fund this effort. As and when support grows, our intention is to invest in reaching and gathering people, providing them with key infrastructure to facilitate cooperation and collaboration, and to pay people at the state and Congressional District level to lead efforts to mobilize and support activists.
Without people on the street showing the banner of freedom and confronting the woke communists in a visible way that media cannot conceal, because everyone can see this, it is impossible to begin to reverse the tide of woke cancel culture extremism and the march toward authoritarianism. Our aim is to stop, reverse, and end the woke communist threat against our Union and its regimen of freedom for all citizens.
The very first step you can take to support this effort is to become a subscriber to The Freedomist for as little as $4.99/month. Subscribe now as we grow our audience and content and so we can implement this plan.
Bill Collier- The concept of a freehold villa is basically this: a group of 3-5 nuclear families and single adults connected to them dwell together in a new sort of arrangement that combines private spaces, common areas for residents, and shared spaces with non-residential members of their small group for maximum cost savings and pooling of resources. It offers the ability to become energy and food independent in a sustainable manner while also increasing everyone’s wealth and freedom through strict freewill participation in mutual self-reliance and mutual assurance.
Imagine living in a mansion-like building with lots of amenities, with your own condo, but with access to luxury you could not afford on your own, surrounded by people you feel a kinship bond with who both have your back and share your values. This sounds much better than the atomized life of being a single person or nuclear family against a chaotic and freedom-denying society.
A freehold villa is a different kind of architecture. It is luxury living for working people!
We quite literally need a rewrite of our concept of what constitutes a household of people and of who we live as well as where and how we live, as in our dwelling. The atomized life of being a lone individual or nuclear family against the world only makes it easier for the ruling class to dominate us!
We can decide both to cluster together for greater mutual support and mutual self-preservation and to increase our wealth and happiness while enjoying more luxury than we can now afford.
How it works is a group of relatives, be they by blood and/or by affection or fraternal connection, build a single self-sustaining building that has private condos for the resident nuclear families and single adults. It is limited to members of a related group, be it blood kinship or spiritual kinship based. The design includes all the individual condos for members, common spaces like a great room, pool, gym, shared office space, and kitchens, and luxury amenities for common use, and other areas such as perhaps shops owned by members, a gathering space for members who don’t live on site, and even residential and/or commercial space leased to the public to offset costs.
We can cluster together for mutual support, but it can also mean we experience a level of luxury that has never been possible for people of average income. We envision very nice, well-appointed villas shared by multiple families and single adults who have a kinship bond of some kind.
This reflects a lifestyle and architectural design change meant to enhance individual wealth and freedom unilaterally, that is, without waiting for some law or policy change that is imposed on society. At best, as a freehold villa would have a positive environmental impact, the government should offer tax and other incentives and ease laws and regulations that might make the forming of groups who undertake to build freehold villas more difficult.
You can’t really have a happy experience in such a close-knit arrangement with people who don’t share your sociocultural and perhaps even religious sentiments, values, and convictions. Therefore, residential membership especially needs to be limited to some form of blood and/or spiritual kinship where the residents truly count one another as kin in some way.
It is important to note that race-based clustered living is most certainly not what we have in mind and, moreover, we wouldn’t consider such an approach to be morally justified. When clearly blood kin are probably mostly all considered the same “race”, in most cases you will need more than blood kin to form such a cluster of people and for this a form of spiritual kinship related to shared beliefs and values alone is far superior. This can and likely will include people who aren’t considered the same race.
Freedomists believe race is a negative social construct that breeds hatred and division and should be discarded in favor of equity and equality applied to every single human being from birth to death with respect for their human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing. An inherent spiritual sovereignty endowed by our Creator requires respect for our rights to life, liberty, and property as well as the rights to pursue happiness and form our own freewill participatory associations and communities that reflect our values.
We also believe equal and fair access to affordable housing, while not a “right” per se, is a mark of an advanced civilization and a requirement of justice. We do not ever want to see our concept of clustered living and clustered housing, which is all predicated on freewill participation, become a means of segregation by race or denial of fair housing practices.
We simply believe we need and have a right to pursue clustered living and clustered housing as a solution to the present sociocultural and socioeconomic crises. We believe this is a necessary bulwark for the well-being and freedom of average people in the face of an archaic and selfish ruling class who are lost in the industrial age top-downism of the 20th century. The modern revival of an extended multi-family household cluster is essential to bolstering freedom and wealth within a society facing multiple crises.
A sustainable, green, and environmentally-friendly but luxurious villa can make people more free and prosperous while protecting them from hazards, crises, and disasters.
In such a scenario of clustered housing, the building is owned by a mutual benefit corporation (MBC) and the residential members each own shares, requisite to their private space. So someone who has a smaller place has fewer shares and pays less. But membership in the MBC is limited in some way to people who are somehow in a kinship type relationship.
A freehold villa is neither a commune where everyone just lives together in one house nor a condominium where everyone owns a separate condo. But it is in fact a single, albeit multi-family, extended household. Our society doesn’t have a concept of an extended multi-family household that is both a cluster of a few single households and is itself like a single household.
Note: you could also opt for a freehold cluster, which is a group of individual homes surrounding a common house with luxury amenities and that includes shops and commercial as well as residential space leased to the public. This may be more expensive than a freehold villa and would be more difficult in urban areas.
Clustering together in a shared space and behaving as a “household of households” is the major lifestyle change involved here. Because our goal is freedom and prosperity, this is not any sort of collective or commune, your own space is your own but you also share space and resources and you practice mutual self-reliance and mutual assurance with people who you feel kinship toward.
An urban freehold villa may build upward instead of outward and include both members’ housing and housing offered on a fair housing basis to the public. Creating sustainable “towers” in a cityscape is good for the planet and increases wealth and freedom for average people living and working in cities.
In an era of major disasters, supply chain disruptions, security challenges, upheavals and riots, and a worsening climate for freedom-minded and religious people especially, the freehold villa is a positive and concrete response that will buttress its members from these storms. You will find that the lone individual or nuclear family isn’t able to withstand these threats to their freedom and wealth without close-knit mutual support.
The freehold villa and the revival in modern form of an extended multi-family household cluster (like the ancient Oikos), is an idea well suited to our time and the architecture of a freehold villa is precisely what will make this clustered living more practical and profitable to all involved.
Coming together in a way that both respects your privacy and individuality and provides you with warm and nurturing connections with other people who are physically close by is a tangible alternative to the atomized life of decreased wealth, freedom, and happiness.
Other larger clustered housing arrangements include a freehold estate of as many as 5 of these smaller clusters, around 120 adults, or a larger single building with these 5 clusters, called a freehold castle. We do not recommend clustered housing beyond 120 or so adults as this wouls engender segregation within a locale. Moreover, we do recommend that some space offered to the public be set aside both to offset costs and prevent insularity and isolation.
Clustered living in some of kinship with other people you feel deeply connected to can, when approached with balance, promote the prosperity and freedom for all and both protect you from the many crises of our era and increase your chances of being a success.
We believe and assert that every person within their own familial or other bonds, and through freewill participation by all persons involved, owns a right to cluster together with other people on a private basis to nurture and promote their way of life. Everyone who disputes this right has an authoritarian psychosis and cannot properly and humanely interact with society outside of their innermost lust to dominate their neighbors.
It is, as with every right, impractical to say this right has no limits but, like all rights, those limits must exist only where the practice of this right overwhelmingly harms the rights of others, uses coercion, or involves a tort against another person.
A right to cluster may be somewhat limited by the practical necessity of ensuring a right to fair housing. As an example, if the only housing for many miles is controlled by these clusters of people and you don’t fit in with any of them, then, practically speaking, your right to fair and equal access to housing is, at the very least, undermined. That being said, the likelihood of this every occurring may be slim as natural market forces will compel even clustered living groups to lease residential space to the public under fair housing laws as a way of offsetting costs.
Clustering is not isolating. If you cluster with other people you don’t cut yourself with others outside you cluster group. The world is too interconnected to allow for isolation in clustering but it is also too top-down to neglect the use of clustering as a way of increasing your resources and support in the face of top-down efforts to control you.
What we are asserting is that a cluster of people, and we generally think 120 adults of the same mutual affinity group (the IRS calls it a fraternal bond) is the upper practical limit, has every right to dwell together and make membership in their mutual affinity group a basis of freewill participation. A cluster is not a large-scale group (like an entire mutual benefit, refugee support, and missions society), that is a freewill participatory association, which we also own a right to form. A cluster is a body of people with a mutual affinity bond that is capable of acting as a larger extended multi-family household community that can be self-governing and achieve mutual self-reliance and self-sustainability.
Clusters of people may be a collection of people who live near each other and who create shared spaces and common facilities both for mutual benefit and shared purposes. They will tend to be a combination of residential and non-residential participants who revolve around 120 or so adults of the same affinity group all of whom feel and act as a familial community.
A cluster may in fact include people who are not part of the core affinity group, such as staff, people being housed as refugees, people leasing space, friends and family who reside with members, and children of members who live on site. To cluster is to live more freely and to have the pooled resources and mutual support needed to live in a more luxurious manner than your present means might allow.
People can cluster, people should cluster, people have a right to cluster, and as our shipwrecked civilization flounders into crisis after crisis, people will be compelled by necessity to cluster. It is for this reason we assert this right now, the right to cluster together with others in a familial bond based on a mutual affinity or identity.
How might clustering be abused? Namely, we may see people try to cluster in larger and larger groups in order to essentially discriminate against others. They may only want white people, they may hate people who aren’t monogomous and heterosexual, they may hate Muslims, they may hate Christians or Atheists, and on and on.
Scrutiny of clusters is morally justified to prevent these torts against others, who have an equal right to exist and live, or cluster, and who, within the broader community, must be accorded all the same rights and respect as everyone else. But a cluster of up to 120 adult members and everyone attached to them in a neighborhood setting is not a violation of anyone’s rights.
Within the Upadaria project, we emphasize pluralism to such a degree we encourage Upo Clusters, what we call Shireholds as a group and Estates or Castles for larger single clustered living hubs, to actually set aside space for leasing to the public based on fair housing laws. We don’t, however, beleive it is justified to mandate this, although we strongly feel it is a good thing to do.
It is our conviction that a clustered living arrangement should have the following features (these are ethical standards, not coercive laws):
1. It is based solely on freewill participation within a clearly defined set of shared ideals, principles, practices, mandates, and standards agreeable to all who freely join the community.
2. It is not too large that all the adults members could not get together in person and form a concensus about governance, resource allocation, and the such. Thus around 120 adults begins to be an upper limit to a cluster.
3. It is positively for something, like its way of life or sociocultural identity, it is not based on hatred or violence toward others and it doesn’t promote hatred or violence toward others.
4. It is based on ideas and beliefs more than things like race or ancestry, even if its mutual affinity is based on some sort of nationhood or ethnic identity. As an example, a Scottish Christian mutual affinity may tend to attract people of Scottish ancestry but it would welcome anyone of any race or color who simply had an affinity for and a desire to live a Scottish-Christian way of life.
5. As much as it can, it sets aside around 10% of its housing options for refugees/people in crisis and 20% to be leased to the public under fair housing laws to serve others and prevent itself from becoming insular while contributing to the existence of fair housing access for all.
6. People who join own shares, not the physical building, and if they leave or must be removed, they are either duly compensated or they remain on site but their status changes. Unless they commit a real tort or crime, they are never shunned or shamed for ceasing their active participation.
7. Mutual self-reliance and sustainability are the chief material aims, the object being to assure the physical, emotional, and spiritual sustenance of all persons who are members or who are connected thereto, even people who lease space, and always on the basis of offering and providing, never imposing, such help and support.
Note: if done right, the public will crave leasing space from a Upo Cluster, a cluster based on the Upadarian nationality, because it will assure them of sustenance even during hardships and of safety during times of crisis or disaster.
That all being said, clustered living is an inherent right. A cluster of all black people or all white people isn’t our ideal and we feel these can become insular, prejudicial, and self-destructive, but the right to do things others think is wrong, provided it does no harm to others, cannot be denied.
The right to cluster is a new formulation, but it has always been an inherent right, we believe, even if unrecognized as such on a formal basis.
Freedom is the domain of the free and free people are individuals whose rights, persons, and property are respected by others but maintained through their material independence. While freedom has political implications, and there is such a thing as political freedom, freedom is more like a state of being through mostly material independence and self-sufficiency.
We introduce the general concept of extended “extended freeholds” consisting of around 10-20 or so adults who inwardly feel and behave as a family unit, even if they aren’t related by blood, and who share or individually own enough resources to ensure the basic physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of every participant.
Within the Upadaria project, we refer to these Extended Freeholds as Kinship Groups and their facilities as either Estates with multiple houses or Villas with multiple condos in a single building.
This is a sort of cohousing idea, albeit with much more privacy and much less collectivism. An Extended Freehold, or a Upo Estate or Villa, is not a collective but it does use a combination of intentional extended kinship, cooperation, collaboration, and organcic cohesiveness to save money and pool resources while nurturing a shared way of life.
The Kinship Mandate
WE IMPART THE PRACTICES AND VIRTUE OF KINSHIP
We form small, extended familial groups and practice mutual care and support with our relatives, fellow Upadarians, and fellow Believers according to a Biblical blueprint. We refer to these as Kinship Groups wherein we view the success and well-being of those we are connected to as equally important as our own.
The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Eight
This concept of extended and intentional kinship is essential in times like these when all the meta-structures of society engender abject dependency by the individual who is separated and isolated from others because of a radical individualism that, ironically, is paving the way to collective top-down control by the few over the atomized and undifferentiated many.
The all-out assault on the moral and sociocultural foundations for a society wherein most people are raised in a loving home by a mom and dad, and an extended family and community, is aimed at dividing people so much that only a mass of atomized and undifferentiated individuals remain. Such a divided mass of atomized individuals is quite easy to control through top-down social, economic, cultural, and political structures.
An Extended Freehold Villa may look like a mansion with 3-5 condos for families and 2-3 single adult residences with common areas for residents and non-resident members of a mutual benefit society represents a new architecture and a new mode of living that nurtures the individual without smothering them.
With the possible exception of well-off people who can afford all the accouterments of material self-sufficiency, and staff, most average people CANNOT swim against this tide or resist its material pressures on their own WHILE maintaining a high level of prosperity. Additionally, most cannot afford the luxuries a small group of 10-20 adults could afford through pooling resources and/or doing some of the work cooperatively themselves.
The concept of an extended freehold comes back to a freehold as a piece of land and connected assets whereby a family could 100% meet is basic needs. The extended part of it comes from the fact that a few families, around 20 adults in total, who cluster together near each other or on the same “freehold” of a few acres or partial city block, can become fairly self-sufficient.
We speak of clustered housing as opposed to cooperatives, communes, and cohousing, although strictly speaking an extended freehold may be partially classified as cohousing. This concept of an extended freehold as a household group consisting of a few nuclear families and single adults who are part of those families and a number of non-residential members of a mutual benefit society is far from any form of collectivization. It actually nurtures and supports the individual, giving them more freedom than they ever could have as an atomized individual under a meta-scale, top-down system of control.
An extended freehold might be a group of families who live near enough to each other to build the tools for self-reliance such as food and energy production. Again, within the Upadaria project we call these freehold groups “kinship groups” and their physical space an Estate or a Villa. But this is a form of an extended Freehold
Ideally, this concept envisions people in these household groups doing some sort of clustered living arrangement where perhaps there are 5-10 homes and/or apartments clustered around a Common House with food and energy production in the center as well. Or it may be a single mansion-like building with 5-10 condos connected to common areas featuring luxury appointments.
The legal structures to make this happen include a mutual benefit society (501 c 8, IRS defined “fraternal benefit society”), mutual benefit corporations, mutual assurance funds, a land trust, and/or other entities as needed. Two points are necessary here: we have researched some of the particulars and legal structures but, secondly, this short essay is only conceptual.
Basically, we call this “clustered living” in terms of lifestyle and “clustered housing” in terms of the physical infrastructure. What is important here is that if you don’t begin to seriously consider clustered living and, eventually, clustered housing, that you will find that maintaining your freedom and prosperity gets harder and harder.
The very basis of the new authoritarianism within the West is to atomize society in a massive “divide and conquer” power move. You refusing to countenance the need to cluster together with people who share your beliefs, values, and convictions is exactly what the people who think they own you want you to do. Stay atomized, stay vulnerable, stay enslaved.
The extended freehold as a concept allows you to cluster together with such people and build the local means of your own material self-sufficiency, which is the greatest defense against the socioeconomic pressures that are brought to bear when you defy the top-down power agenda. It is the most practical counter to authoritarianism that is reactive but proactive, it doesn’t just slow the trend toward authoritarianism, it reverses it.
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