Government Explained
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called "government", and wants to understand more about what "government" is, what it does, and why it exists.
Produced and voiced by Graham Wright, based on a talk by Larken Rose at the Free Your Mind Conference 2011 (source video has since been deleted)
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I really like how this video breaks down what a strange concept government is.
It's a great video for sure, and clearly the idea of "government" is a scam from the start.
Jamie Nelson very good video for our young generation
Right?!
@ISOHaven You want to write out how or why or are you going to lie about the video?
@ISOHaven so you are completely wrong. They never said one guy is in charge for one. And they escalate. If you don't pay your taxes and then don't pay the fines. What do you think will happen to you?
You get... That's right, violence imposed on you.
Going to school will only net me the education equivalent to what you said, which on its face was already wrong from go.
I want to see real arguments so I can actually become smarter. But also so others can be too, but I've learned nothing by conversing with you.
How do I like a video more than once? Because this is honestly one of my most favourite videos on UA-cam.
Thank you!
Create multiple accounts?
@@177SCmaro lol
@@177SCmaro which you should be doing anyway to screw up the tracking - or better yet dont create multiple accounts - or better yet dont use yt
Use another account?
I play your Government-Explained in my Radio show every Friday in Berlin, and it is working well. a lot of people love your stuff.
Thank you, that is good to hear.
"we're allowed to ask them to tell us to do what we want them to tell us to do" im dying
Altruists are allowed to beg them to force everyone at gunpoint and shoot the disobedient. Vigorous writing is concise.
The crux of the argument is this...
An anarchist is perfectly happy to allow a statist to sign a contract with a group of individuals he calls "government", who steals 50% of his income, makes arbitrary rules he must follow, forces him to buy things he may not need/want, sends him to fight and die in wars that make no difference to him AND force him to pay for these wars and put him in a cage if he's caught with a certain plant in his pocket (among other things). All the anarchist asks is for the same respect, to NOT be forced into that same contract with those people who call themselves "government". The anarchist is more than willing to let the statist do with his life as he wishes, but the statist will not afford the anarchist that same courtesy.
It's just that simple.
Indubitably
Love the logo. Yeah what you said, its funny how statist can't understand this simple request.We just wanna govern ourselves without that's from government
yeah we arent welcome into the interplanetary council because of those pricks
Just don't use the roads, etc, and if the enemy invades the nation, the government has no responsibility of using its army to protect you, among other dumb consequences.
It saddens me to think of the ones who are fighting for your ass right now. Ungrateful child.
Government is, in essence, a protection racket.
Yup it's a monopolized mafia.....
Or a crime syndicate.
It's a gang, except unlike most Street gangs it's smart and full of toxic narcissists along with a few psychopaths here and there.
An inefficient one at that. A real protection racket would never do such a lousy job
That is exactly it. Without them some other thug will come in and take over. They are our protectors. Lesser of 2 evils to some extent.
If i were a professor teaching a class called "anarchy 101 , it aint chaos, its common sense." This would be an introductory video to that class.
Jeff Ollerich
Keep in mind Anarcho-Communism is way different than Anarcho-Capitalism, and most anarchists are Ancoms. This is an Ancap video, but an Anarcho-Communist society would be chaos.
Legalize murder. Try it, Oh, look up Anarchy in the newspapers for 200 years in 6 languages too...
@@cermit2376 Anarchism is the absence of any system. So it's kind of weird to classify ancoms and ancaps as such. The guy that inspired this video explains it quite clearly. It's like saying I'm a no system system. It's weird.
I believe Anarchy is derived from the Greek term meaning ‘without rulers’. I can conceive of systems that do not have rulers so In this sense at least it can make sense.
One of the best I've ever seen.
A friend's 5 yr. old son once asked his dad what the government was.
His dad asked "What do you think it is?"
Answer: " Sounds like a fat man on the corner asking for money."
Out of the mouths of babes ... !
Ken Roberts
Deep down I hated government when I was a kid, but I couldn't really think that due to all the authoritarian propaganda I was fed by the public school system. It's sad.
@@cermit2376 that is what happens to the majority of Canadian children.
The smart ones snap out of it in their teens.
Except the government doesn't ask for money, they threaten for it.
I think I might have thought similar.
"dad, if the system wasn't corrupt but is now, it's been corruptable from the start!"
"either dodging questions or using words I don't understand, can't remember"
THIS NEEDS A OSCAR
Thank you!
it really speaks to me
Seriously. There's only one reason this hasn't gone viral (yet..😉)
Brilliant video. A thorough representation of anarcho-capitalist arguments.
LOL!
Alien has homie moving from anarcho-capitalism to anarcho-communism REAL quick
No, ALL government. Name a country that doesn't abuse its power.
@@deprogramme369 lol. Anarcho communism is a joke. Anarchy only means one thing. Without involuntary archy. Hierarchy, oligarchy, monarchy, etc...
@chrischandler889 100% correct
this guy is just talking to an alien like nothings happening
+Buildbanner that comment had me lol! totally hilarious sir!
genius comment on youtube spotted XD
He's probably baked.
Why wouldn't you talk to an Alien as though nothing was happening?? ∞
it's more of a discussion...
we need government like a fish need bicycle
Freedom OR Slavery: Take your pick. There is no grey. You're either free or you're not. I choose freedom.
Steve Ryan
Be a free man at slightly higher risk
Or be a protected slave
Make Sense!!
We, the top 1%, love the plebs that think that 'freedom' applies to them! We now got them to the point where they accept us ripping them off completely, what a bunch of dummies they are, ha ha!
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'Yeahhh, but I didn't vote for this guy. My guy would have been better. And if you don't vote, you have no right to complain.'
I genuinely can not believe this hasn’t gotten more views
UA-cam supports tyranny.
Have watched this video several times, and I never get tired of it. haha
Just remembered this video after watching it ages ago... since then ive become much more of an anarchist and im so glad i can appreciate this video more now lol😍
No overlord don’t mean you are willing to use unjustified force like they would against you .
SAME. i come back every few years, gets more mind blowing every time i watch it
everyone needs to see this video
Interesting , thought provoking, and funny in a nightmarish sort of way
This video is absolutely amazing. It would take a true idiot to still like government after hearing it the way you explained it.
Thank you!
For some odd reason, most people's brains don't and won't process this shit.
It really shows how programmable humans are...especially non thinking humans....itbreally lends credibility to the theory that we, as humans, were created as a slave race....think about it, we are sheep, in fact, we are worse than sheep. Sheep require a shepherd to keep them in line. We only require other humans to keep us in line (think about how much most people care and let their lives be effected by what other sheeple think!
That's what a statist is, a true idiot.
time to buy crypto
What makes you think the majority of the USA are idiots? Have you ever been to America?
Best youtube video ever!!!!!
+kcoldkchill Thank you!
What species are these politicians lol
+Monies Muzic I can answer that, the species that politicians are, is blood sucking leeches. LOL
lol
Monies Muzic LOL, and not only that, they are a parasite that keeps growing. LOL :) They can not manage their own money, let alone this country's, and keeps putting this country into deeper and deeper debt by involving this countries military in more and more wars which cost money, and even more and more of America's sons and daughters and the the PTSD as well as suicidal cases will grow and grow, and cost even more money. Is there an end to this madness? I think the way it can end is that people stop electing career politicians that are senators, or secretary's of state that are either criminals or are corrupt. There should be a requirement that if a person is elected to office, once their term is up, they should leave, and not seek election for a different office. Oh wait, there is, it is called the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Bill of Rights Amendment 17 where a senator can only serve 6 YEARS max, not a lifetime.
Reptilian overlords from another dimension.
Islandas what does the infinite doe to government war on them?
This video is brilliant!
Soon the man will get to tell the alien about humanity's recent invention of nuclear weapons, how governments stockpile such weapons, and how the history of humans with their governments is the story of one war after another. It's at that point that the alien will inform the man that humanity is almost certainly doomed.
Run over and surrender to the initiators of force
and I thought Monte Python had it right. lol.
Great analogy.
MUDDy
I love this video sums up my thoughts on government exactly.
Anarchism are not thoughts. See Ambrose Bierce
This excellent breakdown proves how important it is to keep teaching our peer human beings true logic; if successful, it will make them come to the same baffling conclusion as this video shows.
Great, well done! This explains "sort of" why I never vote (except once for the small village where I live)
Very well done! :-)
+theQiwiMan Thanks!
Probably the most important vid on the net right now
So Well explained. When You watch this and listen to whats being said it sounds SO Stupid and Ridiculous. I wish Everyone Would Watch This.
you've got a great channel, continue to spread the liberty message!
Thank you!
It has already been done!
I just added a link in the video description box to all the translated versions that I know of: French, Spanish, German, Czech... and Greek!
If anyone wants to translate to any other languages, please feel free! Send me a caption file, or just upload a new version of the video and let me know so I can add it to my list. The video transcript is linked in the description. And thank you!
Sir, where did the representative icons in this video come from?? I absolutely LOVE the symbols for Life, Liberty, and Property. The three keys!
what program did you use to create this, if you don't mind?
Christian G Xtranormal
"We're allowed to ask them, to tell us to do, what we want them to tell us to do"
That line is my favourite too! Comes directly from Larken Rose's original talk, I think, so credit to him for that one.
416 people would still claim to be against violence and slavery. Derp. Never gets old. Thank you, Larken Rose
What an amazing script.
Thank you. Credit also goes to Larken Rose because I based the script on a talk he gave.
You picked the right guy. :-)
I have a solution to all of this. Let me just tell you about it and a little about myself.
My childhood dream was to be an oceanographer. I love the water. Mother died when I was 10 and left me to an abusive father. I have had a lifetime of failure. I have had dozens of jobs and have lived in over a dozen different places. I created hell on earth for myself and anyone that cared about me. But just like the seed the knew that it must be hidden in darkness and then must struggle to see the light I found a way to stay alive. And through it all I have learned most lessons the hard way.
Now I am 50. I have been through the fire. I now have this experience that tells me to keep moving forward, to never give up, to keep pursuing my dream. If you fall down 7 times, get up 8. My dream has changed greatly over time. My unique experience has allowed me to work through a struggle that mankind has been going through for millenia. My dream is to continue pursuing this evolving conversation that we have been having since the beginning of time. That conversation starts with this question. How do we get along? Answering this question has taken me further then I ever knew I could.
Can we live in a system based in equality? We currently live in a system of hierarchy, just like our ancestors, and their ancestors, all the way back to the beginning of our recorded history with almost no exceptions. I believe we are currently creating the conditions that will clear the way for a new paradigm.
The old and current paradigm is hierarchy. We have had differing forms of hierarchy for thousands of years now, with almost no exception. Hierarchies have always elevated some people at the expense of others. This is why we struggle so hard to be equal. It seems very unlikely that we will ever achieve equality under any system of hierarchy. In my mind hierarchy is obsolete. It only works for the people at the top while most of us have to pay or be found as a criminal.
To make a system obsolete you do not fight to change the system, you create a system that makes the old system obsolete. We are currently involved in setting the stage, for not only a new awareness, but creating the circumstances in which a system of equality will arise that is beyond reproach. It has the potential to completely level the playing field, not just a little bit, it will be a full circle shift from hierarchy. Soon you will know how, with just a simple gesture, we can become truly equal.
Equality is a subject I have been wrestling with since I was a child. My life has gone in so many crazy directions. And along the way I would sometimes ask people about equality. It seems that most people believe that we are somehow inherently equal but have a hard time explaining it. I also struggled with the subject for most of my life.
It was not until I watched a show on Netflix called DMT the spirit molecule that things really changed for me. That show opened the door to the experience of ayahuasca. To those of you that may not know what ayahuasca is here is a definition from the urban dictionary. Ayahuasca: An extremely potent hallucinogenic substance - legal in Peru - that's derived from jungle vines by curanderos (shaman). It combines two pyschoactive substances (DMT and an MAO inhibitor), the latter compounding the effects of the former. Also known as "yage". The preparation and consumption of ayahuasca has been a tradition in South America for thousands of years.
I saw ayahuasca as an opportunity to discover something more about myself. Find out why I struggled so much. I was always looking for answers. About 6 months before I had my first ayahuasca experience I began smoking pot again for the first time in 15 years. It had become legal in my state but I still resisted it until a friend gently reintroduced me to this special herb.
It was like blowing back the veil. I was naturally compelled to find out more about who I was. This couldn't be done without finding out about who we ALL are. That was 2 and a half years ago.
In my zeal to share and thus release humanity from its bonds I wrote a speech that I proclaimed to all in a large, downtown metropolitan area with little affect. I believe I overestimated the time people actually had set aside in their day to listen to wide eyed dreamers.
I then began a series of failed efforts to get this message out. Eventually I learned, there is no such thing as failure, it is all part of the learning process. I've studied more in these last 2 and a half years then I have in my entire life. The message is still basically the same. It is really nothing new, I am just re-imagining a very old and successful idea.
It turns out that equality is possibly one of the easiest things that we could imagine. It was something that Graham Hancock demonstrated in one of his video's that triggered a thought process. He said ancient Egyptians were always trying to replicate the heavens down on earth. I realized that was similar to what I was doing. I was trying to make the intangible, tangible.
We can not be equal in the physical world. We are all physically unique. Our minds all work different. We all have different physical capabilities, from stamina to strength to speed. We all have different jobs, live in different places, we are simply all unique. Fortunately our unique individuality turns out to be our greatest strength. Which will later become apparent.
We truly live in a special time in history. For we have already created a technological system that has the potential to give us unapologetic equality. The system I speak of is continuously opening the doors on our understanding and at the same time brings us closer together. This system has already been spread to about half the people on the world. The system is being spread to the rest of the world relatively cheaply with wireless technology. Of course, I speak of the internet. Since we cannot create equality in the physical world then perhaps we can do it in the virtual world.
I believe that equality and freedom are two things that go hand in hand. I don't think you can truly have one without the other. We will never be handed our freedom. History has shown that we have always had to fight for it. Weather it has been violent resistance or non violent resistance through non compliance, we have always struggled for just a little more freedom. In fact freedom is so important to us people are willing to lay down their lives for just a little more freedom. Which is tragically ironic and deeply moving at the same time.
This form of freedom is the rarest of them all. It comes with a price tag. If we really want total freedom each one of us is going have to assume total responsibility for our own actions.
Have you ever heard the expression, with great freedom comes great responsibility? It certainly applies here. We will no longer have a small group of people making decisions for us. With the act of each individual accepting complete responsibility for their personal actions, we individually and collectively, become sovereign.
So, instead of relying on a small group of, so called, "elites" to make decisions that affect our lives, we collectively make these decisions for ourselves. Now really think about this.
Right now we consent to allow a handful of people the power to make decisions about war, economy, conservation, education, what rights we have, what taxes we pay, how much the taxes are, the list goes on and on and keeps growing by the day. Who is to say that these people can make better decisions for us than the pool of all existing people on the planet? Now stop and really think about that.
No matter what problem we are facing, someone is probably working on it right now. If not, between all of us, we have a vast pool of knowledge and experience to draw from so that we can find solutions.
One place where we can all go where we can talk about everything important to human civilization. This is where the internet steps back in. The internet will be our go to place to become educated on important issues. It will also be the place where anyone can go to be heard and to have the final, authoritative say in whatever it is they wish.
Every user that logs in is recognized by the system, but appears anonymous to everyone else. This is vitally important if we are ever going to truly realize equality. Additionally anonymity will enhance the power of free speech, then to each person that is of the age of consent that wants it, we give ourselves the power of one vote as a common right.
We talk, we argue, we share facts, ideas, we have smart software to help aggregate large information. When all is said and done we have a vote where anyone can have a final say. 2/3rds majority should be the standard. It is enough of us to give our consensus legitimacy.
This is what true equality looks like and the internet is the only place where we can have a gathering of human beings without race or country, standing together, not always in agreement, but standing as one race that covers the spectrum of human experience. I believe our fierce individuality shines, in diversity, experience and our willingness to create a better life. I further believe that equality will bring an end to many of the troubles we face just by its virtue alone. We may be looking at a new golden age.
With a click we can create a system based in equality where we can all have one voice and one vote, protected by anonymity.
Here is the link to a video I made awhile back. vimeo.com/126000527
This is my first video. I believe it is not very good.
@Caladore Gandtyour testimony is overwhelming. you are a beautiful person and I would like to meet you so much. I live in
France and if you came to see my comment I leave you my n0: 0624064309; I wish you the best and I hope to discuss with you (I wrote in french but translated by google) I speak a little English. best thoughts. Anna Mé. Je suis venue au USA il y'a longtemps. peut-être a bientôt.
Anonymity is know PROtection as it stems from cowardice and I say stand ure ground and face the music, rather than hide no rich person can buy the silence of what people think of them and certainly not a life !! The internet it like a barcode on the neck of a person it serves more to limit by monitoring than it frees !! The so called other world cuntries can do well better without this limits machine (I know, I know it's ironic or sumn) I read with my advanced class a book called The Giver in the 5th grade at a Montessori school which I had the privilege of life health and safety to attend - and in it traditions were valued and passed on by elders to the emerging youth, oral traditions don't need an anonymous log in as the community knew whom they dealt with and as I said it was not taken lightly !! This precious uniting endernett is alert from being "for porn" detrimental in that it creates screen babies and empty headed people with fake notions of reality !! Sitting down at the dinner table with ones family is pretty much a thing of de past starting with drive this and now everyone is on their dumb phone turning more introverted and antisocial !! Yeah- the real sterilizing effect of this so called gr8 age of connectivity !! I dont know anything about Anything nor do I claim to, but being who I am and having lived my life up to this point, I think the bs internet is just dat, I expect no one to glean anything from this comment and I mean absolutely know flack or friction but I suggest looking into the broader psychosocial I'll effects of this so called convenience as the price of convenience may be pricey !!
Yup, that's about the size of it.
I watched this yesterday and shared it on twitter and facebook. Loved it! Gold.
Jen M. L. Thank you very much!
Excellent work! Subbed and liked. Just outstanding!
one of the best things on this internet thing....us help us all
How stupid are we???
Katina Lennie I don't know. How uncritically did you accept the ideas of this video?
+Timorio under control yet uncontrollable and controlled.
+Warren Ross if i rape someone but refuse to call it love is it still a neoliberal thing dawg? ;)
+thall That's stupid!.
+Katina Lennie agreed
I wish people wernt like sheep
Diane Alexander As do I. I just hope you don't believe yourself separate from the flock.
baaaaaaaaaar
"Why do we need a government? Imagine what your school would be like if no one was in charge. Each class would make its own rules. Who gets to use the gym if two classes want to use it at the same time? Who would clean the classrooms? Who decides if you learn about Mars or play kickball? Sounds confusing, right?
"This is why schools have people who are in charge, such as the principal, administrators, teachers, and staff. Our nation has people who are in charge and they make up the government."
I love this! Great job Graham Wright and Larken Rose!!! 👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
"Government" IS a monster...
More like government is a group of people who pretend to have extra rights to rule who therefore become monsters. As the video points out, it makes no sense - to be worried about monsters so you deliberately create the very monster you fear to fight these potential other monsters. It's the classing thing of a self-fulling prophecy. People have created the very problem they hoped to solve.
The beast system
Smart, caring, wise people who work "for the people" TRY to get elected, but don't get the backing of big corporations or lobbies and therefore will never win elections, as we discovered that to get to a certain level of electability, you must have insane amounts of money. Smart, caring, wise people feel bad about having hard working citizens waste their money on that kind of thing.
Great Video, I hope this wakes up the masses. Will share far and wide.
We don't give them money- they take it by force.
John Holt's _Freedom and Beyond_ similarly features a conversation with an alien, to explain school. School is a really weird thing to believe in.
Interesting, thanks. I have read some Holt, but not that one. I will check it out sometime.
Its a red pill for sure.
I love this conversation. Makes ya think, or at least it should.
Anarcho-communism or anarcho-fascism... eenie meenie...
This is brilliant! I can't believe I've never come across this before. Wait, this is UA-cam... censortube... so actually, I can't believe I came across it right now.
Very good work my friend. Such an incredibly simple concept.
schools roads and defense could easily be handled by the free market much more efficiently...just as an example home school children consistently outperform public school children...roll roads are generally better maintained and more efficient to operate...and finally private security companies now patrol neighborhoods in lue of law enforcement agencies with lower crime rates safer neighborhoods and lower cost. So, any other dumb reasons we need government you want to throw out there.
Your analysis is utter simplistic
- Home-school children outperform public school children? this doesn't mean the children attending public schools would have a better overall performance if they were home-schooled. Who sent their kids to public schools? Who home-schooled their children? Are they in the same situation?
- Lower crime-rates and lower cost compared to what? to other neighbors? lower cost compared with the police? how they calculated those costs?
-Any proof roads are better maintained without government? What about large critical urban infrastructure constructions like bridges, tunnels, subway.
@@rusty_grove about the third point: someone with interests would build them. Be the interests money or anything else
Probably one of the best videos on youtube.
If the alien were truly intelligent, they would question the absurd notion of money.
Please investigate a resource based economy.
***** Do you think that Mises was able to comprehend and predict the capabilities of human ingenuity and technological advance until the end of the human race with such certainty that his prediction will hold up for ever?
If money is so absurd to you, I'll take what little you have off your hands.
So what is Japan to do for an economy? Since they have very little natural resources, maybe they can take over Manchuria again?
Money are resource too. Or it used to be ..
Money is an arbitrary and artificial measurement of real resources. It is not a resource itself, nor has it ever been.
Once upon a time everything in a barter was its own money. Then gold and silver simplified trade and they became the money, since they are considered to have value. Then Governments hijacked the meaning of a currency by creating monopolies of paper money. A lot of people hate money because we were all born in times of paper money, we don't know how it was like when money had some sort of value. The Venus project thing is OK, I guess, as long as it is voluntary: no "law" is made to force people into such system, this is pretty much what communists tried. Property rights (aka capitalism) are important because otherwise you get something called "tragedy of commons".
Sharing the crap out of this. New sub
The he said "that's your system?" At the end had me rolling 😂
When you're done with this video, you will realize there is some truth to this but you'll grab your medical face covering before you leave your taxed, registered and insured house stepping outside under a sun-blocked sky filled with heavy-metals to get in your taxed, registered and insured truck fueled by taxed, regulated and processed fuel to drive under a coerced license derived from tax fees to go to your job that forced you to get an inoculation to stay to earn wages that are taxed over 30% with your consent to purchase health insurance that is taxed, registered and processed, to be able to buy that 4-wheeler, jet-ski or boat that is taxed, registered, and insured on a trailer that is taxed, registered and insured then camp overnight in a taxed campground in your taxed, registered and insured travel trailer while drinking grog that is taxed, processed and regulated for ingredients eating burgers and chips that is taxed, regulated, and processed for ingredients that is cooked on taxed and processed charcoal grill ignited with taxed, processed, and ingredient-regulated flammable fluid, or you choose to conserve your taxed wages and send your registered and insured off-spring to an educational institution that requires tax, registration, regulation, and insurance, so the off-spring can get a higher-waged, inoculated and taxed job and all is good and we are all free, free to do what ever we want, as long as we do what we're told, right?
WE ENSLAVED OURSELFS!!
This is so appropriate with all this covid crap going on! I gotta share the hell outta this!🇺🇸
The alien should ask "what is money?"
Spot on. Every school kid should watch this!
ماذا نقول ونحن مستعبدين ولا يمكن لنا حتى ان نتكلم
I can feel my brain degenerating with every second watching this video.
To bad churches to preach this! They would loose exempt status. The all should drop the corp status because they never needed to ask permission to be tax free.(another fraud)
This video use to be the first video on the youtube list when you search for "Government". It is no longer there anymore when you search for "Government".
sus
wow....i am speechless. I cringed with embarrassment through out, imagining actually discussing "our system" with an alien civilisation!!!!
I love it when the Alien says "What is government?" The human should have known that any advanced species capable of crossing interstellar space would know have a government.
See The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell
Hello! Great video, it explains really simply something very complicated to explain, specialy because of everyones´ pre-conceived ideas about The System. I would love to subtitle it in Spanish, could this be done? and if yes, how do I do it? Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. Spanish subtitles are already available on this video. There is also another version of this on my channel with a Spanish title and hardcoded Spanish subtitles.
Government sucks
The fact that you value all of those services indicates you would willingly support them financially. Would not want those services if no one was forcing you to pay for them? Would a house developer create a new subdivision without ever thinking about connecting it to other places with roads? Would a collection of businesses such as exist in a mall pay for the private maintenance of roads, parking, security, etc. to serve their customers? Many incentives naturally exist to create roads.
Oh, I wonder when that was made private. Anyway, I've now changed the link to a mirror version. Thanks for letting me know.
Abdusselam be like:
And if you don`t want to read through the entire blog here is the most important part Part 3.
Not only is anarcho-capitalism not applicable to real life, its claims are logically incongruent. For instance:
AnCap claim 1:``If we abolished government there would be no need to fear the Mob or warlords would take over. Most people are decent and honest and would organize against it.``
AnCap Claim 2:``Government is just a criminal take-over of society by warlords and bandits similar to the Mob, ruling via oppression over a mostly decent majority population that cannot or will not organize itself and resist it``
See anything wrong with that?
For people who consider government to be a disease, they take a very superficial stance when it comes to treating it. They just say ``Get rid of it and all shall be better`` If you look at the map you may notice those damnable government things are literally all over the place.
So clearly there must be some deeper reason for their existence, be it good or bad, right?
So where did we first start seeing symptoms? Mesopotamia would be ground zero for this epidemic then. What set ancient Mesopotamia apart from the rest of the planet was its wealth. It was one of the first places human beings were able to amass significantly more wealth than they needed to survive.(Because of the fertile land and developed agriculture)
This led to two things: Unprecedented population growth and specialization in labor leading to the first divides between rich and poor.
If you are familiar with Orwell, this is where things start to get interesting.
These ever-larger communities of humans had rising levels of anti social activity (i.e. raping stealing, murder etc)partly due to the fact it was easier to be evil to strangers,(just like big cities today have more crime than small towns) and partly because the farmers suddenly saw themselves as poor compared to the new rich class of merchants and skilled craftsmen. In Orwell`s language, the High had risen above the Low.
Now, in order to defend their wealth, the High needed a class of protectors to defend them against the masses. These protectors had to be organized and armed to supplant the fact they were still vastly outnumbered by the Low. In Orwellese, the Middle were born.
Now the wealth of the High was secure from the Low, but now the Middle were the threat. In order to preserve their position, the High turned the Middle against the Low creating a state of perpetual subjugation.
And throughout time and space the story has been much the same. The world and civilization have been shaped by the conflicting interests of these three groups. The Middle strive perpetually to become the new High, the High strive to remain the High, and the Low, when they have an aim and are not crushed by drudgery and the routine of their daily lives, strive to depose both groups.
And have we reduced wealth inequality? Have human communities become smaller and more tightly bound by morality and respect than they were through the thousands of years of human existence?
So would it be reasonable to think that states would stay abolished if we destroyed them?
If history has taught us anything it is that destroying the state gives us nothing but a far more brutal state.
Those are both straw men
Those are all strawman arguments, and the one which aren't are idiotic as heck.
First off:
There'd be private police to protect private property and citizens who couldn't defend themselves or would rather not get involved in a violent encounters when doing so. And private police are way better than actual police because they actually rely on the people paying them.
Free markets and thriving capitalist societies existed long before government, so saying history taught us that we need government is a load of crap.
Allow me to solve the dilemma you created: Recreational Nuclear Weapons. So you want to fight me? No problem, I'll take half the eastern seaboard with me.
Oh, you changed your mind? Very well then. Our regular meeting time for lunch?
The mob is better they wear masks when robbing yu !! If wealth was based on counts of breaths taken, the world would drastically improve !!
Love this video but it's making me think I need different friends. Everyone I show this to doesn't seem to view this in the same light as I do. I'm so tired of people saying that they are free In America when in reality us normal poor American folk are just slaves. Had one friend say to me that I'm free because I can decide to not follow the governments rules or regulations. When I know I'm not that smart but I'm pretty sure anyone anywhere can not follow the rules of there leaders. So not a good comeback. Sorry had to rant a little bit. Tired of so many sheep's around me. Everyone says they are lions when reality shows that they are just sheep.
Just keep going. Plant seeds that will create cognitive dissonance. There is a massive awakening going on right now.
Nailed it. And so few see it.
I'm sorry if you perceived my response as arrogant; that was not my intent. Yes, your question is relevant. This video merely highlights the absurdity of the thing called government - no alternative at all is proposed. I referred you to my other videos to see how I define government and what my alternative to government is. I'll do my best to answer any other questions you may have, but doing so in under 500 characters can be challanging.
I thought this would be informative... Not just a veiled rant that twists truth to make people think their government is worse than it actually is.
You're kidding.
LMAO! So tell me something about the government? You sound like a zombie. So you watch CNN or FOX? Sadly this is spoken in the 2nd grade education level america is accustomed to.YOU should understand
Duncan Robertson ***** Its not a veiled rant but the truth, or more accurately half truth.
Government is all the things explained in the video plus it tries to take care of the poor, tries to maintains law and order, tries to provide good education to the people, sometimes protects from rich people from building malls or resorts to protect environment, etc.
The video is right in pointing out the reality that politicians are not the brightest people in the society and they do not always have the best intentions in mind. I hope you agree with that if you live in the real world.
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I agree with what you said. It was just annoying for me to watch some guy moan about a government that while not necessarily "good," does a decent job of protecting its citizens and not falling to pieces. He presented partial truth as truth, and the majority of people in the comments believed all of it.
Government does a decent job of protecting the people by leaving the borders open, arming drug cartels, invading other countries, drone bombing hospitals and civilians, allowing chemtrails, making hundreds of useless laws that imprison people that do no harm, block the use of cannabis that cures some cancers and helps children deal with seizures, over taxes people so they can't afford healthcare or their mortgage payments, turn schools into useless education, ignoring the constitution and rights, ignoring that 35 people a day die from prescription drugs, ruining lives over an ounce of pot, train cops to kill military style, make rules and regulations that put millions out of work, import violent islam people and give them a free life on our tax dollars, fail their background check system and blame it on the people by wanting to disarm us illegally?........................
That Government?
Good time to share this again! It's one of the best videos created imho!
MY FAVORITE VIDEO on youtube. by far.
1) voluntary trade, people already pay for products/services, having the relation voluntary, only increases quality and decreases prices
2) the initiation of force is immoral, not the use thereof, if you want to defend yourself(and/or others), or hire someone to do so, you are more than free to do so. you are not free to hire someone, and force your bill on others.
3) same as now(for the most part), people already use anarchism in 99% of their daily lives. contracts and the NAP
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(2/5) “if a firm has no new factories it has no need for more workers so doesn't raise wages” What do new factories have to do with raising wages? The only time an employer raises a workers wage (in a free market) is if the worker has improved his experience/skillset and is now more valuable to the employer. If you force the employer to pay a worker more than that workers skillset is worth, then the employer just won’t hire that person and that poor worker will be unemployed.
The effects of the Age of Aquarius is taking its toll on the human species. Awesome.
@Michael Taylor. No, somebody who manages a farm is called a Farmer. So they should be called the Human Farming Corporation.
This says it all. Well worth the 10min listening time.
Power attracts those that seek it.
Concentrations of power over others attract those that seek power over others to control them. Power doesn't necessarily corrupt, but it does attract the corruptible.
I already read the whole text. That's why I wrote that I, like mittitutti, didn't find a refutation in that text. I find Huemer's reasons unsatisfying (but maybe that's not surprising since Huemer mainly writes about the social contract and doesn't spend much time on state-ownership of land).
And no, states are not founded on usurpation and conquest any more than private property is founded on usurpation and conquest.
"But do you think that society needs a general consensus about the things everyone ought to be doing?"
Why do you need a consensus?
Nobody needed to hold a meeting to decide that humans like food and should eat food, and therefore created grocery stores. Grocery stores were created because people, without organizing or consulting with one another, created a demand for a single location where many different foods were available for sale.
All things are best solved in this manner.
Government - Govern - meaning to rule . Ment is Greek for mind . To rule the mind .
Yeah, goverment only exists within the mind of people.
Anarchy means no institution claiming a monopoly (through violence or the threat of violence) on one monetary system or police force. If there is a need for money, police, courts, etc. smart entrepreneurs will provide them, just like they provide everything else.
This comes of thinking in terms of personalities, rather than principles. Only the Libertarian party says "read our platform", and "listen to what our opponents say about each other."
Wealth can be passed on in modern days. Having a land, stocks, a bar of gold or any kind of commodity passed on to you when your parents have passed away for example. You can't own any thing in the old days, because you are locked up 24/7.
Rephrased: Tax that is spent on wars, corporate welfare (bailouts), and drug laws designed to fill prisons is theft. Tax that actually serves to benefit society (hospitals, schools, infrastructure, etc.) is not theft.
In that case, I must have you mistaken with something else I've seen.
Stateless societies have more or less existed like the Icelandic Commonwealth, Revolutionary Catalonia, the Free Territory etc.
This whole discussion, really boils down to the formation of civilization and the Neolithic. Civilization is essentially what occurs when societies stop moving and instead gather in one general area. How this really ties in with statism, I can't say.
That explanation about government went over well. Defining government can sometimes defy explanation.
Not since 1919
I don't remember the question, but... I totally agree with you on this one.
It doesn't matter who gets voted into power, the people still lose.
Perfect