When my Dad asked my best friend Henza why he does all that he does for me, he had one thing to say:

“She’s living history, man. Not many people are out there are actually living by these ideals.”

That’s the truth, but the thing is, that statement doesn’t apply to only me. In the past, I’ve blogged here about what makes an agorist and how to spot them. The reality is that the majority of those who practice agorism aren’t aware of it. And there’s a reason for that.

Konkin coined the term agorism in the early 1970s. Something I didn’t realize until a recent Agorist Nexus podcast was that Konkin above all things was actually a scientist, a chemist. And agorism is less of a political philosophy, it’s more of a way of describing the natural world and how humans interact with each other unfettered by government influence.

When I realized that, something else clicked. Konkin is in the history books as the guy who invented agorism–what does that mean for us who are putting it into practice today? Are we not all living history?

I’ve shared about my personal story in the past, but here I’ll give a bit of a synopsis to use as an example. I was raised by people who got by on their skills, regardless of if the state considered what they were doing as illegal. They didn’t know of Konkin or agorism, but they lived it.

This breeds me, mistrustful of the government and also neurodivergent, someone who literally cannot fit into this modern world as we know it. For me, agorism wasn’t something I had to learn about in essence. The world was new to me, but the understanding of how it worked was natural.

It was my solution to fully waking up to a fucked up society in which the corrupt win. So, I opted out and I know for a fact I am not the only one. My closest allies are people who have opted out of the system in some way, either small or large.

The thing is, while we’re living this game of life, it can be hard to really consider the greater impact of our actions upon the world. Konkin’s generation was actually among the first to really start speaking for themselves.

If you think about it, there was a huge barrier when it came to content production before the invention of the internet. Plenty of people wrote books sure, but the only ones that lasted were the ones which were accepted in some form or another. For that reason, it’s not surprising that Konkin was the first in history as we know it to talk about agorism in a coherent matter.

But the reality is it is human nature. He knew that and I know that.

Then, the internet comes and, boom, things are skyrocketed. Suddenly, this niche community that is truly decentralized across the planet has a means to collaborate and communicate. And as a result, how we share information evolves and changes and adapts.

For example, consider Agorist Nexus to be a modern day digital hub for Agorism. We have the directory, the podcast interviews, and the articles like the one you’re currently reading. With technology, we have been able to record and share these amazing conversations among people who really get shit done. We are able to advertise our businesses in a non-censored manner.

In this way, technology provides us the platform for collaboration and an archive of what it means to be an agorist, now. As we disperse this content among several mediums, we essentially seal our fate into the future, writing ourselves into history.

Take the Steemit blockchain as another example. At this point, it’s been replaced as far as the community is concerned by the Hive Blockchain, but it’s still a good one to use.

That blockchain was the first of its kind, the first blockchain to successfully put content on this digital storage medium. As long as people continue to interact with it, the data will remain; and considering how decentralized the userbase of it is STILL after being abandoned by the early adopters for Hive, that’s a testament to the strength of these modern day agorist solutions.

So, by posting my content on Hive, I can be assured that it will be there for years to come. When I lost everything after the murder 2 years ago, one of the only remaining things I have is the fact that nearly 3 years of daily blogging on the Steemit blockchain is done. If I compile all the content I shared there into books, I’d likely have 10 or more full length books. And I’m just ONE poster (now two if you count me having to switch addresses) on that alone.

Then there’s solutions like Flote.app, intended to replace Facebook and Twitter with a censorship-free social media platform with cryptocurrency built in. As far as I’m concerned, Flote is Facebook for agorists and it’s only going to get better with time.

And since I mentioned cryptocurrency, I think its definitely worth mentioning that. Anyone who was involved in the early days, and really anyone who gets involved now, are living history by supporting the network in it’s growth phase.

I got involved in Bitcoin in 2012, the same time I got involved in agorism. At the time, I was disillusioned by the disappointment that was Ron Paul’s last run for presidency. I never voted and I vowed not to after seeing how he was treated. The world sucked and I had no solutions for it.

Then I found agorism and one of the things I liked most about it was the idea of opting out of fiat. But silver and gold makes people vulnerable in exchange for several reasons, including the fact that I know many agorists who have had their precious metals stolen by the state.

Bitcoin was my first real agorist tool and was basically the big catalyst in making the plunge into the lifestyle I did. I saw it for what it was at the time, a means to opt out of fiat but with a modern day twist.

As someone raised on the Internet, it spoke to me and thus wrote the story I’ve shared here and elsewhere over the last 5 years. And realistically, my current lifestyle isn’t possible without it, as I have no current personal connection to the banking system.

So, if you’re reading this and you live the agorist hustle, consider the fact that you are living history. If you’re sharing about it already, know that you’re already writing yourself into history.

Kind of empowering, right?