You say: “If Wyoming or some other state were to offer real sanctuary and freedom, I think people would flock there to get away from the mind-boggling changes which are coming.
Galt’s Gulch doesn’t have to be a state of mind. And Globalization ought to be a choice.”
Grew up that way - grandparents farm - north-woods ‘Plantation”
No electricity on “The Ridge” - battery powered radio and Ford V-8 was about it, as for ‘modernity”.
We always had a years supply of food on hand: in the gardens, in the cellar, in the barns, the coops, the woods and waters.
Good sweet well water - well that never went dry.
‘Free” heat from forests - into our stoves.
No worry about power outages or solar flares - or EMT’s or cyber attacks.
Self-sufficiency = security.
Tens of thousands of years of society lived/survived and even advanced this way - and built civilizations, countries, buildings that anyone today would be hard put to build - and even managed horrific wars.
Long before computers or the Internet were a glimmering thought, I used to opine that the thin line that attaches most of our homes to the pole on the street was the beginning of the end of our self-sufficiency.
No utility bills. No fuel bills. No water bills. No trash stickers.
When you relegate another entity the ability to control your life, your independence, your freedom, everyone’s freedom and thereby civilization, teeters on the dawn of annihilation.
(I do believe there are a handful of ‘Galt’s Gulches’ here and there. I believe there was one in Alaska - but something went suddenly wrong (control got concentrated?) and all were ordered to leave within hours. I’d prefer some small ‘townships’ or “Plantations” like we had. Everyone independent but mutually ‘available’.
“and the meek shall inherit”?
Distributism is considered Catholic (it's based on ideas from Pope Leo XIII). I am not Catholic. Some folks see it as socialistic, but I think that is unfair. I don't imagine it will ever be adopted, but the idea that people might have freedom and control over their own lives seems far superior to what we have today.