Jon Ranes on Nostr: Somebody said this today The government is always and everywhere the only true enemy ...
Somebody said this today
The government is always and everywhere the only true enemy of the People—the eternal menace to Mankind’s freedom and prosperity. Every other enemy or threat government invokes—foreign or domestic—is meant to obscure this fundamental truth. When the People love and trust their government, tyranny flourishes. But when the People learn to hate their government and despise its actions, then freedom reigns.
Recall the story of Tinker Bell, who could only exist if everyone believed in her. The State is also a product of imagination. And if no one believes, then the State will wither away.
The next phase of human evolution can’t begin until our species abandons the concept that any group of people has a right to dictate to another; sustainable civilization requires all people engage one another on a single basis: Voluntary Exchange. Expertise—the supposed legitimizing factor for government in our technocratic age—and even elections are no more a justification for power than noble bloodlines or divine right.
Future generations will look back on this time as we look back on the Middle Ages and they will recognize the thinly veiled face of barbarism.
The government is always and everywhere the only true enemy of the People—the eternal menace to Mankind’s freedom and prosperity. Every other enemy or threat government invokes—foreign or domestic—is meant to obscure this fundamental truth. When the People love and trust their government, tyranny flourishes. But when the People learn to hate their government and despise its actions, then freedom reigns.
Recall the story of Tinker Bell, who could only exist if everyone believed in her. The State is also a product of imagination. And if no one believes, then the State will wither away.
The next phase of human evolution can’t begin until our species abandons the concept that any group of people has a right to dictate to another; sustainable civilization requires all people engage one another on a single basis: Voluntary Exchange. Expertise—the supposed legitimizing factor for government in our technocratic age—and even elections are no more a justification for power than noble bloodlines or divine right.
Future generations will look back on this time as we look back on the Middle Ages and they will recognize the thinly veiled face of barbarism.