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RE: [New Video Series!] True Anarchy, Installment 1: THE IMPORTANCE OF TRUST
'Tips Fedora
Now that that's out of the way, while I agree in the need for trust I'd say it's irrational to trust the majority of people as the majority of people are selfish lying and deceptive, primarily normal people.
Obviously don't label them bad to start with and mistrust them, but don't trust them either, and don't be afraid to become hostile or not trust them whatsoever if they break that trust.
That's an (as of now, according to what you've written) unsubstantiated assertion I would ask you to substantiate.
This is what I said in the video ;)
It's pretty easy to figure out if you go live with normal people and/or work for them in their homes. They all yell out and essentially abuse their "partners." They almost all flip out and abuse their kids in one way or another. They almost all think of their self first, even above their kids and partner.
This society is built off lying, deceiving, and general bull-shitting. Unless you're financially independent every day you kiss somebodies ass and pretend to be somebody you aren't, and even if you are you probably do.
That's just how people are raised in the west.
I know, I was actually more of agreeing with you on this post :)
I even upped it~
This is not my experience at all. There is a lot of this, due to pain in the world and due to the state's coercion/pressure, but the default for humans is happiness and love, when their needs are met.
While I agree, the problem is most people settle for partners they don't like as well as """care""" for children they don't particularly enjoy the company of.
This makes them frustrated, unsatisfied, and there's no real escape unless they throw it all away, and thus they lash out at their partners or kids.
That's actually one reason I prefer collectivism as it allows people to feel more comfortable with taking a back-seat in parenting if they aren't into it, while in a individualistic society your trying heavily to get your child to be like you and hold your position in society pretending to be happy even if you aren't and pretending you enjoy your kids company even if you don't, as that's what's expected, yet such people unless they're absolutely swimming in cash they will never simply find a better caregiver for their children.
That's fixed in collectivism :)
/shill
Huh. I see it as totally different. I don't know any Voluntaryists that want their child to be like them in that sense. Everyone I know encourages personal growth and exploration.
I agree 100%, too, that having a community to help with the kids is HUGE!!!!! I am not opposed to voluntary collectivism at all!
With "an"caps and really everyone who isn't stereotypical normal usually is better with kids, but sometimes they're far worse, but usually the former.
I'm saying stereotypical normal folks. The people who can't save, overspend, are bad with CC's, that simply vote for whichever party they're told to, that send their kids to public school, etc, typically.
The problem is these people have too much pride and "face" to say the truth about how they feel, they cannot get the words out that they simply need help with their kids, or that they don't want them.
I know people like that, tons of them, as that's who I babysit for.
Really bugs me because I'd happily adopt their kids, or even take them for a few days so they can relax and de-compress, and for free. But they refuse to admit it, and thus they burst out in yells at their children, are rude to them, and often are physically aggressive at times.
This is why I label myself as a "child liberationalist" in fact, as children have been stripped down to pet-status in western society by many parents, and I believe children, while ignorant are rational agents and capable of deciding much of their lives, such as who is their parent.
I say kids, like the ones I babysit, should have the option to flee and have me as a caregiver rather than their parents if they desire that.
The states creates the problems for many of its own "solutions". In my experience desperation is what drives selfishness because the state manufactures scarcity, which, in turn, drives an inhumane competitiveness within people to harm their neighbours. It's not natural, it's not innate, and while it is learned, it's learned because we all must survive within the mess that we live in. The state, however, would like us to believe that it exists to protect us, as Hobbes so famously wrote, from the primal dispositions of our fellow humans.
It's not entirely the state/finances, as in the home it's the same.
Culturally the father is expected to care for his children, as is the mother, and to even have kids at a certain age, which realistically some people just shouldn't have kids or be the primary caretaker of kids.