This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, April 8, 2009. I'm Caleb Brown.

Voting with your feet is both an economic model and a motto for leaving an area that just doesn't meet your needs.

But what about voting with your land, that is,

undocking your property and moving it, house and all,

to another jurisdiction?

The right of secession is at the heart of seestetting.

Patrick Friedman, the executive director of the seestetting Institute,

believes that intentional communities on the high seas

allow individuals to continue to take advantage of that ultimate right of the pioneer and

entrepreneur, the right to go someplace new. We spoke following a Cato policy forum on

seestetting held yesterday.

What is folk activism?

Folk activism is our intuitive desire to change people's minds by coming up with a new idea, talking to our friends,

convincing this idea, and building a small coalition around it.

Okay, and libertarians, you argue, are as susceptible to that idea as anyone.

Yes, absolutely and you know we believe that government policies are bad.

We see things on the news, we get mad about it and we talk about what government could do to say actually

address the financial crisis. We try to talk to our friends, we post in blogs, try to

get a small group of people together who agree on this. The problem is of course that in the current

government it takes tens of millions of people to make a difference, not tens of

people and so this sort of folk activism doesn't end up influencing policy at all.

Now at the forum you suggested not entirely jokingly that libertarians are over-invested in

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