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Hey Reasonoids! Have You Heard About Voice & Exit?

Check out this conference/festival of the future in Austin on June 20-21.

Max Borders | 6.12.2015 3:16 PM

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Reason is a sponsor of this year's Voice & Exit conference, June 20-21 in Austin, Texas. Interested? Check out the information below.

The post-political era has arrived. It did so without a lot of fanfare. But it's here. People are figuring out how to opt out of old systems and build new ones in parallel. From open source law to crypto-currency, startup cities to seasteading.

It's a simple idea: we can voluntarily exit annoying Facebook groups and unsubscribe from email lists…why can't the same be true of our community memberships and political associations?

It's true that a lot of people are still into the tribal, us-versus-them mentality of elections—that's likely to go on for a while. Increasingly though, people are coming to see voting as a little like going to confessional: you feel better after you do it, but not much changes. The action is in what we call "humanity's great open source project."

We started Voice & Exit because we were tired of the tribalism, weary of the whitepaper-industrial complex, and fed up with the ideological purity tests.

We wanted to celebrate the experimenters, the iterators, the non-conventional sorts who are out there questioning the orthodoxies -- making the world better and freer through a hundred little acts of defiance, and a thousand little acts of creation.

Voice & Exit is a conference and festival devoted to those willing to criticize by creating:

  • The biohackers
  • The seasteaders
  • The Bitcoiners
  • The dark web spinners
  • The startup entrepreneurs
  • The psychonauts
  • The singularitarians
  • The burners
  • The agorists
  • The artists
  • The techno-optimists
  • The libertarians

… and anyone fed up with our outdated two-party system. It's for those willing to think, to roll up their sleeves, and collaborate to solve problems. 

This year, Jim Epstein of Reason TV and Lauren Galik of the Reason Foundation will participate. Some attendees drove over 2,000 miles for last year's event, and this year's speaker lineup is just as impressive.

Oh, and there is a special discount pass for Reasonoids, too.

The conference is June 20-21 in Austin, Texas, and let's celebrate the first wave of the post-political era.

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Max Borders is author of The Social Singularity: A Decentralist Manifesto; executive director of Social Evolution, a nonprofit dedicated to solving social problems through innovation; and co-founder of the event experience Voice & Exit.

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  1. Loves Big Brother Kristen   10 years ago

    No, but Porcfest is happening soon!

  2. Mr. Flanders   10 years ago

    I wish I had money to do this 🙁

    1. John Galt   10 years ago

      It's tough budget on a $1.63 without abandoning one's wishes.

  3. ThisWoodchipperKillsFascists   10 years ago

    Will there be woodchipping?

    1. RBS   10 years ago

      Woodchipping, really, really hot underground caverns with VIP sections, you name it, it's there.

      1. EDG chippin' WUD   10 years ago

        /Stefon

      2. Woodchipper Society   10 years ago

        "Come for the woodchipping, stay for the inescapable hellfire!"?

  4. EDG chippin' WUD   10 years ago

    Austin? Austin is OVER, man! If this event wants to really be the vanguard for political and social change, it should he held in Cleveland Heights, OH.

    1. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

      Why pick on the one halfway decent part of Cleveland?

      1. X[redacted]s   10 years ago

        Because it's still in Ohio.

        1. RBS   10 years ago

          This is the best time of year to have something in Ohio though, since most of the native Ohioans are at Myrtle Beach for the summer.

          1. X[redacted]s   10 years ago

            False. There is no best time of year to do anything in Ohio. Except leave Ohio, and the best time to do that is "as soon as possible."

            1. Metall Holzhackmashine   10 years ago

              I live in Ohio, and this is 100% accurate. There's a reason you see "Stuck in Ohio" bumper stickers.

            2. thom   10 years ago

              I spent a really pleasant night in Zanesville once during a snowstorm. I highly recommend the Olive Garden.

      2. EDG chippin' WUD   10 years ago

        Because East Cleveland wouldn't issue the festival permits?

  5. Medical Physics Guy   10 years ago

    I want this conference beamed into my living room as a hologram or all you dreamer types haven't gotten there yet.

  6. Brett L   10 years ago

    Shit. My parents are coming to Gouston that weekend. Pick Not Fathers Day next year please.

  7. GILMORE, Clownish Brat   10 years ago

    Can I just register my plans to attend with the DoJ, and cut out the middlemen?

    1. RBS   10 years ago

      Seems to me you just did.

      1. John Galt   10 years ago

        I'd suggest it was time for regime change, except for my landlord would become upset with me if an armored personnel carrier drove through this house. So instead I'll just say: ?Viva la Fascism!

  8. John Galt   10 years ago

    Didn't Austin recently try to ban commercial BBQing?

    1. Scooby   10 years ago

      City gov't in Austin is definitely dominated by Progressives. We did recently change to a larger city council elected by single member districts instead of at-large as before. The result of that is that there are now a couple of Republican types (tho city elections are non-partisan) including a more anti-gov gadfly. Totally outnumbered, but sometimes able to embarrass the others by pointing out more egregious overreaches.

      The BBQ thing got sent to committee where it died.

  9. Paul.   10 years ago

    The post-political era has arrived. It did so without a lot of fanfare. But it's here. People are figuring out how to opt out of old systems and build new ones in parallel. From open source law to crypto-currency, startup cities to seasteading.

    Far out, man. These all sound like totally boss ideas.

  10. Paul.   10 years ago

    We wanted to celebrate the experimenters, the iterators, the non-conventional sorts who are out there questioning the orthodoxies -- making the world better and freer through a hundred little acts of defiance, and a thousand little acts of creation.

    Voice & Exit is a conference and festival devoted to those willing to criticize by creating:

    I trust you've received your appropriate licensing and paperwork for this conference? Have you made all the appropriate access requirements for disabled, handicapped and other differently-abled persons? And does your board have the appropriate, government-certified list of diversity-centric members?

    Because these things, my friend, you can't 'unsubscribe' from.

  11. Warren   10 years ago

    So, an even lamer version of TED talks then.

  12. np   10 years ago

    "Opt" out. That's cute.

  13. Copernicus   10 years ago

    "The biohackers

    The seasteaders

    The Bitcoiners

    The dark web spinners...."

    The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.

  14. Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton   10 years ago

    Voice & Exit but not Loyalty?

    *makes note in DOJ notebook*

  15. adolphowisner   10 years ago

    My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My neighbour's sister has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out.
    =============================
    try this site ????? http://www.workweb40.com
    =============================

  16. macsnafu   10 years ago

    Ross Ulbricht found out it's not quite so easy to "opt out", but I readily admit that it's still worth considering. Too bad there's no torrent of this that I could just download.

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