Richard Ebeling once told me, “Government makes criminals of us all.” Government sets up society so that no person can live a life without using some sort of government service, paid for through coerced taxes. I later came to realize that government needs to make moral cowards of us all, in order to keep us dependent on it for the dispensation of justice.
Tag: government
Who’s Angry?
I’m not generally an angry person (although sometimes I get angry at certain events or people), but I think it’s completely reasonable for anarchists to be angry. Why would an anarchist be angry?
When Does Tradition Become Tyranny?
Traditions emerge for a reason. Society is impossible without them. Traditions provide lenses, rules, norms, and expectations that help make sense of the world, harmonize competing aims and interests, provide stability, and enable long-term planning. But tradition can be tyrannical. Traditions can oppress, restrict, stagnate, and destroy individuals and society. So where’s the line? When does tradition become tyranny?
Why Flexible Disaster Pricing is Necessary
This lady is able and willing to purchase so much water because the price is being held down by government. What happens when the next person arrives, in arguably more desperate need than her for water, and its all gone?
Paradigm Shift II
Can we bootstrap ourselves into another paradigm? It says here I don’t think so. With Rome, it took the Visigoths. With the British Empire, it took Mahatma Gandhi. With IBM, it took Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. With FDR, it took the grim reaper. With the camel’s back, it took a last straw.
The Person Who Kills Millions is a National Hero
Are you ever struck by the number of ultra-criminal individuals — people who have great amounts of blood on their hands — who are not only not in prison, not only permitted to move about freely in society, but are treated as decent individuals and, on some occasions, feted as great and honorable ones?
“But There Are Limits!”
If you advocate free speech, free movement, freedom in exchange, and freedom to engage in any peaceful activity an individual desires, you will hear this objection.
Paradigm Shift
Tha USA has been in a paradigm since the Civil War, that of the military industrial complex. I don’t see how we make a paradigm shift away from that. We are too fat and happy with our comic book heroes, drugs legal and illegal, video games, reality television, cable news, and professional sports spectacles. What could make us change?
Everywhere, the Same Sort of Thugs
It’s interesting, and telling, that although cities and other political units differ greatly across the USA, they all have rotten, overbearing police departments.
A Lack of Imagination
People LOVE punishment. And they lust for it. And they simply can’t imagine finding themselves in the position of being on the other end. Unfortunately, I can imagine it.