September 5, 2013

No Philosophy, Part 5


As I write this, Americans are in the middle of a debate on whether or not the central government should drop bombs on a civilization that is thousands of miles away so that fractions of the terrorist group that it claims to have been fighting for the last twelve years can gain control of the aforementioned civilization’s government.  Got that?

When this is the debate in a supposed advanced culture, something has gone awry.  When this scenario played out just ten years ago in Iraq, and the outcome was the destruction of a people and we have learned nothing from that, something has gone amiss.  When murdering people is proposed as a path to peace, you know that the world you live in has been depleted of good philosophy.

This cry for war is not about protecting people, it is fully about strategy for attacking Iran and closing in on Russia and China.  It is about paychecks being passed from the weapons industry to the elitists in government.  It is about creating new mythology.  It is about upholding control and writing news laws in which to control with.  It is about getting minds off of the awful economy, and into a state of fear and nationalism.  It is about World War III, whether you want to think that or not.

The world is on an awful path and we have got to change before it is too late.  Each of us individually has got to stop this lack of imagination that feeds this monster into gaining control over everything.  This is your future and it is tied down by the weight of an unforgiving organization filled with sociopathic liars, murderers, and thieves.  This is your life, and you’ve got to take of the fucking chains.




NO PHILOSOPHY, PART 5

How I Learned to Hate Slavery

Slavery is a big, ugly word with the weight of history attached to it, and I promise you, I do not use it lightly.  When I say that we are stuck in a state of slavery, I’m talking mentally.  I don’t compare this to the physical and mental enslavement that was happening in America for too long and which continued long after the Civil war within the prison system.  I don’t compare it to the brutal and demoralizing modern slavery within the sex trade that exists right now the world over.  The enslavement of the human race is one of submission of the self to an unjustified authority.  The slavery we live is a hopeless seduction of myths and legends that are schooled into us from a young age.  You will believe that a powerful federal government must exist to protect us.  You will believe that rights come from that organization through documentation that was signed by a few men.  You will believe that society as we know it would fall apart without the social contract, a non-existent document that nobody has signed or seen yet somehow is said to mold our economy and social structure.  You will believe that it is a feasible set-up for a few hundred men and women to control millions, and in some cases billions.  You will believe that the ruling class and the elites are something that exists outside of government, and is not actually government itself.

The one area where our mental captivity is darker than the physical slavery is that most of us don’t know it is happening.  Slaves held in physical captivity against their will knew that they were slaves.  They knew that somebody owned them and that they were held through force and violence.  Our captivity is just part of life.  It is what it is.  We live in a world where prosperity is judged by the level of taxation a government levies.  Some think a little more is good for everyone, some think a little less is good for everyone, but not enough realize that zero taxation of income is ideal.  Wealth is judged by how much material stuff is in your living room, not by your ability to earn, save, and create a safety net for yourself and your family.  Safety is having strangers listen to your phone calls, read your emails, frisk your body, and police your streets.  Freedom is spread throughout the world by the bullet.  In an unfree society, leaders have been replaced by rulers, not people to emulate, but messiahs to worship.  We not only have the task of taking our lives back, but we also have to take our language back.

I don’t think I will ever talk a single person into understanding the philosophy of liberty.  I will never argue anybody into taking the path of the individual and leaving collectivism behind.  Maybe I can introduce an idea or two here and there, but liberty is just too personal a path.  You have to not only accept and understand ugly truths about the world, but you have to accept them about yourself and your past.  That’s the real hurdle.  Letting go of and changing ideas that have been secure in your own mind for so long is a sometimes drudging experience and will last a lifetime.  It’s a battle that has you at odds constantly with what you have been told since you were young.  There are of course small fights that are easy to win, which for myself was understanding the abusive public school structure, and then there are tougher fights.  The biggest battle for me was wrapping my head around how a free world will work without the coercive, monopolistic system of government shaping it.  Most times though, this is only due to a basic lack of imagination.  There are so many solutions to every problem, not just the one we are lad to believe in.  Imagine the world being able to open up to those options once the central government is dissolved.  Progress is not as difficult as we think, you just have to get the one thing that forces us into the past out of the way.

All I can promise is that once you mentally tear yourself out of the world of total government, you will not only see life in a new way, but you will feel much more optimistic.  Your life will no longer be filled with the slog of politics and scandals.  Most answers to the issues of the day will be easily understandable once force is taken out of the equation.  You can move on to philosophy, the market, and freedom within your own existence.  Once the monopoly no longer has a hold over you, maybe then you can take those first steps into a future that wasn’t supposed to be.  That’s the first sign that the individual is winning.  Taking over your own life.


The individual can only free him or herself.  Your mind is yours.  You own it.  It belongs to you.  You must start using it.
Are all of these ideas utopian?  Sure, but even just the ideas that come with liberty, freedom, and peace are better than the reality of being a slave.

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