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Restoring The American Republic
Here's one suggestion: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html
I'm also hearing that Mark Levin's new book (out in August) will also cover the "what do we do" http://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Mark-Levin-R/dp/1451606273/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1370013118&sr=1-3
I see GMO labeling as in the same category standardizing weights and measures, public libraries, laws against fraud. I'd rather that the state cease to function and has nothing to do with these things, but eliminating them before that isn't a priority.
Our food supply is not a free market. The vast majority of food commonly available makes me feel like shit, and I don't want my ability to obtain untainted food to be further restricted. GMO is a taint being spread to essentially anything that contains staple crops.
If you aren't concerned about GMO's, start by looking up the Seralini studies, and look into the lengths that Monsanto and the US state department go to in order to spread the taint to other countries. Another factor you may not be aware of is the damage to the intestinal lining caused by the typical modern diet, allowing all sorts of odd foreign proteins to make it into the blood. Ingesting large amounts of microbial proteins that would not have been present otherwise doesn't seem like a good idea. These things have made me decided to eliminate them from my diet for the time being, and I would like to be able to make that choice.
That GMO monoculture is more efficient or that "organic can't feed the world" is a simple lie. Organic produce only seems expensive because it's sold at specialty stores that charge a high premium, and because only a very small proportion of agriculture (less than 5% I believe) is organic. The modifications being made are typically for things like resistance to toxic herbicides made by the same companies that sell the GMO's (Glyphosate is especially insidious, as it diffuses throughout plant tissue and can't be washed off), or controlling the food supply through crops that produce no seeds and can't be replanted.
GMO cross-contamination through pollination is a private property issue, as would be a factory next door to you blowing toxic fumes.
GMO's are not equivalent to breeding (though breeding is entirely capable of producing toxic foods, certain grains and fructose-laden fruits being examples). Evolution, even human-directed evolution, has constraints. There are traits that it is not possible to breed for, genes that would never exist in a plant absent manual copying and pasting from unrelated organisms.
The arguments for GMO's I see being made in this thread reveal a lot of the standard flaws with libertarian thinking.
The first is the reflexive defense of economic/corporate activity in our society, as though it were a free market. It isn't. All market activity is currently tainted by massive coercion at every level, but especially where large firms and captured regulatory agencies are involved.
Another is naive scientism/technophilia. Industrialization and technology has rather obviously allowed states to grow far beyond the limits of size, reach, and power that constrained them in centuries past. You live in a time when states have the ability to extend force completely to their borders as drawn on maps, where there are almost no wild areas left to run to when they become overbearing. When states have powers of surveillance approaching totality. When states have the capability to render the planet uninhabitable.
It makes very little sense for anarchists in this time to be indiscriminate technophiles. Taking a step back and looking at the an-cap movement, it arose and still largely exists as a heretical movement within a particular highly industrialized and technological nation-state (the U.S.). It's still largely a byproduct of that state. Hence you see a vision of anarchy that assumes compatibility with all kinds of hierarchy, and features familiar scenes from that empire built on a particular historically unprecedented mix of statism, technology and cheap oil.
If your vision of anarchy includes things like globalism, large firms, dense populations, heavy industry, and suburbs complete with shopping malls and "private" police, you should probably spend a little more couch time. Stop being such a fucking American. The 90's aren't coming back. Perhaps this is more the kind of "reform" that would be palatable to you. http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberty-Amendments-Restoring-American/dp/1451606273
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Here's your answer.
Congress has a 9% approval rating, but the member who "represents" your district is never the problem...
The average length of service in the House was under 4 years until the Progressive Era kicked off. It's about time to send it back there.
This guy has thought some of it through. I generally don't agree with the author, but it wasn't a bad book:
Levin's amendments include:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Liberty-Amendments-Restoring-American/dp/1451606273