Please enjoy this recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. This week, Dave and Jeremy topic hopped starting with the latest Clinton leaks, Dave’s rant about the State, their political evolutions and eventual path to anarchism, the insanity of the FED, and more!
It is supremely difficult to look at the dominant mega crony corporations of today and conclude that to be a product of a truly Free Market. That is the same as saying Wall Street is a paragon of the Free Market. It is more likely the case that such megalithic corporations achieved their dominant status by appealing to the State with such methods as regulatory capture, rent seeking, protectionist laws, the revolving door, minimum wage laws, and other barriers to entry.
The small mom and pop shop can never be considered in the same breath as the bloated monstrosities that include Monsanto, DuPont, Chevron, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, Raytheon etc. There is a massive difference between a company with a lobby capable of bribing politicians, writing laws, and constructing regulations that will crush and disembowel the little start up businesses that strive to make a name for themselves. It is the height of irony that the Statist who advocates for a higher minimum wage and increased regulations will only empower the State to snuff out the very small businesses they are seeking to coddle and protect.
Hate the game, not the player. When there exists an institution that utilizes violence and threats of violence to achieve its ends, the State, one can be sure that dominant businesses will seek out the protection of such an institution to firmly entrench their dominance and destroy competition. Remove the perverting influence of the State and the scene equalizes such that the only way a business can grow to such gigantic proportions is by supremely satisfying the needs and desires of the consumers. In that way the dominance of a business will indicate its wondrous ability to serve humanity in the most magnificent manner possible.
I used to be fearful that the State might be watching me, reading my texts, reading my emails, and listening in on my conversations. I would use Start Page which is a search engine that stored nothing, did not save cookies, and always reset your searches. I considered covering my laptop webcam with tape. Then I realized that I want agents of the State to consume my content. I like to think that maybe in doing so I converted a few of them to Voluntaryism! Who knows!
I am a public figure. Everything I do is laid bare and naked for all to see. If somebody wishes to hurt me or slander my name they know where to find me. Come at me with everything you got! I think we as Voluntaryists and Anarchists are more powerful when we gather our numbers to together and declare with full disclosure what our beliefs are because they are nothing to be afraid or ashamed of. Indeed they are something we should all be proud of.
As a Voluntaryist I desire nothing less than complete freedom for all human beings. I earnestly yearn for humanity to realize it’s full potential without encumbers or fetters! When our brothers and sisters emancipate themselves from their mental slavery we will witness a supernova of progress and creativity, reverberations of which will echo throughout the epochs. Be the light in the darkness! It’s a magnificent time to be alive!
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Voltaire
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!
Many people ask me, “But doesn’t your Free Market Capitalism system depend on people being generous angels? Without the State who will regulate the bad industries?” One of the main reasons why Free Market Capitalism works is because most people do want to trade voluntarily and peacefully. This is the only way that wealth is created and civilization develops. Wealth is not created by the wild adventurers of violent conquerors. Indeed this is how the delicate latticework of wealth of isolated peoples is wantonly destroyed.
There will always be the very small minority of psychopathic and sociopathic people who choose to use violence and threats of violence to solve their daily problems. When there exists no institution with the legitimate use of force AKA the State which would attract such vile people, they do not become a threat to anyone. The mafia differs from the State in that nobody hallucinates their use of force to be legitimate. Their commands and edicts are not viewed as laws and regulations. Their robbery is not viewed as taxation. Their kidnappings and murder is not viewed as the War on Drugs or the War on Terror. Their violent extortion racket is viewed as just that, a violent extortion racket.
Wealth is created by the billions of voluntary consensual transactions made by peaceful individuals that occur in the market economy every single day. These individuals likely know little to nothing about the price mechanism, competition, supply and demand, inflation, law of diminishing marginal utility, and Economics in general. Nevertheless unwittingly they are operating in accordance with these natural phenomena. Free Market Capitalism is based on human action. The true hidden beauty is that it is based on peace, love, and freedom.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith, Scottish moral philosopher