Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes podcast blast from the past.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds,

but will be titled TSP Rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today we rewind back to September the 15th, 2015.

This was originally episode 1644. It's called a painful economic and social evolution and what to do during it.

If you pay very close attention, you might be like, this show is a little bit older than yesterday's rewind.

It is and I got them out of sequence. Again, so I had two out of sequences.

I generally try when I do my rewind series for you guys when I'm gone is to start with the oldest show and go forward in time.

This I think worked out well because I think this show was done about a month prior,

the original version of the one you heard as a rewind yesterday.

And I actually think they kind of go better in this order, though it's not because I'm so smart I figured that out.

Again, I just screwed up the order when I made the list for a punch list for myself to get this done.

Well, we're talking about today. It does build on a lot of things that you heard yesterday about the economic problems,

but we're more dealing with what to do for ourselves and in the world of what I call practical anarchism.

And I know that these shows always end up being trying for people because there's so many people out there

that are so much rooted in their pragmatism, they're like, but anarchy will never work.

Well, first of all, as I've said many times, humans lived with anarchy for longer than they lived with any other system since becoming humans.

Civilization, as we think of it, is dramatically new. It's 10,000 years old at best.

And even a thousand years ago, most of the world did not live under the domination of what you would think of as a state.

And so the first thing you have to do is clear the mindset that anarchism means there's no governance.

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