Please enjoy this recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. This week we had Dianna Keiler, of the Freedom Feens, and Jonathan Alexander, of the RadicaLogic Podcast, sitting in the vacant Danilo chair. Herein we discuss Operation Tubman Redux, ways to make yourself freer now, Edward Snowden, angry anarchists, how Dave almost saw a movie, Ben Stone’s book, the difference between civil disobedience and non-compliance, avoiding extortion, how you can’t be an agorist with agoraphobia, and more!
Please enjoy this recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. This week were joined again by Andrei Chira. Herein we discussed Andrei’s run-in with some road pirates just before the show, playing the welfie card, New Yorkistan’s PBA cards, veteran suicides, conspiracy theories, classified documents, the evil that is Killary Clinton, the TPP, how apathy can lead to easier bandwagon followers, and more!
“I really don’t understand what is your proposition with the Peaceful Anarchy page. Going back to tribal societies?”
No I am not a Primitivist or Luddite. I do not think civilization or technology is the problem. Indeed I believe it is no coincidence that both of these magnificent things have developed in conjunction with each other throughout the epochs. The comforts of modern day civilization are the direct result of entrepreneurs and creative inventors who, through the use of their superior imaginations, have solved many of the basic problems that have plagued our ancestors for time immemorial. We have slowly developed the ability to grow and store more food, improved our health and longevity through improvements in medicine, sanitation, and sewage treatment, live in more advanced dwellings, insulated ourselves from the elements with good quality cheap clothes and shoes, and increased our ability to travel to distant locations with machines such as cars, helicopters, and planes.
Keep in mind these are all the results of peaceful individuals engaging in consensual and voluntary trade AKA Free Market Capitalism. This has absolutely nothing to do with the group of bureaucratic parasites and violent sociopaths who form the entity known as “government”. By definition parasites can only exist when there is wealth and productivity from which to derive their nourishment. They produce nothing themselves and would immediately die should there be a lack of foodstuffs for them to feast on.
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
Some people assert the State is a tool we use to improve our lives and that, just like any tool, it can be used for good or for evil. The fundamental flaw in this argument is in the misunderstanding of the term “tool”.
A tool is an inanimate object such as a car, a shovel, a spoon, a computer, or a gun. Inanimate objects contain no inherent morality, indeed they are amoral. Morality is understood only as it pertains to human interaction. Tools are used by human beings to improve their lives or to commit evil immoral acts. If the tool is to blame then imprison the gun, the car, or the computer when a crime is committed. Understandably this never happens as it is commonly understood that the human being bears all the blame due to the presence of free will.
The State is not an inanimate object, rather it is a group of individuals each equipped with free will, who claim an exemption to the universal laws of morality. The fundamental immorality is the vast majority of those individuals choose to be order followers who, in doing so, perpetrate horrific atrocities without claiming responsibility. The diffusion of responsibility is rampant throughout the chain of obedience as everyone claims “I was just following orders” or “I’m just doing my job.” When no one is to blame, all are to blame, with significantly more blame placed on the last individual who actually carries out the order. It is he who transforms an order from mere words to an abominable action.
As long as human beings possess free will they can never be tools, for this would reduce them to soulless machines. This would strip them of their fundamental humanity and make them a shell of a human being. Every day we make choices that shape our future. True freedom is taking full responsibility for one’s actions. Embrace it unconditionally! Be the captain of your destiny! Be the master of your fate!
Please enjoy an excerpt of a casual conversation I got into with a friend during a recent camping trip. Herein we discussed economic reality of small businesses, a DuPont horror story, the problem with libertarians, the myth of the robber barons of the early 20th century, oil has raised the standard of living for billions of people, natural vs forced monopolies, consumer demand vs universal needs and more!
