{"id":421,"date":"2017-05-25T20:25:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianrwright.com\/Independents\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2020-02-22T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T19:32:05","slug":"bw_bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/brianrwright.com\/Independents\/?page_id=421","title":{"rendered":"BRW Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My name is Brian R. Wright. I grew up in Overland Park, Kansas (near Kansas City), then the family moved around a bit, winding up in the Detroit, Michigan, area in 1968 (when I’m 19).[1<\/a>] I’ve lived in SE Michigan since then, except for a few years as an early mover to the Free State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the summer before my senior year in high school, I read Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead<\/em> and Atlas Shrugged<\/em>\u2014and took her vision of heroic individualism deep into my heart and mind… to the consternation of many, and the country’s so-called intelligentsia. And after jettisoning the Rand addiction (and other addictions) fashioned an ‘Independent’ life….<\/p>\n

Since 1964\u2014from Barry Goldwaterism to Ayn Randism to libertarianism, then being active in the Libertarian Party from its inception\u2014I’ve been an activist. In 2004 I bailed from the LP ‘answer’ and became an early mover to the Free State<\/a> (New Hampshire). That’s when I started writing books (writings to date here<\/a>)\u2014from sanctifying the nonaggression principle<\/a> to a grueling, yet oft-humorous reminiscence of the failure take the Drug War seriously<\/a>. My wholistic libertarian commentary and opinion site, TheCoffeeCoaster.com<\/a> was born in late 2006.<\/p>\n

Personal Note: Somewhere in the earlier part of the above years I graduated from Wayne State University with a BS in mechanical engineering and got married to a wonderful woman (both occurred in 1975), then wound up working for ‘the Man’ in the cannon business (engines for cruise missiles) until I couldn’t justify it to myself, developed a drinking problem (1980), went into automotive, divorce (1984), then IT (information technology) and technical writing. Rode a big two-wheeler to Alaska (1985), started letting go of addictions\u2014mainly alcohol and tobacco\u2014(2008), today pretty much write, edit, publish, do community service-oriented jobs in ‘retirement,’ hoe my garden and now am founding a living-activist philosophy qua religion best documented on its FundRazr crowdfunding site here: http:\/\/FundRazr.com\/FLOWFellowship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Toward Global Spring<\/h3>\n

From simple libertarian I became libertarian truther… then ‘justicer,’\u00a0 culminating in my first novel, The Truman Prophecy<\/em><\/a> (2016)\u2014<\/em>that humankind, one by one, as Independent beings,[2<\/a>] will indeed break free of the oligarchy-contrived stage we’ve been trapped on and in… just as Truman Burbank does in the watershed movie, The Truman Show<\/em><\/a> (1998).[3<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Most of us seek a world of peace, freedom, and abundance\u2014as \"\"<\/a>individuals living in voluntary community, that is, a society where no\u00a0 individual or group is entitled to push others around or harm them. And we each have a unique image in our minds of what such a world looks like<\/em> and feels like<\/em>. The figure on the right is the clip art cover I used for my second major book, The Sacred Nonaggression Principle<\/em><\/a>. She’s a little girl eating an ice cream cone without a care in the world.[4<\/a>] This is the world I envision.<\/p>\n

Thus, for me, Global Spring is the outcome, the result, of doing the right thing(s) for our species. And since I wrote The Truman Prophecy<\/em><\/a> and have begun several new projects at my brianrwright.com site<\/a>, it took some time to come up with a Big Picture so I could have an orderly plan of work. That has now occurred and is being documented on this global-spring.org site as we speak. The Big Picture is shown in full below and described briefly under the Big Picture tab here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The forces arrayed against humanity from high-crime assaults to cascading AI with even deeper broad-scale attacks are considerable. But if we can gel on a grassroots level, adopt the simple FLOW and Independents Rising<\/a> mission inside the next couple of years, I’m confident of victory over the forces of darkness… bringing, you guessed it, Global Spring.<\/p>\n

<\/a>[1] I’ve started my memoirs from that time at this link on my Coffee Coaster site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>[2] That is, independently conscious<\/em>: An ‘Independent’ is a human person who exercises full and exclusive psychological dominion over his or her own mind and its judgment in all matters, never surrendering that responsibility to others based on authority or consensus. Independents think for themselves, as individuals, never accepting coercion of anyone\u2019s mind or body by another being or beings. And seek a world based on the nonviolation principle and voluntary cooperation of individuals in benevolent community.<\/p>\n

<\/a>[3] Relevant Prophecy and Trumanist-Independents’ links:<\/p>\n