A Statist Question in Search of a Libertarian Answer

"How do we create a free society?" sounds like a statist question in search of a libertarian answer. This is perhaps why it is unlikely to lead to many such answers of acceptable quality. Perhaps a more fruitful question to ask in this context is "how do I create or expand my personal free space and help specific others create or expand their personal free spaces?", knowing that a free society is nothing but the sum total of such private spaces and their voluntary interactions. Perhaps only millions of individual answers to this particular question can create a robust collective network of individual solutions - that is, a free society in the making.

Economic Knowledge and a Free Society

A widespread knowledge of sound economics is crucial to the establishment of a free society - not because there is any crucial normative connection between sound economics and individual liberty, but because only sound economics can undermine the belief in the productive power of institutional violence.

The Original Sin is Intellectual, Not Moral

Man is naturally neither evil nor good, but he is naturally more inclined to rationalize evil as good than to replace evil with good. The original sin is intellectual, not moral. The way to absolution is through teaching and learning, not preaching and yearning.

Thus, to create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate.