Please enjoy my recent conversation with Kieran Pearson. Herein we discussed how he became an Anarchist, paying taxes in pennies, the Discovery channel, we are animals, reverse culture shock, understanding the language of liberty, one path to Voluntaryism, the intent of politicians, Walter Block supports Rand Paul, voting in self-defense, mandatory voting is freedom, banning Styrofoam, the reliability of USDA organic label, humans don’t know what they need to eat, Earth-ships, growing your own food, self-sustaining homes, paradise in a house, Anarchapulco, Bitcoin for freedom, hijacking money, Wealth Transfer, paradigm shift, cosmic chaos, talking Voluntaryism with family and friends, involuntarily defooed, raised with Christianity, being addicted to slavery, federal injustice system, restitution vs. retribution, the absence of fruit bearing trees in public areas, welfare economics, don’t feed the animals irony, Baltimore riots, tragedy of the commons, children are the mirrors of the adults, armed citizenry, a gun for everyone except for government, most gun violence is intra-racial, rioter/looter logic, aquatic/ape theory, rewild yourself and much more!
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his “human right.” – or his property rights in his own person- he must also have the property right in the material world, in the objects which he produces.
Please enjoy our recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. This week Jon Moss, an anarchist and unschooling father, joined us. Herein we discussed what led Jon down the path of unschooling, how even kindergarten in government schools is overly oppressive, corrupting the youth with the truth, the benefits of unschooling/homeschooling, how most children thrive in self-learning scenarios, whether or not college is “worth it”, the myth of socialization in government schools, the destructive side of teacher tenure, how the government school system stifles good teachers and protects the bad, teachers unions, how learning is stifled through regimentation, online learning, and more!
This is a topic that is vital for many people to hear, parents and non-parents alike! In order to ingrain the children with a profound sense of Stockholm syndrome nationalism “government” must begin it’s programming at as young and tender an age as possible. In the former Soviet Union it was only 4 years. In the USA it is 12 years or 15,000 hours of State indoctrination and massively biased revisionist history. Overarching lessons include the appeal to authority, appeal to antiquity, black and white logical fallacy, no freedom of association, no freedom of speech, knowledge and justice comes from authority, Pavlovian bells signify movement, pervading eleutheromania clock watching mentality, deviation from the curriculum is harshly discouraged, obedience to authority is rewarded, and disobedience is punished. These are the unspoken and most important lessons that every child remembers long after the insignificant irrelevant information is long forgotten. If you give your child to the State for education do not be disappointed at the result. Vacate the State!
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
Some people can get lost in the GMO debate all the while sidestepping the primary issue at hand. Regardless if GMOs are entirely safe or dangerously carcinogenic one thing is for sure, the mega bio-tech corporations that produce and patent these transgenic seeds would not have grown to colossal sizes without the massive aid and sovereign immunity that “government” has ensured through it’s status as monopoly on violence. Remove the gun in the room and allow Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta to market their products to the people. I am confident that the GMO market would immediately collapse simply based on the fact that many people support cheap local farmer’s market food over an expensive dead product synthetically made in a laboratory.
When “government” ceases its coercive influence the massive farm subsidies will also dry up. This will reveal the true hidden cost of transgenic food, terminator seeds, monoculture farming, and the over-use of pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides. It is quite illogical for GMO or pesticide laden food to be so much cheaper than organic whole food that is absent such harsh intervention. The chief reasons for this price distortion is the direct “government” subsidization of the former through extorted taxpayer funds and the encumbering effects of requiring organic farmers to fill out reams of paperwork and pay various fees which serve no useful function but to slowly strangulate them to death by means of regulation. Therefore the taxpayer ultimately pays thrice, first by means of increased taxes, second by means of more expensive healthy food, and third by means of the medical expenses that are the direct result of eating such dangerous transgenic food. Dispel the myth of Statism and you will immediately be liberating food, which has been held hostage for decades. Eat for the body you want, not the body you have!
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
Please enjoy my recent conversation with Gabriel Scheare. Herein we discussed how he became an Anarchist, we are all born Anarchists, pre-packaged friends, finding your tribe, biblical hypocrisy, time of introspection, September 11th, climbing out of the lobster tank, Ron Paul, secular morality, Galt’s Gulch Chile, division of labor, Fort Galt, seeking family approval, peaceful parenting, I’ll tell you when you’re older, appeal to authority, earning respect, investing in the future, unspoken interconnectedness, voluntary vs. forced association, freedom to be racist, competing principles, Zeitgeist awakening, Marxism with robots, Sea-steading, floating skyscrapers, sky-steading, air ships and much more!
Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.
Excellent interview! I agree with most of what is discussed. I will, however, take issue with two points made; that banning these harmful substances is good or effective as has been done in a few European countries and that the problem with these large corporations is their “profit” motive or bottom line.
Before studying Austrian Economics and Voluntaryism I was thoroughly interested in holistic Eastern Nutrition, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Big Pharma, vaccines, GMOs, and alternative medical therapies. When learning about such harmful products GMOs, vaccines, artificial dyes, preservatives, or additives it is quite natural to come to the conclusion that “government” should ban such things. I used to think this way as well until I learned about the true sinister nature of “government” and its status as a monopoly on initiated force. Not only is “government” incapable of protecting our property and welfare, but it must first rob us of our property and violate our human rights in order to give the façade that it is doing these things, all for our own good by “representing” us. Given this knowledge it can easily be seen how asking “government” to ban something is an open invitation for “government” to do what it does best: control, extort, regulate, monitor, harass, and violate the freedoms of peaceful people.
The “government” is morally and financially bankrupt, always has been and always will be. It has nothing to give but toxic lies and stolen loot. If you want something build it yourself, buy it, or get others to help you voluntarily. If you want to earn more money learn new skills to increase your marketability in the market place. Make yourself more attractive for prospective employers to want to hire you and pay you more money. That is how you improve your lot in life. When you ask “government” for anything, you are essentially asking a thief to steal for you, an assaulter to assault for you, and a murderer to murder for you. There is no nobility in this; rather there is only cowardice. In providing value to each other we become free!
The problem is not that these companies seek out profit. Absent “government” intervention, profit and the price mechanism are beautiful feedback processes that provide valuable information between buyer and seller. Buyers bid prices up and sellers bid prices down. Where these two forces meet determines the price of a particular product or service. It is a self-correcting free market phenomenon that ensures that all parties are getting the best deal. When “government” injects itself into this magnificent process with its violent edicts and arbitrary mandates the result is always a perversion of prices and natural consequences. Political nepotism guarantees that some well connected special interest groups function with sovereign immunity regardless of environmental degradation and human injury. Such groups include Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Pfizer, Perdue, Tyson Foods, Shell, BP, Chevron, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Capital One, Bank of America, Wells Fargo etc. The fault does not lie with these special interest groups as such because although they have massive ties to “government”, their products/services are not forced upon us at gunpoint, rather we buy them willingly, be it through ignorance or complacency, we always have a choice. The fault lies in “government” that provides the sovereign immunity that shields them from any wrongdoing, litigation, or ire that their products/services may inspire from the people. Do not merely cut the hydra head for another one will just grow in its place. Strike at the body! Know your enemy! Vacate the State!
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
