Introducing Flash Mobs For Liberty (FM4L)*

*This is a working title; I'd really like to get a smoother abbreviation / name going, but this'll do fornow.


q. What is FM4L (Flash Mobs For Liberty) ?

a. Flash Mobs For Liberty is the latest strategy being developed to help further libertarianism both as a valid idea amid the state-society, & as a more prevalent mememtic idea that goes beyond reactionary feelings amid economic & political crisis.

Additionally, FM4L also hopes to help to propagate & "fight against" the statist memes of: entitlement, collectivism, parasitism, theft, & coercion, via novel strategies that closely identify with primary concepts of a stateless society: de-centralization, non-coercion, & voluntary action, co-operation, & trade.


q. How?

a. The first & primary strategy is via the use of flash mobs (per title of the project):

A flash mob (or flashmob[1]) is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.

The term flash mob is generally applied only to gatherings organized via social media or viral emails, rather than those organized by public relations firms or for a publicity stunt.

Yup, no shame in that, this project is largely a publicity stunt :D.

However, it will not be publicity for publicity's sake, but for the sake of propagating new attention, word of mouth, & memes, which all help to propagate relevant but previously unknown, inaccessible, or uncomfortable idea's into society via affected individuals.


q. 'Affected'? That doesn't sound peaceful...

a. Forgive the terminology, per memetics, but this is nothing but a peaceful venture.

FM4L seeks through purely voluntary, almost benign situations into drawing attention to certain ideas & topics of discussion.

A good example of this is the TRUTH campaign, regarding the hazard's of smoking, although perhaps not with such a huge budget as their's :p.


q. Okay, glad that's cleared up. This flash mob thing sounds interesting, how do I join?

a. Nothing concrete has been made beyond this page just yet, but considering how flash mobs are organized, not much will be anyways!

Watch this page, however, for further details on the FM4L's first mission into the memetic sea of society, & perhaps even be on the look-out for some sort of official page with pictures & bright colors :)


This idea is still very early, & I'm mainly just writing it here to give this blog some (any) content to make it worthwhile. Hopefully, I can readjust the sidebar, & maybe make a formal static page or site for this idea later on.


Update 1 [7:30pm]: Since work was busier than anticipated today (weekends are usually slow), I couldn't get as much written down as I wanted to originally, but I did manage to come spruce up my layout offline while coming up with a main page for the FM4L project.

I normally wouldn't have bothered, but I felt like I improved on what was already a decent design.

I also played around with some logos, as well as drafted the first mission & some extraneous objective stuff...

Most of that won't appear for now, I don't want to be too ambitious too soon.

I will however probably elaborate more on the idea behind this project & post it up if I don't manage to get a logo & static-page together instead, though.

Thought also went into the inital scope, which I'm going to be catuously labeling vaporware until a static page appears.

I do however plan on submitting the page to reddit, which if nothing else is accomplished, would be acceptable.

I do intend on carrying on the project on a personal level, with or without massive interest.

It would be nice if I also bought a digital camera (at some point, tight on money etc.) to document my progress as well :)

Anyway, more to come by the end of the week.

Labels: libertarianism, memetics, promo