Tom Palven
07-27-2010, 07:34 AM
Ain't Lovin' Big Brother Just Yet--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Remember The Great and Powerful Oz? The man behind the curtain? The Great and Powerful Oz didn't actually exist. Neither does Big Brother actually exist; and an all-caring, all-knowing, all-loving God substitute called a "nation-state" that wants to protect us from drugs, and terr'ists, and fatty foods and handguns doesn't actually exist as such, either. What exists are a lot of "concerned citizen" statists who think that they have "rights" and "duties" that trump other people's "rights" and "duties". Historically, these concerned citizens often feel that "there oughtta be a law" to enforce other people's duty to fund their collective, whether it is called a Republic, a People's Republic, The Fatherland, The Homeland, or whatever, and to protect it from various perceived evils. Perhaps the concerned citizens decide that alcohol is an evil. Then there oughtta be a law protecting society from alcohol by prohibiting its use, instead of preserving freedom of choice for the individual. Another time they may want to protect society from drugs, and find it their duty to kill all the poppy plants in Afghanistan. And another time they may decide that it's a good thing for their collective to kill all the Jews and other minorities under the control of their Third Reich, or to kill all the Taliban in the Mid-East.
Concerned citizen statists like Adolph Hitler, or Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer and her collective following, claim that states have "rights" and "duties" to try to keep their patch of earth from contamination by lesser humans, but State's Rights and the "rights" of nation-states are as bogus as The Divine Rights of Kings, or the God-Given Rights of Poor Slobs. The so-called rights of nation-state's to restrict the freedom of individuals are said to be based on mystical coercively-imposed "social contracts" which do not follow from a logical train of thought, do not compute, and simply do not exist except as delusional, unethical, mental constructs. The bottom line to the argument for social contracts is that "We have the power, we say they exist, and you will abide by what we say"; ie. might makes right.
Can we Imagine There's No Countries, and hear praise for the individual, instead? Individualists respect women, blacks, gays, rich white men, Hispanics, Chinese, and everyone else as equal individuals according, as MLK said, to the content of their characters, instead of identifying them as collective groups. The cutting edge of Individual Liberty is no longer the Magna Carta, or even the US Constitution with it's Bill of Rights. The cutting edge is the concept of a horizontally-arranged society with individuals owning and in charge of their own lives, instead of a pyramidally-arranged state collective with a politician as Decider-In-Chief on top. For some in-depth analysis of this subject I commend to you The Machinery of Freedom by Professor David Friedman, and Boundaries of Order by Professor Butler Shaffer.
http://www.libertopia.org/home/
Remember The Great and Powerful Oz? The man behind the curtain? The Great and Powerful Oz didn't actually exist. Neither does Big Brother actually exist; and an all-caring, all-knowing, all-loving God substitute called a "nation-state" that wants to protect us from drugs, and terr'ists, and fatty foods and handguns doesn't actually exist as such, either. What exists are a lot of "concerned citizen" statists who think that they have "rights" and "duties" that trump other people's "rights" and "duties". Historically, these concerned citizens often feel that "there oughtta be a law" to enforce other people's duty to fund their collective, whether it is called a Republic, a People's Republic, The Fatherland, The Homeland, or whatever, and to protect it from various perceived evils. Perhaps the concerned citizens decide that alcohol is an evil. Then there oughtta be a law protecting society from alcohol by prohibiting its use, instead of preserving freedom of choice for the individual. Another time they may want to protect society from drugs, and find it their duty to kill all the poppy plants in Afghanistan. And another time they may decide that it's a good thing for their collective to kill all the Jews and other minorities under the control of their Third Reich, or to kill all the Taliban in the Mid-East.
Concerned citizen statists like Adolph Hitler, or Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer and her collective following, claim that states have "rights" and "duties" to try to keep their patch of earth from contamination by lesser humans, but State's Rights and the "rights" of nation-states are as bogus as The Divine Rights of Kings, or the God-Given Rights of Poor Slobs. The so-called rights of nation-state's to restrict the freedom of individuals are said to be based on mystical coercively-imposed "social contracts" which do not follow from a logical train of thought, do not compute, and simply do not exist except as delusional, unethical, mental constructs. The bottom line to the argument for social contracts is that "We have the power, we say they exist, and you will abide by what we say"; ie. might makes right.
Can we Imagine There's No Countries, and hear praise for the individual, instead? Individualists respect women, blacks, gays, rich white men, Hispanics, Chinese, and everyone else as equal individuals according, as MLK said, to the content of their characters, instead of identifying them as collective groups. The cutting edge of Individual Liberty is no longer the Magna Carta, or even the US Constitution with it's Bill of Rights. The cutting edge is the concept of a horizontally-arranged society with individuals owning and in charge of their own lives, instead of a pyramidally-arranged state collective with a politician as Decider-In-Chief on top. For some in-depth analysis of this subject I commend to you The Machinery of Freedom by Professor David Friedman, and Boundaries of Order by Professor Butler Shaffer.
http://www.libertopia.org/home/