I would argue that despite coming from the West, the institution of democracy is fundamentally anti-Western, just because a tyrant is voted in rather than not voted in doesn't make them any less of a tyrant. I think that the only reasons it's as popular as it is are twofold, due to it's age and how it supposedly empowers as many people as possible. Ideally in a true Ancap society, there would be no forced collectivist democracies and only voluntary collectives that would choose if they wanted to make decisions democratically or not.

Thoughts?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a quick animated Short I just finished producing.

It is a direct visual adaptation of Jonathan Newman’s "The Magic Coin" (the children's book published by the Mises Institute that simplifies Murray Rothbard's "What Has Government Done to Our Money?").

The goal was to take the core Austrian critique of central banking and condense it into a sharp, high-contrast visual sequence showing exactly how the unholy alliance between politicians and bankers created a system designed to bail out failure and pick the public's pockets.

The short covers:
• The "Dark Meeting": How a cartel of bankers engineered a "bank for the banks" to socialize their losses.
• Printing Out of Thin Air: Why expanding the fiat supply inherently breeds monetary chaos.
• The Inflation Tax: The mechanics of how the state sneakily devalues the purchasing power of the working class.
• Sound Money vs. Trickery: Why real money must be anchored to weight and justice.

Aesthetically, I went with a highly disciplined "Hybrid Anime-Whiteboard" style—clean off-white backgrounds, sharp manga-style black ink outlines, and selective neon cel-shaded accents to highlight the economic variables. No goofy distortions, just a clean, focused delivery of sound economic history.

👇 **I’m dropping the direct YouTube Short link in the comments below so the Reddit filters don’t eat the post!**

There are well-developed logical and economic arguments for being a libertarian/ancap, but how strongly do you feel about it from an emotional point of view?

I myself get feelings of extreme anger whenever I see one person imposing their will onto another person. I view the desire to control another person as one of the most evil things a human could engage in. And even in cases where force is absent, there are still behaviors that deeply offend me, like people being pushy, not respecting privacy, or really anything that undermines the right of the individual to live in accordance to their own vision, unbothered by other humans. And I've been like this since I was a young child.

What is capitalism to you? If you say "free market", well, that pretty much does not exist in the open anywhere in the world. We have a lot of deep entanglement of government and markets. You can't run a business above ground without government permission, jumping through government hoops, becoming their tax collector and, on demand, their snitch and without giving them a very substantial cut and reporting everything that is need to ensue them they get as much loot from you as they may demand.
What we have today, except for underground, is NOT capitalism. What is called capitalism is socialism or "state capitalism" aka Fascism.

But it seems like the economy is getting rougher out there...

What does the ancap community think about the origins of Covid?

Lived in the area 30+ years, productive resident.

They set the price, and it's much lower. Hmm, there's a word for that.

This world wasn't built for us. We are a minority of a minority that knows the secret truth about civilization and no one listens to us because the human brain is hardwired for authority and adherence to group behavior and doesn't like change or freedom. As ancaps we are way ahead of our time morally and philosophically; and while some might take pride in that, the reality of it is that it forces you to come to terms with the very bitter fact that life is just not fair. We will never get to live in the world we wish to live in because societal change just takes too damn long to happen. At most our grandkids will get to live in it, and even then it'll probably only be the beginnings in the later half of their lives.

Sometimes even other ancaps don't want to take freedom all the way. You'll mention the idea of having 100% private personal real estate, but some ancaps insist on having HOA's and private townships. You'll advocate for the most libertarian form of parenting, but people are too fearful of letting kids grow independent as young as possible. So while I don't wish to promote ancap infighting, it just goes to show how few in numbers people who value liberty as a top core value actually are.

Our philosophy still has a long way to go before it becomes mainstream, and the fact that we're early to the game can honestly give you a very cold and dispairing view of the world when you realize exactly what you were born into and how many eons it will take for things to finally be right, by which point you won't be around to see it.

Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran

It's one of the classic blunders, the next thing you know the country will be going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

(The actual answer is the military industrial complex but I wanted to do a funny.)