On a recent stream that my friend and business partner Michaelangelo of Pol hosted, the actual stepping stones towards how not only a parallel economy is built, but how we can even strategize away from the legacy economy and what that would look like.
I have been discussing with friends from Iron Age Archive and paymyfrens.net how a parallel economy is constructed. One of the main steps that must be taken, beyond the fun of selecting where a good place to build actual infrastructure and communities, is the real-world aspect of acquiring funding so that it isn’t just “LARP” as many negative nancy negativists would say. For instance, what does the sales pitch for the parallel economy look like? Are we “Based Community Incorporated” or just a loose confederation of businesspeople? Will paymyfrens.net, and the like, simply turn into a holdings company where we act as a portal to investment in our guys?
There’s quite a number of avenues that we can take, and for every simple question, there are a plethora of nearly equally-good answers, which can be a challenge to one’s patience, but that is an important part of growth for any person or group. You won’t get anywhere by making hasty decisions without any advisory. So, let’s be patient, and answer a question that may seem simple, but is extraordinarily multi-varied:
What is the end-goal, so that we can attract investment?
The investment doesn’t all have to be boomercon or neutral money, but realize that much of that money is going to be what funds our thing. That is why we have to understand what we are trying to offer, and maybe organize it in a way that isn’t just a vague fantasy of separating from the poz.
We have two very important steps to take at the very beginning, which can happen in tandem, or maybe at different points in the timeline, but either of them must be made. We must utilize current internet and communications infrastructure to connect traditionalist, white-positive Americans who understand we are living in a collapse situation, who get that the suburban hellscape and atomized urban areas are only getting worse, and want a spiritual-communal lifestyle. Simply put - we want to take people who get it and connect them with others who get it.
Now, this could perhaps lead into the next step, which is to centralize our people, over a period of time, in an area of the country where the poz is far away, and we are able to feasibly live. This doesn’t mean moving 100,000 people to one town, but rather 10,000 people to a section of a state, all within a couple hours of one another. Paul Fahrenheidt has mentioned slowly moving into Appalachian towns that are being left behind and revitalizing them, which I think is a really good choice - among many good choices, but choices must be made and not overly pondered.
Now, let’s say we have these skilled, hardworking, traditional people who are building trust among one another, while major cities are in the process of a gradual degenerative collapse, and most Americans are chopping at the bit for an answer to their life-long short-term, aspiritual mindsets; well, you’ve got a headstart on the only people who will have already been constructing and building community, which is the cornerstone to what will provide investors/stakeholders with enduring returns on whatever investment is made into our communities’ people and businesses. Rather than investing in yet another tech startup, globocorp, or hair-brained billionaire science fiction LARP project, we can attract investment to these traditionalist, based communities.
Imagine an investor finally having something that is long-term, simple, and not some elaborate reinvention of another household appliance utilizing smart technology. Imagine, just showing them a community of people who have trades and professional skills, teaching other people in their low-crime community these trades and professional skills, and then creating tangible goods and services - especially goods.
Now, this has many, many pathways it can take, and the main thing I’d warn against in the construction of these communities is idealization. Just build your homestead and focus on community. We’ll figure things out as they come along - what we want our houses or churches to look like, how communal we want to get, how our schedules will look, but politicization and overthinking will ruin this cause before it even gets off the ground. Again, this is where the Amish just get it, and our model should be heavily inspired by them.
Anyway, just a simple thought experiment for all of my parallelist friends out there. I think the over-academicization and reactionary intelligentsia has held us back from asking these questions, and how not really far-out they are. For Americans, this is an important decision to make, as we live far, far apart, unlike our English friends across the pond. Not only that, our focus on coming together, in this way, would foster a cultural and economic rejuvenation in its own right that I think is easily more preferable than what America currently offers us. The collapse is measurable, and visible.
Obviously, the very first start was the event, and now it seems, it’s us meeting up more and coordinating different meetups, working together to form businesses and teach one another, and allow that vision to construct communities to actually shine through. I think attracting investment will be quite easy, and require no coercion, as we offer a vision that is not only original, but dependable - more so than anything since the beginning of the Boomer Truth Regime circa 1950s.
“Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.”
Warren Buffet
The Keel And Frame Of The Ark
I would refer you back to AA stream on classes of priests, people's, and merchants. He brings up a very good point that our powerbase financially will likely be the manufacturers.
https://youtu.be/Ffxc69yRftg