"Potentially,
a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a
legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed
victims."
Ayn Rand
Consent to be ruled is not implied by birthplace or geographical habitation status. "Social contract" is obfuscatory rhetoric which, in modern society, actually *means* "personal laziness and apathy for one's present circumstance."
Has anyone else asked, "What does my government actually do for me... that I both *need* AND cannot do for myself?"
Please, don't ask that question! If people were to apply those sorts of hippie introspective criticisms to reality, they would inevitably realize that they are spending 33% of their lives working for utterly useless purposes. If people were to over-think their simple, uncomplicated, totally-benign and utterly perfect circumstances just for the sake of doing so, they might make the mistake of comprehending that the 7.5+% of their waking lives that they pay in taxes only returns benefits in the form of legal systems that don't protect anyone; civil infrastructures that are never implemented and thus don't exist - yet still somehow manage to be riddled with corruption at every level; armed forces to defend us, yet whose actual function is to allow corporate takeovers of other economies... so our materially-wealthiest 0.5% can swim in even deeper pools of cash and pay even less for the average citizens to clean them.
Good lord, if people were to examine their lives with a modicum of objectivity or, worse, allowed any notion of value for one's personal freedoms or natural rights—god help them, they're just so lost—to fester in their brains, they might be tempted to pick up their soon-to-be-totally-outlawed weapons and take back their lives or else die trying.
So, folks, PLEASE - for the love of authoritarian slavery everywhere, do not ask ANY questions about the nature of the way you live your life! Do not, under any circumstances, allow logic, critical reasoning, or self-respect to taint your perceptions of this otherwise rosy life you live. You are, after all, utterly and completely satisfied to the utmost by your present condition; you require nothing, you want nothing beyond what you have, and there is absolutely nothing at all either material or philosophical that you cannot attain from the comfort of your highest possible social role.
... Right?
Great! Go about your business, then.
That 33% of your life ain't gonna waste itself!
Ayn Rand
Consent to be ruled is not implied by birthplace or geographical habitation status. "Social contract" is obfuscatory rhetoric which, in modern society, actually *means* "personal laziness and apathy for one's present circumstance."
Has anyone else asked, "What does my government actually do for me... that I both *need* AND cannot do for myself?"
Please, don't ask that question! If people were to apply those sorts of hippie introspective criticisms to reality, they would inevitably realize that they are spending 33% of their lives working for utterly useless purposes. If people were to over-think their simple, uncomplicated, totally-benign and utterly perfect circumstances just for the sake of doing so, they might make the mistake of comprehending that the 7.5+% of their waking lives that they pay in taxes only returns benefits in the form of legal systems that don't protect anyone; civil infrastructures that are never implemented and thus don't exist - yet still somehow manage to be riddled with corruption at every level; armed forces to defend us, yet whose actual function is to allow corporate takeovers of other economies... so our materially-wealthiest 0.5% can swim in even deeper pools of cash and pay even less for the average citizens to clean them.
Good lord, if people were to examine their lives with a modicum of objectivity or, worse, allowed any notion of value for one's personal freedoms or natural rights—god help them, they're just so lost—to fester in their brains, they might be tempted to pick up their soon-to-be-totally-outlawed weapons and take back their lives or else die trying.
So, folks, PLEASE - for the love of authoritarian slavery everywhere, do not ask ANY questions about the nature of the way you live your life! Do not, under any circumstances, allow logic, critical reasoning, or self-respect to taint your perceptions of this otherwise rosy life you live. You are, after all, utterly and completely satisfied to the utmost by your present condition; you require nothing, you want nothing beyond what you have, and there is absolutely nothing at all either material or philosophical that you cannot attain from the comfort of your highest possible social role.
... Right?
Great! Go about your business, then.
That 33% of your life ain't gonna waste itself!
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