176 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Jun \ on: But You Always Need a Government libertarian
Since the slavery has been "abolished", democracy was the only remaining option for the state compulsion that most people will accept.
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves.
Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.
SLAVERY BY CONSENT.
https://m.stacker.news/37095
"Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves." - Stefan Molyneux
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Consent. The comments in this post have been making me think about that! Another topic few even consider in relationship to the state. Did I ever agree to any of this? If not how is this valid?
If only about 50-60% of people vote and of that number only a small majority pick a ruler... are we really being ruled by the consent of the people? What if you reject the system? You don't consent. Then what? When you start asking these questions people get angry or shut down.
People get angry when their assumptions are challenged.
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There is also the public education, funded by taxes, and the system-reinforcing media. People are brainwashed from their early days with their own money and all they know is that someone needs to rule them or there will be chaos, Mad Max style.
It works for most, because most are happy with the limited amount of freedom they have. Those for whom it doesn't are a minority.
The solution I think is for that minority to carve out freedom e.g. through defensive tech, rather than impose it on others through a systemic, top-down change.
If democracy is the problem, the reclamation of freedom must be unilateral, not democratic. By those who want it, for themselves.
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You mean government education. There isn't much public about it.
I think bitcoin is a huge part of the solution. Then breaking up these massive states like the US into smaller nation states. IMO its just a matter of time until it happens. Unlike many I don't see a state like Texas becoming independent as a trigger to civil war. I see it as the most obvious prevention of civil war. The current trajectory of politics in the US is really unsolvable. The most rational solution to me is peaceful division. The status quo is frankly absurd.
I don't see the state falling in my lifetime or even in the lifetime of my children but I do see the US becoming smaller, breaking into smaller units in the next 100 years. And I think this is far from a bad thing.
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