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Dangerous Freedom Vs. Peaceful Slavery
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Over the weekend a close friend sent me the following image, which was found spray-painted somewhere in Brooklyn:
The words above reflect a state of mind and disposition that has been expressed by philosophers and revolutionaries for thousands of years. It is not a novel or new concept, but it is a concept that seems to have been forgotten across much of these United States. The population has largely been domesticated and this is the primary reason why there has been such little pushback to the global oligarchs looting the landscape. A pathetically large percentage of the population would rather not think, they’d prefer to be told what to believe. They would rather not have any risk in their lives, they’d prefer to have shiny gadgets handed to them. They would rather not explore the wonderful expansive world around them, they’d rather sit on the couch and watch television.
Planet earth is a truly incredible place. Majestic mountains, glistening and seemingly endless blue seas, powerful dense forests. Its beauty is too profound for me to accurately put into words. At the same time, there are terrible tsunamis, horrific hurricanes, devastating floods and many more natural disasters that pose a constant deadly threat.
I moved to Colorado in December 2010 for many reasons, but one of the most appealing things was to get away from the big city. As a kid who had grown up in Manhattan and spent 90% of my life in that environment, I felt a deep longing to move closer to nature and vast open spaces. When weather permits I like to go on a lengthy hike at least once or twice a week. On essentially all of these hikes there are both bears and mountain lions active, amongst a host of other creatures. I mention the first two because of their ability to do severe bodily harm to me at any moment should they choose to. Being aware of such dangerous animals creates a sense of fear but also thrill. Do I carry a gun on my hikes? No, I don’t. Do I wish the Colorado state government to go into the woods and hunt down all the bears and mountain lions so that I can be 100% sure of my safety from them? Of course not. I understand this part of the world is wild and potentially dangerous, and that’s a large part of what I love about it.
Two typical signs at Boulder trailheads:
The same could be said for the world at large and society itself. Beyond the obvious reality that we are all going to die anyway, there is the point that no matter how hard you try to avoid harm or hard times, those things can come to your doorstep any time they choose. At the end of the day, it really isn’t up to you. What is up to you is how you spend each day. The things you think about, the stuff you create, the people you love. All of those things can only reach their highest potential in a free society.
Now I’m someone who certainly believes in laws and such laws applying to everyone equally. I think the entirity of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution are absolutely essential. I also believe in the saying: “No Victim, No Crime.” Taking it a step further, I do no have a problem with societies and communities actively taking measures to protect themselves from both outside and inside threats as long as such measures are consistent with a free people. However, such protective measures cannot and should not be seen in a vacuum.
For example, after all we have witnessed in the past few years, is there any reason whatsoever that a rational human being would trust the U.S. government and intelligence agencies on anything? No, there isn’t. So then why would you trust them to protect you? Why would you trust them to use the Big Brother surveillance grid for your best interests, rather than as a totalitarian tool to squash dissent?
I find it incredibly bizarre that so many people who will claim in polls to distrust the government, will at the same time support the police state grid being built around them. Why? Fear. Fear of terrorists. A fear that has been nurtured and encouraged by the very government frantically trying to have every human being on the planet on watch 24/7. While in my mind the trade-off between “safety and freedom” should always err toward freedom, there are times when it must even more aggressively bend in that direction. I believe that to be the case today since we have a government and elite power structure of oligarchs that has proven itself to be beyond corrupt and beyond morality.
These folks do not care about the country, or the Constitution, the poor and middle class or civil society. Their actions have proved without a shadow of a doubt that they care about nothing but themselves and furthering their wealth and power. They are not constructing the largest surveillance society in human history to protect you, they are doing it to protect them. From you. The sooner we all recognize this, the better.
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"These folks do not care about the country, or the Constitution, the poor and middle class or civil society."
Well, I don't know how to put it .
I have to admit that nothing is clear to me on this subject and I definitely don't have any clear cut answer about it, but I have strange feelings .
So, let's go :
Aren't "middle class" and "freedom" a little bit contradicting/negating each other (at least in some respect and in some circumstances) ?
I remember watching a tv broadcast about the reelection of Bush . At one moment, a guy said that a lot of middle class people favored Bush because they thought he would be the best to represent their interest . I remember that at the time no WMD had been found in Iraq, and everyone knew/suspected that Bush & al. were liars, crooks .
I also remember an other tv broadcast where, at one moment, a guy said that Adolf Hitler came to power thanks to a generally impoverished and frightened middle class .
Doesn't any middle class all too often become accomplice of people that it knows are crooks, tyrants, freedom killers, war criminals, when said middle class has the impression that it's wealth and well being will be preserved, improved or restored ?
And finally, isn't the middle class often very prone to become the "elitist power" of other poorer or different people ?
What, exactly, is the "freedom" we like to talk so much about, in societies in which an always all so important middle class criminally chooses the wrong way so easily ?
+1 Daemon. The 'middle class' has been the great enabler to this criminal government because they have been
willing to look the other way while TPTB use the puppet politicians to strip us of our rights and freedoms.
As long as the middle class is promised their unsustainable entitlements such as SS, pensions, and government
subsidized medicine, housing, welfare, there seems to be no limit to what they will tolerate from the government.
Thanks for the +1, zorba .
Who hasn't been an enabler? The poor vote to protect their position just like the middle class and elite. We have all (speaking societally) had a hand in this as we all to some degree have bought into one scheme or another. The beauty of it is that the loss of freedoms has been largely universally embraced. Unless you are living under a rock somewhere you have been "earning a living" through participation and if you are paying any taxes you are sustaining those in power. This is a human condition with no answer other than for th ecycle to play out again as it has numerous times before.
Yes .
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
Attributed to though disputed that it was him
Alexander Fraser Tytler
He also had an interesting take on the life cycle of nations, it is circular in nature. Taken from his wikipedia page.
Thanks a lot, I would apparently tend to share part of Alexander Fraser Tytler thought
about democracy.
That is seditious talk, WeThePeople aka the 'american' middle class is not to be touched.
"That is seditious talk, ..."
I' m afraid you are right . Maybe it's time for me to retreat in a sewer to avoid some kind of accidental drone strike .
That is mendacious talk. We the Chinese Citizenism citizens, aka the dung hand of the world, are not to be touched.
We now find that the cost of the ObamaCare web integration project is over ONE BILLION dollars. The people who imposed this are like the copper thieves who relish the few feet of copper pipe they managed to steal and who show no regard for all the frozen food that will spoil in the warehouse because they wrecked the freezer in the process.
I guess no one read "Death in Yellowstone'. It is excusiatingly hilarious account of what not to do, re the natural world. I wonder what do we do in this most un-natural world of public vs private. Give me bears, howevr perverted in knowing when their next food source is on-line.
read it. Point was that the national parks show how we can live in harmony with nature *If we try* It's one of the reasons everyone keeps going back - they long for this type of harmony even though most don't understand it. The author of this post may not have a complete grasp (who does) but at least he's out there and willing to learn.
and are you saying that the national parks are 'un-natural'? or were you referring to our lovely burbs and farms?
define natural, are humans part of nature?
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams
The Settlers are afraid of the indigenous ones, or the other species ones trying to make a living with what remains unf*cked with. Humans understand, TV-androids, zombies rejecting nature, chatter like mad monkeys and practice killing to feel more comfortable.
'Americans' once again taken at their own propaganda...
Problem for 'americans': you cant bamboozle 'americans' on 'americanism'. That kind of speech falls flat and cant be received by 'americans', as they know what 'americanism' is all about.
Trade off between freedom and security: It'll be a hard time mentioning a philosopher before the 'american' era that propagated such BS.
Worse, taking a look at 'american' societies, it takes an 'american' to see signs of trade offs between freedom and security.
Just taking the vagrant's case in the mecca of 'americanism' on Earth, the US.
Vagrants in the US are targeted by multiple laws, they cant move freely around, they cant enter a shop without being scrutinized and eligible to be given the boot, they are hunted down by gangs that validate their new members by either beating or killing vagrants...
Vagrants in the US are very far to experience freedom. Do they experience security? No.
Better, now, vagrants can be sent to jail. There, they experience a reduction of freedom. Do they experience an increase in security, since that 'american' propagandist calls for trade off between freedom and security in 'american' societies?
None the least, they experience a decrease in security, being confinded with 'americans' expessing their 'american' soul: racket, rape, drugs dealing, murder etc
In 'american' societies, no trade off between freedom and security: freedom and security are coupled in their increased/decreased experience.
But, among 'americans', victimhood is high. It cant be that way, so they invent 'american' concepts like peaceful slavery, dangerous freedom.
Of course, the middle class is the slave. They are deprived of freedom. Meanwhile, the vagrant, who cant put a toe in a new town without an ID check, is the free person.
The 'american' mind: 'americans' must be the victim.
You have succeeded. You convinced me you have no idea what you are talking about and are good at expressing that fact.
Such a brilliant 'american' rebuttal. 'American' inexistent trade off between security and freedom is exposed and of course, when seen, one must not have no idea about one is talking about.
There is no trade off between security and freedom in an 'american' society.
Freedom and security go hand in hand.
Another day in the world, another 'american' day in an 'american' world...
Ah, but in Chinese Citizenism society, on the other dung hand, the tradeoffs are between how many hundreds of square miles of land will be contaminated and destroyed in the short-sighted manic quest to dig up as much rare earths as possible vs. how many hundreds of square miles of land will be devoted to smoldering mountains of toxic trash. Or how many ghost cities will be blobbed-up vs. how many millions of Chinese Citizenism citizens will be displaced by centrally-planned environmental boondoggles such as Three Gorges dammings.
The road to Chinese Citizenism enlightenment is lit by the one million torches of flaming Tibetan monks and nuns.
One of the worst things about working in a modern company today, aside from the absense of leadership, is the proliferance of those safety warning posters everywhere. They nag you all day long till your spirit is totally beaten down. Also, everyone is forced to act like a bunch of nervous nellies at the beginning of every meeting with a "safety topic." And we get emails from mysterious lords of the corporation telling us to be safe while doing X this season. I don't care why it happens, I want it stopped immediately.
Patrick Henry is best......Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Slavery is NOT a choice.
While the slogan "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery" might seem catchy and appealing, it really is a false choice as no slavery is ever peaceful. The jack-boot of the master is always ready to violently enforce, degrade and demean. In our case, the government continually seeks to enlarge and maintain its monopoly on the use force to achieve submission from the slaves.
I wish it were so simple as to prefer one to the other just as one might prefer Coke to Pepsi.
Thanks for the warning signs on bears and lions. Always good to be forewarned and have an escape plan.
Just ask these two women from todays headlines:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/exclusive-feds-confiscate-investigativ...
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/10/24/woman-endures-strip-search-jail-time-...
Why are we shooting the firefighters??? http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/for-those-of-you-still-in-doubt/
Much obliged.
My service provider won't allow me to send it out via SMTP. Not surprised at all.
This one needs to go viral.
A clear recognition that all governments, corporations, organizations, official positions, laws, acts, statutes, regulations (and lots more) are fictions... delivers both freedom and danger to the individual who recognizes this. They become free to attempt to avoid all fictions, and in danger because the nastiest predators on earth insist everyone pretend their fictions are real.
"I find it incredibly bizarre that so many people who will claim in polls to distrust the government, will at the same time support the police state grid being built around them. Why? Fear. Fear of terrorists. A fear that has been nurtured and encouraged by the very government frantically trying to have every human being on the planet on watch 24/7."...
They forget ignorance and lack of fundamental basic knowledge. Here.
If anything will continue destroying this country it is these and not "Fear".