Liberty: Stifled by the Stockholm Syndrome
"Most people don’t have the stomach for an armed revolution unless their government starts shooting at them first. For those conditioned never to pick up a gun, this means surrender.
Fortunately, governments don’t want to obliterate all their constituents: they need their productivity, at least until artificial intelligence gets more viable. Even at their final stage of desperation, which involves forced everything—central bank digital currencies, a bug diet, fifteen-minute cities, perversity as a norm—governments are still finding support. Why?
Welcome to the Stockholm syndrome. People have become psychologically dependent on their rulers, no matter the cost. The alternative is said to be anarchy, and people believe it is a nonsolution, the breakdown of civilization, often seen in war zones—check some recent headlines.
The good and bad news is the government structure that pervades the world—rule by force—is not one that will last. It’s a structure based on theft and debt, and it will eventually collapse.
And that eventuality is imminent. What will happen then?
Most people must make an honest living and are used to solving a full range of problems within a system of voluntary exchange. This is what people must count on—their own ingenuity and their willingness to take responsibility for their actions and work with others, within the framework of a property-rights society. There is no product or service the market can’t provide as long as it’s allowed to do so."