Last
weekend, I traveled to speak and hang out at the Free State Project‘s annual
hootenany, which is called PorcFest (short for Porcupine Freedom
Festival). It was a great and excellent time and I hope to write up
something about in the next few days.
Here’s
a nice writeup of the event and the FSP by The
Economist‘s Emily Bobrow:
In the jovial atmosphere of PorcFest, where idealists bond over
their shared mistrust of rules and big institutions, the prospect
of a future New Hampshire that can do without such things seems
far-fetched. Tech geeks (who still dominate the Free State
movement) enjoy home-made “bananarchy” ice cream while prattling on
about the power of crypto-currencies. “Bitcoin can topple
governments and end war,” gushes one fan.Others are more realistic. “I’m an incrementalist,” explains
Jason Sorens, the subdued intellectual who dreamed up the Free
State Project while he was getting his PhD from Yale. Now a
lecturer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, he is eager to use New
Hampshire to test libertarian theories about enlightened
self-interest and reciprocal altruism, small government and large
networks of voluntary institutions. “We don’t have all the
answers,” he says, “but it’s worth the experiment.”
The “Bananarchy” ice cream was pretty damn fine, btw, but even
better was the “Who Will Build My Rocky Road.”
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