Many of us were taught in our “government schools” that voting is our civic duty and that it is the way we exercise who we believe should be governing us. I will make the case that voting is at best a suggestion box that slaves use to pitifully beg their political masters for more scraps from the table and at worst a violent intent to use the guns of the State to further one’s moral self-righteousness.

Assuming voting has any useful effect on the outcome, the very essence of Democracy is that, through voting, the majority can forcefully impose their will on the rest of the population regardless of individual rights. It is the disgusting intent to delegate to politicians the criminal act of robbing one’s neighbors that one is too cowardly to do oneself.  This is typical lynch mob morality and is nothing to be proud of. The group does not possess moral virtues that is absent in the individual, in fact historically it is shown that people in groups act with much more blatant brutality, barbarism, and insanity than they otherwise would acting individually of their own devices. Some may point out “Well we don’t live in a Democracy. We live in a Republic!” This may be true but cite me an enduring example in history when a Republic, or any form of “government”, has ever respected individual rights or property rights regardless of worthless Constitutions and Bill of Rights? You would be hard pressed to find such an example.

It is more likely that voting is a useless plea to our rulers hoping in vain that they return some of the currency they stole from us, recover some of the rights they trampled over, lessen the economic destruction wreaked on the market by their interventionist policies, or restore some of the stolen prosperity that fiat currency plunders from the unborn. Ask the black slave of the American south during the early 19^th century if they believed working within the system was a useful method for change. One would sooner see unicorns jump over rainbows than reasonably expect politicians to reduce their power over the multitude. This prospect is simply not in the realm of the sane.

Do not delude yourselves into believing you have a choice. The choice of what color the boot is that is stamping on your face is not the type of choice one should be proud of making. Do not participate in this farce. It only invalidates you as a human being and brings you down to the level of sociopaths. To ask for permission to be free is an open admission that you are not free! Recognize no man as your master! You are your own master!

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

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Growing up in our Statist society we were all exposed to the mantra “Get good grades in school so you can go to a good college/university. Get good grades in your college/university so you can get a degree and get your dream job. Then you will live happily ever after.” It’s also nice to believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny however at some point we must snap out of it and grow up.

Tertiary education never guaranteed anything except a waste of years and, for most, an outrageous student loan debt to service for decades. To send a young adult into the workforce already in debt slavery and then say “Well if you didn’t go to a university it could have been worse.” is demonstrating a special brand of sadism. Statistically speaking approximately 70% of tertiary education graduates do not get a job in their field of study. Rather they end up in jobs that require no degrees of any kind, such as Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, Burger King, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Taco Bell, Wendy’s etc. This is not to demean these jobs as they do provide those with little skills a means to gain useful skills in order to later get a higher paying job down the road. However for one to have obtained a 4-year degree or 6 year degree to later concede to getting such a job is an absolute admittance of failure in every respect.

A piece of paper is just as worthless as currency, as a Constitution, and as a degree. In all cases it leaves the holder believing he has something tangible and real. In all cases it leads to utter disappointment and dejection. A college/university degree is simply a piece of paper that signifies the successful obedience of one’s professors. If, in order to learn something, you need to pay, or more often borrow, thousands of Federal Reserve Notes for an old man to be reading to you from a textbook, this is not a favorable reflection of your self-motivation, drive, and capacity for learning.

The emergence of the internet completely revolutionized how we acquire information. When the limit to one’s knowledge is the creativity one may employ in the Google search bar, the uncomfortable possibility may have been realized that the ancient bricks and mortar institutions we used to conflate with knowledge have been rendered irrelevant and obsolete. Do not be among the legion that still clings to an archaic ideology.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Shelby Foote

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

John Green 

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I would argue the relevance of Bitcoin, and other crypto-currencies, to be massive. Although it is true that money is simply a commodity that facilitates trade between two parties, it is a rather vital commodity nevertheless. Therefore it’s hijacking by “government” and Central Bankers, sends a ripple of corruption that reverberates down the various levels of the economy. It is felt by all because money/currency is the life blood that circulates throughout the arteries of the land. The word currency implies its necessity for incessant movement similar to that of the current in a body of water; always fluid, always in motion. When it stagnates by artificial dams, the result is flooding and drought. When currency is artificially impeded or diverted by currency manipulation, currency creation, Quantitative Easing, price, controls, wage controls, rent controls, interest rate meddling etc. the result is exacerbated poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and privation.

This has been occurring in steadily increasing degrees since the Federal Reserve commandeered the currency supply in 1913. For a long time there was very little one could do to protect oneself aside from trading directly in cash and saving in tangible assets such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium, diamonds, precious stones, collectible art work etc. With the emergence of Bitcoin all this changed. For the first time a trading network became possible that existed entirely outside of the financial sector. This allowed consumers to trade with each other directly rather than through a third party such as a bank, financial institution, credit card, or PayPal. This truly changed the game permanently. The people were back in control of their money to the absolute exclusion of “government”.

Now one may claim that “Bitcoins are worthless digits with no intrinsic value.” however the market speaks differently. The power and value of Bitcoin can only come from the people willingly adopting it for use in trade. Other than for monetary transactions Bitcoin has no other uses, unlike gold/silver which are useful as jewelry, hygiene, electronics, solar panels, windows, thermal conduction, heat conduction, electrical conduction, water filtration, antimicrobial, internal organ tonic etc. Therefore the fact that it required 10,000 Bitcoins to purchase a pizza pie in 2010 and in November 2013 the value of one Bitcoin equaled the price of one ounce of gold is phenomenal indeed. Nobody could have possibly predicted such a meteoric rise. This could only be possible by willing people voluntarily using it in trade and businesses voluntarily accepting it as payment. Out of the black market is born a digital beauty!

I really like Bitcoin. I own Bitcoins. It’s a store of value, a distributed ledger. It’s a great place to put assets, especially in places like Argentina with 40 percent inflation, where $1 today is worth 60 cents in a year, and a government’s currency does not hold value. It’s also a good investment vehicle if you have an appetite for risk. But it won’t be a currency until volatility slows down.

David Marcus, CEO of Paypal

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