All right, to clarify to ALL OF YOU:
Right now, this second, any and every argument you make might have been perfectly true a century ago. It might even have been true a decade ago, but you seem entirely unaware of the evolving social situations which invalidate them in the present and future.
Is the government currently run by parasites? Yes.
Do these parasites seek to control everyone? Yes
Do they use force, direct or indirect to do so? Yes.
The fact is, during the entirety of human history, the parasites have run rampant through the system, from rich to poor. Capitalism may be the best economic system ever created, but it been an absolute paradise for parasites.
But, that is changing. And if you cannot see that fact, then you are blinding yourselves to it by refusing to remove your ideological blinkers.
Simply put, until recently, the parasites could do what they wanted, because the general public had not a clue about what they were doing. They could say one thing in public, do another thing in private, and cover their tracks. It was a heyday. They could control the masses by controlling the information the masses had. Occasionally, you would have some intelligent person see that something was wrong, but inevitably, those people ended up blaming the system instead of the parasites, which simply allowed the parasites to continue business as usual. They fed the public on wishful thinking and got them to ignore the reality, and because so few people could see the sham, and so few of them could talk to one another, it worked to keep the public in mushroom status, in the dark and fed shit.
That condition no longer exists.
Watch the TV, read the blogs, and read especially the commentary made by people. Is a lot of it the same blustering rhetoric as usual? Yes. But I've been watching this for a LONG time. People are waking up. They are taking control of the media away from the parasites, ignoring the messengers to find out the truth for themselves. Do many of them still simply settle for reaffirming their parasite given beliefs? Of course. But that number is shrinking. It's louder than ever, but that's because more people are on the net than ever before.
The parasites no longer control information.
They are trying. The recent Comcast case shows that clearly, but it is an effort doomed to fail. Change is happening faster than the parasites can adapt, and the collective is growing a nervous system. People are being able to bypass the roadblocks, the barricades, and the roadsigns along the paths which the parasites want them to take and are making their own decisions.
But there is more to it than this. The internet is also becoming the collectives memory. People have short memory, the internet does not. Not only can it keep records of the public, it keeps records on the parasites as well, and the people are beginning to see the double talking, lying, hypocrisy, and flip flops they make clearly.
Once cellphones gained cameras and internet connections, the day of the parasite ended. Big Brother has met his match, in Little Brother. Call it sousvellance, the common man's Panopticon, or massive invasion of privacy if you wish, it is still coming into existence. The government is being watched now by ten million eyes, and more come on it every day.
Parasites cannot survive in the light. They cannot exist in the open. The collective will not allow them to. Change is happening. It's not immediate, and it's not going to be painless, but it is occurring.
And that change is going to force some extremely overdue changes to occur to both the collective and the individual as well.
By the end of this decade, VR will be a reality, the majority of the world will have internet via ultrahighspeed wireless technology, and your entire life will be recorded, by your own choice. Your lifeblog, the culmination of twitter, facebook, and any number of other social apps, will record your every word and deed. It will also record those of everyone you speak too, interact with, and every other aspect of your life. There will be those who refuse to use such technology, but it will be so widespread that no-one will be able to be in public without assuming that their every action is recorded by ten thousand eyes.
And that includes politicians, corporate CEOs, religious leaders, etc.
If you haven't read "The Truth Machine"
http://heritagecoins.../images/ttm.doc I recommend you do so. Because in a world where your every action is permanently recorded, you will be accountable for your actions. You will not be able to lie when it is recorded, or steal, or commit fraud. No-one will. Your words and deeds will haunt you. Your "wuffie" will depend on your trustworthiness.
And that same will be true of everyone.
VR will make this inevitable. Your VR lenses will always record your every move, to enable it to track you for VR immersion. Your lifeblog will be your personal record, always there to prove the truth of your actions. NO-ONE WILL EVER BE CONVICTED OF A CRIME THEY DID NOT DO. You will be able to PROVE your innocence.
Simply put, EVERYONE WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE. From the lowest to the highest.
Parasites cannot exist in an environment of complete accountability. Nor do accountable people require 99% of the laws that currently exist solely to ensure accountability. Neither do accountable people require as many police, lawyers, or any of the various methods of FORCE used to make them accountable.
Accountability is the missing factor in most of the worlds problems. It's the reason behind almost all laws, and all regulation. They are attempts to make people accountable for their actions. To answer Max, reciprocal accountability is how you keep a benevolent dictator benevolent. Lazy people? Accountability. Cheats? Accountability. Parasites? Accountability. Gaming the System? Accountability. Frauds? Accountability.
You want your anarcho-capitalist society? Be patient. Because it is coming. It is the inevitable end state of an accountable society.
But be aware that it will also require interim steps which you at present oppose, such as the humanitarian rights. Other social factors as we transition to both an economy of abundance and a society of accountability will make it inevitable that they will indeed become rights. More and more people will become jobless, and more and more people will suffer from poverty, homelessness, and starvation to the point it will either be allow 80% of Americans to die, or supply the basic humanitarian rights. The longer it takes before those rights are granted, the more it will cost. Manufacturing jobs are growing ever more scarce as machines grow ever more efficient. More and more businesses are going to simply cease to exist. The next decade is going to see a technological explosion, and an economic implosion. I dare say that the majority of big corporations that exist today will collapse and go bankrupt over the next decade. New ones will replace them, but they will require fewer people with far more technical skills than most Americans have, and they will be far smaller and more adaptable. Eventually, most people will be self employed, performing whatever job they most want to pursue.
The future doesn't scare me. I have a very good grasp of what the end state is most likely to be. My concern is with the present and the transition from now until then. And my goal is to minimize the cost, not in worthless dross like money or material wealth, but in human lives and suffering.
Take that as you will.
