To give Ryan and others an example of an "outreach" response to an
article, I suggest reading today's Mises' Daily Article, "The
Ancient Chinese Libertarian Tradition",
http://www.mises.org/story/1967 and then my comments on the related
blog (link at the the bottom of the page). Here is an excellent
opportunity for someone who has read Paul's works and understands
the principles to make a valuable statement drawing readers'
attention to them.

There are so many places and articles on the Internet to make such
commenting links, that I don't have time to even scratch
the surface. Even the enormously plentiful commentaries on the
highly visible atrocities/debacles of government give one an
opportunity to bring a very important point to the attention of
many. These well publicized horrors and shenanigans are but a drop
in the bucket compared to the total reduction in the lifetime
happiness of all indivduals which occurs daily as a result of
government restrictions, regulations, taxes and market distortions.
This fact is something that few people stop to realize on their own
but many are capable of understanding the relationship to the very
existence of governments once they read well reasoned/presented
argumentation.

Outreach measures by others in these ways would be greatly
appreciated. Anyone wanting Paul and me to review and edit their
proposed messages are welcome to email them to us.
kitty(at)morelife.org and paul(at)morelife.org

**Kitty

--- In morelife@yahoogroups.com, "dcyphyr_all_things"
<Dcyphyr_all_things@h...> wrote:
>

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>
> Still, I would
> be remiss if I did not credit you and your massive dedication to
> this exciting paradigm. I could spread word of your work far and
> wide. I know of so many places where a well placed link and
> condensation of this idea could become the lightning strike on the
> summer prairie where any minds may still search for hope in this
> mindscape that is so very, very overgrown with lies and
> halftruths.
> If I did this I would, of course, post exactly what you wanted
> posted, no more or less ( something you'd write, preferably ). I
> have not seen or heard of your idea ANYWHERE else, and I found it
> only after much searching and knowing precisly what I was looking
> for.
>
> [It would be good to describe to us exactly what you were
> searching for which led you to us, and perhaps how you arrived at
> the stage of searching for that (which, clearly, very few people
> are). --Paul]
>
>
> So that is one thing I would happily work to change.
>
> [It would certainly be highly useful for you to do such outreach
> work. Kitty has recently being doing some, but the more the better.
> However, it would also be best if you would write about the ideas in
> your own words, perhaps with the occassional short quotes from
> writings on the SelfSIP website or from discussions in this group,
> both of which would entice people to come and read more detail, and
> hopefully get involved. The only thing that I would ask is for you
> to send me a copy of your proposed post and where it is to be posted
> so that I can make suggestions before you post it. This is actually
> just what Kitty and I do for each other. We post or respond to
> virtually nothing related to SelfSIP without the other reading it
> first. --Paul]
>
> [If you've read my articles/essays/dialoges (in Focus and Misc
> Dialogues sections) over the past few months, you will note that
> virtually all of them are in response to something I read somewhere.
> And then there are numerous posts to groups and at websites that
> show up if you google my name. Yes, some letters to editors have not
> been published; but I keep a copy and maybe I'll have an opportunity
> to post them somewhere else. (Acutally I've done this a few times by
> way of the Comment portion of Rational Review's website,
> http://rationalreview.com from which the news link originated.) I'd
> suggest the same type of technique for finding places to "make an
> appearance". I wouldn't suggest just popping in and posting a link
> to Self-SIP without it being well related to either the thread or
> the site. Best IMO is to directly relate it to the topic of an
> article or essay by someone else.
>
> I know that the items I've written have brought readers to Self-
> SIP (and to MoreLife) because I can see that by way of the referrals
> on the two Self-SIP pages on which there is a tracker - the front
> page and the Social Meta-Needs Theory essay. And many "visitors"
> have come from sites that have links to Self-SIP, periodically from
> mention of our website in an online discussion by others. And then
> there are the interesting referrals when a person uses particular
> search strings that result in one of the Self-SIP pages being very
> high (sometimes first) at one of the search engines.
>
> I have made 3 submittal requests (August 2004, Feb and Sept 2005)
> for the Social Meta-Needs Theory essay to the political philosophy
> section of dmoz.com (under social science), the open directory
> project. While there has been no named editor all this time, new
> listings have taken place, but Paul's essay has not been accepted so
> far. I will submit again next February. I'd like to see this essay
> appear here because it would get even more visibility with searches.
> **Kitty]
>

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> Ryan Gregory