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.
Please enjoy our recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. This week Chris Daly, a fellow voluntaryist, friend of the show and creator of the Seeds of Liberty Wiki, joined us. Herein we discuss how Chris came to voluntaryism, the legitimacy of the Constitution, whether the Constitution was designed to limit government or protect individual rights, giving yourself the right to tax, how you give consent via an accident of birth, other Constitutions throughout the world, how government sets its own limits, how government fosters slavery, how to point out the contradictions of government to constitutionalists, political euphemisms, monarchies vs, democracies, conflicts of interest and more!
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.
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.
Please enjoy my recent conversation with Caleb Bader. Herein we discussed how he became a Voluntaryist, September 11th, military hero mythology, war stimulates the economy fallacy, broken window fallacy, government indoctrination centers, 1984, 3 minutes hate, Murray Rothbard, war is a racket, talking to military men/women, Internet rendering government obsolete, free Internet cannot be trusted fallacy, the belief in the authority, being a Christian Voluntaryist, Anarcho-Communist, worker owned business, legitimacy of the State, legal plunder, minimum wage economics, making voluntary transactions illegal, taxation is theft, I’m just doing my job and much more!
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
Please enjoy the recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. Herein we discuss money vs. currency, the Federal Reserve, the mandrake mechanism, money as a tool, fiat currency vs the gold standard, money being the “root of all evil”, alternate currencies, the connection between central banks and the military industrial complex, precious metals as an insurance policy, diversifying your assets, moving towards agorism, the probability of an economic collapse, transferring wealth, educating yourself about money, and more!
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
