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11.2.16 00:23 - Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

In conclusion, the objective of economic research, as conducted by the magnates of
capital (banking) and the industries of commodities (goods) and services, is the
establishment of an economy which is totally predictable and manipulatable.
In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the low-class elements of society must
be brought under total control, i.e., must be housebroken, trained, and assigned a yoke
and long-term social duties from a very early age, before they have an opportunity to
question the propriety of the matter. In order to achieve such conformity, the lower-class
family unit must be disintegrated by a process of increasing preoccupation of the parents
and the establishment of government-operated day-care centers for the occupationally
orphaned children.
The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the
moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains
incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower
class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot
in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintain some measure of social order, peace,
and tranquility for the ruling upper class.

[..]

Everything that is expected from an ordinary weapon is expected from a silent weapon by
its creators, but only in its own manner of functioning.
It shoots situations, instead of bullets; propelled by data processing, instead of chemical
reaction (explosion); originating from bits of data, instead of grains of gunpowder; from a
computer, instead of a gun; operated by a computer programmer, instead of a marksman;
under the orders of a banking magnate, instead of a military general.
[..]
The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but that is because of the
technical nature of the silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way,
or handle the problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to cry for help,
and do not know how to associate with others to defend themselves against it.

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• Saki

7.12.14 15:02 - Pavadi laiku dižu prātu sabiedrībā - LASI!

John Taylor Gatto - "The Underground History of American Education"
Kolosāla lasāmviela par to, kāpēc skola ir obligāta un kāpēc cilvēki ir tik stulbi un gļēvi.

• Saki

19.9.14 15:14 - Kāpēc tika ieviests termins "cilvēktiesības"?

Epperson, Ralph A. - The Unseen Hand, An Introduction to the Conspiratorial View of History (1985)

P. S.
Kas bija pirmais - cilvēks vai valsts?

• Saki

17.9.14 12:04

The End of All Evil

• Saki

15.9.14 14:48 - Nepretošanās ļaunumam ir kalpošana tam

The End of All Evil

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14.9.14 23:59 - valsts ir krāpšana

Statism and Anxiety

The mythology around “the state” in many ways exceeds – particularly in the modern world – the mythology that surrounds superstitious religiosity.

The question: how can human society be organized? is not answered by the state, any more than the question where did the world come from? is answered by religion.

If a man says, “My wife loves me,” and then locks her in the basement and threatens to shoot her if she tries to escape, do we believe him?

A “theory” cannot be considered “proven” if all it does is shoot anyone who disagrees with it.

In fact, any theory which requires violent defense is by any rational standard of proof utterly wrong or false to begin with.

Thus the thesis that “a state is required to organize society,” is demonstrably false, because it is not in fact a thesis at all, but rather a violently aggressive dogma.

Shooting those who disagree with you does not make you right, but rather proves that your position is wrong, corrupt and evil.

The State and Society

Since the state uses compulsion to “organize” society, it repudiates the very concept of “society,” just as rape repudiates the very concept of “love making,” and robbery repudiates the concept of “property.”

Using “the state” to answer the question of how society should be organized is morally identical to using kidnapping and imprisonment to answer the question of how to get someone to “love” you.

It is the mere illusion of an answer, rather than a real answer – and like all illusory answers, not only is it brutal in the extreme, but it also actively prevents the pursuit of true answers.

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@ Stefan Molyneux, "Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love", grāmata par brīvu visvisādos formātos (ieskaitot audio). Brīnišķīga literatūra.

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13.9.14 01:48

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8.9.14 20:26 - Free Books

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12.8.14 12:38 - Ieteicamā literatūra

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TamaRe House introduces Veronica: of the Chapman family (as commonly called), herein after referred to as Veronica: Chapman. The reason for this non-conventional way of expressing ones’ name will become clear after reading just a few pages of the book: FREEDOM… Is More Than Just A Seven-Letter Word. The message is exactly what it says; it’s all about freedom. Veronica: Chapman thinks it will surprise you how much you actually do not know about that subject. And how very little, in essence, you really need to know in order to attain it. We hope that, by the time you have read it all the way through, your path into the future will be obvious to you. You should discover that, even at the age of 7 years old, you had more power than any Government, Judiciary, Police Force and Military combined. But you did not realise it. And therefore, throughout your life, you have thrown it away. But take heart, it is still there. And you can learn how to use it. What is worth more than all the gold in the world is your appreciation that, having read this book, you have become empowered in the way you always should have been- had you been educated, rather than indoctrinated – during your childhood. The author is compelled to stretch certain points within the book in order to attempt to overcome the ingrained indoctrination to which we have all been subject throughout our lives. And the lives of our ancestors living or now deceased.

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12.8.14 12:20 - Asclepius: The Perfect Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus

“In that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the world worthy of reverent wonder and of worship. This whole good thing, than which nothing was or is or will be deemed better, will be threatened with destruction; men will think it a burden, and will come to scorn it. They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure, this sum of good made up of things of many diverse forms. Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought brave, and the wickedest will be regarded as good. Only the evil angels will remain, who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches by main force into all manner of reckless crime, into wars and robberies and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul. Then will the earth no longer stand unshaken, and the sea will no more be navigable; heaven will not support the stars in their orbits, nor will the stars pursue their constant course in heaven; the voice of the gods will of necessity be silenced and dumb; the fruits of the earth will rot; the soil will turn barren, and the very air will sicken in sullen stagnation.”

• Saki

9.8.14 00:46 - Potenciāli attīstoša lasāmviela

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11.7.14 14:54 - Par kalpiem

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11.7.14 11:15 - FYI

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15.4.14 09:40 - The Most Dangerous Superstition

As another example of how the belief in “authority” distorts perception, many “welfare”
recipients openly admit that, given the choice between accepting voluntarily donated gifts
from people they know and receiving something that “government” forcibly took from a
complete stranger, they prefer the latter, because it is, in their mind, the less shameful of
the two options. The fact that anyone would ever prefer accepting stolen property over
accepting compassion and generosity shows just how profoundly the belief in “authority”
warps people’s sense of morality.

In short, every statist – everyone who believes in “government” – deceives himself into
believing that he is a good person who supports good things and opposes injustice,
hallucinating in himself a respect for his fellow man, while at the same time advocating
that his fellow man be forcibly controlled, extorted, imprisoned, or even killed, The
“authority” superstition is burrowed into the minds of the masses so deeply that they can
advocate evil on a massive, nearly incomprehensible level, while still imagining
themselves to be charitable and compassionate, They demand that “government” do
things they would never dream of doing on their own. They imagine themselves to be
non-violent, civilized, enlightened beings while routinely advocating that all of their
neighbors be robbed and forcibly controlled, and put into cages or killed if they resist. In
truth, mankind’s superficial charity, compassion and civility is nothing but a cruel joke
when compared to what almost everyone will do, or what they will ask others to do, in
the name of “authority.”

Many parents and teachers regularly repeat what is perhaps the most basic rule of
humanity, sometimes called “The Golden Rule”: Treat others the way you want to be
treated. However, none of the teachers, and almost none of the parents, who spout that
rule actually live by that rule, because, by way of “authority,” they advocate that
extortion and coercion be inflicted upon everyone they know. “The Golden Rule” is
essentially a formula for anarchy: if someone does not like to be dominated and forcibly
controlled by others, he should not advocate that others be dominated and forcibly
controlled. If one wants to be left in peace, he should leave others in peace. If one desires
the freedom to run his own life, he should allow others the freedom to do likewise. To putit
bluntly, advocating aggression against others, including via any form of “government,”
is utterly incompatible with being a charitable, considerate, compassionate, kind, decent,
loving human being. And the only reason so many otherwise good people continue to
advocate widespread constant aggression via “government” is because they have been
duped into accepting the lie that there is a creature called “authority” that is not bound by
the moral standards that apply to human beings.

The Effect of the Myth on Freedom Advocates

“Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in
“government” – the notion that some people actually have the moral right to rule over
others – has caused immeasurable pain and suffering, injustice and oppression,
enslavement and death. The fundamental problem does not reside in any set of buildings,
or any group of politicians, or any gang of soldiers or enforcers, The fundamental
problem is not an organization that can be voted out, or overthrown, or “reformed.” The
fundamental problem is the belief itself – the delusion, superstition and myth of
“authority” – which resides in the minds of several billion human beings, including those
who have suffered the most because of that belief. Ironically, the belief in “authority”
dramatically affects the perception and actions even of those who are actively fighting
against a particular regime. The superstition drastically alters and limits the ways in
which dissenters “fight” oppression, and renders nearly all of their efforts impotent:.
Furthermore, on the rare occasion that a particular tyrant is toppled, one form of
oppression is almost always replaced by another – often one that is even worse than the
prior one.

Instead of fighting against a non-existent beast, what “freedom fighters” need to do is to
recognize that it is not real, that it does not exist, that it cannot exist, and then act
accordingly. Of course, if only a few people overcome the superstition, they will likely be
ridiculed, condemned, attacked, imprisoned or murdered by those who are still firm
believers in the myth, But when even a significant minority of people outgrow the
superstition, and change their behavior accordingly, the world will drastically change.
When the people actually want true freedom, they will achieve it without the need for any
election or revolution.

The trouble is, almost no one actually wants humanity to be free, and almost no one
opposes oppression in principle, To wit, the effects of the myth of “authority” remain
intact even in the minds of most people who consider themselves to be rebels,
nonconformists and free-thinkers. During their teenage years, many people go through a
period of apparent rebelliousness, which consists mostly of doing whatever those in
“authority” tell them not to do: engaging in smoking, sexual promiscuity, drug use,
wearing different clothes or hairstyles, getting tattoos or body piercings, and so on, As
such, their actions are still controlled, albeit in a backward way, by the myth of
“authority.” Instead of obeying for the sake of obeying, they disobey for the sake of
disobeying, but still show no signs of being able to think for themselves. They behave
like angry children instead of complacent children, but still do not behave like adults.
And in most cases, their natural desire to break the chains of “authority” does not last
long, they “outgrow” their anti-authoritarian tendencies, and gradually transform back
into “model citizens,” i.e. obedient subjects.

For example, the supposedly radical, anti-authoritarian hippies of the 1960s more or less
became the new “government” in the United States with the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Even the “peaceniks” whose mantra was “live and let live,” when given the opportunity
to become the new “authority,” chose to forcibly meddle with the lives of others as much
as or more than their predecessors did, including via military conquest. Likewise, those in
“Generation X,” the “MTV” crowd, and so on, have always focused their efforts on
putting people who agree with them into power, instead of working to actually achieve
freedom. There is a fundamental difference between having complaints about a particular
ruling class, and recognizing and opposing the insanity of “authority” in principle, In
short, in all the various societal manifestations of so-called rebelliousness and non-conformity,
almost none have actually escaped the myth of “authority.” Instead, they have
merely attempted to make a new “authority,” a new ruling class, a new “government,” a
new centralized machine of coercion through which they could forcibly subjugate and
control their neighbors. In short, nearly all so-called “rebels” are phonies, who pretend to
be resisting “the man,” but who really just want to be “the man.”

And this should be expected, If one starts with the assumption that there should and must
be an “authority,” and that a “government” exerting control over a population is a
legitimate situation, why would anyone not want to be the one in charge? Each person, by
definition, wants the world to be the way he thinks it should be, and what better way
could any person accomplish that than by becoming king? If someone accepts the notion
that authoritarian power is valid, why would he not want it to be used to try to create the
world as he wants it to be? This is why the only people who truly advocate freedom in
principle are anarchists and voluntaryists – people who understand that forcibly
dominating others is not legitimate, even when it is called “law,” and even when it is
done in the name of “the people” or “the common good,” There is a big difference
between striving for a new, wiser, nobler master, and striving for a world of equals, where
there are no masters and no slaves. Likewise, there is a big difference between a slave
who believes in the principle of freedom, and a slave whose ultimate goal is to become
the new master. And this is true, even if that slave truly intends to be a kind and generous
master. Even those who advocate a relatively limited, benign type of “government” are
advocating against freedom. As long as the people believe in the myth of “authority,”
every downfall of one tyrant will be followed by the creation and growth of a new tyrant.
History is replete with examples, such as Fidel Castro and Guevara, who portrayed
themselves as “freedom fighters” just long enough to become the new oppressors. They
were no doubt quite genuine in their vehement opposition to the oppressions which they
and their friends suffered from, but they were not opposed to authoritarian oppression in
principle, as clearly demonstrated by their behavior once they obtained power
themselves. This pattern has been repeated over and over again throughout history, with
the resentment of one tyrannical regime becoming the seed of the next tyrannical regime.
Even Hitler’s rise to power was due in large part to anger at the perceived injustices and
oppressions inflicted upon Germany via the Treaty of Versailles. Of course, as long as the
rebels suffer from the superstition of “authority,” their first priority, once they have
overthrown one “government,” will be to set up a new one. So even acts of great bravery
and heroism, among those who still believe in “government,” have accomplished little
more than replacing one tyrant with another. Many have been able to recognize and
oppose specific acts of tyranny by specific regimes, but very few have recognized that the
underlying problem is not who sits on the throne; the problem is that there is a throne to
sit on.

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