I think I might have been a Socialist once.

At the age of 20 years I was laid off from a job, leaving me with several choices: I could sign up for unemployment benefits and collect State checks for as long as possible while sitting by the swimming pool all summer... Whatever the other choices were, they were never even considered, I couldn’t think of anything better at the time, so that’s what I did.

I had it figured that the State owed me, and I fully expected to be nurtured with motherly tenderness by my caring government while I was idling by the pool, lying there in the weekday sun. I may have been what is known as a Socialist.

Becoming a Democrat

After nine months, the State plucked me from her tit, and I was forced to find work again. This was when I found a job drawing political cartoons for a college newspaper, and there I was taught who it was that I should righteously slaughter each week in the publication.

While I was in this college working on the newspaper, I was taught their formula for what they deemed news, which began with the premise that the Republicans were terrible people, and that all Democrats were heroes.

The Apathist

After that college training, I lost interest in the obvious theater of politics, and I wandered off to do other things. I was off enjoying some apathy, and could not have cared less who everybody was supposed to like or hate.

I Was a Constitutionalist

It was right after September 11th, 2001 when I noticed that a technocratic security apparatus and police state were being erected around me, and it was when I found a little pocket-sized version of the US CONSTITUTION. I read it one day, and was surprised to discover that the authors of the document had recorded some esoteric wisdom which I was already familiar with: each being on Earth is born with the same “Divine Right” that all of the kings and queens claim to have inherited through a noble birth. We were rulers of our selves, with a sort of internal Monarchy.

The Metaphysicist

Each individual has no master, and is inherently the royal master of themselves, responsible for their actions, thoughts, and their conduct towards other individual beings. Until I actually read the US CONSTITUTION, I’d had no idea that it was a metaphysical treatise on self-realization. It was an exciting discovery for me, but nobody else seemed to care.

The Libertarian

Regardless of our divine inheritance, I was still under the impression that a few rulers would be necessary, though I had already been living in a world where the powerful rulership that had been selected to reign over this populace was absolutely in the way of any real cooperation or voluntary interaction between the subjects of the USA.

Every voluntary interaction that us little kings and queens chose to partake in was overseen and taxed by a cumbersome golem that the inhabitants of the States had become completely accustomed to, and had even created the monster with their collective belief in the authority of the government, and it’s alleged necessity. Where did anybody get this idea that a centralized government--large or small-- was useful in any way?

NOW they want to talk about the CONSTITUTION!

The general understanding is that this magical document gives Americans their rights, and also gives the protection of a government, for without a government’s protection we would be all be speaking (insert language) by now.

It was then that I realized that the US CONSTITUTION was possibly the most powerful mind-control device on Earth, even rivaling the brain-scrambling psychological manipulation mastered so long ago by the popular religions of the world as a way to bring misery to us all.

When so spellbound by these abstract concepts and popular beliefs, the sorcery (there’s no other word for something that will compel millions of individual humans to accept the idea of sending destruction, death and war to so many faraway places, year after year, hiring soldiers to cause untold suffering to countless innocent beings and irreparable damage to themselves as their sense of morals and understanding are cast away, all logic aside, all because we have a document saying we are a nation, united and indivisible, with liberty and freedom and other patriotic words) that is maintained by this misunderstood document generates a spell which allows individual responsibility to be delegated away to the rulership, so that the proud US Citizen can feel relieved that they have done their patriotic duty by doing essentially nothing.

The Anarchist

Mass mind-control. A fascinating subject, but once it is seen working on a large group of individual beings with such inevitably deadly results for everyone, we have to reexamine what it means to be patriotic or nationalistic, when the fruit of that belief system (BS) always ends in violence and otherwise destructive interference in the lives of innocent people.

The politicians are simply parasites, and they feed solely on the erroneous beliefs held in the minds of other individuals which support this presumed authority of government. They exist only by abstract ceremony, and a politician can only exist because of the tendency for the population to hand their own authority over to the state in this sentimental ritual, where the State becomes the surrogate parent of the citizenry, strong and protective like dear old dad, while also giving, caring and nurturing like a precious mother.

This Could Lead to Anarchy!

A random glance at daily life practically anywhere in the world is a glimpse of what anarchy really looks like; when there are no rulers present, the individuals tend to perform voluntary transactions as if it such a thing was completely natural.

Like any prison, the voluntary transactions between individuals is rampant throughout the complex, and life finds a balance when unhindered by the illusion of a ruler or master. Since most of the violence in the world is caused either directly by the State through wars, or indirectly with things like the Drug War, the world would appreciate the State’s absence more than might be realized.

The Voluntaryist

It’s that voluntary world that naturally happens all the time, the actual world where logic is allowed, and various beings are free to associate as they please, and are all born with the right to defend themselves and their families from outside aggression if needed. Outside aggression will be rare though when the beings here retain their own authority and perhaps remember their own power to influence the physical world, or the power to finally decentralize authority, and get on with life.

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