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That a truely individualist free society may never exist.
Inspired by my topic on Libertarianism it seems there will always be some sort of oppressive entity because people apperently want that for several different reasons mostly motivated by fear or religious dogma or whatever. That the Welfare-Warfare state may be an inevitable thing. That people are so scared tht they are willing to let this happen. If it's not the state it's some resource rich collective/organization/corporation. The notion that freedom is dead because of the fear that prevails in the hearts and minds of hte people.
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It is in the biology. Pre-programmed into the mind of the average human being. Select any bunch of random mundies and stick them in a biosphere together, and before long one of them will be ordering the rest around and any dissonants will be dead. Normal humans cannot function individually on any level. They would sacrifice everything that makes them distinct in an instant for a shared group identity.
The only option, therefore, is a 100% Aspergian society... if one could really call it a society. More like a bunch of persons sorta living in the same place and doing their utmost not to continue arguments with each other.
Yes, we're headed down a bad road.
No, we can't do a single damned thing about it realistically.
We are all going to die as slaves because most people prefer it that way, far too lazy and useless to exist without someone else telling them how to live their lives.
And like flies playing a game of chicken with oncoming cars, the biggest impression we'll make is a brief splat on the windshield before being removed by the wiper.
So we might as well just keep a low profile, take what we can get under the radar, and die before anyone finds out.
But at least life has a 100% chance of death. ^_^
Jesus, what's with Libertarians and their obsession with "freedom"...
*Quirks an eyebrow*
You would rather be controlled? You into S&M or something? "Tax me Mr President! Tax me HARD!"
Actually Gelzo I used to be Minarchist before turning to my specific variant of Anarchist philosophy.
@ninjaclown... Maybe he practices what he preaches and doesn't give a toss what "people" think of him.
Either way... it isn't black and white, but then neither is any view significantly deviatory from the norm itself necessarily a "black and white" perspective. So what if he picks a viewpoint that appears to be over two standard deviations from the average? Good on him.
(Gender assumptions made. Alter if necessary.)
That's pretty much what it was built for. Read the tenth amendmetn of the US Constitution and tha tmay clear it up. as well as the ninth amendment. it establishes a government of enumerated powers in essence strictly defining the government to ensure that it doesn't overstep its boundaries. the difference being that many constitutions are quite large and say what the state "can't" do while ours is small, simplistic, and states only what it "can" do so there should ideally be no room for ambiguity of "technically it doesn't say the governmetn can't do this".