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25A015 Two More Second Editions by Jim Davies, 5/15/2025
The ZGBlog for last New Year's Eve mentions that this year I planned to update the three books in my Liberty Trilogy, into Second Editions. That was done first for Vision, and during March I worked on Transition to Liberty. and this month, on Denial of Liberty. Denial was not hard; just a few phrases needed improvement. It's been several years since I'd read it through, though, and I was delighted; I hope you will be too. It's a sweeping history of the story of humanity during the last 10,000 years, and is exciting! No history book is free of bias. There is such an immense amount of detail to cover, even in a short period for a single nation, that to include it all would take a lifetime to write and would not be readable; therefore facts must be selected. The author selects those he thinks important, according to his world-view, and strings them together to make a story. So did I; and my world-view is that freedom is good and right, and that freedom works. So Denial picks out events and trends to show that evil follows, and progress is slowed, when freedom is denied. As you'll see, there is a wealth of denials, in every age; a virtual tsunami! The story begins when humans migrated out of Africa 50 or 60 thousand years ago (Kya), but focuses on what happened after 10 Kya when fixed agriculture was invented. A form of writing came soon afterwards, though mostly after 5 Kya, for without some written record history is necessarily sketchy. Hey, the tale is thrilling. Enjoy it! Transition is not a book for people who still wonder whether governments ought to be abolished. If that question is still pending, go read from a large number of good libertarian books that spell out the wreckage they cause, including my Denial of Liberty. Read also A Vision of Liberty to help grasp the immense contrast that abolition will bring, or perhaps Freedom and How to Get It, the pamphlet-size compression. Or take from its archive any half-dozen editions of this very Blog, at random. Rather, the book is written for those who know that government urgently needs to be abolished, and who have seen how it might be done, but still wonder whether that method would survive the intense hostility to it when the vast power of government is deployed in self-protection. Transition shows why it will indeed succeed - indeed that it will cause government to collapse as surely as an avalanche brings down trees in its path. The method, as regular ZGBloggers know, is to cause everyone to resolve never to work for government; for when that happens, it will cease to exist. To persuade everyone to make that decision requires re-education, so the method is to study a freedom school (TOLFA is provided) one by one, so that graduates make that resolution for themselves and then invite a friend - one a year - to do the same. The story told in Transition begins when that process has converted only 3% of the working population - hardly enough to perceive, yet it takes several years to reach that number. You'll notice that 3 (actually 3.125) multiplied by 2 raised to the power of 5 is 100; so the book then details what happens in the five years that follow; one chapter per year for the first four, then a focus on the detail of the frenzied activity of the fifth, final year. I turn 88 a few weeks hence, so may not live much longer, and TOLFA remains the work of which I'm most proud - for that is the key to the whole jail-house. But second to it, and for which I'd also like to be remembered, is "E-Day", the final chapter of Transition. The "E" stands for Evaporation; thus, the day when all trace of government in America will wholly vanish. I hope you'll enjoy reading this 2nd Edition and especially that Chapter 10 will bring you as much delight to read as it gave me to write.
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Thus, the number of people eschewing government employ will double every year. That is called "exponential growth."
