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Escaping Serfdom
Submitted by Jeff Thomas via InternationallMan.com,
The concept of government is that the people grant to a small group of individuals the ability to establish and maintain controls over them. The inherent flaw in such a concept is that any government will invariably and continually expand upon its controls, resulting in the ever-diminishing freedom of those who granted them the power.
When I was a schoolboy, I was taught that the feudal system of the Middle Ages consisted of serfs tilling small plots of land that belonged to a king or lord. The serfs lived a meagre life of bare subsistence and were subject to the tyranny of the king or lord whose men would ride into their village periodically and take most of the few coins the serfs had earned by their toil.
The lesson I was meant to learn from this was that I should be grateful that, in the modern world, I live in a state of freedom from tyranny, and as an adult, I would pay only that level of tax that could be described as “fair”.
Later in life, I was to learn that, in the actual feudal system, some land was owned by noblemen, some by common men. The commoners typically farmed their own land, whilst the noblemen parcelled out their land to farmers, in trade for a portion of the product of their labours.
As a part of that bargain, the nobleman would pay for an army of professional soldiers to protect both the farms and the farmers. Significantly, unlike today, no farmer was required to defend the land himself, as it was not his.
There was no exact standard as to what the noblemen would charge a farmer under this agreement, but the general standard was “one day’s labour in ten”.
This was not an amount imposed or regulated by any government. The nobleman could charge as much as he wished; however, if he raised his rate significantly, he would find that the farmers would leave and move to another nobleman's farm. The 10% was, in essence, a rate that evolved over time through a free market.
Modern Serfdom
Today, of course, if most countries levied an income tax of a mere 10%, there would be dancing in the streets. And the days of one simple straightforward tax are long gone.
Today, the average person may expect to pay property tax (even if he is a renter), sales tax, capital gains tax, value added tax, inheritance tax, and so on. The laundry list of taxes is so long and complex that it is no longer possible to compute what the total tax level actually is for anyone.
And to this, we add the hidden tax of inflation. In the US, for example, the Federal Reserve has, over the last hundred years, devalued the dollar by 98%, a hefty tax indeed. And the US is not alone in this.
Only 50 years ago, the average man might work a 40-hour week to support a wife who remained at home raising the children. He often had a mortgage on his home but might have it paid off in ten years. He paid cash for nearly everything else that he and his family owned or consumed.
Today, both husband and wife generally must be employed full time. In spite of this, they can’t afford as many children as their parents could, and they generally remain in debt their entire lives, even after retirement. This is significant inflation by any measure.
In contrast, in the Middle Ages, the cost of goods might remain the same throughout the entire lifetime of an individual.
In light of the above, the 10% that was paid by the serfs is beginning to look very good indeed.
However, the great majority of people in the First World are likely to say, “What can you do; it’s the same all over the world. You might as well get used to it.”
Well, no, actually, it’s not. There are many governmental and economic systems out there and many are quite a bit more “serf friendly” than those in the major countries.
No Serfdom
Countries such as the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the Bahamas have no income tax. Further, some have no property tax, sales tax, capital gains tax, value added tax, inheritance tax, and so on.
So how is this possible?
The OECD countries state that it is largely accomplished through money laundering, but this is not the case. In fact, low-tax jurisdictions are known to have some of the most stringent banking laws in the world.
The success of these jurisdictions is actually quite simple. Most of them are small. They have small populations and therefore need only a small government. Yet each jurisdiction can accommodate large numbers of investors from overseas. This results in a very high level of income per capita.
But unlike large countries, the money that is deposited or invested there is overseas money, so it is not captive. Investors can transfer it out overnight if need be.
So, even if the politicians are no better than those in larger countries (generally, they are of the same ilk), they’re aware that, like the noblemen of old, if they attempt to impose taxation, the business will dry up quickly.
In fact, such a free market dictates that the jurisdictions keep on their toes and keep trying to outdo their competitors by being more investment friendly.
Therefore, the politicians in these countries, who might be only too happy to promise entitlements to their constituents, then tax them to the hilt in order to pay for the entitlements, are kept restrained by their own system.
Are there downsides to living in a low-tax jurisdiction? Yes.
As most of them are small but require a very high standard of living in order to attract investors, they must import virtually all goods needed by residents. This means a higher cost of all goods, as compared to the cost in a country that produces such goods. However, the wage level is also higher, which tends to balance out the equation.
But there are also upsides.
Those who move to such a jurisdiction find that after the first year there (when the basics such as cars, televisions, etc., have been paid for), all further income that has been saved from taxation is beginning to get deposited in the bank.
At some point, the deposit level becomes great enough that investment becomes advisable. And as low-tax jurisdictions tend to be naturally prosperous, there is generally no limit to the opportunities for investment within the jurisdiction.
There is a further benefit to living in a low-tax jurisdiction that tends to become apparent over time. Any government that depends on major investments from overseas parties must, of necessity, be non-intrusive and non-invasive. Such a government stays out of people’s business, eschews electronic monitoring and most certainly is not given to SWAT teams crashing down doors for imagined wrongdoing.
Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
He was correct, but the level of tax can vary greatly from one country to the next. And just as important, the level of government intervention into the affairs of its citizenry varies considerably. In a country where the level of tax is low, the quality of life is generally correspondingly high.
A thousand years ago, noblemen, from time to time, became overly confident in their ability to keep the serfs on the farmland and demanded taxes beyond the customary “one day’s labour in ten”. When they did, the serfs of old often voted with their feet and simply moved. Today, this is still possible.
If the reader presently contributes more than one day’s labour in ten to his government, he may wish to consider voting with his feet.
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low taxation equals protected liberties? just because a place might be suitable in a financial sense doesn't mean it's a land of freedom and opportunity
That's right, with the opportunities to leech off the productive and the freedoms to not work truly makes this The Land of the Freebies and Home of the Deranged...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeIyubV-shA
A man meets a high class women in a bar one night. Conversations get more and more personal until the man pops the question; will you sleep with me for a million dollars? She responds in the affirmative to which he quickly responds, asking if she would consider the same deed for a hundred dollars instead. She promptly retorts; what do you think I am, a whore? The man responds; dear, we have already determined that as fact and are now simply haggling over price.
Once we relinquish power over ourselves to a government body we have admitted our inability to fend for ourselves. From there on, we are simply haggling over how much our remaining freedoms are worth, what we will surrender for protection and the use of force upon others to derive the basis for our dependency.
Try Bermusa my friends. Tax friendly. Nice place to live. Close to the U.S. and Europe. All you need is a few million dollars to buy a tiny little spec of an apartment in a lousy area.
You idiot English allowed 911 to happen, then you accept the outcome like little sheep.
Two completely unrelated subjects.
1- meet a whore, haggle over price.
2- meet a whore, with a capable and threatening army backing her; there is no haggling over price if one want s to live.
LESSON: DO NOT allow whores to keep you from your learning experience.
I believe that you would be at certain risk of bodily harm if you attempted to end the corruption and entitlements that exist today. Not by our military or any other government hand, but by those people who believe they are on the receiving end.
Freedom is always available to us. The problem is it's price, a price that rises exponentially with time, a price that was relatively low in comparison even twenty years ago. We sold out. We took the free cheese and yes many now realize it's a trap, but they don't care...they want their cheese. I believe it is a complete copout to claim our freedoms are restricted by the force of violence. That HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE. What will you give up for freedom? Will you grow and cook your own food? To even rely on a grocery is dependence on another. We understand extremes and purity that can drive us to destruction. The answer always is in moderation, but as statistics tells us, it is not a real thing. Moderation is a concept, an averaging similar to a population having 2.1 children. This makes it much harder to define, but like pornography, we know it when we see it. People of the world have let it go too far, they have believed the lies because they wanted to.
No, I think freedom in the way most of us see it here is lost, not due to technology or military/police force, but simply because we are not willing to endure the cost. Even if we divorce ourselves from the shit that inevitably will fall on the dearly deluded heads, what is unfortunate is our newly strengthen democracy insists on the least informed and least documented to vote, pretty much forcing us all into the same cage.
And here I thought that the term "serf" was actually an historical reference to the days of unelected government, where those with the most money taken by force, and the biggest armies raised through stolen loot and promises of power subjected their involuntary subjects to servitude. Thank you author for correcting this mistake and explaining that government of the people by the people is the bigger problem.
And medieval serfdom is different than what we have today? How? You have allodial title to your land? How much of your paycheck is extracted from you at gunpoint?
And here I thought words evolved.
I think, yes me, I think President Eisenhower' farewell speech was written by the CFR as a way of saying - I TOLD YOU SO, at a later, or nearing to us, date.
Get yourself a good tax attorney?
As the Central Bwankers have shown over and over again, it you control the money, It matters not who writes the laws. There is only one sure way to limit the growth of .gov and that is to limit the amount of money it can extort from the people. I suggest 14% of GDP as calculated by an entirely open source program that is used to calculate the GDP of every nation on Earth. Everybody else will keep everybody else honest...
...and when I say 14% of GDP, that's everything. Federal, State, Local, Authorities, Agencies, Education, the whole shebang. Fees and penalties can be exacted, but those monies are subtracted from the GDP allocations. Let the greedy self-serving feather nesting little pricks live under a budget for a change!!!
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I agree 100% with the spirit of this article.
However, I believe the argumentation is weak and unconvincing. It is naive to point to countries which have no sales tax because their economies thrive on petro-fiat currencies.
<< Countries such as the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the Bahamas have no income tax. Further, some have no property tax, sales tax, capital gains tax, value added tax, inheritance tax, and so on. >>
Using a petro-fiat currency is just an outsourcing of taxation --- i.e., they are beneficiaries of foreign blood money as most of us are indirectly.
I believe 100% that a sound case can be made to defend the author's premise and his prescriptions. That case is better made by pointing out the bare-boned truth: taxation ultimately means the barrel of a gun. Ergo, the real problem is violence and the threat of violence in all its forms.
The author has a naive statist view of what consitutes government. The bureaucrats and politicians are just the puppet show. In reality, the social distinction between "government" and "non-government" is rarely observable.
I prefer a more objective definition/identification of government: the threat of force. Full stop.
If there is any hope in hell at Escaping Serfdom then I reckon it would be wise to knock "government" down a few notches in the discussion and lump them in with common gangsters and racketeers.
At this point I would submit that very few give two rats for their freedoms if it meant the loss of any entitlements or perceptions of self reliance. An increasing majority accept and desire the "thing" we call freedom, that is anything but, that is closer to forced conscription akin to marshal law.
The form of government we are supposedly conscripted to was set forth by the Constitution and was voluntarily agreed to by men who would neither accept nor recognize our current state of affairs. It feels as though our forefathers had planned a house for us and prepaid a substantial down payment on it and now that we are to receive title to it we find it is but a cardboard box within a field of barbed wire, with an unimaginable mortgage on it.
Yes, Charming Anarchist, I too regard governments as due to the history of warfare, which was organized crime on larger and larger scales. Governments are necessarily the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. There is no good language available to discuss that situation!
I have spent several decades attempting to develop uses of the English language that can address those issues. I will repeat some of that here. We are now living in more sophisticated systems of SOCIAL SLAVERY. The previous "serfdom" has been replaced by people becoming DEBT SLAVES. Things like "inflation" used to be the biggest hidden tax upon almost everyone. The degree to which those systems have become thoroughly GLOBALIZED is making "voting with one's feet" harder and harder to actually do. Indeed, in my opinion, that has become practically impossible for all by a tiny, tiny minority of people who are relatively privileged and motivated to attempt to to that. Moreover, even for them, there is less and less of any place to hide from the increasingly globalized systems and their globalized consequences!
Our "money" as "credit" is being created out of nothing as debts: governments ENFORCE FRAUDS by privately controlled banks. Hence, we operate through a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system, while everyone has been running on those debt engine treadmills. We have been measuring everything with bent rubber rulers, through integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, whose social successfulness has increasingly PARADOXICAL longer term consequences, due to the underlying issue that backing up lies with violence never stops those lies from still being false. Therefore, the degree of social successfulness based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS relentlessly has driven civilization to become more psychotic. Since the political economy is based upon triumphant organized crime, which almost totally gets away with that, the longer term results are that civilization manifests runaway criminal insanities. However, since each short to medium increment continues to be based on the ability to go on backing up lies with violence, as well as that there are deeply ingrained social habits to take that almost completely for granted, in ways which deliberately deny and ignore the degree to which everything is based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS, the underlying fraudulence of civilization has been developing at an exponential rate.
Too much "money" made out of nothing
(with too little disappearing back to nothing):
INFLATION
Too little "money" made out of nothing
(with too much disappearing back to nothing):
DEFLATION
In "normal" times, we were used to the supply of "money" always inflating slightly, (compared to background supply of available goods and services to be paid for with that.) ... I still have a hard time thinking about the "new normal" or "paranormal" times … Basic physical and environmental facts appear to be straightforward, although the details regarding the relevant data can not be trusted.
Since political economy is based on ENFORCED FRAUDS, how those systems respond to relatively objective facts takes us into an increasingly STRANGE Wonderland Matrix Bizarro World.
I define inflation and deflation in terms of monetary policy. However, that "monetary policy" is actually based upon ENFORCED FRAUDS, due to the history of triumphant organized crime being able to control civilization. Therefore, the issues with respect to the public "money" supply being made out of nothing, and disappearing back to nothing, as debts do, and the relative rates with which those happen, compared to the otherwise relatively constant supply of goods and services, can drive apparent inflation or deflation. However, since all of the monetary policy is due to the best organized gangsters, the international banksters, being able to orchestrate the behavior of national governments through their puppet politicians, who are voted for my enough of the masses of muppets, the existence of their "credit" is based upon the existence and dominance of organized crime controlling civilization, in ways which have always existed, but ways which progress in physical science have enabled to grow bigger and BIGGER at an exponential rate!
The "solutions" to the problems caused by triumphant organized crime will be more organized crime. Indeed, that is why I recommend the view that the only genuine solutions would have to be better organized crime. The GREAT PARADOXES and widening Grand Canyon Chasms between progress in physical science, without that being surpassed by progress in political science, are due to human energy systems operating in ways which NECESSARILY match the principles and methods of organized crime. However, at the same time, that is CONSISTENTLY done through being as dishonest about themselves as possible, which dishonesty becomes the dominant social stories, due to those lies being backed by violence.
The overall results are that people think about general energy systems in the most absurdly backward ways possible, as illustrated by how the concept of entropy had it meaning inverted by inserting arbitrary minus signs into the entropy equations of thermodynamics and information theory. The Wonderland Matrix Bizarro World that we are living inside of is due to a long history of warfare based upon backing up deceits with destruction morphing to become political economy based upon ENFORCED FRAUDS. Within that context, one can perceive different levels of problems. The FIRST level is that most people do not know, and do not want to know, how and why civilization operates according to the principles and methods of organized crime. The SECOND level is that the few who do recognize the degree to which the real world is being controlled by the biggest gangsters, the banksters, also tend to not know, and to not want to know, how and why civilization necessarily operates according to the principles and methods of organized crime.
The actual "solutions" to the various problems generated by civilization being controlled by organized crime will also NECESSARILY arise out of the applications of the principles and methods of organized crime. Those actual "solutions" will most probably continue to operate through the maximum possible deceits and frauds, and therefore, those "solutions" will continue to most probably be as absurdly backwards as those possibly could be.
Basically, civilization is dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories, which are the most absurdly backwards they could become. Those world views are what have allowed and enabled civilization to behave in ways which became increasingly psychotic, runaway criminal insanities. Furthermore, those world views are also how and why the most probable "solutions" for the problems thereby created will also become even more so.
The GREAT PARADOXES due to civilization being NECESSARILY controlled by the principles and methods of organized crime, which CONSISTENTLY also does that through lying about that being done as much as possible, while those lies were backed up by violence, has resulted in civilization becoming more criminally insane than is possible to fully comprehend. That is especially the case, due to the root causes being chronic political problems, which must be perpetually resolved, namely the death control systems have always existed, and must necessarily exist, while those developed to actually be done through the maximum possible deceits and treacheries, which also then enable the financialization of the political economy to become more and more totally dominated by ENFORCED FRAUDS.
By definition, the limits to growth must necessarily mean changes in the death control systems. However, due to the degree that the existing systems are based upon triumphant organized crime, those existing systems have become runaway criminal insanities, and their "solutions" will most probably become even more so. Such craziness will result in more and more wild oscillations in various ways that will probably appear "counter-intuitive!"
The debt insanities, provoking death insanities, will most probably work their way from the bottom and the periphery towards the top and the center. Meanwhile, there continues to appear to be nothing which is politically possible about that, since, FIRST, the world necessarily operates death control systems, which back up debt control systems, that work according to the principles and methods of organized crime, while those who became the best at doing that were the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, to the degree that, SECOND, having any saner discussions and resolutions of those problems is practically impossible.
Human beings have managed to achieve EXTREMELY PARADOXICAL systems of artificial selection, which were driven by the surrounding systems of natural selection. Human intelligence was originally the internalization of natural selection, and then, that intelligence was primarily applied to the most significant selection pressures, which were other groups of human beings, in order to drive the history of warfare whose successfulness was based upon deceits, and then drove the development of political economy based upon ENFORCED FRAUDS. Therefore, human civilization has painted itself into a corner, where all of the most socially successful people are the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites. That makes it doubly difficult, to the point of practically impossible, to develop better death control systems, which must be central to everything else.
Theoretically speaking, we need profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we perceive political problems. I emphasize PROFOUND, in the same sense as that there have already been series of profound paradigm shifts in the history of the development of science. Indeed, theoretically speaking, the needed intellectual scientific revolutions required in political science should surpass those already achieved in physical science. In that context, it is relatively misleading to draw any parallels between now and medieval, or Roman times, etc. ... The only thing that compares to events now taking place due to progress in physical science was the development of photosynthesis.
However, from the point of view of practical politics, at the present time, such transformations appear to obviously be quite IMPOSSIBLE! There is now almost nothing but a core of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition groups, both of which are based upon operating through systems of organized crime in ways that lie about that to the maximum possible degree. Those lies are FIRST about that there is that organized crime, and SECOND, those lies are about that there must necessarily be some sort of organized crime.
We now have the situation that governments are the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, while they almost totally get away with lying about that, especially since they control their publicly significant opposition groups to also lie about that, and indeed, to lie about that in the most profound ways possible. Not only are the existing money/murder systems based upon FRAUDS ENFORCED, but also, the only publicly significant opposition promotes the most extremely unrealistic "solutions" to those problems, because those sorts of bogus "solutions" stay within the same frame of reference, which does not admit and address the necessarily central features of the death control systems.
Industrial civilization became based upon DEBT SLAVERY, which was due to triumphant organized crime. Debt engines and steam engines were invented about the same time, and developed together. That has generated numbers which have become DEBT INSANITIES, which are headed towards provoking DEATH INSANITIES. However, by and large, there continues to be overwhelming attitudes of deliberate ignorance and denial of the deeper reasons for how and why that happened. Human civilization has ended up in a self-created cul de sac, where its artificial selection systems are based on backing up lies with violence, and that tends to apply to the bogus "solutions" just as much as to the deeper reasons for the original problems, namely the PARADOXICAL CONSISTENCY of civilization being controlled by the principles and methods of organized crime.
That PARADOXICAL CONSISTENCY is the obstacle in the way of developing any better human artificial selection systems. In general, at the present time, natural selection pressures have driven human beings to develop civilizations which have become based on runaway criminal insanities, which manifest both in the ways that the currently most dominate organized crime gets away with misrepresenting itself, as well as gets away with doing that so totally because it also controls its apparent opposition, so that the whole system operates in the most absurdly backward ways possible. Progress in physical science has been channeled through social pyramid systems based on backing up lies with violence. That has resulted in the overall civilization becoming increasingly psychotic and criminally insane, although doing that can be seen as having been PARADOXICALLY CONSISTENT.
The industrial revolutions enabled strip-mining the planet's natural resources at exponential rates, which is now running into various limits of diminishing returns. Theoretically, that requires the development of different human, industrial and natural ecologies. However, the paths we are now on are towards PEAK INSANITIES due to the degree that civilization can not currently reconcile its own energy systems with the industrial and natural energy systems, due to civilization being almost totally dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit world views, which are as absurdly backward as possible, and which continue to be ENFORCED FRAUDS which automatically become ever more absurdly backwards.
The only genuine resolutions to our real problems demand the development of better organized crime. However, such developments are obstructed both by the core of organized crime actually operating now, as well as by the layers of controlled opposition that grew up around that core of organized crime. Thus, the basic social pyramid systems of Neolithic styles of civilization are THE PROBLEM. Being able to achieve social success through backing up lies with violence has been pumped up and UP by progress in physical science, while the PARADOXICALLY CONSISTENT CONTRADICTIONS arising from doing that have been growing at an exponential rate … until those problems are finally reaching some of the real environmental limits and diminishing returns with respect to being able to continue to do that.
In my view, it is almost impossible to exaggerate the degree to which our current kind of civilization deliberately regards itself in the most absurdly backward ways possible. I express that as being that the only genuine solutions to our problems require developing better organized crime, which view is simultaneously based upon facing the social facts that the biggest gangsters are controlling controlling civilization through ENFORCING FRAUDS, as well as facing the deeper reasons for how and why that was NECESSARILY the case. That is my attempt to express something which has no widely understood language to be expressed through, since there is no general understanding of the basic facts that governments are the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, especially since those few who do approach perceiving those facts still almost always the recommend bogus "solutions" which are NOT possible, based upon somehow stopping human beings from operating as entropic pumps of energy flows.
Meanwhile, the problems with respect to the globalized Neolithic Civilization working their way in from the bottom and periphery towards the top and center are obviously accelerating, yet, at the same time, those nearer the top and the center have not had to face those facts, but rather, mostly continue to think and behave in the same ways as before. Indeed, since Earth is a big planet, compared to human beings, it will take a while for the strip-mining, even at exponential rates, to reach some significant turning or tipping points that effect the central core and top of the established social pyramid systems' abilities to continue to live through their systems of organized lies operating robberies.
The established sets of DUALITIES, along with their false fundamental dichotomies, and related impossible ideals, dominate the currently established social pyramid systems, so that the biggest gangs of criminals, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, are able to get away with presenting themselves publicly as the opposite of that, while their publicly significant controlled opposition stays within the same frame of reference, in the sense that they promote bogus "solutions" based upon somehow stopping governments operating in those ways. However, the paradigm shifts that I promote are based upon starting to use more UNITARY MECHANISMS, which make more sense from the perspective of all sociopolitical systems operating through the same energy. Ideally, that means we would better reconcile our understanding of natural selection systems with artificial selection systems, EXCEPT, as I outlined above, for the PARADOXICAL CONSISTENCY that the existing artificial selection systems are based upon the maximum possible ENFORCED FRAUDS.
In the end, my view is that we are already committed to going through severe levels of death insanities. Those are the default "solutions" that social pyramid systems are set up to manifest. In that context, the deeper questions are what sort of new death control systems might survive and emerge through those trials and tribulations ??? What I recommend is that our political science should go through series of intellectual scientific revolutions, whose profound paradigm shifts incorporate and surpass those paradigm shifts which have already been achieved in physical science. We already have globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs. Therefore, the potential for debt insanities to provoke death insanities has already been astronomically amplified by many orders of magnitude greater than ever before in known human history.
Wild oscillations inside of the systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS that manifested more significant levels of DEFLATION would be much more destabilizing than we can fully imagine, since there has been nothing like that happen for a long, long time, and would clearly propel the "new normal" even further into becoming "paranormal." Such DEFLATION would probably be much more significantly knocking over dominoes on the periphery of the system, in ways which could have serious potential to knock on the core. Any such DEFLATION would indicate the ability to ENFORCE FRAUDS was running into real limits, in ways that more FRAUDS ENFORCED would not be able to effectively respond to.
The basic problems are always due to the ways that social success based upon being able to back up lies with violence never is able to thereby stop those lies from still being false. Therefore, I see no ways that the established systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS can be corrected by anything within their own frame of reference, which includes that the various controlled opposition groups that already surround those entrenched systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS also have nothing to really offer which is any better, because those kinds of controlled opposition groups actually stay within the same frame of reference too.
Our political problems are reaching the point where nothing less than profound paradigm shifts in the basic frame of reference is enough to resolve those problems. Of course, before that happens, we appear to have to go through some series of psychotic breakdowns first, such as what would be caused if there really happened to occur such significant DEFLATION that that wiped out the future “productive” capacity to continue to extract natural resources.
We appear already committed to have to go through significant and severe social storms, due to debt insanities provoking death insanities. Indeed, that may well be so severe that there will not be enough time for our technologically based civilization to change its philosophy of science enough to survive through those events? But nevertheless, IF technological civilization survives, that will only be possible if its political science goes through series of profound paradigm shifts, indeed, which are so profound that nobody now can fully imagine that! But nevertheless, what I recommend is creative synthesis of post-modernizing science with ancient mysticism.
The vast majority of people continue to take for granted the common sense views that time and space are independent absolutes. However, the fact that atomic bombs go boom is proof that time and space are relative. Indeed, those are relative illusions. Time dilates and space contracts, as one approaches pure energy.
I have been developing that line of thought for several decades. Attempting to develop uses of the English language which can cope with the paradoxes that follow from ideas like "Energy is Spirit" or "Entropy is the Scientific Satan" and so on and so forth. The basic concepts are SUBTRACTION, and, following from that, ROBBERY.
The biggest bullies' bullshit social stories have attempted to reverse the presentation of those insights as much as possible. Some of the most abstract of the paradigm shifts are to recognize the deeper meanings of the ways that arbitrary minus signs were inserted into the entropy equations, which reversed the meaning of entropy. Since entropy is the way that energy is distributed in time and space, changing our basic concepts about time and space should have also changed the ways that we perceive entropy. However, the biggest bullies promoted their preferred bullshit world view, which deliberately suppressed genuine spirituality, due to the established social pyramid systems being based on backing up lies with violence, in ways which deliberately kept most other people ignorant and afraid.
The special theory of relativity, that made atomic bombs possible, is the leading example of the pervasive ways that profound paradigm shifts in physical science have NOT be followed by profound paradigm shifts in political science. I am NOT asserting that entropy itself can be reversed, but that the ways we perceive and think about entropy have already been inverted, and perverted, while we tend to take that for granted, due to the overall degree to which the biggest bullies' bullshit world view dominates pretty well everything almost totally.
The existence of atomic bombs, actually based on ideas that PROVE our common sense presumptions regarding time and space were WRONG, is the leading edge of the rest of the growing contradictions of progress in physical science, being channeled through social pyramid systems based upon backing up lies with violence.
In that context, I am NOT recommending "the dissolution of the time space continuum," but rather, I am recommending correcting the enormous errors in the old-fashioned philosophy of science that almost everyone practically continues to take for granted. Similarly, I have NO first-hand knowledge about "UFOs." I try to remain open-mined about that, although I have actually no direct knowledge about those possibilities. However, I would assert that: "WE HAVE BECOME OUR OWN ALIENS."
Everywhere one looks progress in science and technology ends up being applied to become better at backing up lies with violence. Almost nowhere does such progress get applied to political science itself! Hence, I REPEAT, there are extreme and growing contradictions that things like the special theory of relativity have been PROVEN, by an abundance of experiments, including that atomic bombs go boom, while, at the same time, none of the deeper ideas that the special theory of relativity was based upon have any manifestation within politics, other than the psychotic development of atomic bombs, leading the way towards the similarly psychotic development of atomic energy technologies in general. Of course, the same could be said about quantum mechanics, which has been experimentally confirmed to astonishing degrees, and which things like electronic technologies depend upon. HOWEVER, at the same time that our politics has developed globalized electronics, those are most importantly used to operate electronically automated, financial frauds!
I have been collecting radical and revolutionary ideas for several decades, while attempting to synthesize them, and express that kind of megasynthesis through the English language. The ways that I am promoting that are the ways that have already happened in physical science, like the special theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. What we have now are the growing and GROWING contradictions of globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, while the basic ideas that made that electronic and atomic power possible are found nowhere in the realm of political science, since that continues to almost totally operate in ways which take for granted the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, which is as absurdly backwards as possible!
From the perspective of common sense, the dissolution of the time space continuum ALREADY HAPPENED, when electronics and atomic power were developed upon the basis of profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we thought about time and space. What has NOT happened is any matching, much less surpassing, changes in political science. Rather, politics continues to be almost totally dominated by various old-fashioned religions and ideologies, that adamantly refuse to change their metaphysical presumptions.
Human artificial selection systems should be understood within the context of natural selection systems. However, everything regarding that continues to be quite deliberately denied and disregarded by the currently existing kinds of political processes, which tend to continue to retell the same old stupid social stories, but while now using more fantastic special effects to tell those stories. Our politics is much like how there are now dozens and dozens of big budget movies, that have taken the juvenile comic books about superheros, and presented those with vastly improved special effects. Overall, there EXIST globalized electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs. The profound paradigm shifts that I promote with respect to perceiving political problems are based upon thinking in similar ways to how the previous profound paradigm shifts already happened in the physical sciences that made those technologies possible.
Of course, meanwhile, we are running out of time for such paradigm shifts to occur, since those often used to take several generations to be accomplished. Instead, we are rushing faster and FASTER towards debt insanities provoking death insanities. We are NOT adapting in any saner ways to the limits of the environment, due to the ways that civilization is almost totally dominated by ENFORCED FRAUDS, which are based upon deliberately ignoring and denying the most basic laws of nature, as much as possible, and by presenting those basic laws of nature in the most absurdly backward ways possible.
Our civilization does NOT take seriously the principle of the conservation of energy, while we have inverted the meaning of entropy. I am NOT suggesting that we overthrow those basic laws of nature. What I am suggesting is that our civilization has already suppressed and/or perverted our understanding of those laws of nature as much as possible. It would correct some of our errors to recognize what those ENORMOUS ERRORS were, when the history of science, as a social enterprise, was historically forced to compromise with the biggest bullies' bullshit world views. It was NOT an accidental mistake that we have ended up living inside of a Wonderland Matrix Bizarro World, where everything is presented in the most absurdly backward ways possible. It was not an accidental mistake that our civilization operates through there being a core of organized crime, which is surrounded by layers of controlled opposition groups, and that those controlled opposition groups stay within the same bullshit frame of reference as was originally promoted by the biggest bullies, and therefore, almost all of the bogus "solutions" to the real problems promoted by the various controlled opposition groups are also absurdly backwards. I agreed with your perspective, Charming Anarchist, of agreeing with the spirit of the article above. However, I regard its view of "Modern Serfdom" to have been relatively superficial, and similarly, its "solutions directed towards "No Serfdom" to have been similarly superficial. I AGREE that: However, as I have outlined above, doing that should be done in much more philosophically profound ways. The only things that exist are the dynamic equilibria between different systems of organized lies operating robberies. The political problems that we are presented with now are primarily due to the extremely unbalanced ways that the banksters, as the best organized gangs of criminals, have been able to apply the methods of organized crime through the political processes, in order to achieve the creation of generalized, all encompassing debt slavery systems, which are way more sophisticated, as well as far worse than any previous forms of slavery or serfdom. In my view, the genuine solutions would necessarily have to become even more sophisticated systems of organized crime.This post reminds me of atlas shrugged. The part where dagny gets railed.
Beyond partaking in criminal enterprise at one level or another, there is no escape.... PERIOD!
I don't mind my local taxes at all. I pay in a year what most pay for a month. The schools are mediocre but new and the trash gets picked and the water is always on. It is so somnambulent here that the usually indolent cops jump at the chance to fight real crime when it rarely happens, otherwise, they tend to be respectful because you know their families and friends.
So what do I get for my Federal taxes (what little I pay)?
Nothing useful. Bombing other countries and disrupting their trade with sanctions doesn't do a damn thing for me. I don't see any checks with Uncle Sam's signature on them when they whack a stray Jihad Joe or when Ukrainians chuck some made in USA metal into NovoRussia.
I pay the Mafia in Washington the same as everyone else.
I like my legs, even the gimpy one and don't want them broken. It's the price I pay for being pretty much happy where I am and too lazy to move out of my country and start over again.
If they decide to go full retard, then the only thing that makes sense to me is to wait right here for them and remind them there's no free passes.
I take my no trespassing signs seriously. Everyone else should do the same.
Well, I do resent my local taxes. I pay $25k a year on my home and don't even have sidewalks. I have no children and receive no services from my city beyond warning noticed for maintenance of trees along the edges of my property. I pay $20k a year on my business building, which is inside of a city of which I do not live, which means I have taxation without representation. I get NO services at my business, not even trash pickup, and the streets are disintegrating. I even have to pay an EPA tax monthly to supposedly pay to clean any rain water that potentially might drain off of my property into the storm sewer. I get NOTHING for my taxes. I would suggest that 90% of it is redistributed to people's needs other than myself. This is not what the Constitution laid out as the purpose of taxation. The general welfare intended for taxation to serve everyone, not specific subsets. We are left with our imagination as to come up with any justification for this "taking". At the very least a substantial part of my federal taxes go to pay for a military, which is constitutional even if I don't agree with much that they do.
+1 (last two sentences only)
The elite are so deeply flawed they make the Grand Canyon look like a dimple.
http://incapp.org/blog/?p=1619
Free Wesley Snipes.
Well, I guess he got out already.
There are plenty of places where taxes are essentially non-existent, the government leaves you alone, and even the local women have positive attitudes. They tend to be really, really poor, and they tend to go to hell the moment they get a paved road, satellite TV or an Internet link.