Not My Meme! #909
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And it is not guarantee that a private property can be protected by a government.
Any gov't strong enough to keep it for you, is strong enough to take it from you.
Control freaks gotta control.™
I guess this is why we don't really have private property rights, but only rent from the Crown, eh?
We don't have any rights because not enough folks are willing to water the tree of liberty.
It's easier to just comply.
Until it isn't.
We have rights. We were born with them. We are just prevented from exercising them by our dependence on others. Free men make their freedom.
Not sure I grasp what He says... LOL!
My understanding of what he means is that if we try to actually take back our stuff we'll get our ass kicked by gangs of armed thugs.
Edit: I just had a look at the link to the author's works Antisocialist provided below, and a lot of the titles seem to be about democidal governance, which having a look at might clarify the OP quote for you.
Thanks!
I vehemently disagree.
Government is NOT necessary.
Thanks!
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/ricardo-flores-magon
I had a gander. Florid prose, indeed. The second link to 'Machete' had a piece by Magon, and in it a discussion of masters and slaves. None of these authors you have referred me to acknowledge the ongoing evolution of industry, and the decentralization of the means of production occurring, including Magon.
All of history is of centralized production, requiring management, enabling parasitism, creating overlords, masters if you will, and laborers, or even slaves as is oft stated. Decentralized production renders all that irrelevant. Today massive factories are required to make light switch cover plates, with massive injection molding machines filled with bags of plastic pellets, and powered by immense turbines, staffed with abject laborers - except they're not, anymore. You can print a light switch cover plate in your bedroom with a 3D printer, and even add a monogram, or a picture of your cat, making it a unique piece of art instead of a mass produced piece of crap, and this changes everything.
Now, this change hasn't completed yet. All the infrastructure that supports industry hasn't been swapped over. Everyone hasn't got a 3D printer on their kitchen table yet. The change is in process. Since it changes everything about society, there's a lot of equipment that needs to be built and dispersed across the population. That will take time, but time will pass and folks that want to become independent of overlords presently have the opportunity to do so. Clearly just buying a magic box and putting it on your kitchen table doesn't suddenly make you free. It isn't a magic box, and it has to be used to be useful.
But as these printers, and laser cutters, and CNC machines, and aquaponics systems get built, installed, used, and improve their capabilities over time, humanity will decentralize production of the goods and services that create the blessings of civilization, and that will end the parasitization of centralized production that overlords are dependent on. Overlords are technically obsolete, but we are just beginning to pass through this clinal boundary that will enable men to be independent of them, which is to say free.
We haven't had this technology before, and people aren't able to organize as mobs and reasonably rule themselves, at least not well enough to overcome the power of overlords wielding gangs of armed thugs. But having this technology ends the flow of wealth to overlords, and that ends their ability to pay gangs of armed thugs to enforce their rule. This is the way that is open. This is how humanity will become absolutely, utterly free, without any possibility that overlords with gangs of armed thugs can beat us into submission ever again, once we have become competent to ourselves make what we need to create the blessings of civilization.
In that essay Magon writes "...the evangelists reject the individual revolt of slaves, who are only granted collective rebellion, all together at the same time..." Decentralization doesn't require you await any collective, or Tuesday, or a horde of machete wielding anarchists. Everything that you need decentralized means of production enable you to yourself provide. Tardy masses that yearn to serve masters don't confront you. Industrious and clever neighbors that intend their freedom can be useful allies, but even without any other participants than yourself, with individually owned and operated means of production diligently applied you can free yourself. What is the freedom of a collective, anyway? It's just being enslaved to a mob instead of an overlord. Freedom is a personal attribute that only you can make yourself.
Remember Terran I, the first 3D printed spacecraft that launched in 2023. Almost all spacecraft and their components are 3D printed in whole or part today. If we work to deploy and develop 3D printers we can reduce the price of manufacturing spacecraft until even Amaterasusolar can have one of their own, and pack an inflatable habitat out to some unnamed asteroid brimming with precious metals where they can manufacture hordes of mining robots to make them fabulously, inconceivably wealthy, and free. Ok, maybe not. Maybe not me either. I am old and pretty busted up myself. Maybe not even my kids. But my grandkids will have a very real opportunity to do that, and once we are spreading out across the solar system, how can armies chase us all down and force us to obey laws? Who can demand I pay property taxes on asteroid 231b Excelsior?
This is how we become free beyond any limitation but physics.
Yeah, 120 years ago not much of what we have today could have even been imagined.
I agree that decentralized production will replace much of the specialty market, but until the average guy can buy plastic at the big guy's price there is no way a 3usd outlet cover is going to replace a .025usd mass produced generic one that does the job well enough.
And, why should it?
As long as we are forced to measure our lives in how much value the market says we produce, we are slaves to whoever holds the power to set the price of what we produce brings in the market.
They don't want to pay?
You don't get paid.
It's under the bridge for you!
On any given tuesday this all changes, like the og anarchists laid out 120 years ago.
But, it takes an educated populace, and we are just one effective marketing campaign away from having one.
Gonna have to self produce some flashylight box ads and broadcast them to the wider population.
That is yet to be seen.
Much to the dismay of the long dead folks that laid out a way out of our enslavement.
They couldn't imagine how far down the cuck trail we've gone, some of them would have long ago burned down city hall and the state house, but us?, not so much.
We can't even eliminate enough enforcers to make enforcing unattractive to the mental midgets.
An interesting convergence of our theses is the post-market economy.
War very effectively recommends understanding and competence. I'd prefer, as do you, people undertook to learn and do because they stood on sound principles. Alas, Babylon!
Not long ago, Sen. Brian Boquist told the enemedia that if the Oregon State Police came to arrest him and drag him back to Salem to chain him down in the Senate to provide a quorum, they'd better send heavily armed bachelors, because he was heavily armed and wasn't going to meekly submit to being a political prisoner for serving his constituents in the USA as a state senator. Salem was full of truckers and armed farmers driving around the Capitol, showing support for Boquist. The enforcers declined to enforce Gov. Brown's order to arrest senators and force a quorum.
The carbon tax bill didn't pass.
Edit: Oregon passed a law since then that if legislators had more than 10 no shows they could not run for office again. Boquist is no longer a state senator. His replacement, Sen. Bruce Starr, is similarly politically oriented, however.
We get as much tyranny as we tolerate.™
No shortages of psychos that want power over others.
If I don't have the authority to write my rules down and force them onto you, and you don't have the authority to write your rules down and force them onto others, and neither of us can delegate an authority we don't have, where do the cops get their authority?
From hell.