Libertarianism

Libertarianism, or why the stationary bandit is starting to die There is one deeply unpleasant thought. The state was never necessary. It was technically inevitable. These are two entirely different things.

When you have no energy, communications, money, or production of your own, you have to feed the state. Not because you love it. Not because it is efficient. But because you have no alternatives.

It is rather like living with a huge parasite in your gut that has convinced you that you would die if it were removed. The funniest thing is that many people still sincerely believe this nonsense.

But technology has slowly begun to lance this abscess. The idea of libertarianism has always been simple:

People can organise their lives without a central overseer.

It used to sound utopian. Today it is beginning to turn into an engineering project.

Energy

Not long ago, a power cut meant a return to the Stone Age. Today? Solar panels. LiFePO4 batteries. Inverters. Microgrids. Heat pumps. Energy storage systems. Smart controllers. Every house is gradually becoming an autonomous energy node.

To any engineer, this is obvious. A centralised system is one huge SPOF. A Single Point of Failure. Any administrator knows that when all the infrastructure hangs on a single server, that is not architecture.

This is a diagnosis. And for centuries the state sat on precisely such single points of failure. Electricity. Water. Communications. Money. Pinch one vessel-and the population becomes obedient.

This literally resembles a tumor that has grown into the main arteries of the body. But then the body begins to grow collaterals. And suddenly it turns out that the tumor is no longer so necessary.

Water

Wells. Filtration. Reverse osmosis. Autonomous purification systems. Recirculation. Another artery bypassed the parasite. Another feeding tube is shut off.

Internet

This is where a real nightmare begins for any state. Previously it was enough to take control of several providers. Now? Starlink. Mesh networks. Meshtastic. LoRa. P2P protocols. IPFS.

These tools serve different purposes. Starlink provides an alternative internet connection but depends on its operator, satellites and ground infrastructure. Meshtastic over LoRa carries short messages; it does not replace broadband. P2P can distribute individual services across nodes, which still depend on power and communication links.

Decentralized DNS. Self-hosting. Local LLMs. Distributed VPNs. Humanity is starting to build networks that have no head. Which means no neck. Which means nothing to chop off. This is no longer the state against a few companies.

This is the state against millions of autonomous nodes. Against swarm intelligence. Against a distributed system. It is roughly like fighting metastases. You can cut out one node. Ten.

A hundred. But the disease has already spread throughout the entire body.

Money

This is where the stationary bandit gets real tachycardia. For thousands of years states lived off a monopoly on emission. Inflation in general is one of the most brilliant scams in human history.

The patient is slowly bled while simultaneously being told that it is a therapeutic procedure. Purchasing power falls. Savings dissolve. But everything happens slowly enough that most people notice nothing.

This is a chronic internal bleeding. Cryptocurrencies for the first time showed that money can exist without a central surgeon who every few years decides how much more blood can be drained from the patient.

Yes, the industry is dirty. Yes, it is full of scammers. But the principle itself is already irreversible. Just as it was impossible to cancel the emergence of antibiotics, it will be impossible to cancel the emergence of decentralized money.

Artificial Intelligence

This is where the real fun begins. Most people still think AI is funny pictures and chatbots. No. Local LLMs. On-premise AI. RAG. Vector databases. Edge inference. Federated learning.

Every person gradually gains the ability to keep an intellectual infrastructure at home that twenty years ago would have required an institute, university, or ministry. Knowledge stops being centralized.

Intelligence stops being centralized. Computation stops being centralized. This is no longer just a new technology. This is the amputation of another control lever.

Production

3D printing. Open hardware. CNC. Home factories. Robots. Local production. Every year the cost of autonomous production falls. And gradually a person stops being a cog in a huge mechanism.

They start becoming an autonomous technological unit. Own energy. Own communication. Own computation. Own money. Own production. Own infrastructure. And now ask yourself an uncomfortable question.

If millions of people can live autonomously… Why do they need the state in its current form? To collect taxes? To issue permits? To explain how exactly to use their own roof, their own land, and their own money?

Any parasite always explains to the host that without the parasite the host will perish. A tapeworm could also talk about its vital role in digestion. A tumor could also claim to create new blood vessels and jobs for cells.

But as soon as the possibility of safe removal appears-the question of the parasite's necessity quickly disappears. And that is precisely why states react so nervously to autonomy.

They are not scared of crypto. Not AI. Not Starlink. They are scared of the idea itself. The idea that a person might one day say: "Thank you, but your service is no longer needed."

Because for the first time in human history, libertarianism stops being a philosophy. It begins to turn into a technology stack. And any engineer knows a simple truth: If a huge monolith is expensive, inefficient, constantly leaks memory, eats resources, and gets in the way of the system working-sooner or later it is sent for refactoring.

And very often that refactoring ends with the complete deletion of legacy code.