The James P. Baig Collection

The James P. Baig Collection are a series of written novels and essays distributed by controversial colonial author James P. Baig in the late twenty-fifth century. These articles are known as The Everyman, Poltergeist, Cyclical Revolution, and Frontier Eventualities.
The collection covered a variety of topics extending to academia, politics, socioeconomic theory, and individualist manifestos. Baig's written works outlived him despite the blacklisting of his material within the UNSC-dominated sectors of human space during the Insurrection and into the post-Covenant War period. Due to the easy means of distribution over ChatterNet, Baig's works are a sleeper hit among many other frontier and colonial voices of intellectual resonance; a number of colonial higher education systems teach courses based on his work.
Baig's repeatable concepts focus on the "individual freedoms" of people in advance of his proposed societal shift, what became the Insurrection.
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==Concepts==
===Individual Freedoms===
Baig's individual freedoms are the instrumental idea in his collective works and pertain to the integrity of the twenty-sixth century's pretense of a qualitative 'human condition'. These freedoms are personal rights that he outlines as the very basic needs for living in a contemporary, fair society that many go without under the rule of the Unified Earth Government and his further works often argue of a coming eventuality - a theory that is eventually confirmed as the Insurrection and the Insurrectionist movement.
For Baig, his notion of the contemporary human condition, the qualities of living a meaningful human existence, requires that all people recognize one another's individual value and that it can not be achieved without the means to use, capitalize, and protect it; especially to the degree that a person must protect and ensure their status by their own means and no one else's. For that reason, Baig was not appreciative of government structures and a proponent of the freedom-over-security school of thought. A key argument even extended in his works that the continued military colonialism practiced by the Earth would need to be overturned if his semblance of a fairer society on a more equitable playing field would be possible for people in general.
Despite resonating with the lower-population strata and planet side living of the Outer Colonial types, his arguments did not catch on in a profound manner and served more as a reflection of the time period and culture he lived in. In the years after publishing, many of Baig's arguments were challenged by counterpoint arguments from colonial academia. Many of Baig's critics noted his ideas as "overly simplistic," and his general mindset as rather "optimistic" or even "naïve." One notable critic even described the individual freedom tenets as "video gamey" in execution.
However, because of their simplicity, the individual freedoms are rather easy to follow; executing them can be a difficult challenge however.
Freedom of Defense: The ability to protect you, your loved ones, and your property. The freedom of defense in Baig's view involves the access and use of weapons in any manner to actualize a meaningful existence. Without weapons, individuals cannot act in self-defense or to be appropriately violent and get meaningful results in violence-necessitated encounters
Freedom of Knowledge: The access to knowledge, skills, and trades necessary to be productive through learning and experience. There should be no limitation or bar to learning or trying a new craft unless reasonably charged or exchanged. Knowledge is the tool necessary to make something of an individual and for that it should be made available to all who desire it.
Freedom of Mobility: The access to all forms of transport so individuals may move freely through space to wherever their heart's desire. Vehicles whether it be automobiles, specialized craft, or a coveted starship, the means to go anywhere under a person's own power is the gateway to true freedom.
Freedom of Resource: The access to property, land, and the resources within a space so that they can be capitalized and converted into a useable material or commodity; the same rule of use as that of conservation. An individual needs to be able to access, use, and protect resources so that they can invest in themselves and the society they are part of.
Freedom of Self: The individual or person is the ultimate resource as they have the power to act. A person should never have to lose a part of their selves or sacrifice a piece of their livelihood that would leave their existence lesser. The resource and the freedom of the individual must be protected and capitalized upon through the individual and no other medium or organization.
===Person===
An individual or person, according to Baig, is the totality of portions making up a human being that have physical and personal value: a person's thoughts, actions, property, associations, and offerings. These items are protected and validated through Baig's individual freedoms and can be further identified as how a person thinks, how a person behaves, how a person takes care in, how a person relates to, and how a person exchanges. A person is therefore not just their physical components but how their decisions and contributions play out in the larger society and universe. For a person to be of true stature in freedom and ability, they need access to his five individual freedoms.
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