the challenge of becoming an anarchist - why nearly everyone's a statist

[Александр]

>
> *Zenaan Harkness, zen at freedbms.net <zen at freedbms.net>:*
>
> It seems that nearly everyone in this day and age is a statist to some
> degree, Juan excepted :)
>
> Why is this so, I have asked myself.
>
> The state is a bully, and no one has escaped the experiences of being
> bullied by the state - RBTs, license checks, seizing of bank accounts
> outside of any court hearing nor any chance for the target to be heard in
> a court of law with a righteous jurisdiction;
> and anyway, the courts, that last bastion of freedom and justice against
> the tyranny of the state, is almost completely, systemically,
> instutitionally corrupt by any common man standard.
>
> The state seizes taxes at every corner, violates our constitutions,
> unilaterally attacks other states, and conspires year after year to
> increase the burdens and the violations of its own constituents, namely we
> the people.
>
> The state (whether USA, Australia, etc) is nowadays so abhorrent, so in
> violation of the constitution which created it, so outside of ethics,
> morals, anything resembling higher causes or principles, it really is a
> beast of epic proportion which must be slayed or transformed, or the
> descent to total chaos war and bloodshed will once again happen, just
> another war to end all wars.
>
> Yet nearly everyone still clings to the state. Whether implicitly (it's
> the best history has given us, other options would of course be so much
> worse) or explicitly (driver licenses are our only hope to rid the world
> of evil environment destroying cars).
>
> 'We' have lost faith in our fellow humans to a high degree. We don't trust
> ourselves and so we don't trust our fellow 'citizens'. We put money,
> creativity, leisure, life, family, mortgage and the rest before any higher
> principle, in denial of the magnificence of that which we be, that which
> we are, these incredible universes we stroll around in.
>
> We expect "others won't stand behind me if I did take a stand against a
> bully or a tyranny, because deep down I know I am probably unlikely to get
> behind someone else taking a stand - especially since I haven't seen
> myself do so yet, so I have no evidence suggesting I'm that way inclined,
> so it's most likely true."
>
> We hail the heroes "oh I think it's awesome that history proves that
> someone comes along to fix things up every now and then - at a minimum on
> average of every 400 years".
>
> Yes this and endless more excuses for not supporing your local freedom
> "fighters" even in a small way, fatalism is just one more excuse. I've
> heard so many of them.
>
> 'We' live in golden cages. By historical standards, almost everyone in the
> West can eat cheesecake every day, travel to friends and sights and events
> one way or another, drape ourselves in silk and suede, or lounge on the
> beach.
>
> And the gold cage is never enough, the car or pushbike really needs to be
> newer, faster, with better suspension, and I want more and my kids need to
> go to more activities and events and and and... I have my life to live.
>
> And the state redistributes the wealth of others to make our golden cages.
> So we encage one another, binding our fellow man to tyranny,
> binding ourselves to self serving, self centered, selfish non action.
>
> Sleepwalking in comfort whilst the beast prepares its final meal.
>
> Gee it's great that heroes come along and solve such problems in history
> occasionally... now don't interrupt me whilst I shout down your Trump
> rebellion and screem the benefits of The Democratic Platform
> notwithstanding the evil that my state has become regardless.
>
> Cowards most of us.
>

Wonderful speech, Zenaan. Gives so much food for thought & actions...
In the past 4 days i have read so much powerful stuff from you... something
really great is going on in your head-heart-soul. DON"T STOP IT! :)

2016-06-12 6:54 GMT+03:00 Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com>:
> Try reading Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, Ludwig von Mises and,
> most especially, Murray Rothbard. Maybe a bit of David Friedman, too.
>
> Once you've made your way through their works, you can call yourself
> educated in anarchism.
>

That's really great, Kurt. But Zenaan is asking WHY don't we
​*​*
* act*? Why do we live like SLAVES? and WHEN will we start putting great
words (like in the books you listed) *into ACTIONS*?

Knowledge is NOT ONLY about "knowing" it in brain, you know... It's about
incarnating it into actions = into ones physical life!

Even in this cypherpunk list, i believe there are 80% at least, who don't
need more "insights/education of how everything sucks and how one should
(at least try to) repair it".
*BUT*
as Zenaan says in his speech,- *self serving (egoismus) and self delusion*
get the victory over all our great intentions and insights.

*Cowards most of us.*
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