- Oct 14, 2005
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In nine minutes the insanity that is government authority is revealed. In that same nine minutes you learn the truth you already knew as a child but somehow as an adult have ignored or accepted now as a falsehood.
We must change our minds on how we interact with each other. After thousands of years of instituting kings, pharaohs, popes, presidents or other elected leaders we must realize that the authority structure isn't working. No society survives the aggression based principle. They all fail and they all commit great crimes against humanity. Whether through coercion, incarceration or execution this "authority" we believe in has pushed us to commit crimes we would not be guilty of own our own but because of whatever "government" said it was "lawful" we did it anyway. How many germans went along with Adolf Hitler? Chinese with Mao Zedong? Russians with Joseph Stalin? Why were they so successful in ending human life? Because their people believed in the "authority" of their leaders.
The non aggression principle is the only way we will be able to peacefully coexist and advance as a species. One day many years from now the idea of authority without consent will be unfathomable much the same way as many of the long held "truths" such as the earth being the center of the universe. To think that today is absurd. I hope you've taken those nine minutes and truly questioned those long held beliefs of "authority". Our existence depends on it.
We must change our minds on how we interact with each other. After thousands of years of instituting kings, pharaohs, popes, presidents or other elected leaders we must realize that the authority structure isn't working. No society survives the aggression based principle. They all fail and they all commit great crimes against humanity. Whether through coercion, incarceration or execution this "authority" we believe in has pushed us to commit crimes we would not be guilty of own our own but because of whatever "government" said it was "lawful" we did it anyway. How many germans went along with Adolf Hitler? Chinese with Mao Zedong? Russians with Joseph Stalin? Why were they so successful in ending human life? Because their people believed in the "authority" of their leaders.
The non aggression principle is the only way we will be able to peacefully coexist and advance as a species. One day many years from now the idea of authority without consent will be unfathomable much the same way as many of the long held "truths" such as the earth being the center of the universe. To think that today is absurd. I hope you've taken those nine minutes and truly questioned those long held beliefs of "authority". Our existence depends on it.