While listening to liberty under attack series “building the second realm” a thought kept occurring to me about how a second realm would be useful in being apart of or creating an opensource insurgency. The more I thought of this the more i believe that the second realm could be treated as a opensource insurgency itself
An opensource insurgency (A term first coined and described by John Robb in his blog (Global Guerrillas ) and his book Brave New War ) is an organizational method by which a large collection of small, superempowered groups can work together to take on much larger foes. The precipitants in an opensource insurgency are called global guerrillas despite the name a global guerrilla does not have to be violent there goal unlike guerrillas of old is not to take over a state but to hollow it out. A hollow state has all the appearance of a real state, a military, collects taxes but has no real power over most of its territory. this is preferred to failed state because it prevents other state from intervening.
As anarchists, voluntarist, Vonuist this would be considered a great step forward for in the effort to eliminate The State. this is why i think those building the second realm should look to the rules for growing an opensource insurgency to help it succeed.
Starting an OSW
the enemy (The State) is already clear but the goal has to be made clear while ending The State is the eventual goal building a second realm is the more immediate goal. There are already many demonstration of the states weakness and the viability second realm
Rules for open source insurgency
Most of these rules should be familiar to anyone with an understanding of the open source movement and the second realm but the first rule break networks or disrupt the state ability to coordinate and bring its power to bare. this means to go on the offensive against the state in some way this can mean Simon Jestering, citizen journalism, filming cops, Anti-government . but it can also mean figuring out ways of breaking their control such as cryptocurrency or cryptography.
Links
Global Guerrillas a great blog for things like open source insurgency, resilient communities and other ideas that might be helpful for building the second realm and understanding the world today
Liberty under Attack the blog and specifically there building the second realm series that inspired me to write this post (and the start this blog)