The Enemy Seeks To Downplay, Or Take This Away From You
Family and culture are the most important things when it comes to building a civilization. I can tell you from first-hand experience, when you are under the belief that you are an anarchist/libertarian/voluntaryist, or that any of those societies will ever be a thing, you limit what you read to what exists in the anarchist/libertarian/voluntaryist milieu.
We ignore culture at our own peril. To quote the great Jeff Deist:
In other words, blood and soil and God and nation still matter to people. Libertarians ignore this at the risk of irrelevance
Step out and learn about High-Culture from Oswald Spengler and Francis Parker Yockey.
Have a good weekend!
It took me a long time to see that economics and abstract principles aren’t morality. If I hadn’t stopped wasting my life, gotten married, bought a house, and had a kid, I don’t know that I would have ever considered that. Too many of us starting life at middle age.
The last couple of years have been a beautiful revelation that we should all be grateful for.
So so right Pete. Social connections and cultural ties are always the starting point. Government and policy do not magically appear independent of these, they often form as extensions of them as social groups/family units expand and people look to a leader for guidance. If cultural connections go wonky (as they do clearly have for so many reasons that require another conversation altogether) then society as a whole follows