<html> <p><img src="https://notesonliberty.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/against-the-masses.jpg" width="284" height="284"/></p> <p>In 2012, during Ron Paul’s second presidential candidacy as a Republican, I felt deflated with the masses again. Again, the masses were not going to vote a libertarian into office. It was the same year in which I read Murray Rothbard’s <em>Ethics of Liberty</em> and Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s <em>Democracy: The God That Failed</em>. What struck me at that time was the realization that democracy is actually an extremely poor political system to make society become more libertarian. Democracy is not even a guarantee whatsoever for political and economic freedoms. Its success is dependent on the uprightness of the masses, but where are the masses to stand up against war, bank bailouts, taxation, police aggression etc? If the government is truly a gang of thieves and murderers, as I believe it is, then the voting masses are advocates of theft, harassment, assault, and murder.</p> <p>I do not believe that the masses are ready for freedom, because freedom means taking responsibility for one’s life and actions – a frightening prospect for the masses who lack the strength to face insecurities in life. Ingrained with fear of their own and their neighbours’ incapability to live a ‘responsible’ life, they are attracted to masters who can arrange their lives for them. The masses have also never thirsted for truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master, and whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. They want to be comfortable and cuddled to death. Thinking is too much hassle for the mass-man. The masses have moreover a love for egalitarianism and a disdain for those who are different, who are more successful and more beautiful. They hate freedom, because in freedom man naturally maintains his distance from his fellow human beings.</p> <p>Being discontent with the masses and deflated in my philosophical views on politics and economics, I took Peter Thiel’s following dictum to heart: “The masses have given up on unregulated capitalism, so those who still support unregulated capitalism should give up on the masses.” Instead, I have put my hope on such technological advances of decentralization as cryptocurrencies, seasteading, 3D-printing, and localized energy conservation and production. </p> </html>
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| author | allakuk |
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I suppose libertarianism should be imposed on people, whether they care for it or not.
| author | bacchist |
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Using coercion to promote a social organization that wants to eliminate coercion as much as possible - am not a big proponent of that. I don't know how we could ever get a libertarian society. I hope our technology will evolve that much that we can eventually build societies on the oceans and break away from existing governments. :)
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I think the answer to getting to a libertarian society (or anarchy, as I prefer) involves a fundamental shift in parenting. We need to raise our children as equal human beings, not as rulers over them. All the decentralization in the world will not make a difference if we indoctrinate our children into authoritarianism and centralized control. This is why I practice Peaceful Parenting and while I don't like subscribing to an anarcho-suffix, I think we all need to be anarcho-breeders (anbreed?)and out breed the statists and authoritarians. If we raise more children in peaceful liberty, the old paradigm will fade away, the "masses" will be our children and society will reflect those values we hold.
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hiveblocks“Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
- George Carlin
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