Many people falsely think that freedom can only come into society by evangelizing every single person on earth into NAP anarchist values.

This is ridiculous and horribly inefficient. Although promoting freedom and liberty ideas into society is good, but this will hardly reach more than a fraction of the population. And even if every single person on the planet would believe in the NAP, then what? How to achieve it practically? People are practical creatures, nobody cares about theories, they want to see actual results in the real world.

Philosophical and intellectual debates about morality and freedom is only for high IQ people, but most people are not intellectually sophisticated to understand them. So evangelization is horribly inefficient, and doesn't help a lot in promoting freedom, although it's still better than doing nothing.

What needs to be done is practice, real world projects that actually make a difference. Entrepreneurship, organization and creation is what is needed to defeat tyranny and win a propaganda war.

Think of the most recent and most obvious example: Bitcoin





Nobody cares about central banking and fractional reserve systems, most people don't even understand it. But everyone suffers under it, without realizing it. So criticizing central banks and teaching people about Austrian Economics, doesn't do much good for your average person.

But some guy invented Bitcoin, and now we can totally bypass this. And people will join Bitcoin, not because they understood that the economy is rigged, but because it's marketed well and it's trendy. So they will free themselves from their chains, even without realizing it. But what they will quickly realize is that they have more money now, inflation doesn't hit them, and it's much more convenient and libertarian if you don't have to ask for permission to send money.

So people actually realize freedom, without having to understand philosophical concepts, just by experiencing freedom. Literally speaking, it's better to experience freedom than to theorize about it.

So now the genie is out of the bottle. However the tyrant wants to put back the genie into the bottle. So the tyrant has to invent scary stories about imaginary terrorists and money launderers in order to scare the sheeps back into the cage and to stop them from using Bitcoin.

However here is the catch, once people have experienced freedom, they don't want to lose it. So they will hardly care if some remote bad guys use Bitcoin, but they use Dollars too, so that is not an argument. Furthermore the benefits of Bitcoin massively overweight any potential downsides.

So the tyrant has no good argument against Bitcoin, all arguments can be debunked, and the population won't believe it anyway. So the only thing the tyrant can do is to use force to stop Bitcoin: by arresting Bitcoin users and introducing tyrannical surveillance.

Yeah, but that exposes the tyrant as being a copycat of Hitler, and hopefully people realize that violence and coercion is wrong. Hopefully!

So on one hand you have 1 new amazing technology that helps people, on the other hand you have a foaming mouth tyrant that tries to repress this technology as much as possible. Gee I wonder which side the population will choose.

So the tyrant can't use violence, that would expose him, and can't win the propaganda war, because his arguments are weak and can't defeat practical examples. Therefore Bitcoin wins, by being practically helpful to everyone.

Now this is only if Bitcoin exists. If Bitcoin was just a theory, then the tyrant would have won, because his propaganda tools are more sophisticated, and you can't win a philosophical debate against a propagandist.

But since Bitcoin is an actual real thing, that has real positive impact on the world, the tyrant loses.

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