Statism: A Terrible Lie
This is my entry for the @Freedomtribe Enter The Truth Challenge.
Q: Tell us about a powerful truth, or a terrible lie.
A terrible lie is that we need government in order to survive and thrive.
The state itself is an agent of oppression and coercion. It cannot protect the individual with the right hand, while it violates the natural rights of the individual with the left.
Truth doesn't serve statism, lies do.
For example, the TSA provides security theater, not true security. The state launches wars against terrorism, when war itself could easily be considered terrorism just the same. The state has proven over thousands of years to be too dangerous to tolerate, but they're still busy perpetuating the biggest lie in human history.
At this point, with all of the violent history that the state has been responsible for throughout time, you have to wonder how anyone could still place their trust in this criminal organization that violates the consent of millions on a regular basis. The inability to see the state for what it truly is is a political illusion that they have worked very hard to maintain. But it's a self-destructive religious belief that does nothing to promote or protect your personal interests.
The truth is that humans can survive without government and that without an organization with a monopoly on coercion like the state has today, they'd likely thrive significantly as a result of those chains being loosened.
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I wish this was absolutely true.
Then, it would be easy to abolish the state.
However, humans need an organizational structure to operate in.
A neighboring tribe comes to say high, well, the "leaders" usually get together first, and then discuss all the circumstances. Having everyone there in that meeting is often difficult, but also tedious. Or basically creating treaties.
Another piece is arbitrating between two people of the group. Not all agreements can be worked out strictly between two people. So a person who is considered wise by both people is sought to arbitrate.
These are structures, and what is considered the "state".
Things that people who claim themselves sovereign suddenly find themselves responsible for handling.
And, it is these things that have to be put in place first, as an alternative structure, before you can kill off the old state.
It is true. Where you are completely wrong is in assuming you need statism in order to have organization.
Voluntary organization has and will always work better than coercion. It will never be easy to abolish the state so long as billions of people maintain the illusion that they need a leech suckling from them in order to survive.
an organization which claims to provide you safety.. while violating your consent.. does anything but. Have you not seen the fruits of statism for the past thousand years or more? sigh..... if only you favored freedom more than you clutch onto fear and lies.