Over the last 20 years I was able to recover from the decades of statist indoctrination I was exposed to by every authority figure I can remember ever coming into contact with. Now I’m comfortable enough with my views that I am willing to share them with my grandchildren. My four grown children have shared this evolution with Donna and me so that as a team we are very likely to raise a ‘Generation Next’ free from the mind prisons waiting for them.

 

I was fortunate to be quickly immersed into a sea of political corruption dominated by individuals of poor character and weak minds while I pulled a thread attached to the truth. It had an immediate and lasting impact on me that spared me the wasted time most of my peers had to endure that hadn’t been there for the personal experience of associating with those in political power.

 

I consider myself fortunate because I was spared the years, decades or even an entire lifetime of fear and doubt associated with searching for an unknown truth. It seemed clear to me at the relatively young age of 28, that if I couldn’t be recruited to support the power structure of the status quo I could be confounded enough by people with empty rhetoric, positions of power, expensive suits and flattery to be rendered incapable of knowing the truth of things and the seriousness of the effort to enslave the minds and productivity of any and everyone, even future generations. The impact on me was almost immediate.

 

For two years my family swam in an ocean of political corruption while sending up signal flares that were finally spotted by good libertarian activists in the early 90’s that are still very close friends and fellow activists that are a large part of our successes here in Arizona on many fronts.

 

It was at about the same time that we were exposed to the use of “Electronic Mail” and electronic bulletin boards and the creation of internet service providers and the creation of web browsers for the ‘WORLD WIDE WEB!” and Search Engines.

 

Ideas sparked flames in our minds. We became confident in knowing what questions to ask and where to get the answers. We would accumulate reading lists and movie lists and other resources to share with others. We would join and/or create email lists, run for political office while being creative activists. We learned to create ‘Web Pages’ that would be a resource for others just like us looking for answers.

 

At a time when most people would have to wait minutes for a single graphic to load on their computers we were planning for the future when the media monopolies would be vanquished by a tireless and creative generation of young minds that would have the tools to free minds. Another generation was to be enslaved by the evils of control that have plagued humanity throughout recorded history. FreedomsPhoenix.com, the Radio Show, the Digital Magazine, the activism and the relationships that have been nurtured over the years were a dream fully formed in our minds over a decade and a half ago.

 

We knew that the future would be full of individuals just like us that wanted nothing more than to be left alone. Sustained efforts to create a foundation of support and understanding was made available to help the next generation accomplish what we could not in our time. Technology has been a force multiplier that statist are incapable of understanding. To the Authoritarian, technology is a hammer to be used to advance a particular agenda without regard to unknown and unintended consequences. It doesn’t even occur to them that the individual minds capable of creating such wonders are where the real power resides.

 

China is only now starting to realize that the educated minds, capable of engineering (or reverse engineering) technology, is where the real threat to the State comes from.

 

Years of reading and discussion and contemplation has been replaced with an evening of watching Ron Paul YouTubes and communicating with new ‘friends’ on Facebook. And newly discovered liberty oriented web sites can fill in any gap of understanding.

 

This is why a year ago we provided the protesters in the Middle East with the sources of information that we knew to be the most fundamental to our own personal evolution as self-sustaining human beings (HarheaPhoenix is Arabic for FreedomsPhoenix).

 

An Arabic version of The Philosophy of Liberty is constantly shared with the young Arabic speaking activists via our Arabic Facebook and Arabic Twitter pages. Middle East formatted DVDs and Arabic translated written material has joined the use of the Internet in a constant stream of information sent to truth seekers in the streets of oppression and brutality to reinforce the ideas of liberty that are already so deep in the hearts of many of the young here in America. The LOV3olution has always been worldwide… and for all of the same reasons it has flourished here in America.

 

We soon followed with a small effort in Honduras (Spanish version of the Philosophy of Liberty) and quickly learned that they were much farther ahead of their Arabic peers. Just last month the Honduras government changed their Constitution to allow for a ‘Galt Gulch’ Free Zone to exist.

 

The ‘Age of The State’ is quickly passing and most individuals in power and those still mentally and emotionally enslaved by it can not comprehend what is happening all over the world at the speed of thought.

 

I PREDICT:

That the 2012 Person of the Year will be… the “person”,… the Individual. Time Magazine’s acknowledgement of ‘The Protestor’ may be the closest that they will ever come to the recognition of the individual as the most influential entity on the planet, but the establishment is starting to feel ‘the individual’ breathing down their neck in the form of their own children and grandchildren.

 

All of my other potential predictions branch from the root of an entire generation suddenly becoming self-aware of their individual importance… to themselves.

 

The feeling that’s implanted in the young that they must turn themselves or their friends or their family in (even if they don’t know to whom or for what) is quickly being replaced with… indifference. Just as an experienced hiker knows that the selection of a trail to avoid the bears is far superior to being eaten or having to defend your life, the next generation of human beings are having it demonstrated to them constantly that the best way to deal with the state is to avoid it.

 

By the end of 2012 we will evaluate our efforts to educate an entire planet on the use of barter and trade and the use of commodities… because we can :) Stay Tuned!

 

The realization of an entire generation of young Americans, Hondurans or Egyptians that they don’t need another Pharaoh to add to thousands of years of Pharaohs is the _real_ danger facing those that Just Won’t Leave Us Alone.

 

When some promote the idea that we shouldn’t bring children into a world filled with seemingly overwhelming challenges, all I can think is, that is WHY we need the next generation. The controllers hope to indoctrinate these innocents into thinking that they are somehow responsible for the enslaving debt that the Bad Guys hope they’ll accept. I look forward to the cultural evolution playing out before us in live 3D… recorded by a teenager’s Smartphone, of vast numbers of the young making it clear that ItsNotMyDebt.

 

I look forward to a time when I can feel comfortable explaining to my granddaughter playing outside how the helicopter over her is able to fly and is such a fantastic tool in providing opportunities for humanity to explore the possibilities of their imagination,… you know,… what we did the first time we experienced such wonders. But, I hate the feeling that I should be thinking about how and when I might start adding additional information about the overhead helicopter’s armor and firepower. And that they are at the control of people that demand her obedience.

 

I look forward to when the birth of our 3rd and 4th and 5th… grandchild can be enjoyed with out having to be backup to parents that want to avoid a state mandated needle full of metals and molecules and potions and notions to be made part of their infant child’s flesh.

 

I look forward to a time when I’m more worried about my children driving safely on the highway than any encounter with the state as a far greater risk to their health, their wealth and their lives.

 

I look forward to a trip down the street to a neighbor’s home; with as many grandchildren as can fit into a Radio Flyer Wagon, to teach them about community and trade and being a good neighbor, where they’ll learn how to trade peacefully our citrus and eggs for goat’s milk, until our young female goat starts to produce. But now we must concern ourselves with felony charges and being thrown to the ground in front of our children and grandchildren,… that are forbidden to video tape the event.

 

I look forward to traveling without being forced to demonstrate to young impressionable minds the requirement that The State wears blue gloves and you are required to allow the ‘King’s Men’ to stick them down your pants to visit family… even if they only live a few miles down the freeway.

 

I am working very diligently to be sure that I never have to explain to my grandchildren why people in uniforms wearing fine hats and a shiny badge and a gun are constantly trying to convince them that a vast portion of everything that they will ever produce already belongs to someone or something else.

 

But a funny thing happened on the way to planetary enslavement. An entire worldwide Generation Next took a moment to communicate with each other, in whatever creative and unknown method left to them, and simply took an unknown path of their own choice.