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[FUPQ-15] Contribute to good causes

Day 3,749, 06:46 • Published in USA USA

• by Pfenix Quinn

The Free University of Phoenix Quinn is a service of the Socialist Freedom Party, a woke anarka-e-communist social club masquerading as a political party in order to foment the social revolution amongst congress critters and other e-establishmentarians.

This is Lecture Number 15 of a 20-part series on Combating Tyranny. It's ~~plagirized from~~ a creative riff on Tim Snyder's NY Times bestseller ON TYRANNY, adapted to our New World situation by R.F. Williams, an old fart who enjoys sunny days in the winter, making home-made yogurt in high-tech machines, and playing games where nothing ever happens.

Para traducir este lío es más dificil que cagar en un frasquito, pero podéis encontrar unos traducciones al español de estas conferencias en VANGUARDIA SOCIALISTA.

Contribute to Good Causes.

Be active in organizations that express your view of e-life, whether they are political or not. Pick a charity or two to support. In this way, you will have made a free choice that supports a civil e-society and helps others to do good.

It is gratifying to do good. You can be a point of light against a darkening sky.

Sometimes we think of freedom as a contest between a lone individual and a powerful government. With the logical conclusion that the individual should be empowered and the government kept at bay.

That is all well and good. But another element of freedom is choice of association, and a defense of freedom is the activity of groups sustaining their members and helping them to thrive. Engaging in activities that are of interest to us, our friends, our families, our e-tribe is just as important an maintaining the dignity of the individual.

In fact, this is what it means to create a civil society. Sharing teaches us how to trust people beyond a narrow circle of friends and families, helps us to recognize real authorities from whom we can learn. The capacity for trust and learning makes life and play less chaotic, mysterious and fearful. It makes democratic politics plausible and attractive.

The nonpolitical activity of civil society is an expression and safeguard of freedom. All enemies of freedom are hostile to non-governmental organizations, charities and so on. They want everything institutionalized or corporatized under their control.

Authoritarians everywhere are allergic to the idea of free associations and non-governmental organizations.

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At the end of this lecture series, super-fun degrees and titles will be handed out based on ~~bribes~~ responses provided in the comment sections. Participation counts. Indicate attendance by leaving a comment or endorsing the article. Higher honors will be awarded according to the degree of critical thinking, mindfulness and humor exhibited by responders.

Examples of questions you might want to get a group together to banter about in response to this lecture:

* What are the opportunities for creating anti-authoritarian free associations in eRepbulik?

* How can encouraging the development of an e-civil society make the game more fun?

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Pfenix Quinn Day 3,749, 06:46

Examples of questions you might want to get a group together to banter about in response to this lecture:

* What are the opportunities for creating anti-authoritarian free associations in eRepbulik?

* How can encouraging the development of an e-civil society make the game more fun?

gustavo35 Day 3,749, 07:48

V!!

Lisamunusira Day 3,749, 13:34

I have been playing this game for many years and I always gave away a lot to others that needed it. What was not the purpose, but what was the result that I became rich because some people gave away their stuff when they left the game. They gathered more than I gave in the beginning. 🙂

Helping each other without trying to benefit is good. It will give a lot of fun and friendship.

LifesaverM Day 3,749, 17:05

Sharing is indeed caring. It's kinda overused sometimes but its truthful and relevant. Doesn't matter what you share be it your knowledge or goods doing so with no care for what you may get in return is how you build a society of people with a better chance of having a give a damn than not.

MaryamQ Day 3,749, 22:32

Like Niemand, I have been the recipient of legacies from several people who left the game over the years. There is no shortage of things you can do with excess cash or goods to help others, whether it is by private gifts or loans to individuals, donations to your party or MU to support their activities, participation in or donations to national nongovernmental programs such as eUK's NHS, or contributing to one of the various international foundations that spring up from time to time. As LifesaverM says, it is also important to share your time, perhaps by mentoring, or by distribution of goods for an organization you support. Even a a little encouragement from a more experienced player can make a great difference to new player.