Freedom Is The Solution

[doitvoluntarily]

When it comes to criticizing the state, the current system that we have today, and its many failures, you might often hear in response from state-supporters that "no solutions are being offered".

"You're just complaining about the problems without offering a way to change it," they'll say.

Forced government is immoral or inefficient, okay, but what's the groundbreaking alternative that's so much better, they wonder? Freedom, after all, doesn't exactly sound like a plan and therefore isn't often received as a coherent solution to the problem or problems that are being identified.

But freedom cannot provide a detailed blueprint for the alternative to the status quo.

The essence of freedom is acting without permission from an authority such as government and it is impossible to know how those free actions might ultimately unfold over time.

A free society is developed spontaneously by decentralized decision-making and you cannot provide a detailed plan of how every step is going to look or what the outcome might be.

As well, those who promote the idea of freedom have never made the promise that it would lead to any utopia or that there wouldn't ever be problems if people were left to voluntarily organize themselves.

With forced government as it is now however, we are guaranteed to have problems and history has already proven to us repeatedly the unimaginable sort of violence and mayhem that the state is capable and guilty of.

We are told to fear voluntary exchanges (anarchy) because this might supposedly lead to chaotic outcomes. Meanwhile, the state has already demonstrated that it will lead us down that road time and time again. Yet, many are still waiting for there to be a fully laid out blueprint detailing exactly how every facet of a free society is going to work, before they can deem it an honest solution that might be worthy of their consideration and acceptance. It seems, they don't yet understand freedom, they aren't able to recognize what's being suggested, otherwise they'd comprehend the solution that is being proposed and they wouldn't ask why we haven't offered one yet.

"The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.” - Murray Rothbard

So, when you hear messages of liberty and freedom, coupled with arguments about the current state of affairs and historical failures of the state, know that a solution is being suggested, and that solution is freedom.

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Comments

[lanzjoseg]

I explain that in my Government Accounting classes, I teach students the difference between "The State" and "Government" because they are totally different things, the first is something intangible but we know that we are all part of that State. The second if we can say that it is tangible because it is administered by people, and it is these people who always lead us to a debacle. There are many internal and external factors, as well as the political tendency and the tendency towards the Left or the Right.
But always those of tendency towards the Left defend a utopia that never applies to the realities of a state, where all of us who form it are totally different.

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And that affects our freedoms, we are the citizens who must put a stop to this behavior. but it is a little uphill to unite the different characters for a common good. all in many cases have particular and different interests. it is a society.

[doitvoluntarily]

being part of the state (forced government) doesn't make you free or sovereign or independent, they aren't two totally different things--the state is synonymous with government.

"the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a
monopoly of the use of force and violence in a
given territorial area; ...

The State,... is the 'organization of the political means'; it is the systematization of the
predatory process over a given territory.... the free market is anterior to the State. The State has never been created by a “social contract”; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation. " - Rothbard, Anatomy Of The State

[mikeonfire]

In the West people are so conditioned by the environment they wouldn't know freedom if it hit them in the face.

But in a place like Acapulco, people aren't so distracted to not notice the government's inadequacies. You can have the freedom to offer an alternative to what the government delivers... in a place like Mexico. Because you'll actually get customers!

[doitvoluntarily]

you'd think that ppl could only put up with failure for so long 😂😂

[nurhayati]

Some of the state administrative law scholars argue that the ermessen freies must be framed in the written law. because ermessen's freies are derived from unwritten laws. Its legal nature is free, not bound like a written law.

Eermessen's freies are actually inspired by the principle of discretion which means the freedom of an official to act based on his thoughts in the public interest.

[keithboone]

That's a powerful message. Well done, and 100% agreed!

[mattclarke]

I'd love to leave the zoo and go live in the wild.
Really? Who's going to build the climbing bars?

[jacobtothe]

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[doitvoluntarily]

human beings don't need a centralized authority with a monopoly on coercion in order to survive or thrive 👍