Anxiety Avoidance and Relationships
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hat does the above analysis have to do with our personal relationships
?
It has been my experience that it is far easier to get people to understand personal topics in an abstract context first.
As the long-time listeners at Freedomain Radio well know, I began my series on personal and political liberty with long discussions of anarchistic models of social organization, as well as abstract economic, theological and political analyses. It was only after 70 or so podcasts that I began to dip into personal topics, and only in the late 100s did I really begin to zero in on personal liberty, particularly with the series 180 to 183 – “Freedom” Parts 1-4.
Most people who are interested in political liberty know that some rather terrible things have occurred since the attacks on
New York. Some have gone as far as saying that these attacks were an “inside job,” which I do not believe, but you do not need to go that far in order to understand that those who wield political, military or mercantilist economic power only stand to gain when a nation is “attacked,” particularly when a nightmarish Orwellian “endless war” can be invented.
In other words, if you really want to hurt yourself, you do not need to stab yourself: you simply need to keep poking a bear with a stick.
Most of my writing and thinking as a philosopher has been focused on answering two fundamental questions:
Why has libertarianism failed so consistently throughout history?
Given that we can have no practical effect on a nuclear-armed state, how can we best work to bring about political liberty without compromising our personal liberty?
The answer to the first question has been the subject of many podcasts on the family
; the entire answer to the second question is obviously beyond the scope of this book, but I will say that once you understand the principles of the Real-Time Relationship, you will have taken an enormous leap forward in understanding how to free yourself personally, and how it can be applied politically as well.
If we distil our analysis of the September attacks as described earlier, we can come to some very valuable conclusions, which can really help us understand the nature and challenges of our personal relationships
– as well as why we spend so much time and energy avoiding the truth.