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A Brief History of Government
by Brian Crabtree (1992)
Thousands of years ago, people were free.
What happened? Well, here's the story...
A certain group of similarly narrow-minded guys with similarly
ridiculous ideas got on a power trip, and decided to use force to impose their
own thoughts, morals, and customs on everyone else. These people also decided
that instead of everybody sharing, it would be easier to control them if they
were made to pass around money, which only the government could make.
"The government is best which governs not at all and when men are
prepared for it, that will be the kind of government they will have."
- Henry David Thoreau
These two factors, authority and property, created crime. Instead of
everyone owning everything and nothing at all, people with less money had to
steal and kill for it, in order to feed their starving families. People were
even forced to pay a portion of their hard-earned wages to this evil and
corrupt government, so that the government could afford to keep ruling them.
All of this was done in the name of the 'Public Good'.
Much Madness is divinest Sense-
To a discerning eye-
Much Sense, the starkest Madness-
'Tis the Majority.
In this, as All, prevail-
Assent, and you are sane-
Demur, you're straitway dangerous-
And handled with a Chain.
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Emily Dickinson, c. 1862
Eventually, someone had a pretty good idea, if it would have worked.
The idea was that if everyone got an equal vote, everyone's views would be
represented. Of course, by this time, the government had brainwashed so many
people into thinking as they did that the tyranny of the majority was just as
terrible as the tyranny of the original rulers. Why should the minority obey
the mindless majority? Now you must see the problem with democracy. Another
thing 'rule by the people' led to was plutocracy, rule by the rich. The more
money you had, the more power you had, and the less money and power someone
else had. There was, and is, tremendous poverty under capitalism.
Communism, as it currently exists, doesn't work either. The idea is
for everyone to be enployed, be paid equally, and for everything to cost the
same. This was a good idea also, but to do this requires government control
over almost every aspect of society. Not only does the government control
the citizen's life, but all of the industries are state-owned. This causes a
problem we've all experienced. Where are the longest lines? Not at fast-food
places or supermarkets; the longest lines are at the post office and the
Department of Motor Vehicles, state-operated institutions. The reason is that
there's nowhere else to go! If you want a driver's license, you have to go to
the D.M.V. In the Soviet Union, people had to wait many times longer than
that just to buy food. Also, money is still a problem. If you need an
example, just look at Russia, and how unbearable conditions were under Soviet
rule.
There are many other totalitarian systems in which the ruled have no
representation whatsoever, but you can see for yourself how unfair they are.
"As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in
anarchy. Anarchy - the absence of a sovereign - such is the
form of government to which we are every day approximating."
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Anarchism is the political perspective which regards all government as
evil and unnecessary. Money and property are instruments used by the
government to control people. Crime is merely the product of a society based
on property and authority. Only in a society free from the coercive power of
the state can there exist true freedom and liberty.
"There will be a qualitative transformation, a new living, life-giving
revelation, a new heaven and a new earth, a young and mighty world in which
all our present dissonances will be resolved into a harmonious whole."
- Mikhail Bakunin