Yesterday I emailed about the work being done by the Liberland community. 

Today I want to share with you a few lines from my conversation with Vít Jedlička, the president of Liberland that I thought was really amazing. 

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There is this famous quote by Mr. Maxwell: instead of breaking things, you should start building from scratch, to inflict real change. 

It's much easier actually to start building from scratch than try to fix the old things. 

So we followed that idea, and for many years, I didn't realize I was following it. But then it makes complete sense to me. We tried for, I think, six years or seven years to change something.

We started a big educational website for people that didn't know what is politics about, and we had like 21 million views at the time. It's not that bad in a 10 million people country, right? You would say that everybody saw at least two videos.

And then we also started a political party, and we really saw that we're going to make it into the parliament and change everything. That's true. We made it to the European Parliament. I realized there is actually no way, even if we had a majority, to be able to substantially change anything. 

The system is built so that it cannot be changed from within. The only way is to change it is from the outside.

And just like Bitcoin is revolutionizing the way the traditional finance institution works. Especially how the central banks will work probably very soon, or will not work at all. 

We saw that we need to innovate on the level of the country’s governance. There has been no innovation for more than 200 years, right? 

The American constitution was a great step forward but there has been done very little since. 

And we are living in this great world of decentralized organizations and we've got all these great thinkers like Murray Rothbard and Mises and many others that did a great job on describing the ideal society. 

So I just decided to go ahead and try to create a country, of course, with the huge support network now behind my back.

Vít Jedlička

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We are approaching seven years since the founding of Liberland and they have made incredible progress towards the goal of a free libertarian country.

You can listen to the rest of my conversation with Vít Jedlička here:

https://expatmoneyshow.com/episodes/vit-jedlika

Or visit their website to learn more about the program and even apply for residency in this new micronation: https://liberland.org/en/

It’s important to support organizations that are working towards freedom, community is our best chance of getting through this madness. 

Speak soon,

Mikkel