After 2020 my faith in the state has waned. There was still a little bit of it clinging to me that you can hear in our early episodes in late 2021 though. I'm not ashamed of it, it was just how I was raised and so were all of us to some extent. No matter what kind of parents you had, or what kind of politics they held, you probably grew up being told that you too can be president, that voting is a civic duty, and that justice comes with majority victories. So what do we tell this next generation not yet old enough to vote?
I said last week on the show that there is no merit in the majority. Having the majority of my friends buying the state's propaganda during the lockdowns, the masking, and the mass experimental vaccination campaigns eroded my faith that the majority knows anything rather than automatically having the right to tell me and others what to do. Three people out of four deciding among themselves what to do to the other person does not equal the consent of the one at the receiving end. It doesn't equal logic either. It also doesn't deliver justice. So why do we continue to lie to our children that majorities should decide who rules over us for the next number of years?
If you strike up a conversation with someone not really engaged in the news of the day and ask them what the political solutions of today are, they will probably repeat the lines from the propaganda that we've all been fed growing up “Just go out and vote” they'll say.
But that doesn't solve anything I would now reply, because it doesn't. Even if one hundred percent of the country voted to lock down, to mask, or to force Operation Warp Speed on every man, woman, and child it does not make it right, because the people voting for those things were deceived into believing that what they were doing was right. That to protect themselves and others that they needed to use the threat of exclusion, punishment (both emotional and physical), and even death. People were told it was their duty to their country and to mankind and they were all incredibly wrong, but they served as they were told to anyways. Some even enjoyed themselves in enforcing the new rules and those people are the guards in the prison experiment, that when given the opportunity to abuse power, that they will take it and run with it. And that touches upon something else, our human nature.
We can wrap ourselves in bureaucracy, coded language, and the veil of our technology to show how advanced we are in this age but we have yet to acknowledge some very basic things about human behavior in our society. That people acting in their self interest does not automatically mean that they are doing the right thing for themselves or others. That being able to determine what is right and wrong without any other type of guidance is not an easy thing for the human mind to handle.
For example, you should not just hand me the keys to a Cheesecake Factory and expect me not to want to eat all the cheesecake. Now, if I'm paid to guard that cheesecake it is less likely that I will take any, but if it was an honor system, the only honor I may have left is in sumo wrestling.
Some people need rules to protect them from themselves, but do rulers protect others or just themselves? Moving forward in our society and rebuilding our culture after the failures of collectivism pose a lot of interesting questions and challenges. If we are to exist with a certain amount of Liberty then by what standards do we set the limits for what people are allowed to do?
Your neighbor should be allowed to experiment with substances but you don't want to live next to a house full of addicts. You want medicine but you don't want leaky bio-labs in your neighborhood. You don't want to be invaded by foreign tribes for resources but you don't wanna be a debt slave to trade deals and vice versa. If you want or need resources you don't want to have to kill to get them. So what do we offer our kids and grand-kids and beyond as a solution to these problems?
I'd say the non aggression principles are a good place to start. How about starting there when coming up with solutions?
If you need to impose your will, show aggression to intimidate, or need to deceive others to get what you want, that means it's not voluntary. Taking things, outside of any voluntary exchange is not moral, and the murkier it gets with bureaucracy and protections under law and the state the more normalized the victimization becomes. We are victims of this nation not its citizens anymore.
The tyranny of the majority has been imposed on us our entire lives. The idea of this being a free country because a bunch of brainwashed, bribed, and bewildered people stumble into a voting booth to hit the button that makes the cow say moo, doesn't change the reality of any situation. It only allows an entity outside of our control to tell us what to do, and most of us choose to obey. Rather through the threat of force or not, we take our L's every election regardless of who wins and the system rolls on.
Majority decisions remove the individuals ability to turn back and say no to immoral actions. What we have done to this country from 2020 on has showed me that. What happened this week in our courts showed me that too, that a majority, kept ignorant or propagandized into believing something, can condemn others so easily because of the will of the state. As usual the lies are left out in the simple telling of the story. The details of which are never told but the decision is held as just and repeated to enforce that it is correct, when its not.
If we can make any difference in the future of man, its in learning the lesson that the majority holds no implicit merit, and that the finer details of the situation are what's key to making any decision. That understanding a situation is better than just going along with the group. And that being an individual with Liberty requires everyone to acknowledge what is true even if it doesn't give you what you want.
Ah the hurt that keeps hurting! A well thought out observation for such a young person! To notice the policies of those who don't have the right but can and with help from conspirators, convince the masses to accept that they have the power to rule over us, using the B. F. Skinner version of reality at such a young age, also makes you dangerous person number six. You have also incorporated the view of Patrick McGoohan on The Prisoner to polish it off. We are our own worst enemy. Well done sir!