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GOVERNMENT AS GOD tpocs, Sept 2, 2012, YouTube 21:06
“You cannot begin to imagine in how many ways the world is the opposite of what you who have been taught to believe. You proudly support the troops as they kill whomever the liars in D.C. tell them to kill and you feel good about it. You call yourselves Christians or Jews or claim to follow some other religion but the truth is what you call your religion is empty window dressing. What you truly worship, the god you really bow to, what you really believe in, is the State.” Larken Rose
The above video is about how almost all of Humanity worships the political “God of Government” BEFORE & MORE than it worships its various religious Gods.
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LARKEN ROSE'S "THE MOST DANGEROUS SUPERSTITION"
A favorite, fellow Voluntaryist, the independent reporter, James Corbett on his "Corbett Report" just did an excellent introduction to Larken's book, so please check it out:
EPISODE 461 – I READ THE MOST DANGEROUS SUPERSTITION (AND YOU CAN, TOO!) BY CORBETT | Jun 24, 2024
https://corbettreport.com/the-most-dangerous-superstition/
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FROM “HOW THE WORLD WILL CHANGE” BY ISAAC MOREHOUSE
“When the world becomes free it will not be by the creation of new laws, or the removal of old, or new political leaders, or any election result. It will not be because of a change in government, but because of a change in attitude toward government. The state is a dangerous fiction whose power rests entirely on people’s belief in its necessity, or inevitability. It is not a given that a state must or will always exist. The state, like so many other superstitions now thought to be outrageous, inhumane, and inefficient, can be left in the ash heap of history.
Many once laughed at the notion that an institution as old as humanity itself, the institution of slavery, would or could ever be removed. The prevailing wisdom for centuries, even among those who had discovered the moral repugnance of slavery, was that it was just a part of human nature. Reformers argued the best thing was to work for a more humane version of slavery.
If the state, like slavery, is the result of the ideas held by people it is not inevitable. SOMEDAY HUMANITY COULD LOOK BACK ON THE INSTITUTION CALLED THE STATE WITH THE SAME SENSE OF SHAME AND WONDER THAT WE NOW HAVE ABOUT SLAVERY. How could so many people – many of them good people – live their lives day in and day out surrounded by an institution so inhumane, so nakedly violent and demeaning? Did they really think it was necessary? Did they not understand how degrading it was? It will be hard to understand how so many humans thought the state was inevitable, tolerable and even good. As sure as slavery became a hated relic, so can the state.”
https://isaacmorehouse.com/2013/03/02/how-the-world-will-change/
TEN REASONS NOT TO ABOLISH SLAVERY ROBERT HIGGS, Mises Institute, June 19, 2024
Slavery existed for thousands of years, in all sorts of societies and all parts of the world. To imagine human social life without it required an extraordinary effort. Yet, from time to time, eccentrics emerged to oppose it, most of them arguing that slavery is a moral monstrosity and therefore people should get rid of it. Such advocates generally elicited reactions ranging from gentle amusement to harsh scorn and even violent assault.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/ten-reasons-not-abolish-slavery
HOW THE STATE LEADS PEOPLE TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION | ROBERT HIGGS LibertyInOurTime, Oct 23, 2011, YouTube 53:41
“The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised.” Robert Higgs