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The State has guns and men to use them. As we have seen, however, it not only can fail to coerce a rebellious majority, it cannot even stop an enterprising minority of black marketeers and other Counter-Economists. The State must be defeated in each person's mind. Once you personally reject its hold over you, you are as free as your intelligence, your will to take risks, and the aid of your allies can keep you. New converts to Christianity describe a similar process, which they call being "born again." Even in darkest Russia or China, entrepreneurs thrive and - for a high price - buy their well-being and additional freedom. Of course, any North American, Australian, or European reading this should have a relatively easier time and a higher payoff.
What may be needed - in addition to spreading the word and living it - is some form of agorist psychology. Perhaps we can use the examples of therapy for childhood mistreatment or consciousness-raising groups for feminists, gays, and other obviously oppressed groups. We can all get together in small affinity groups of trusted friends and allies to dig our contradictions out of our unconscious. We can flush out the State from our heads by ourselves or together or both ways.
Every law that you obey must be reexamined with the thought, how does it protect life and property? If, as almost every law in our system does, it actually constricts the market or steals outright, it should not be obeyed save when force is reported nearby and menacing you directly.
Once you have successfully arranged your life to live in the free-market anarchy to the extent that you can accept the risks - the higher the risks, the bigger the payoff, including freedom - you can and will quite naturally add to your ranks. Risks are lowered by trustworthy marketeers working together. Soon everyone will know agorists are the most trustworthy of all. Come runaway inflation and depressions, the unemployed and bankrupt in the State's Economy will see unlimited jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities, not to mention the preserved wealth for capital, that the Counter-Economy offers and join it if only to keep from starving, losing their homes, their family support, and their remaining self-respect.
Remember, an agorist is one who lives counter-economically without guilt for his or her heroic, day-to-day actions, with the old libertarian morality of never violating another's person or property. There is no "membership card" to fool you; an agorist is one who lives agorism. Accept no counterfeits.
There are agorists "trying to live up to it." There are, of course, liars who will claim to be anything. As Yoda said so succinctly, "Do. Or do not. There is no try."
That's Agorism.