I recently saw a video with Killer Mike where he was doing a Q&A with some others for the Black Lives Matter community. He started a rant that got him booed regarding in essence, how futile it was to fight a system you depend on.
So what was the point?
He started by asking the crowd how many of them grew their own food followed by how many of them had kept their money in an African American owned bank. The crowd grew restless as they could see the very obvious point he was trying to make, you cannot truly fight against something you depend on.
This is one of the main reason I stopped protesting in my youth. Two options really, you can spend your energy fighting against something or spend it creating something better to transition into. I chose the latter and started dedicating my free time to learn more about the system I was born into and the possible ways to liberate myself and others from it.
From my research as best as I can interpret it.
Any official document you receive will have your name in all capital letters, the average person will tell you it does not mean anything but I disagree. Fact is that name in all caps is the corporation created at your birth that you agree to represent with each signature. Hence at the beginning of each court session "are you CODY DIETZ...?". You have to respond yes due to how the system is and "contempt of court" would most likely be used if you remained silent. This is due to all of these things being sorted out long before any of us or our ancestors were alive, the judge and judicial system also depend on this to survive so do not expect to sway them.
What is the need for this?
Fact is the human being that is you can only be prosecuted under Common Law. From my understanding Common Law is basically two aspects, hurting someone or depriving them of property. Everything else requires some type of coercion in my opinion. Feel free to dive into all of this further it is really good stuff, starting in the dark ages and creating rights of individuals.
So how do we become sovereign?
This touches on some very deep things and has to be studied in detail as there are many levels, Sadhguru has some good thoughts on this. At an obvious one you need to be independent from any reliance on what you are attempting to be sovereign from, or you will never be truly free. This is extremely difficult in my current situation, everything I need to survive is provided for me by outside sources that I am contractually and personally bound to in many ways. I am therefor a cog in the machine and am just pushing keys on a laptop for my own entertainment.
It is ok to dream right?
Fortunately the above has been accomplished by Auroville on some level, however not perfect. My goal is to attempt something locally using blockchain tech to govern the whole thing. There needs to be an identity system and way to track community involvement to provide the right amount of network weight to each individual when making procedural decisions. This has obviously been executed well to me for the most part here on steemit. We here are a sovereign community with no dependence from any centralized outside force. So to translate that into a group of local people owning and operating a shared space is a dream of mine.
Do you think it is possible?
Let me know in the comments below, thanks!