Life is better with freedom
THE MYTH OF AUTHORITY - Part 8:
Removing the belief in authority does not remove the people's ability to organize and cooperate and work together for mutual benefit. In fact, despite the politician's rhetoric government is never about working together it is only about whose agenda, opinions, and values will be forced on everyone else.
In contrast there are countless ways in which people can create voluntary arrangements and organizations which benefit everyone without pretending to have some special right to rule. Imagine something similar to police, only they did not pretend to have any rights that you don't have, and you could fire them whenever you wanted. No more abusive, condescending thugs always looking for an excuse to fine or arrest you to make their political masters happy. You would be their employer, so you would be the one they would be serving and trying to please.
Instead of the inefficient, corrupt, counterproductive and often destructive government version of various services, imagine if you could decide what charities to give to, what services to purchase and from whom. There would however be a trade-off. Advocating true freedom, which requires giving up the belief in authority and government, would mean giving up your ability to force your preferences onto others, to force others to pay for whatever you think they should support.
You can only have freedom for yourself if you also leave every other individual in freedom. That's why most people want government ... They want a guilt-free, risk-free way to butt into the lives of others, to control and rob others by way of the political process, to try to use the violence of the government to make the world into what they think it should be. But of course the moment you appoint a master over yourself and everyone else, to think that he is going to care about your interests and concerns instead of his own, is very naive.
To volunteer to be the slave of a political ruling class in the hopes that it will do what you want and make the world what you wish it was, is simply insane. There is only one path that leads to peace and justice. That is the path of freedom.
Government is always the enemy of freedom. History has taught us that trying to fix the world by the way of government always ends in disaster. That in the end the political process empowers the ruling class and no one else. Constitutions don't fix it. Elections don't fix it. Once there is a position of power it is always the megalomaniacs and sociopaths who will sooner or later, one way or another, get themselves into that position.
And then the big powerful thing that you hoped would be a protector and servant of the people, will be an oppressor and exploiter of the people. That is what government has always been and always will be until the people dare to let go of the superstition of authority.
The Myth of Authority - Larken Rose
TAXATION IS THEFT:
Theft - taking another person's money or property without that persons permission or consent.
Taxation without our consent is theft.
TAX SLAVERY:
To steal the money that I earned, is to steal my time and my effort. Which is the same as stealing part of my life. To steal part of my life is slavery.
Tax slavery - a system where government taxes people without there consent.
Tax slave - a victim of tax slavery.
DEMOCRACY:
Democracy is a advanced form of slavery because the people who are being enslaved and robbed do not realize it.
The Democracy Scam - Larken Rose
FREEDOM IS NOT A BATTLE:
Freedom is not a battle that requires the conversion of others in order to win. Freedom is won when you accept the fact that you own yourself.
FREEDOM:
Because you own yourself, it is wrong for someone to initiate force against you or your property. This non-aggression principle (NAP) applies to everyone, and it is therefore wrong for someone to harm you, steal from you, or threaten you. Interactions between people should be voluntary and free of force, fraud, and threats.
VOTE FOR FREEDOM:
Vote for freedom by not electing anyone to rule and rob you. People can seek leaders for themselves but they have no right to force rulers on me. People can pay taxes if they want but they have no right to force taxes on me because no one has the right to rob me. I own myself. I can live my life and spend my money as I see fit.
