Outrage runs rampant in political discourse, but what is the proposed remedy? Obedience to political power, and more political power? Sending law enforcement to impose your preferred policies? Bloating bureaucracy even more? No, thanks. Politics is the disease masquerading as its own cure. Politics is nothing more than a sophisticated zero sum game within a false choice fallacy. It can't be reformed. It must be undermined.
Undermining such ideas requires considerable wisdom, though. Misguided protests drive people to embrace the State even more. Violent revolutions tend to give power to a new cabal of violent officials. We need to subvert the system, sabotage its efforts, and expose its absurdity and violence to the masses. We need to let them see how its foundation is antithetical to its advertised purpose. We need to encourage people to realize that it is unnecessary.
The real problem with government goes far beyond the symptoms of death and destruction. It persists nor because people are unaware of its evils, because people believe it is a necessary evil. Attacking this fictitious necessity is the best option. It is relatively easy to protest in the streets. It looks like doing something. It vents outrage. What it doesn't do is undermine the corrupt system. All "concessions" to protesters by governments are merely to reinforce obedience to their system.
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Instead of begging for permission, we need to just exercise our liberty. I don't necessarily mean to suggest blatantly baiting cops into arresting you, unless that is your intent. I mean sidestepping and evading bad laws. Existence as a free individual is resistance in and of itself, and the more people who do this, the less legitimate government looks.
Don't ask for liberty to be legalized, question the legitimacy of legality as a rational and moral concept in the first place. That is the real revolution.
Ignore them! just doesn't have the same ring to it as resist!, but it is probably the most efficient route to freedom.
Just stop being their cop of the year.
Actually they want you to rage and push forward all your negative and destructive energy. Cuz then you can't create and be productive in your own life.
People just wanna consume and be lazy in their free time. How do they then expect a better alternative presented?
Already built and ready for them to take advantage of..
Bastiat wrote that plunder is the preferred way of life for most unless plunder is more painful than production.
Stockholm syndrome:
Do not wish to exercise liberty against their captors (gvmnt, financial institutions)
Wish to beg for permission.
Forget about specific issues, (talking specifics could actually be counterproductive)....it's talking people out of this psychological prison that's the trick.
....that's the tricky part, when most people around them suffer the same disorder, and do nothing but reinforce the position that you're trying to get them away from.
Break the spell, the rest will follow.
Good post, matey.
The government already considers you a criminal. Embrace your outlawry.
Hi again, Jacob,
I am a big fan of and very encouraged by what I see as the development of truly viable, alternate systems. I find the surging development of decentralized economics and autonomous organizations to be very, very hopeful signs.
Cryptocurrencies, and in particular BTC, that have now become global and arguably unstoppable, offer a presently useable economic tool for sidestepping monetary oppression. DAOs provide a potential mechanism for orchestrating transparent cooperative human effort that is not beholden to the beast of state.
I view both Bitcoin and a number of the burgeoning blockchain/decentralized systems now in existence as "God-things," because they are based on mathematics and algorithms in opposition to the arbitrary diktat of a group of elites in a smoke-filled back room.
Perhaps these decentralized systems will be able to provide us, we Orphans of God, with a "city of refuge" to which we can flee from the plundering hand of the beast.
😄😇😉
