TacoTruck raedeus:
TacoTruck: The left-right paradigm itself is fraught with different interpretations so I think it's suboptimal term.
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raedeus TacoTruck:
raedeus: agreed. I'm an anarcho-capitalist - a convert for more than a decade now. I'm trying to illustrate the point that a non-voluntarist society cannot be anarchist.
TacoTruck raedeus:
TacoTruck: Well that's the rub really, when you press the marxoids for the details, it usually involves killing or hurting people that don't want to participate.
billstclair Scratch a
billstclair marxist
TacoTruck billstclair:
TacoTruck: funny. I also say scratch a (contemporary) 'liberal' or 'progressive' and you'll find an
billstclair Aye. And they have the mandatory schools to propagate their
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: Anyways when i pressed the anarcho-syndicalist for how his idea of such a society would be
raedeus
raedeus: I was looking at the Center for Stateless Society website. It's a concept that doesn't make any sense. I have no problem with communes, unions, - whatever - I have a problem with putting a gun to my head to make me play and telling me I'm more free. It just defies all
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: he got this wild look in his eye and talked about some one-time forced wealth redistribution...
beam
beam: based on different conversations with several people in several different countries which do not believe in their govs, political parties I noticed that the right way to help them to hack/improve their way of thinking, was to introduce them to the Rule of Law after that they start to follow the rabbit to the free/open
billstclair
billstclair: Right. Make them all equal by force, and they'll magically stay that way forever
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: raedeus: I think it all comes down to developing a commonly shared concept of just property rights.
billstclair
billstclair: "If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law." -- Edward Abbey
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TacoTruck
TacoTruck: great
raedeus
raedeus: Agreed on the property rights issue. First, you have to get people to understand what property
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: One more story about the anarcho-syndicalist related to thate.
billstclair
billstclair: Ain't no liberty without
raedeus
raedeus: Nice quote by Abbey. Somehow, people recognize if you take a gun, stick to their heads and take their wallet - that's theft. If you give the wallet to a homeless person that's worse off, they sympathize but still recognize it's theft. If four of you are discussing this
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: Sure, it's the "how many men"
raedeus
raedeus: and 3 of 4 vote to make it okay to steal your wallet and give it to a homeless person - they still recognize the problem. But extend to millions of people allowing the government to steal your wallet, and the logical breakdown
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: Once you get enought people involved and obfuscate the violence with enough steps, people stop seeing it for what it is...armed
raedeus
raedeus: Injustice by millions is still injustice.
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: Take modern day America for example. This is a nation of war
billstclair
billstclair: And I have not been able to discover how the disconnect is taught, but it is almost universally
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: There are millions of them who have directly participated in and carried out criminal wars of aggression.
billstclair
billstclair: No matter how criminally they act, most people worship the authority of the
raedeus billstclair:
raedeus: I think the problem is based in early education. People regurgitate - they take the notion of the government as a given. They fail to think independently to recognize the cognitive
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: I just watched a documentary called "Water Time" by this surfer guy who used to write screenplays for Miami Vice when he wasn't living the life of the endless
billstclair
billstclair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
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TacoTruck
TacoTruck: It's interesting because you can see the reactions people have when he starts showing them evidence that the JFK hit, 9/11, OK City are all being lied about by the Main Stream Media.
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raedeus
raedeus: I'll have to check that
billstclair
billstclair: You run into a brick wall as soon as you question the official story. People stop hearing
TacoTruck billstclair:
TacoTruck: It must be done delicately, that's what I've
raedeus
raedeus: The Milgram experiment is why I believe that there can never be anything for mankind that's close to true freedom on a mass scale. As was stated earlier, freedom is a DIY project. You can't overcome the masses of statists that don't even realize they're
TacoTruck raedeus:
TacoTruck: Right, it's the fish that never notices the water around him. The water being a metaphor for state
billstclair
billstclair: At best you get to characterizing the state as a "necessary evil". Until that is deprogrammed, there's no hope. But even that won't solve the problem. The majority of the human race are sheep. They WANT to be told what to
TacoTruck billstclair:
TacoTruck: In my more cynical moments it's hard not to agree with that.
raedeus Very true. People don't want freedom - they want
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: Where he talk about this persistent portion of the population that appears to actually 'want' to be
billstclair
billstclair: And imaginary
TacoTruck
TacoTruck: again and again.