The state claims to represent you, protect you, serve you. It does none of these things. It is simply the organization of predation, dressed in the language of public service. This post dissects the state: what it is not, what it is, how it survives, how it grows, and what it fears. nostr:naddr1qqgrsdnpxumkgwfevscnyetxxccrgq3qklkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qxpqqqp65wx0zqej
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The counter argument is that society needs rules and a way to manage the big picture. The US constitution, if followed, the federal govt has very limited powers basically to mediate disputes between the states, the protect the various states from external forces, and to ensure one state does not impose its will on the others
Arguably that pretty much worked untill the civil war. When a group of states decided that the federal government was too powerful and was trying to control things it should not (I am not arguing the right or wrong of the main southern cause, we all know that answer). The federal government took on the role that all power structures take, they entrenched and actively fought to maintain power.
That does not mean that govt is inherently bad, it is more the weakness of the human condition... Some lust for power and some are all to willing to give it up. Us that are stuck in the middle suffer.
We don't need a constitution, we just need legal principles
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we don't need legal principles, we need free thinking human beings
Muricans was free only between independence war and constitution.
I've come to believe that non physical entities are born every time 1 or more humans share a set of common beliefs around a subject.
I first noticed this phenomena within the corporation & within divisions of the corporation. It confused me because it defied the nature of my reality at the time. I didn't really have the ability to perceive that which wasn't physical.
I've come to define these non physical entities as pendulums & I see them everywhere now & in a wide variety of forms. I borrowed the term & idea from the book Reality Transurfing, by Vadim Zeland. In it, he describes Pendulums as having one goal, Adhearance. Non-adherents suffer the rath of those caught up in the pendulum's swing & in doing so often get drawn into it's gravitation pull. Religions, political philosophies & schools of thought are some of the more obvious examples but they don't always have to be so long lived. A pendulum can last for as long as a rock concert & can still be extremely destructive.
While not all pendulums are destructive, they often are. Bitcoin is a pendulum of sorts but the structure is quite unique in that adherents are ironically called upon to not adhere. It's somewhat selfregulatimg as it uses creative destruction to prune & renew itself.
Typically only a chosen few personally benefit from a pendulum's swing & they're held up as shining examples of why the pendulum is so great. In this too I believe Bitcoin is different & will become a huge pendulum. Every Bitcoin adherent personally benefits from it over time. These benefits aren't equally distributed but they're distributed fairly.
The key takeaway I found was that you can't destroy a pendulum by fighting it directly. It will just pull you in & feed off your energy & attention. A pendulum is destroyed when it loses adherents to feed off of. Eventually a rock concert ends & all the energy is dissipated. Democracy ends when we no longer worship it's ideals & illusory benefits.