I do not live in the Academic centre where I work. I live 15 minutes out, and at the end of the day I go home… and continue to work if needed. Tonight I have been connecting to the library via the same fibreoptic cable we use to watch netflix, and writing slides for Thursday.

If I chose to work privately (I do not) I could teleconference or Skype where ever I am licenced. One of my bosses does so to California. I skype colleagues in Texas and Ontario not infrequently.

To work I need a licence, an airport (if you want me to visit) a room and a computer. My job is transportable (the hospital I work for is not). When I visit the city I was born in the two hour commute to get anywhere drives me nuts.

I left, and the city I used to live in has changed too much. I would rather be away from the crowds.

Within the last 100 years, flight from the cities has happened and can happen again.

It is not simply 20th century white flight that serves as an example, but the development of old European towns. Henri Pirenne wrote how the locked feudal system ended up pushing others out or forcing others to create economic and political orders outside of the feudal system. This new order involved the formation of a patriciate with political power in the hands of locals that made their small towns function (a decentralized authoritarian order). These merchants and tradesman built the very picturesque cities Europe is famous for, while holding political power outside of the feudal agricultural system.

The neo-feudalism of today’s economy, where large corporations use large masses of the underclass via government funded conduits to earn money, allows for others to seek fortunes elsewhere and by other means. The current high and low could become a closed-off loop, and with their 90/10 Democrat/GOP voting patterns could in effect do this already to the areas outside the Clinton Archipelago. The elimination of the middle class could be interpreted as a removal of the middle as needed by the ultra-concentrated high to earn their lavish fortunes. This middle could form a new system if only it could coordinate and stepped back from the ‘cities r gud’ brainwashing.

It would take shared goals, ideals, and beliefs–and it would not look like a back-to-the land farming movement, but rather a back-to-the-land pioneering spirit to build up small towns and rural areas, using location independent workers, technology, and the rejection of the progressive status system. For small towns and little cities, it would not take many individuals to co-locate and transform a community of 5,000, or even 10,000. In these towns, there would be a renewed demand for sovereignty services, police services, education, and various goods and services that could be private and outside the current progressive regime.

There are probably ways to trick the Eye of Soros on the surface without revealing the weaponized infrastructure underneath. There would have to be some large entity that could provide security and even legal help for this distributed network.

Each technological development allows for a central force to further centralize services and power. If the products of that force are corruption and dysfunctional, the atmosphere will change for competent individuals to employ that same technology on a smaller scale. That same technology can provide the same goods and services, but in the hands of a person you can see, touch and feel. If the broader identities that the system has used for unifying their nations are unraveling, the opportunity is there for greater differentiation, social isolation, and given enough time, even speciation.

Dunedin is about the right size to be an incubator, and some of the things we do are fairly neat. We have a gaming lab as well as the Taylor Sports people who do the America’s cup, and we make Audio equipment that is world class. (And there is much more, under development).

You don’t need to be in a big city. You need enough people around to talk to. You can get that level of interaction in a virtual coffee house online. And spend your days doing something local, slower, and away from the pressures of the narrative.

Be where the crowds are not. Plant your own garden. And know that people are more important than your job title. God will take care of the speciation.