Proper order is spontaneous, imposed order never works.
Proper law is discovered, not legislated.
Property is a natural drive for all living things.
Markets are emergent phenomena.
Leaders are not rulers and rulers are never leaders.
Education and schooling are two very different things. Governments only provide schooling and never education.
Cooperative and collective are not synonyms, nor are government and governance.
The vast majority of persons on Earth are good and competent and need no one to tell them how to live their lives. Whenever systems of coercion and control are put into place it will not only corrupt those who come into power it will attract those that are corrupt or corruptible. Governments can never be trusted to exist as they will inevitably prey upon that overwhelming majority that are good and competent.
Thomas Kuhn taught us in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” that paradigms can shift virtually instantaneously when the discord between theory and evidence becomes great enough. We will likely have a chance for such a paradigm shift in the near future when the dollar collapses and takes the government as we know it with it. Our only hope is that the meme that government is an absolutely UNnecessary evil is spread widely enough to avoid absolute tyranny.
There is more to come and I do hope to expand upon these ideas in the future.
100% thank you!
Indeed, Keith! Short and sweet!
Very well said, although I’d have to take issue with the use of the word never. If I were editing your work, I’d replace never with “seldom” because rarely is anything “always” or “never”. Except in the first sentence, because imposed order never DOES work, it always consumes itself.
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Lydia,
I edited this article, I only edited for spelling errors and things of that nature to avoid unintentional changes to Keith’s statements. I don’t edit our writer’s thoughts or what they have to say, I just take a quick look to be sure there were no spelling accidents. :)
I’m glad you enjoyed Keith’s writing, he’s a one of a kind for sure!!!
Well, the three other times I used it I’ll stand behind. Certainly rulers can come from leaders who have exceeded their grasp but at that point they are no longer leaders who are voluntarily followed. As to government schooling, sure, they admittedly throw some bones to the masses as an appeasement but education is not the goal of the system. And, I think that “government can never be trusted to exist” is fairly obvious to those who understand the true nature of government.
But, perhaps ,as is often the case there are definitional problems that can lead to disagreement. Unfortunately that seems to be a lot of what happens in the movement. Even I fall into such a trap.