Human life is action: people speak, trade, and associate by nature. Sovereign orders overlay hindrance through taxation, censorship, and control, while parasovereign orders preserve continuity when overreach occurs. The central tension today is between action itself and the hindrance imposed upon it.

Bitcoin and Nostr are brilliant parasovereign protocols. They give individuals real autonomy in money and speech. But too many Bitcoiners and Nosterati treat government as pure evil and dream of fleeing to hidden valleys. For someone who starts from this perspective, the mission shapes the epistemology. If the mission is escape from corruption, then “truth” is built to serve that mission. The wiser path is to recognize complementarity. Sovereign orders secure collective defence. Parasovereign orders secure individual freedom. One without the other collapses into fantasy.

I've been challenged by @Alex Romayev to produce evidence of Darryl Cooper's pseudo historical claims about Churchill, the Holocaust, and Hitler. As I have neither the time nor the inclination to do a detailed rebuttal and analysis myself, I got ChatGPT to do it in deep research mode. See the attachment.

Chokepoints and the Limits of Parasovereignty Sovereignty is anchored in the physical world. Its strength comes from control of territory and chokepoints; mountains, straits, rivers, ports, and borders shaped by topography, oceanography, and geology. When combined with geopolitics and geoeconomics, these natural features become powerful attractors that channel the flow of goods and people. Parasovereign protocols, by contrast, operate in cyberspace. Their strength lies in bypassing digital chokepoints and checkpoints through cryptography, decentralization, and voluntary participation. Bitcoin, Nostr, and Tor reduce dependence on state-controlled rails. But their nodes remain physically vulnerable to sovereign coercion, sovereign-dependent capture, or even criminal attack. What makes parasovereign protocols unique is not invulnerability, but resilience. Once invented, they cannot be uninvented. Their concepts can always be redeployed, replicated, and revived. This is the whack-a-mole effect: even if individual nodes or edges are suppressed, the network persists at scale. Sovereigns hold physical space; parasovereigns persist in digital space. Together they define the modern strategic terrain.

Any private security organization strong enough to defend against state-level threats inevitably becomes indistinguishable from a state itself. History shows that mercenary companies, militias, or private armies eventually either dissolve into banditry or establish their own sovereignty.

Anybody who thinks that military defence can be assured by private businesses is delusional. That includes all the Mises Institute libertarians who follow Rothbard and Hoppe. The keyword in the term Austrian economics is economics. It has nothing to do with defence or security. Even Ludwig von Mises, the namesake of the institute was clear that only the state can provide defence and security. For that it requires the monopoly of force suitably constrained by a vigilant population and enforced through effective institutions of governance.

No parasovereign system can abolish sovereignty, for human action remains rooted in territory, resources, and defence. No sovereign order can abolish parasovereignty, for once discovered these systems cannot be uninvented. The flourishing of human society requires both: the state as guardian of the collective, and parasovereign protocols as guardians of the individual. #parasovereignty #sovereignty #autonomous individual #peace #security #prosperity

Parasovereignty is the authority of protocols and practices that empower individuals to act freely in commerce, expression, and association. Its purpose is autonomy: to protect individuals from coercion by enabling voluntary, permissionless action. Its legitimacy derives from decentralization, persistence, and voluntary participation. Its limit is reached when convenience or centralization reduces it to dependence on custodians or corporate intermediaries. #parasovereignty