Daxological solution for defeating tyrants and terrorists...

I read a book called "The Different Drum", by M. Scott Peck and Ron Paul's book "The Revolution" and it got me to thinking, I came to the conclusion that the best defense against tyrants and terrorism is self sustaining communities of people that can defend themselves. It's really pretty simple,

Here are some definitions:

• self sustaining: adequate locally available food, water, and energy needs.
• communities of people: people who live close to each other geographically and who relate to each other in terms of meaning derived from their life together.
• that can defend themselves: protect each other and their food, water and energy supplies from theft or other raiding.

Terrorism would be more difficult under this setup because it's a community, and in a community people know each other, even the bad things about each other, so locally born terrorists will probably be found out or tattled on, and foreign terrorist will just stick out.

Tyrants will have a hard time, especially if these communities can replicate themselves by evangelizing techniques and solutions that worked for them to other communities and then creating some limited interdependence on other communities for supplies and defense via simple and mutually beneficial trade. The only possible effective attack would be a massive air attack by a technologically superior air force...

A key point is that the community must have an identity of its own that the members of the community all buy into. The people of the community have to see it as a value to themselves, and they have to see the community as bigger than themselves. If a person does not accept the premise of the community then in service of their own self interests, the interests of the community will not be considered. They will likely "sell out" to any outside influence that offers an enticement that provides a momentary gratification greater than the perceived value of membership in the community.

The Acts 2 Church seems like a good model to promote and perpetuate this kind of community. It provides for the members needs, they protect each other, and the meaning of the community is based on a relationship with God who provides an infinite source of meaning greater than self, and on a relationship with the others in the community where the other members of the community are viewed as equal to or more important than the self (and in case you're wondering those seen as more important than self would include people who are not Christians as well as those who are, per the teaching of the Good Samaritan).

So, it also seems to me that this kind of community could also accommodate people of any religious persuasion even mixed religious persuasions, (ie Muslims and Christians, Calvinist and Armenians) without the two having to abandon their deeply held convictions.

Heck I could even see a community where Muslims, Christians, and whateverians (shoot, probably even homosexuals!) were able to live together, provide for each other, protect each other, and even argue with each other about who's right and who's wrong and who's a sinner and who's not without ever having to resort to violence against each other. In fact violence against each other would seem somewhat preposterous as it would be a threat to the health of the community.

If an aggressor were to attack the community, the community would respond in order to protect the lives of it's own people, and to protect it's life sustaining resources. It may choose to totally annihilate it's aggressing enemy in order to protect itself from future attacks, however I couldn't see it attempting to use force to perpetuate itself into other geographic areas. If membership in the community does not come from physical need AND individual intellectual will, then the community will be weak, so empire building would actually work against the strength of the community.

Imagine a whole nation built out of communities like this, independent yet interdependent communities of people that provide for and protect themselves. I hope to put some of this to practice in my own neighborhood, as well as in Liberia. I wonder why nobody has ever thought of this before?