Life requires communities. Men have always banded together because no individual has enough firepower to hold off a gang. This is even more necessary today, because modern life is so complicated; someone who understands markets fails to understand diet, someone who understands diet fails to understand self defense, and so on. Women love communities because they are fun: cleaning, gardening, sewing, and cooking are all more enjoyable in teams, and when you are done you can throw a fairy ball with your friends!
But if Christianity is the path to family and brotherhood, communities are the solution to all our problems, and the United States was founded almost entirely by Christians, why has everything gone to shit? The United States got bigger! In 1776, all 13 Colonies together contained only 2.5 million people. The new Federal government was a quarter the size of modern Sweden, one third the size of Houston, half the size of Ireland, or roughly comparable to the state of Kansas.
And size matters greatly here, because of the asymmetry of collective action. Imagine a pork earmark that would result in $50 million profits for MegaCorp at the cost of $150 million losses for taxpayers. The CEO who stands to make $5 million from his stock options will work hard to pass it, but since it would only cost each taxpayer $1, it doesn't make sense for any of us to even call our congressmen to protest. If the United States were a hundred times smaller, either his payoff would only be $50 thousand, or he would have to extract $100 from every tax payer, and the situation would be much more manageable. The Founding Fathers were actually quite aware of this problem; in 1776 each Representative's district contained barely over 30,000 people, and the Founders were already concerned they were too large. Today each district contains almost a million souls! Small wonder that studies have shown that public opinion is almost totally irrelevant to the Swamp.
The worst part is that all of this free money is a magnet for powerful rent seekers. Being a US politician with a strong moral compass is like being a participant on a particularly nasty reality show. If they can't ignore you, they bribe you. If you aren't interested in money, they invite you to Epstein Island. If you don't go, they smear you in the press. If you keep winning elections, they threaten your family. If you still refuse to give up, they finally just assassinate you. We are leaving our politicians in the driveway with the keys running and wondering why they are being taken for a joy ride. They must put on the Ring just to survive, and then they drown. The more this process continues, the more corrupt the Swamp becomes, and the more powerfully it defends itself.
In fact this soul-crushing drama is constantly playing out everywhere at every level of society. As soon as we try to accomplish anything within our existing organizations, we find that they are all too big, too old, and too filled with rent seekers who will soak up any positive energy we put out. Regenerating America must be profitable. The people doing the hard work must be rewarded for doing so, or they simply won't do it. Conversely, once people see a clear path to improving their lives all of this blocked energy will explode.
Personally I think founding small health care plans could work pretty well. The average American family spends $27,000 per year on health care. Our current system is so catastrophically bad that just banding together to work out, cook real food, get outside, and reduce stress should massively cut costs. Anyone who can recruit a hundred families and cut costs by a third could make $1 million a year, enough to pay a nice salary and still reinvest in the community. Plus, I haven't forgotten being forced to wear a mask in the airport during the covid psyop. Oh, how I've longed for this moment, Big Pharma! The day when I would have the cunning plan I needed to haul you out of your cushy lair, and expose you to light of justice as the monster that you are. A monster so vile . . . ahem. Scale is the key. Too few and you cannot accomplish anything, too large and your leadership will inevitably be bribed or blackmailed. In fact, heritage America was dominated by small organizations.
The political associations which exist in the United States are only a single feature in the midst of the immense assemblage of associations in that country. Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions, constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kinds – religious, moral, serious, futile, extensive, or restricted, enormous or diminutive. The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to found establishments for education, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; and in this manner they found hospitals, prisons, and schools. If it be proposed to advance some truth, or to foster some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form a society. Wherever, at the head of some new undertaking, you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association. I met with several kinds of associations in America, of which I confess I had no previous notion; and I have often admired the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object to the exertions of a great many men, and in getting them voluntarily to pursue it. I have since traveled over England, whence the Americans have taken some of their laws and many of their customs; and it seemed to me that the principle of association was by no means so constantly or so adroitly used in that country. The English often perform great things singly; whereas the Americans form associations for the smallest undertakings. It is evident that the former people consider association as a powerful means of action, but the latter seem to regard it as the only means they have of acting.
Eventually the bankers put the political machines out of business by ending the patronage system with the Pendleton Bill of 1883, which required that government employees be selected on merit, and created the competent, dedicated civil service that we enjoy today ensured that politicians would be dependent on the bankers and industrial titans for campaign funds.
To understand why founding small organizations will be so devastatingly effective, we must remember that our enemies are rent seekers. They are not true kings, because they are not willing to wear the crown of thorns. Personal loyalty requires personal sacrifices that they do not wish to make. Consequently they are not and can never be in real control of anything, because any system designed to harvest 'free' energy must run semi-autonomously, and this requires a positive mission and members who believe in it and sacrifice for it, not the elite crime families who technically control the system. No one even knows who they are!
If in blind rage you attempt to destroy the rent seekers embedded in an organization with negative energy from the outside, it is quite easy for them to convince the whole organization that it is under attack and must respond. In fact, this strategy is so effective that our governments constantly conduct false flag and green flag attacks on their own citizens in order to tap war profits.
But if you build rather than conquer, it is surprisingly difficult for them to convince their organizations to attack you. Most of their members would rather sit in the office sipping pinot noir than drive out to the countryside to go full Nazi, and the more altruistic or energetic members may even periodically assist you! Of course the sociopaths at the top can and will attack you in the mass media, but even the best propaganda cannot turn up into down or white into black. Gandhi was able to eject the British Empire with satyagraha so successfully precisely because the British were not attempting to enslave the Indian people. His strategy would have failed disastrously against Montezuma and the Aztec cannibals.
Now, there is a mailed fist inside the velvet glove: organized crime and the intelligence agencies and secret police who have merged with them. You cannot overthrow the global criminal syndicate without being canceled, debanked, and eventually killed. Neither can I. But we can. All we have to do is not put on the Ring. It is altogether evil. The weapon of the Enemy can never be used against him. If you are leading a small HCSM there is simply no point in assassinating you. It won't move the levers of power, only expose organized crime to an increasingly infuriated populace.
‘No!’ cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. ‘With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly.’ His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. ‘Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me.’ He went to the window and drew aside the curtains and the shutters. Sunlight streamed back again into the room.
I have no plans to become a mighty influencer. I have said what I wanted to say. Of course I could write more, but I think this is the time for glorious deeds, not endless discussion online or gnoming away on ancient scrolls. I don't want to be the king, but I do want to be surrounded by other strong, intelligent, hard-working, noble men. I want to meet the great men of East Tennessee and work locally, where my energy will actually come back to me, and let God worry about the global situation.
I am not the only one looking for the exit. Noble men across the country are founding fun and profitable organizations that will rapidly recruit the virtuous out of enervated globalism. But the incompetent, greedy, and psychopathic will refuse to join any association that values them at their real (read: low to negative) talent level. Instead, they will turn and rend each other ever more fiercely to preserve their 'free' slice of an ever shrinking pie. The wolves will finally be forced to take off their sheep's clothing! They always feared and hated each other, and only appeared to be united by their common desire to plunder the American people. In The Lord of the Rings, Saruman was not killed by the Elves or Rangers; he was stabbed from behind by Wormtongue, who could no longer endure his endless abuse. In the same way, the elite crime families will indeed be exterminated, but by the weapon they have themselves raised, not by us. All of this turmoil will only make their organizations even weaker and drive out what few competent people remain, until finally they implode and we win.
It will be a lot of hard work for ten or twenty years, but Americans have never shied away from difficult tasks, and it will be quite an adventure! That's why I like the pirate LARP so much. I think One Piece is very American. What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness if not piracy? And when virtue-signaling rent seekers complain, I can just reply ‘Sir, I am a Pirate!’