"Anthropological reversibility refers to the capacity of human societies to withdraw participation, reconfigure meaning, and alter collective behavior even under systems presented as total, inevitable, or irreversible."
This is amazing, because when the Soviet Union collapsed, Sweden became a close-by example of capitalist paradise on earth to the tired minds (and bodies) of the Soviet people. If a girl could marry a Swede and immigrate, that was SUCCESS and a reason for collective envy, big time.
Ironic because Russia was superior to Sweden in many aspects. If only one think , the bravery. Russia fought against Hitler who was defeated, while Sweden ( and Ukraine) cooperated and helped him and his plans. Ukrainian militias happily killed many Jews. While Russians fought to the last man. Many don’t even know that. 🧐 And as a matter of fact, I remember that in France in the 80’s it was considered very “ classy” to be married to a Russian woman. They were pretty rare, that’s why.
I grew up in France with a lot of freedom. When I put my foot in Sweden, I knew instantly it was a dictatorship. Investigating a bit I realise they had good friendly relationships with…DDR. ( with Hitler too) . Even sending their teachers there on training 🤔 After that I learned about their Eugenics programs , sterilising people they deemed as deviants. Gypsies, mentally challenged, young girls hanging out with bad boys in black leather jackets in the 50’s.
That country is not at all what it seems to be ( an advanced welfare society). It is a silent materialistic dictatorship where everyone is expected to comply according to the same rules and norms. A politically correct dictatorship. Swedes are escaping by the thousands every year while people in need ( refugees) are moving in because they have no choice. Also the retirement benefits in Sweden are very low compared to other countries in EU, especially for women. I think half of swedish women who were homemakers are now living under poverty level. Having to ask for economical help from churches to make end meet. So when I hear all these BS propaganda about “Sweeeeden better country than yours “ I just get maaaaad 🫣.
I think we still don’t know all that was done under that evil shameless ” program”. What I feel is that it targeted the weakest or the more vulnerable in the society and they were used for some kind of “profit “. Probably put in some kind of slavery, human trafficking . Example: in psychiatric hospitals they started to put the “ inmates “ to work. They produced a lot of things, food or handcraft, working with no salary the whole day. Used to cultivate vegetables that would feed the whole town. Or to build or repair chairs, furniture, these kind of stuff. Some of the “ inmates “ were kept chained to metallic beds , in dark cells in the basement treated like cattle, garbage, in horrible conditions. That hospital was receiving patients from the whole country. Many who worked there are still alive, old and retired nowadays. Sweden has plenty of old dirty secrets. That are in total contrast with the modern fake image they try so desperately to sell to the world. 🤔 Their reputation is the result of the “ advertising campaign “ they have been running since centuries. Notice one thing: In every Hollywood movie or any series from Netflix, etc…you will here the world “ Sweden, swedish “, like a subliminal mantra, being repeated on and on and on…
Someone really wants to put that country down your throat….but why? 😳 What’s the agenda? 🤔 And why is it MAINLY that country that is promoted and mentioned?..
The agenda is very obvious...promoted by the international left to portray Sweden as an ideal "socialist democracy", a model for globalists.
I find it amazing that so many people believe that a political ideology (or a religious dogma) can somehow transform human nature and eradicate such things as corruption, greed, dishonesty, cruelty, etc, from humanity.
Facing failure after failure, humanity keeps using the exact same tools and strategies expecting different outcomes.
I have been living here for more than 20 years. The mentality was socialist/communist when I first came. But the rulers of the country are capitalists. Who exploits the gullible ones. Nowadays we have the right wing in power. They ripped us off from the welfare, send billions to ukraine . Our own schools and elderly homes are in the hand of foreign capitalists some on the stock market.. Which is quite unique in the world.
Follow the hoot owls call towards the within Follow the ancient mantra to the wise
As he chants from his bough perched so high
Whooo!.. Whoo!... Who!... Am I
To answer that the Artificial Self...Must Die...
✌🏼❤️🙏🕉
For my friend Yasha Levine; who’s original flare fired into the sky above DARPA’s dystopian prison
The seminal telling ...Surveillance Valley...
was the prophet crying in the wilderness.
He’s trying to do a second coming of his excellent book on the dawn of the high-tech surveillance state... updated from where he left off; but in documentary form. He’s taken to that art form since his latest truth telling about the billionaire water theft in the farmlands of California. He’s trying to put together the funds. If you can help him in any way to gain some exposure... we’ll he won’t disappoint us with his revelatory alarm bell.
Excellent, poignant and heartbreakingly sobering post Tessa.
The PR brochure may have different slogans here in places that claim to be “democratic” (like Canada and the US) but all the truths you expressed above apply here as well.
As I was expressing to someone on James Corbett’s website underneath his recent interview with Riley ( here : https://corbettreport.com/the-edward-institute-a-post-mortem/#comment-184331 ), all these statist structures are essentially curb stomping our spirits (I was channeling Riley a bit there), using Prussian human domestication models to indoctrinate the youth to become obedient tax slaves.
Sometimes the statist regimes pretend to be all nice and smiley to give those they are parasitically feeding on a sense of comfort (sort of like a mosquito putting pain killer into your arm before sucking blood) but when their profits get interfered with , well you see what they are really like (the trucker freedom convoy/protest in Ottawa, all these quasi gestapo thugs in the US killing and kidnapping people for “immigration reasons” etc.)
So many people here in Canada suffer from severe Stockholm syndrome and they keep saying “ya the government was pretty abusive there your right, but this time they promised to be different , just you wait and see they really love us this time”. It’s sad to see people have their souls and lives fed on by these statist parasites but I guess they’ll have to learn the hard way.
Thank you Gavin! I agree. Have been saying forever that different isms are different wrappers for the same machine. Now, sometimes the machine has to pretend nicely, based on the current marketing brochure, and in this case, the life of the citizens is more pleasant. But at the end of the day, pretending tends to ends....
Here are a couple of stories I wrote about it a while ago
All tyranny tells us the individual must be sacrificed for the 'common good'. To cherish and encourage individual relationships and attachment, the small, weak, vulnerable is a radical act and dislodges idealogy by heart.
“Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.” ― Robert Higgs
The State Is Too Dangerous to Tolerate | Robert Higgs:
“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.” ― Ludwig Von Mises
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber...Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful 'sovereign,' on account of the 'protection' he affords you.” ― Lysander Spooner
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” ― Frederic Bastiat, The Law
“In truth, the belief in "government" is a religion, made up of a set of dogmatic teachings, irrational doctrines which fly in the face of both evidence and logic, and which are methodically memorized and repeated by the faithful. Like other religions, the gospel of "government" describes a superhuman, supernatural entity, above mere mortals, which issues commandments to the peasantry, for whom unquestioning obedience is a moral imperative.” ― Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition
“Kids are taught to praise and adore tyrants, and taught to hate any who resist them. We make fun of it when other countries put their own spin on history. We’re stunned that anyone could still think that Josef Stalin or Chairman Mao was a good guy. But this country does the same thing, teaching our kids to adore tyrants like FDR and Lincoln.” ― Larken Rose, The Iron Web
“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, or by millions calling themselves a government.” ― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
“How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.” ― Walter E. Williams, All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View
KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview. Explains KGB Manipulation of US Public Opinion (abbreviated interview)
(Full interview is 1hr 21min and easy to find - and worth it.)
". . . we use schooling to break children away from parents — and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Mann announced it as the purpose of Massachusetts schools in 1850 . . .” ― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.” ― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns — by an estimated eighty percent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880s, when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard.” ― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
So much for the "Land of the Free" . . .
Abandon the state, before it finishes us off.
“Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ” ― Thomas Sowell
Good points, Al. Well, the state developed from mob-like, strongmen-dominated structures. I think that in the process of natural evolution, we will go back to relatively harmonious existence. I also think that a lot of spiritual connecting and healing needs to happen before we can go back to relatively harmonious collective existence. Maybe a miracle will happen, and the healing will happen fast. We will see!!
That'd be nice, Tessa. though most people seem to cling to it:
“State power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently, economically, disinterestedly or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction arises over any exercise of social power, the aid of the agent least qualified to give aid is immediately called for.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
“Instead of recognizing the State as “the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,” the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
“The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
And it would be so simple to dissolve it:
“In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.” ― Albert Jay Nock
“Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. “Government money,” of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
I could keep going, as capable others have said it all before, but I don't want to quote the entire history of anti-statism here.
One thing's for certain: we cannot vote them out. We cannot petition them to leave us alone. If they were nice, they wouldn't be there in the first place. They've stated quite plainly their intentions with us, and no one seems to listen, or, having listened, not to believe them. Hope makes awfully thin soup.
totally agree. Marx said something like this: Each person works according to their ability and receives goods and services according to their need. On the surface it sounds kind of okay. But WHO decides what is your ability to work? WHO decides how much you need in goods and services? The STATE of course. But WHO is the state? It's a person or a group of people that that system gives power to, they have the power to decide how much you should work and how much you should get paid for that work.
See the problem here? the STATE is concentrated power. All individual power is turned over to the STATE. The concentration of power is greater in that system than in any other system of government. What do we know about concentrated power?
Concentrated power always and everywhere becomes corrupt! That's what we know about concentrated power! Give all individual power to the STATE and you will have a corrupt system telling you want you can and cannot do, and that corrupt system will decide how much your work is worth. The STATE with that kind of power is something beyond the worst horror show the world has ever seen!
There was a lot of discussion about this famous promise in my childhood ("In a communist society, everyone works according to their ability and receives according to their needs") How does the math work there without a spiritual foundation? That is the question. :-)
I don't know. My point was about concentration of power. Here in the US, "the land of the free", we have examples of concentration of power and where we do, we have corruption. FDA is a case in point. Why did we ever think it would be a good idea to give the power to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats to tell me what I can and cannot buy in my local drugstore? In a communist society we see concentration of power taken to its extreme. The corruption that would surely result is enough for me to never ever support communism, and to shudder at the thought of having to live under a communist regime.
To your point, if we could magically round up spiritually enlightened people to take care of the math, then maybe that system would be a good thing. If we could assure that we would always have a spiritually enlightened King or Queen at the helm of an absolute monarchy, then monarchy would be the best form of government ;-)
:) I think the only way it worked well so far in human history is on the level of a small community where everyone is sincerely striving to do what's spiritually solid, which requires a much better understanding of the Spirit than what most contemporary mainstream religions offer. A long conversation!!
yes! small community where everyone is genuinely trying to give their best and support the entire group. And that "trying to give their best" is coming from spirit as you say, or conscience, or even religious principles. Sense of community is something that is sadly missing in modern life, but sometimes can be found in small towns and communities. I think we as humans need that and if we don't have it, we're missing something, we feel we're missing something, and we long for it.
It seems as if you learned a valuable lesson about the Russian Communist State emerging out of Nietzsche's void of Nihilism. It did not work out for you nor the some 40 million democided by this Heaven on Earth.
I hope you will grow on to consider all governments as morally illegitimate? No one rules if no one obeys. Get free, stay free.
Dump Messianic exterminationalist "religion." Then and only then is there a chance to be free. We often point to "foreigners" like Nietzsche and such, but overlook the murderous elephant in the room. Colonization of the Americas killed 175 million. This done by "domestic idealogy," to wit, Judaism and Christianity. Yes there is a large "body count" associated with the "isms" of Eastern Europe, but on this land it was hell for my people and White immigrants. No one was ever FREE here. Peace
Thank you for the links, Jean-Baptiste. The way I think about it, it's the System of Domination, so poignantly called by Steven Newcomb. it's the machine. It wants to eat all, and it uses all sorts of stories and isms to justify it.
You better start kicking ass soon because Musk is building an army of combat robots as I type this. I am not joking about that either. I have connections in intelligence that have confirmed it.
"We are just a group of retired spooks that discuss things that you’ll not find anywhere else. It makes us unique. Take a look around. Learn a thing or two."
The Shocking 2025 ‘Deagel’ Forecast and Remote Viewing the future
Relax.........take a deep breath and do two things. First, don't worry, and second, "Go buy a 10 foot diameter nylon fishing net. They kind you cast, and a 2-3 foot long piece of steel 3/4 inch rebar. Now have fun. :) I have yet to see a robot that can untangle a net thrown over them, or a robot that can withstand a smash with rebar. Just saying. Add a water hose for more fun....Add a ladder or chair to block with for more fun... make a day of it :)
The purity of the rural soul that only recently went urban and still retained the expectations of not being betrayed. -- well done.
Bowing :) Thank you
What a vivid picture.
Thank you, V.N. Alexander!! xo
Makes sense!
"Anthropological reversibility refers to the capacity of human societies to withdraw participation, reconfigure meaning, and alter collective behavior even under systems presented as total, inevitable, or irreversible."
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/anthropological-reversibility
Thank you, Luc!!
With few exceptions, this is the accurate portrayal of…Sweden. 🤔 Social engineering?
This is amazing, because when the Soviet Union collapsed, Sweden became a close-by example of capitalist paradise on earth to the tired minds (and bodies) of the Soviet people. If a girl could marry a Swede and immigrate, that was SUCCESS and a reason for collective envy, big time.
Ironic because Russia was superior to Sweden in many aspects. If only one think , the bravery. Russia fought against Hitler who was defeated, while Sweden ( and Ukraine) cooperated and helped him and his plans. Ukrainian militias happily killed many Jews. While Russians fought to the last man. Many don’t even know that. 🧐 And as a matter of fact, I remember that in France in the 80’s it was considered very “ classy” to be married to a Russian woman. They were pretty rare, that’s why.
I grew up in France with a lot of freedom. When I put my foot in Sweden, I knew instantly it was a dictatorship. Investigating a bit I realise they had good friendly relationships with…DDR. ( with Hitler too) . Even sending their teachers there on training 🤔 After that I learned about their Eugenics programs , sterilising people they deemed as deviants. Gypsies, mentally challenged, young girls hanging out with bad boys in black leather jackets in the 50’s.
That country is not at all what it seems to be ( an advanced welfare society). It is a silent materialistic dictatorship where everyone is expected to comply according to the same rules and norms. A politically correct dictatorship. Swedes are escaping by the thousands every year while people in need ( refugees) are moving in because they have no choice. Also the retirement benefits in Sweden are very low compared to other countries in EU, especially for women. I think half of swedish women who were homemakers are now living under poverty level. Having to ask for economical help from churches to make end meet. So when I hear all these BS propaganda about “Sweeeeden better country than yours “ I just get maaaaad 🫣.
Yep, the eugenics program! Thank you for mentioning it! I remember reading about it a few years ago, I didn't know about it prior to that time.
I think we still don’t know all that was done under that evil shameless ” program”. What I feel is that it targeted the weakest or the more vulnerable in the society and they were used for some kind of “profit “. Probably put in some kind of slavery, human trafficking . Example: in psychiatric hospitals they started to put the “ inmates “ to work. They produced a lot of things, food or handcraft, working with no salary the whole day. Used to cultivate vegetables that would feed the whole town. Or to build or repair chairs, furniture, these kind of stuff. Some of the “ inmates “ were kept chained to metallic beds , in dark cells in the basement treated like cattle, garbage, in horrible conditions. That hospital was receiving patients from the whole country. Many who worked there are still alive, old and retired nowadays. Sweden has plenty of old dirty secrets. That are in total contrast with the modern fake image they try so desperately to sell to the world. 🤔 Their reputation is the result of the “ advertising campaign “ they have been running since centuries. Notice one thing: In every Hollywood movie or any series from Netflix, etc…you will here the world “ Sweden, swedish “, like a subliminal mantra, being repeated on and on and on…
Someone really wants to put that country down your throat….but why? 😳 What’s the agenda? 🤔 And why is it MAINLY that country that is promoted and mentioned?..
The agenda is very obvious...promoted by the international left to portray Sweden as an ideal "socialist democracy", a model for globalists.
I find it amazing that so many people believe that a political ideology (or a religious dogma) can somehow transform human nature and eradicate such things as corruption, greed, dishonesty, cruelty, etc, from humanity.
Facing failure after failure, humanity keeps using the exact same tools and strategies expecting different outcomes.
I have been living here for more than 20 years. The mentality was socialist/communist when I first came. But the rulers of the country are capitalists. Who exploits the gullible ones. Nowadays we have the right wing in power. They ripped us off from the welfare, send billions to ukraine . Our own schools and elderly homes are in the hand of foreign capitalists some on the stock market.. Which is quite unique in the world.
Duality.
Oh the fragrance of scented musk
Fissile embers incense arch into orbit
Surveillance Valley floats across the sky
Twinkling reflections of generated AI
Dazzling glitter to tantalize the minds eye
The flash-dance of performative freedom
Veiling the ghoulish ego minded lords
Who’s hypocritical foot steps pridefully
Mark us in so many tattooing patterns
Wander deeper into the misty glen
Enter the old growth forest my friends
Follow the hoot owls call towards the within Follow the ancient mantra to the wise
As he chants from his bough perched so high
Whooo!.. Whoo!... Who!... Am I
To answer that the Artificial Self...Must Die...
✌🏼❤️🙏🕉
For my friend Yasha Levine; who’s original flare fired into the sky above DARPA’s dystopian prison
The seminal telling ...Surveillance Valley...
was the prophet crying in the wilderness.
He’s trying to do a second coming of his excellent book on the dawn of the high-tech surveillance state... updated from where he left off; but in documentary form. He’s taken to that art form since his latest truth telling about the billionaire water theft in the farmlands of California. He’s trying to put together the funds. If you can help him in any way to gain some exposure... we’ll he won’t disappoint us with his revelatory alarm bell.
Thanks for reading this.🙏
Well stated, Sister Tessa.
;-}
Any State is a robot composed of bureaucracy...
;-{
Thank you Brother John!! And yep....
Excellent, poignant and heartbreakingly sobering post Tessa.
The PR brochure may have different slogans here in places that claim to be “democratic” (like Canada and the US) but all the truths you expressed above apply here as well.
As I was expressing to someone on James Corbett’s website underneath his recent interview with Riley ( here : https://corbettreport.com/the-edward-institute-a-post-mortem/#comment-184331 ), all these statist structures are essentially curb stomping our spirits (I was channeling Riley a bit there), using Prussian human domestication models to indoctrinate the youth to become obedient tax slaves.
For more on what I mean about the Prussian model of brainwashing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho7PPR93XJk
I described this indoctrination program in the essay below:
https://open.substack.com/pub/gavinmounsey/p/implanted-sociopolitical-identities
Sometimes the statist regimes pretend to be all nice and smiley to give those they are parasitically feeding on a sense of comfort (sort of like a mosquito putting pain killer into your arm before sucking blood) but when their profits get interfered with , well you see what they are really like (the trucker freedom convoy/protest in Ottawa, all these quasi gestapo thugs in the US killing and kidnapping people for “immigration reasons” etc.)
So many people here in Canada suffer from severe Stockholm syndrome and they keep saying “ya the government was pretty abusive there your right, but this time they promised to be different , just you wait and see they really love us this time”. It’s sad to see people have their souls and lives fed on by these statist parasites but I guess they’ll have to learn the hard way.
Thanks for speaking to this.
Thank you Gavin! I agree. Have been saying forever that different isms are different wrappers for the same machine. Now, sometimes the machine has to pretend nicely, based on the current marketing brochure, and in this case, the life of the citizens is more pleasant. But at the end of the day, pretending tends to ends....
Here are a couple of stories I wrote about it a while ago
https://tessa.substack.com/p/isms
https://tessafightsrobots.com/tessa-lena/mind-fictional-abyss-capitalism-socialism/
All tyranny tells us the individual must be sacrificed for the 'common good'. To cherish and encourage individual relationships and attachment, the small, weak, vulnerable is a radical act and dislodges idealogy by heart.
Humanity must abandon the state.
“Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.” ― Robert Higgs
The State Is Too Dangerous to Tolerate | Robert Higgs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILDjo4EXV8
“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.” ― Ludwig Von Mises
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber...Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful 'sovereign,' on account of the 'protection' he affords you.” ― Lysander Spooner
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” ― Frederic Bastiat, The Law
“In truth, the belief in "government" is a religion, made up of a set of dogmatic teachings, irrational doctrines which fly in the face of both evidence and logic, and which are methodically memorized and repeated by the faithful. Like other religions, the gospel of "government" describes a superhuman, supernatural entity, above mere mortals, which issues commandments to the peasantry, for whom unquestioning obedience is a moral imperative.” ― Larken Rose, The Most Dangerous Superstition
“Kids are taught to praise and adore tyrants, and taught to hate any who resist them. We make fun of it when other countries put their own spin on history. We’re stunned that anyone could still think that Josef Stalin or Chairman Mao was a good guy. But this country does the same thing, teaching our kids to adore tyrants like FDR and Lincoln.” ― Larken Rose, The Iron Web
“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, or by millions calling themselves a government.” ― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
“How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.” ― Walter E. Williams, All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View
KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview. Explains KGB Manipulation of US Public Opinion (abbreviated interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOmXiapfCs8
(Full interview is 1hr 21min and easy to find - and worth it.)
". . . we use schooling to break children away from parents — and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Mann announced it as the purpose of Massachusetts schools in 1850 . . .” ― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.” ― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns — by an estimated eighty percent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880s, when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard.” ― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
So much for the "Land of the Free" . . .
Abandon the state, before it finishes us off.
“Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ” ― Thomas Sowell
Good points, Al. Well, the state developed from mob-like, strongmen-dominated structures. I think that in the process of natural evolution, we will go back to relatively harmonious existence. I also think that a lot of spiritual connecting and healing needs to happen before we can go back to relatively harmonious collective existence. Maybe a miracle will happen, and the healing will happen fast. We will see!!
That'd be nice, Tessa. though most people seem to cling to it:
“State power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently, economically, disinterestedly or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction arises over any exercise of social power, the aid of the agent least qualified to give aid is immediately called for.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
“Instead of recognizing the State as “the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,” the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
“The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State
And it would be so simple to dissolve it:
“In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.” ― Albert Jay Nock
“Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. “Government money,” of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.” ― Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
I could keep going, as capable others have said it all before, but I don't want to quote the entire history of anti-statism here.
One thing's for certain: we cannot vote them out. We cannot petition them to leave us alone. If they were nice, they wouldn't be there in the first place. They've stated quite plainly their intentions with us, and no one seems to listen, or, having listened, not to believe them. Hope makes awfully thin soup.
totally agree. Marx said something like this: Each person works according to their ability and receives goods and services according to their need. On the surface it sounds kind of okay. But WHO decides what is your ability to work? WHO decides how much you need in goods and services? The STATE of course. But WHO is the state? It's a person or a group of people that that system gives power to, they have the power to decide how much you should work and how much you should get paid for that work.
See the problem here? the STATE is concentrated power. All individual power is turned over to the STATE. The concentration of power is greater in that system than in any other system of government. What do we know about concentrated power?
Concentrated power always and everywhere becomes corrupt! That's what we know about concentrated power! Give all individual power to the STATE and you will have a corrupt system telling you want you can and cannot do, and that corrupt system will decide how much your work is worth. The STATE with that kind of power is something beyond the worst horror show the world has ever seen!
There was a lot of discussion about this famous promise in my childhood ("In a communist society, everyone works according to their ability and receives according to their needs") How does the math work there without a spiritual foundation? That is the question. :-)
I don't know. My point was about concentration of power. Here in the US, "the land of the free", we have examples of concentration of power and where we do, we have corruption. FDA is a case in point. Why did we ever think it would be a good idea to give the power to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats to tell me what I can and cannot buy in my local drugstore? In a communist society we see concentration of power taken to its extreme. The corruption that would surely result is enough for me to never ever support communism, and to shudder at the thought of having to live under a communist regime.
To your point, if we could magically round up spiritually enlightened people to take care of the math, then maybe that system would be a good thing. If we could assure that we would always have a spiritually enlightened King or Queen at the helm of an absolute monarchy, then monarchy would be the best form of government ;-)
:) I think the only way it worked well so far in human history is on the level of a small community where everyone is sincerely striving to do what's spiritually solid, which requires a much better understanding of the Spirit than what most contemporary mainstream religions offer. A long conversation!!
yes! small community where everyone is genuinely trying to give their best and support the entire group. And that "trying to give their best" is coming from spirit as you say, or conscience, or even religious principles. Sense of community is something that is sadly missing in modern life, but sometimes can be found in small towns and communities. I think we as humans need that and if we don't have it, we're missing something, we feel we're missing something, and we long for it.
The deeper philosophical questions: Does it make sense to replace Soul with identity - any identity, including digital one?
The question in jurisprudence: Does make sense to trade free will and responsibilities with rights and obligations?
Great article. Thank you.
Thank you Dmitri! Yes, that is precisely the important question. Big hugs to you!
I was born in "communist" Romania and I 100% relate to what Tessa writes here... We even have a saying now:
"How good it was when we were complaining it was bad"... and it was *not* good back then; it is just that now it is worse... *much* worse!
https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/disorder-in-the-court
A Cri de Coeur article, Tessa, and I hope more ears hear it.
Ideologues who identify with any ideology over the innocent individual become “Useful Idiots” with bloody hands—read Paul Hollander’s work on this topic starting with his “Political Pilgrims” for a good stomach churn: https://www.amazon.com/Political-Pilgrims-Western-Intellectuals-Society/dp/1560009543/ref=sr_1_1
It seems as if you learned a valuable lesson about the Russian Communist State emerging out of Nietzsche's void of Nihilism. It did not work out for you nor the some 40 million democided by this Heaven on Earth.
I hope you will grow on to consider all governments as morally illegitimate? No one rules if no one obeys. Get free, stay free.
Thank you, Everything Voluntary Jack!! Love your name :-)
I have written plenty about it in the past, here is one example from my original website https://tessafightsrobots.com/tessa-lena/mind-fictional-abyss-capitalism-socialism/
Dump Messianic exterminationalist "religion." Then and only then is there a chance to be free. We often point to "foreigners" like Nietzsche and such, but overlook the murderous elephant in the room. Colonization of the Americas killed 175 million. This done by "domestic idealogy," to wit, Judaism and Christianity. Yes there is a large "body count" associated with the "isms" of Eastern Europe, but on this land it was hell for my people and White immigrants. No one was ever FREE here. Peace
https://jeanbaptisteguillory.substack.com/p/our-pilgrims-pride
https://jeanbaptisteguillory.substack.com/p/always-a-lie
Thank you for the links, Jean-Baptiste. The way I think about it, it's the System of Domination, so poignantly called by Steven Newcomb. it's the machine. It wants to eat all, and it uses all sorts of stories and isms to justify it.
It does my dear but knowing about it changes the game.
You better start kicking ass soon because Musk is building an army of combat robots as I type this. I am not joking about that either. I have connections in intelligence that have confirmed it.
You are so right! We truly are living in interesting times...
Let's do a crosspost sometime. My stack is blowing up. Dan Rather just subbed earlier today and recommended us.
Absolutely, and congratulations!
I sent you a PM.
A cross post you say, hmm
Wolf, you may find the Metallicman site interesting, if it's not already familiar:
https://metallicman.com/ About Metallicman:
"We are just a group of retired spooks that discuss things that you’ll not find anywhere else. It makes us unique. Take a look around. Learn a thing or two."
The Shocking 2025 ‘Deagel’ Forecast and Remote Viewing the future
https://metallicman.com/the-shocking-2025-deagel-forecast-and-remote-viewing-the-future/
Relax.........take a deep breath and do two things. First, don't worry, and second, "Go buy a 10 foot diameter nylon fishing net. They kind you cast, and a 2-3 foot long piece of steel 3/4 inch rebar. Now have fun. :) I have yet to see a robot that can untangle a net thrown over them, or a robot that can withstand a smash with rebar. Just saying. Add a water hose for more fun....Add a ladder or chair to block with for more fun... make a day of it :)
you are onto something with the net idea honestly… it’d need to be wire most likely but that is a really solid idea.
Have A.I. design you one like I did with electronic capacitors and batteries that can shock as well, in order to disrupt its systems. Have fun :)