TheGreatCompromise

Nov 9

If You Don’t Like Being Ruled, Don’t Try to Rule Others!

If you don’t want people like Barack ruling over you, then don’t try to get people like Mitt to rule over others. You can each voluntarily submit to your own authority. Then Democrats can let Barack rule them and you Republicans can let Mitt rule you, or whatever weird thing you like to do to each other every few years when you vote. In this way, a plurality of values can be expressed rather than some 56 million Democrats telling the other 53 million Republicans and another 100 million eligible voters who didn’t vote what to do. Only 27 percent of eligible voters, voted this last guy into office. Anarchists don’t have a problem with rules or authority. We just insist that they be voluntary.

I’m not certain why, but it reminds me of that story about the two guys who raced to the sea, but each had bet that their camel was slower. Each rider would go slower and slower attempting to not be the fastest until they both came to a complete stop. They sat there on their camels for a very long time until a wise man passed through. The two riders asked the wise man how to solve their predicament. The wise man said, “That’s easy. Switch camels.” The men switch, and raced to the sea as fast as they could ride.

In our political world, each side is incentivized to try to impede the other. We want to force our ideas on others. There is,however, a negative utility to warring with each other. War is only profitable for those who have the power of coercive taxation. Rather than fight to rule over each other, we must allow for a world in which a plurality of values can be expressed such that we compete with each other through business and voluntary association among vocations, communities, philanthropic interests, or any other group. In this way, we can emerge organically and evolve as opposed to falling victim to a few social engineers.

Why should we impede each other’s progress, and not focus our efforts and labor toward ruling ourselves? In other words, don’t tell others how to live their lives. Show them how you live yours. How can we spend our time and toil toward having realized our own values and dreams in our short lives if we are busy trying to force our values and dreams on others?

If you don’t like being ruled, then don’t empower others by trying to rule them. Stop trying to rule others, and rule yourself.

http://thegreatcompromise.tumblr.com/post/26153264443/spontaneous-order-ever-notice-how-nobody-ever

http://thegreatcompromise.tumblr.com/post/24197497324/yesterdays-post-was-an-example-of-emergence-in

Nov 2

Would an America Free of Government Mean Default on $17T in Treasuries?

One of my colleagues recently asserted that ending the U.S. Government would result in a worldwide financial catastrophe because of the default on $17 Trillion in U.S. Treasuries.

The elimination of the U.S. Government doesn’t require a default on all or any of its debt. I believe the U.S. Government has plenty of assets to pay off its debt. They can sell their strategic oil reserves and auction off public buildings and national parks such as Yellowstone. With trillions of stolen money going back into the economy and the universal financial windfall created in the reality of free markets, I am sure non-profit environmental groups such as The Sierra Club will have no problem raising the money to secure and preserve the lands. They can sell off-shore drilling sites in the Gulf and Alaska. If non-profits don’t want oil companies to get their hands on those sites, they can raise the money to purchase them AND control them. The U.S. Government could also sell interstate highways, technology, and information. It is the big ticket items in the military, however, that will go furthest toward paying off the debt. I recently saw an article pointing out that the new F-35 is going to cost tax payers $1 Trillion — as much as the entire GDP of Australia (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/the-f-35-a-weapon-that-costs-more-than-australia/72454/). Think how much the U.S. Government could get for all of its planes, aircraft carriers, missiles, submarines, tanks, and drones.

http://thegreatcompromise.tumblr.com/post/34230169269/thats-right-americans-buy-as-many-ak-47s-as-the

Remember, the U.S. Government does not need to close shop for us to regain our freedom. They only need to allow for others to complete with them in regard to regulation, protection, currency, banking, infrastructure, and philanthropy (http://thegreatcompromise.tumblr.com/post/34642025477/how-we-transition-from-statism-to-anarchy). Unfortunately, they are overextended, have a negative cash flow, and need to sell assets to pay their debt.

This is, however, a unique moment in time. It is now that we have the assets to pay off the debt and transition to a free voluntaristic society while avoiding financial catastrophe. Soon total liabilities will exceed asset values since from a “profit and loss” perspective, operating expenses such as social security benefits, medicare benefits, pensions, welfare programs, military payroll, and law enforcement payroll exceed fixed asset purchases that have value and appear on the balance sheet.

http://thegreatcompromise.tumblr.com/post/31236877027/this-is-only-5-minutes-watch-this-why-romney

In the end, however, I no more have a problem with the U.S. Government keeping all of their own property than any other company keeping their own property. My only issue with the U.S. Government is its monopoly and use of force to collect fees to force me to pay their debt. If, in the end, it is just Barack in the oval office with a few of his cronies with no lights because they didn’t pay the power bill and maybe a couple of tanks on blocks in the yard, and they want to homestead the White House, or maybe start a private rights enforcement business, or perhaps a “community organizers for hire” business, and they make the White House their headquarters, and they want to name their private business “The U.S. Government”…well… then I have no problem with the U.S. Government owning property. Hell, let ‘em keep all their property if the free market will bear their fee and they can pay the debt—otherwise, the property should be liquidated or go to the creditors.

Oct 30

Law Enforcement or Rights Enforcement?

I don’t want “law” enforcement. May I please stop paying for the enforcement of the government’s laws/rules? Let them pay for their own enforcement. I want to pay for “rights” enforcement.

How we Transition From Statism to Anarchy

Short of a majority of Republicans and Democrats deciding not to vote and legitimize the State, it seems that it will take some parliamentary act for us to gain our freedom. The good news is that it really only requires one parliamentary act. We need only to remove the coercive authority of the State - revoke it’s monopoly license. In other words, we need only allow others to compete with the State. For example, allow for competing currencies, competing regulatory agencies, competing rights enforcement, competing adjudication, etc. We don’t need some long confusing ten year transition plan. The State will quickly vanish into nothingness.

Oct 25

Meet the New Boss, Part Two: Executive Power and Police Statism

c4ss:

… For every authoritarian right-winger like Orrin Hatch or Richard Shelby, there’s an equally cop- and prosecutor-friendly Democrat like Dianne Feinstein or Charles Schumer. …

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“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B.

In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

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H. L. Mencken

“…every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

(via laliberty)

(via thefreelioness)

Oct 24

c4ss:

General Idea of the Revolution by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon on Youtube.

From the Markets Not Capitalism audiobook read by C4SS fellow Stephanie Murphy.

The Libertarian Contrarian: Regarding the mental health of politicians

libertariancontrarian:

Article 1

Yes, politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no…

That’s right. Americans buy as many Ak-47s as the Russian military and police. America is also the most heavily armed nation in the world with an estimated 270,000,000 guns owned by private citizens.

We truly are the worlds largest gorilla fighting force. No body in their right mind would invade us if we had no central government with whom to negotiate, no organized military front with which to engage or leadership with whom to negotiate, and no central banking system, IRS, treasury, currency monopolies or any other system with which one could abscond the wealth of the people.

We would have over 300,000,000 people all armed with who knows what and the majority of whom pay a monthly subscription fee to one of thousands of private rights enforcement agencies/security companies who are more heavily armed and have customers to protect.

We would also have a free market. A market where people of all nations could come and trade freely through voluntary exchange. We would have nations from all over the world who would want to protect their free markets in North America. We would regain our position once again as a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world.

We also would no longer have to slave to pay for wars with which we disagreed. We would not have to worry about our government butting their nose into the business of others to such a degree that some want to commit acts of terror against us. We wouldn’t need to worry about illegals crossing the boarder since there would be no free government social programs.

We would truly be safer without the government. It is the undeniable logic of peace.

It’s time for an evolution!

Oct 23