Liberty Begins At Home

Let’s face it. We can’t make everything perfect.

We don’t have the perfect relationship with our government. With our neighbors. Maybe not even in our own homes.

But what if I told you there’s a radical way to change that?

A way you could build those relationships from the ground floor. One that starts in the home.

Are you ready for it?

Having kids.

And it may bring you more liberty than you thought possible.

Learn Through New Eyes

They say you learn over 90% of what you teach someone. So what better way than to bring a new person into the world who you then have to raise into competency and self-sufficiency?

And, along the way, a little of their wonder may rub off on you.

Think about it: each child comes into this world with a unique way of looking at things. Some will respond differently to your way of teaching. Or you may have to grow to develop a new way of reaching them. Or you may even learn something from their observations.

This is where new ideas enter the world.

Working through your kid’s frustration over learning something helps you work through your own. And this is something you need the liberty to work through at your own pace.

It’s relationships like these that also make liberty worth protecting. Especially in a world vying to control you.

Not As the World Sees

And those controls strangle out the good that can come from having kids.

Kids result from a moment of weakness...

Everything has to be just right…

You can’t enjoy life once you have kids...

You can’t give them what they need to have a good life…

I have to put my dreams aside to have kids...

The world is too scary to bring kids into...

I’m screwed up. And I’m going to screw up my kids if I have them...

They made a movie about the aftermath of these doubts. It was called Children of Men.

But we are optimizing our lives to the discomforts of the existing system. Yes, it’s easier to spend less effort living within it. Which can make all of those doubts true.

Here’s the kicker: you have free will. You can choose for something else to be true.

And that realization can unlock another level of liberty for you.

Ideal Vision

Any of the problems I listed are just one generation away from collapsing.

If the poorest people in the poorest countries can face disease and starvation every day with a smile on their faces, then surely we’re not in such a bad spot.

Take this maple tree. I found it growing out of a crack in the concrete in a compressor room at a clay mine. The seed couldn’t pick where it landed. The roots would run out of room before the tree could fully grow. But it sprouted and started growing anyway.

While we can always wish for better conditions, what we make of it is up to us. This openness to growth is where new ideas can come in. Where we innovate to save time so we can focus on what matters most to us.

Think of “Be fruitful and multiply” as an ideal. If you’re working toward an ideal, there’s a better chance it can make you unimaginably happy.

Yes, there are detractions and expectations that make children a scary prospect. But we can protect what’s important by outgrowing the constraints of the existing paradigm.

It doesn’t require perfect relationships. Just a willingness to grow.

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