In “Common Sense Revisited” the author describes the difference between surrogate power and indigenous power. Very briefly defined as follows, Indigenous power is the power we have from our creator; it is the only true source of power on earth. It cannot be taken away from us. We can, however, voluntarily give up some of our power to surrogates like corporations, governments, unions, partnerships, etc. These surrogate entities only have power that can be taken back at any time by individuals that the surrogates serve.

These entities do things for us, they are our servants. As long as they follow the contracts, constitutions, by-laws, or partnership agreements we put in place than everything is fine. However, the people who have been running our surrogates seem to have a natural tendency to assume more power than expressed in the original written agreements. That is why problems have arisen.

The philosophy of collectivism in all of its forms; communism, fascism, socialism, etc. is based on a falsehood. All forms of collectivism use propaganda, fear, greed, force, intimidation, and all forms of deceit to make the people believe that the state has indigenous power when it does not, and never can have, indigenous power.

When people are awake, educated, and fully conscious and empowered than they do not allow this illusory power to control them. The author of this article below entitled “This too shall pass” does a great job of explaining the current state of affairs. I suggest keeping this concept of indigenous vs. surrogate power in mind while reading this article. The best solutions to all problems in society always come from a bottom up structure where the individuals have the maximum amount of individual freedom. This kind of structure is diametrically opposed to all forms of collectivism.

My final comment on the following piece is that all of us who believe in freedom need to be solution focused. That is another reason why I like this piece because it gives a concrete example of a proven freedom based solution. When reading this article you can substitute bottom-up, or freedom based, for libertarian, they all refer to the same basic concept.

Read Bill Butler’s article here.

Truth, Freedom, Love, and Peace will triumph because of fundamental laws of nature.