Anarchitecture

We were recently interviewed on The Tom Woods Show.

This episode includes the discussion with Tom, plus a “post-game” discussion to further clarify some of the points raised during the interview.

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana008.

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Tom Woods is the…

Nicest Guy In the Liberty Movement (except on Twitter)

James Brown of the Liberty Movement

Oprah of the Liberty Movement

Preparations for the interview

Tom Introduces Tim and Joe

Joe, the “Multi-disciplinary Engineer”

Ideological slants of Architects and Engineers

Logistics of producing “The World’s Most Antipodal Podcast (TM)”

What is the Built Environment?

Who will build the roads?

Built Environment issues are not politicized left vs. right

Libertarians and “Normal People”

“Undesirable Material” – Anarcho-Sewage Treatment

The format of every NPR story

Is Tennis more libertarian than football?

Planning isn’t a bad thing

Jane Jacobs

Human Scale

“Eyes on the Street”

Planned and Unplanned cities

Failures of Planning – Boston City Hall Plaza

The roads, revisited

Are libertarian solutions too clunky?

Technical solutions and commercial solutions

Pop Quiz: Which country is an anarcho-capitalist utopia with private roads?

Privatization and divestiture – How do we get there from here?

Anarchitecture Podcast website details

@anarchitecturep on Twitter – Real world examples (we use #ThisIsAnarchitecture)

“The Tom Woods House” – A great result using DonorSee

Initial reactions

Our first interview – thinking on our toes

How we usually record – Editing Ums and Ahs

Technical Challenges

Tim’s Recording Rig

Joe’s Pop Filter

“Have I started an electrical fire?”

Tom’s cat – even the pro’s have glitches

Highlights

Unscripted moments of inspiration

Tom’s takeaways from #ana003

Who was Hayek?

Developed Austrian Business Cycle Theory with Ludwig von Mises

Won the “Swedish Central Bank’s Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” AKA Nobel Prize in Economics

Focused on the role of decentralized information in a complex society

Who was Jane Jacobs?

“The Death and Life of Great American Cities”

Feud with Robert Moses – Grassroots opposition to eminent domain

No formal education, an autodidact

Journalist for Architectural Record magazine

“Where are all the people?”

“Eyes on the Street” – taking ownership of your neighborhood

Le Corbusier’s “Vertical City” – Unite de habitacion

A good idea, dumbed down

Public housing projects and criminality

A spectacular failure – Pruitt-Igoe

A decentralized surveillance state

Distributed surveillance, judgement and action

“Were there any parts where you put your foot in your mouth?”

Dodging the question

UN AGENDA 21!!! – Too harsh?

Applying Austrian insights about information and monopoly theory to city planning

Channeling Alex Jones

Conclusion

Update on the final episode of the Citizen of Nowhere series

Tim’s blog post on Patrik Schumacher

The Tom Woods Show Episode 802 on Tom’s site

Article mentioned in the interview: Architects are left-leaning

Architects’ Utopian Visions

Modernist Dreams of Utopian Architecture

Utopian Architecture Part 2: Beyond Modernism

Jane Jacobs

on Wikipedia

on Mises.org

on Strong Towns

Jacobs and Hayek – Strong Towns podcast with Nolan Gray of Market Urbanism

The Death and Life of Great American Cities on Amazon

Boston City Hall Plaza Apologia

Walter Block on Road Privitization

The Privatization of Roads and Highways (free e-book on Mises.org) – Note, Joe got the name wrong in the discussion

Privatizing Roads Lecture on Youtube

Sweden’s Private Road Associations (PRA’s)

on Wikipedia

on National Academy of Sciences

A counterpoint – Are Private Road Associations really private?

The Tom Woods House

The Tom Woods Show Ep. 751 with Gret Glyer of DonorSee

Public Space

Rebuttal by Walter Block

Frederich A. Hayek

“Nobel Prize” Acceptance Speech: The Pretense of Knowledge

Essay: The Use of Knowledge in Society

Jeff Tucker applies Hayek’s insights to a city

Pass Le Corbusier

Wrote a book called Toward an Architecture. Get it? Toward Anarchitecture! What a visionary!

Unité d’habitation concept – Cité radieuse (Radiant City) in Marseille

Dumbed down, then demolished: Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis

The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur by Peter Klein (free e-book on Mises.org)

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Drawing on Joe’s own immigration experiences, we dig deeper into the “Freedom of Movement” conversation and discuss green cards, spouse visas, citizenship, immigrant enclaves, sidewalk entrepreneurship, book clubs, and “Moral Turpitude.”

Part 2 of the Citizen of Nowhere Series.

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana007.

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Episode 007, therefore Bond parody.

Theatrical trailer for 007: Citizen of Nowhere

Theme from 007: Citizen of Nowhere

Joe’s a hypocrite

From Australia to the US

US visa

Two weddings for the price of two

I don’t know much, but I know I love Helium Karaoke

Green Card – A straightforward process? 00:08:41

I-485 Form: There are no stupid questions, only stupid bureaucrats:

“That was more of a movement”

Was it an Oprah Book Club?

WAS IT AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB?!!

Moral turpitude

Espionage

Communist or Fascist – Democrat or Republican?

Genocide – What happens in Niagara…

Polygamy

A Nazi

Who would say yes?

I-864 Form

The best place to get Tuberculosis

Fiancé visa

In limbo for months

Forced to marry

Guys with forms and guys with guns

The interview

Government buildings assume everyone coming in the door is a potential threat – just like at the border.

Prove your love – we had TWO weddings!

Muriel’s Wedding

Commingled finances

Six months and $1,800 for a green card

Received, only to relinquish

Back to Australia

Tip your movers

All those summers of back breaking labor finally paid off

Bzzzz…POP!

Bike and skis – the sunk cost fallacy in action

The miracle of logistics companies

Customs declaration

Perfect timing

Joe’s Australian spouse visa 00:36:50

Australia – everything’s a little more bureaucratic

Documenting six years of Joe’s international travel

Original birth certificate?

Paperless visas cause confusion – Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO)

Joe’s kids’ dual citizenship

“They were born Australians, but they were made Americans”

Wait a few months for your appointment to wait some more

Traveling to Melbourne to do paperwork

Thwarted by Tiger Woods

Incidental costs of passport / visa / citizenship processes

Nameless public servants

Batching applications

Joe’s Australian citizenship 00:50:30

A bonus for podcast listeners!

Why become a Australian citizen?

A leg up in the job market

Easier to start a business

Foreign Investment Relations Board (FIRB)

Fearing nationalist revolution

Fearing nationalist bigotry

An American Spy?

Doing the paperwork – again

Finding a “referee”

HAZOP interruption

The interview – again

The test – arbitrary trivia

In government approval processes, the actual proof of knowledge and character is minimal. The bureaucracy of the process itself is what weeds people out.

The citizenship ceremony

Pledging allegiance

Benefits of citizenship

The right to be forced to vote

Voting silliness

The right to be forced to be on jury duty

More voting silliness

Auction your vote on ebay?

The right to be forced to join the military

That’s about it

Dual citizenship

Australians think Joe is Canadian

Tax Implications 01:13:07

Only two countries collect tax on foreign income of non-resident citizens. USA and Eritrea – an elite group

What taxes has Joe signed his kids up for?

US Citizens have to file tax returns for TEN YEARS after renouncing citizenship.

FinCEN form 116: FBAR – Foreign Bank Account Reporting, or “Fourth Bloody Amendment Repealed”

US Citizens have to report any foreign account valued over $10,000

Penalty for not submitting the form is the greater of $10,000 or HALF of the unreported assets. So much for unlawful seizure.

How many terrorists fill out their FBAR forms?

FATCA – Milking the offshore fat cats, and everyone else

Tax evasion vs. tax avoidance

The Panama Papers – Hypocrisy of politicians

Tax havens – created by onerous tax laws

Unintended consequences of immigration controls 01:32:11

Are illegal immigrants renegade libertarian heroes?

Anchor babies

Prohibition of immigration forces immigrants to live outside the system

Same-sex couples could be forced apart

Stateless people – real Citizens of Nowhere

Everywhere they go is ruled by a State – that’s the problem

Prohibition of immigration creates dangerous industry of human trafficking.

Eliminating prohibition of high demand goods and services eliminates profit centers for criminal organizations.

Nauru: Australia’s “Pacific Solution”

Now Australia has its own prison island!

Indefinite detention

If you’re paying to support people anyways, why not let them in so they can work?

Socialism + Open Borders => Ultra-Nationalism

Ultra right-wing groups are exclusionary National Socialists

Left-wing groups are inclusionary International Socialists

Nazis were Socialists too!

International socialists are deluded in thinking that socialism is sustainable

National socialists are deluded in thinking they can save it

Effects of mass immigration on the built environment 01:58:53

Immigrant enclaves facilitate integration.

Integration vs. assimilation

Immigrant enclaves create support networks for new immigrants.

Cultural conflicts can be better mitigated in an anarchic society than in a state

Sidewalk entrepreneurship

Coconuts, granola, motoconchos, and Kung Fu Panda 3

The importance of public space

Homesteading public use of space in an anarchic society

Community gathering spaces

Co-housing

Businesses within the home

How immigrants can thrive

Many of the things people do to get by in poorer countries are prohibited by zoning, building codes, licensing, and other restrictions in western countries.

Main Streets created by commercial additions to residential buildings

This isn’t trickle down economics – it’s “Build up”

How governments prevent immigrants from thriving

Immigration controls

Zoning prohibits certain uses

Zoning creates sprawl and reduces pedestrian traffic for small business

Building codes restrict uses within buildings

Restrictions on boarding houses

Granny flats / in-law apartments

Occupational licensure prevents immigrants from doing skilled work

Bigotry, Xenophobia, and Racism

The market puts a cost on discriminatory practices

Supporting a “right” to not be forced to associate or disassociate with anyone else does not equal support of racist beliefs.

“So there, we just solved racism!”

Next episode: A borderless world is a stateless world. What does this look like, and how do we get there?

Why Joe Became an Australian Citizen

Muriel’s Wedding

They’re a Weird Mob

Another Aussie who came to the US

Immigration and Crime – What the Research Says

Sweden’s ultra-nationalist (and socialist) vigilantes

How cultural enclaves overcome bigotry, and thrive

The CATO Institute does excellent work dispelling common anti-immigration myths:

Why Unemployment Is Lower When Immigration Is Higher

Low-Skilled Immigrants Are Still Not Harming Low-Skilled Natives

Visa Caps Are Protectionist Occupational Licenses on Steroids

After Welfare Reform, Immigrants Thrived Without Federal Benefits

How to Select Refugees for Private Sponsorship

U.S. Muslims Become More Socially Liberal As Muslim Immigration Rises

Muslims Rapidly Adopt U.S. Social Values

Muslim Immigration and Integration in the United States and Western Europe

The Choice: Legal Immigrants or Illegal Immigrants

Common Arguments against Immigration

Immigration and Terrorism

New Research Finds that Immigrant Crime Is Still Low

The “Vesper” martini:

“A dry martini,” [Bond] said. “One. In a deep champagne goblet.”

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Tim left his job as an architect to travel the world for a year with his young family.

How free are we to travel across the imaginary boundary lines that governments have arbitrarily defined?

If you don’t love it, can you leave it? Where would you go?

Part 1 of the Citizen of Nowhere Series.

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May 1, 2015

Let’s go somewhere, sell our house, rent our house. Before our kids are in school. Can you take a year sabbatical?  Let’s get basic jobs. Lets buy a one way ticket to somewhere warm and have an adventure. I’m serious. Maybe I’m just exhausted but it would be amazing.

I think we should find the cheapest Caribbean island we can move to and have an adventure. Maybe I’m just inspired by an article I read, but we only live once!

I love you.

Tim’s Abroad Life – www.abroad-life.com

Why travel?

Driving ourselves crazy – Snow sickness, work, pick-ups and drop offs

A Narrow Life – Struggling with careers, family life, and personal life

Crunching the Numbers

Renting our house for profit

Cheap housing while traveling

Housesitting gigs

“Two cats, three dogs, four horses, chickens and ducks”

“No! I am not doing donkeys.”

Working Remotely – A Partial Success

Cost Cutting

Childcare or Full Time Dad?

No income means no income tax

Rental property income tax loophole

Health insurance cost savings – travel medical insurance  and short-term medical insurance – actual insurance, not prepayment

The worst thing about Obamacare

The Best Way to Lose $20,000

The Zero Hour Workweek

The tenant search

Planning the itinerary – “We just changed the return flight.”

The pre-launch checklist – Three months to get everything done to leave

Closing out work projects

Where have we been?

Devonshire, England

Cambridge, England

Leeds, England

Zurich, Switzerland

Marseille, France

Brittany, France

Lisbon, Portugal

Brussels, Belgium

Maine, USA

NEW JERSEY!

Florida, USA

Las Tablas, Panama

Aguada, Puerto Rico

Loiza, Puerto Rico

Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic

Freedom of Movement (00:37:40)

Inclusion and Exclusion

Forceful restraints

Architectural Restraints

The effect on private property

Tourist or Traveler?

Immersion in the culture

The 30% Rule of traveling with young kids

Panama!

“If the water runs out, we’ll know which pipe at the side of the road to get it from.”

Empathy from experiencing environmental conditions that shape local culture

Breaking down apprehensions about people in different cultures

Naive, petty nationalism

Unreliable infrastructure builds reliance on a strong community structure

Reasons to emigrate

Favorable tax regimes

Medical Tourism

Security from persecution and expropriation

International Family

Lower cost of living

Seeking better jobs, higher wages, and starting businesses

Access to benefits and services – better healthcare, education, housing, welfare – controversial when these are provided by governments

Refugees

Why governments restrict travel (The “Ends”) (00:55:10)

Are border controls effective?

Keeping out criminals

Convicted criminals have already served time

Border controls can’t identify criminals who haven’t been convicted

Most Wanted – jurisdictional problems created by borders and regional monopolies of security services

Global competitive private security agencies – Discussed in ana003.

Private security checks at ports of entry in cooperation with security agencies

Most Wanted people need to be pursued no matter what side of a border they’re on

Preventing spread of disease

Zika virus – no visible symptoms, no screening at border – self-reporting

“These guys come on the plane in full biohazard suits”

Food poisoning in Shanghai

“That was the first time I defrauded the Chinese government. But it wouldn’t be the last…”

Farm animals

“Nobody’s going to answer yes to any question that’s going to cause them to have to spend more time there.”

Keeping out pests

A Hell of a prime time lineup

Australia’s pests have been imported by – guess who?

Fruit Fly, Rabbits, Foxes, and Cane Toads

They’ll Take Our Jobs!

The moral problem

Minimum Wage vs. Low Wage Workers – Minimum wage law guarantees there will be illegal immigrants

Nationalism = Racism?

Eliminating borders could alleviate global poverty better than any charity or welfare

They Won’t Have Jobs!

Effects of denying right to work

Tax funded benefits create conflict.

Privately funded benefits? Government “charity” crowds out private charity .

“They’re not your tax dollars.”

Decoupling poverty from immigration – Border control cannot solve entitlement problems.

They’ll Become Citizens and Vote!

Who cares?

“This is a real concern, if you think that voting has anything to do with promoting freedom within a society.”

Immigrants may be more likely to vote against oppression than locals

Voting is a charade

They Won’t Become Citizens and Vote!

Lack of assimilation

Immigrant enclaves ease transition for newcomers

Molenbeek and the Brussels Lockdown

Can immigrant communities foster criminality?

Code of Silence – a response to immigration controls?

Issues in immigrant communities are no different than issues in non-immigrant neighborhoods

Refugee Crisis

Would open borders reduce sudden shocks?

What anarchism is all about – Individuals can find ways to help refugees better than governments.

The Uber of Refugees

Open borders would make refugee movements more diffuse

How do Governments Restrict Movement? (The “Means”) (01:30:45)

Presumption of Guilt and Exclusion

Passports

Not needed before World War II

Joe filled his passport in Macao

PSA: You can’t travel on a passport within 6 months of expiration

Visas

Joe’s most difficult border crossing – Canada

“How dare you build a Planetarium in our fine country!”

Guy in the trunk

England’s absurd border entry process

England’s absurd work visa process

Arbitrary quotas and green card lottery

Elements of built environment used as means of restricting movement

Ports of Entry – Airports, Seaports

Architectural barriers – Designing the rat maze

Government Goons are People Too

“You can always opt for the manual inspection”

Customs and Quarantine

“A suitcase full of dried fish”

America’s absurd border entry process

When automation makes the process slower

Unofficial Ports of Entry – Borders

Border fences and walls

“Build a wall between the US and Canada”

Berlin Wall

“All border controls boil down to some guy standing on a wall who’s not going to let you in with your life.”

Mobile Border Patrols

“Your Papers, Please”

“These days totalitarianism comes with a smile”

The INS goes Up in Smoke

Next Episode Teaser

Joe’s wife coming to America

Joe moving to Australia and becoming a citizen

Impacts of mass immigration on the built environment

Tim’s Abroad Life Blog

The Email That Started It All

A Narrow Life

The Best Way to Lose $20,000

The Final Countdown

You Cannot Escape Your Destiny: Ep. VI Return of the Jobless

Why Travel?

Panama!

Travel medical insurance   http://www.insubuy.com/travel-health-insurance/

Short-term medical insurance  https://www.getinsured.com/ancillaryquote/stm

The tenant search – Sabbatical Homes www.SabbaticalHomes.com

Cheap housing while traveling –

Airbnb https://www.airbnb.com/

Homeaway www.homeaway.com

VRBO (Vacation Rental by Owner) www.vrbo.com

Housesitting

Trusted Housesitters www.trustedhousesitters.com

Mind My House www.mindmyhouse.com

The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

Yes, it’s a real show. In it’s 12TH SEASON! That’s how bad Australian network TV is. Hey Libertarians – the narrator of this nauseating state propaganda is Grant Bowler, who played Hank Reardon in the Atlas Shrugged movies! How does that make you feel?

Easier than getting into Canada

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Joe tells the harrowing tale of the house that tried to kill him.

How do we know if buildings are safe?

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“The only two worries are bush fires and snakes”

Joe’s Aussie hat

How Australia survived the GFC

Propping up the Aussie housing bubble

Decision to rent

Sold!

“We weren’t sure if they would let us keep the chickens”

The walkthrough

Moving in

Housing bubbles and subdivision

“And then things took a turn for the worse”

“Screw it and glue it”

Deterioration

“That was a structural light switch cover”

Retreat!

Possum fight!

Speculation on causes

A whole new mystery

A rhombus, and a rescue plan

“I don’t think that’s a problem”

Legalese

A revelation

Tenancies tribunal

Aftermath

Root cause analysis

Black market arborists?

How governments try to ensure safe buildings

Building codes

Licensing

Inspections

Lessons Learned

10 tips for renters and buyers

4 tips for landlords and sellers

The anarchic approach

A false sense of security

The Money Pit

SPOILER ALERT! For maximum suspense and terror, we recommend listening to the podcast episode before viewing these gruesome photos.

Note – these were taken in September 2012. It got worse.

Tim took advantage of government subsidies to install solar panels on his roof.

Is he a hypocrite?

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Sell! Sell! Sell!

The Boston Duck Parade

“Tim, I think someone broke into our house”

The 8 1/2 x 11 Sales Pitch

Insolation, Insolence, or Indolence?

Import and Export

The Water Heater

Costs, Benefits, Rebates, Credits, SREC’s

Commercial models will save the world

The Payback

Maintenance and Inverters

The Tree That Shouldn’t Be There

A revelation

Building codes from 1905 to today

Little boxes

The three screw method

Government solar schemes as initiation of force

Market distortions and consequences

Markets and innovation

Why Joe is embittered – Solar scams down under

Feed-In tarrifs

Stealing from the poor to feed the rich

Why green energy debates are divisive – Means and Ends

Bringing demand forward, missing out on advances

A race to the bottom

Payback without incentives?

Technical challenges

Three blinking lights

What if everyone had solar?

Balancing peak and off-peak loads – a cool technology

Grid capacity and augmentation

Is Tim a hypocrite?

Two strategies for anarchists

Anarchic heroes and government employees

Has Tim prevented WWIII?

Why tax avoidance won’t yield an anarchotopia

Solar isn’t the only scam…

Joe passes final judgement

Make Way for Ducklings Parade

Make Way for Duckling Book

Tim’s Solar Panels Cost Spreadsheet – PDF

Tim’s Solar Panels Cost Spreadsheet – Numbers

“Science of Doom” blog series on renewable technologies – the whole series is excellent, relevant posts linked below

Solar and Free Lunches

Renewables and Grid Stability

Debate: May Libertarians Accept Government Money?

350+ Yellow Pages listings for Solar Power in Adelaide That’s 1 per 3,500 people. #unsustainableboom

Introduction to the philosophy of anarchism, and an exploration of anarchic approaches to developing the built environment. This is the third and final episode in the Foundations Series.

The Scales Framework rises from the ashes of #ana002 to make it’s heroic final stand against tyranny. A non-aggresive heroic final stand, of course.

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Ant colonies are often seen as the archetype of a top-down, centralized society. Is this really the secret to their success?

Three possibilities for an anarchic society

No more initiation of force

Unanimous consent

Rethinking legitimacy

What Anarchism is not

Chaos

Lawlessness

Might makes Right

Pacifism

A complete moral theory

Minarchy

Libertarianism

Pro-big business

Anti-big business

The Left-Right paradigm

Expanding the political spectrum: The Means and Ends chart

Example: Oil or Gas Pipeline

Example: Nature Reserve

Return of The Scales Framework

House Scale

Anarcho-parenting

Resilience

Property Scale

Home Security

Neighborhood Scale

Anarcho-party crashing

Anarcho-Playgrounds

Anarcho-Trash removal

The solution to boundary conflicts

Voluntary communities

Metropolis Scale

But who will build the roads?

Anarcho-Sewage

Monopoly and competition

Anarcho-Police

Anarcho-Firefighters

Region Scale

Anarcho-Electricity Networks

Remote land development and distorted markets

Anarcho-Immigration

Anarcho-Tourism

Global Scale

International relations are anarchic

“Free Trade” or 15th century mercantilism?

No State, no war?

Conclusion

Recipe for Certified Organic Non-GMO Quinoa Chips

Who are the people in your neighborhood?

It’s real, folks. But not endangered.

The solution is always shrubbery

Anarcho-privacy in Australia

Tim and Joe define the concept of the State, and illustrate how the State initiates force at each scale of the built environment. This is the second of three episodes in the Foundations Series.

The Scales Framework returns for the tragic second act.

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How do you shape the land to foster your ideal vision of societal organization? One of early America’s premier architects shaped the built environment for the ideal of democracy by drawing the lines of the Continental Grid.

But these lines weren’t drawn with a pen; they were drawn with an eraser.

Definition of a State

Initiation of Force

Consent and Legitimacy

The Violence Inherent in the System

The State or The Mafia?

Justifications for Government

Government Monopolies

Limits on government power

Realities of Democracy

Democracy as a tool for legitimacy

The Scales Framework goes to Washington

Would you initiate force in your house? Neighborhood? Canada?

House, Property and Neighborhood Scales

Outsourcing force to the state; Police as hired guns

Noise, social norms, ordinances, and zoning

Garden gnomes and the Virgin Mary in a Bathtub

Metropolis Scale

Taxes as aggression

Infrastructure, public schools, public transport

Does monopoly solve poverty?

Does voting solve monopoly?

Non-experts running services

A prerequisite for political office

Crowding out low cost private schools

Region Scale

Infrastructure as redistribution

Regulation and Standardization

Global Scale

International Standards and trade wars

Immigration

War and legitimacy

Problem solving in Detroit and Yemen

Aggression, radicalization, and blowback

The fundamental contradiction of government force

Conclusion

The violence inherent in the system!

OK, so it was Harrison Ford

Speaking of Harrison Ford, he was clearly acting in self defense

Then there’s Clint Eastwood…

“It’s not like the cops are going to crash your party and start waving their guns around…”

Who’s being naive?

But private schools are only for the rich!

Introduction to Anarchitecture and the built environment. This is the first of three episodes in the Foundations Series.

You probably don’t know what a “house” is. Now you can learn from the experts!

The Scales Framework makes a dazzling entrance.

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The Roman Forum was the power center of western civilization… until it wasn’t.

Could we conceive of the power structures of our governments being engraved with the inscription Id Iam Non Refert – This Matters No More?

Joe doesn’t know what a “Built Environment” is. Luckily, Tim looked it up on Wikipedia just before we started recording.

Joe doesn’t know what an Anarchist is. Luckily, Tim looked it up on Wikipedia just before we started recording.

Why are we doing the Anarchitecture Podcast?

Everyone is excited about “The Scales Framework”

Spatial Scales of the Built Environment

Room

House

Property

Neighborhood

Metropolis/City

Region

Global

Time Scales of the Built Environment. Cyclical and Acyclical changes.

Hourly

Daily

Weekly

Seasonal/Annual

Decadal

Generational

Centuries

Conclusion

Photo of medieval ruins in Roman Forum (Trajan’s Forum)

Powers of 10 Video

Mending Wall by Robert Frost

The Free State Project

Bloody Weeds, Mate

Mobile Phone Ad that summarizes this entire episode

Dodging Bullets

The Pitch Drop Experiment

Introduction to the Anarchitecture Podcast – a meta-episode.

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Brief Bio’s of Tim and Joe

How we became anarchists

Why we’re doing a podcast

Logistics of producing the world’s most antipodal podcast

Sound quality problems are your fault

What is Anarchitecture?

Overviews of first five episodes

Future developments for Anarchitecture

Website, social media, and contact details (links below)

“I am… the Architect”

Gardner Goldsmith’s “Liberty Conspiracy” podcast

The Ludwig von Mises Institute (mises.org)

Audio/Video on Mises.org

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray Rothbard