If credibility can be built, people and capital will follow. To build credibility, I propose to create and manage the Free Nation Foundation, a forum for meeting, publishing, debating. I magine you are on a ship and there are no lifeboats. A hole breaks in the hull. Water gushes in.
Many people bail.
But you can not tell if bailing will save the ship. You look around and see materials which might be made into crude lifeboats. Albert Jay Nock, in Our Enemy the State , foresees unstoppable growth of the American government. This growth, he says, brings corruption, enfeeblement, and eventual collapse. I do not know if he is right, but in my view the evidence seems to support his pessimism.