Welcome to Keith's night. Don't try it on anyone.
This is the power vacuum argument by Larkin Rose.
As I explained in my previous article when confronted about
the inherent immorality and illegitimate, see of government
stated soft and fall back on making the dire predictions of
chaos and Mayhem. Of course, this is logically
irrelevant to philosophical principles.
Reality doesn't change itself to avoid bad things happening.
For example, person a As dude, don't jump out of the plane.
You don't have a parachute person be response.
Yes, I do. Because if I didn't, this would
kill me, ah, or person a says, people can't delegate rights.
They don't have person B says, yes, they can.
Otherwise there would be chaos, but there was something else
worth noting about one of the most common dire predictions
that state is fooling around. They basically argue that if
there were no Government, the horrendous chaotic violent
result would be a government Warlords.
Would take over and build armies and Rule us all.
In other words, the worst case scenario.
That state is predict for anarchism is statism.
And that's pretty damn funny. I'm going to Advocate this bad
thing, a big powerful ruling class because otherwise we would
end up with the thing. I'm advocating.
Status. Love to Proclaim that if a
certain Or ruling class collapsed and was overthrown or
just disappeared. It would create a power vacuum
and a new ruling class would magically appear actually, in
one way. They are quite right about that.
But in another way they are dead wrong.
The only reason power vacuums exists, is because most people
think there should be and has to be a ruling class.
A supreme set of lawmakers a government.
If, for example, Washington. EC just fell into the Atlantic
today, a new government would regrow, but not because of magic
or human nature or because the universe makes them appear.
But because people who believe in Authority will keep creating
new ruling classes. That's why I constantly
emphasize. The fact that the belief in
Authority, including all belief in government is the problem.
We never put a particular regime.
Is doing evil crap right now is never the actual problem.
The problem resides between several billion pairs of ears,
as long as most people believe that having rulers as legitimate
and necessary. They will keep putting
narcissistic sociopaths on Thrones.
So, yes, as long as the general population is stuck in the
authoritarian mindset. Someone has to be in charge.
We need a leader. Then when one regime fails,
another will be built in its place often one even worse than
the one before. And yes.
This is why violent revolution is utterly pointless without
their first being a revolution of how people think.
However, once people outgrow the Superstition of authority and
escaped, the statist indoctrination, they've been
programmed with there will be no power vacuum to fill a society
of volunteers is not going to suddenly I'd that what they
really need is to be violently dominated by a new group of
politicians state has often talked about how some Tyrant or
Ward Lord. Would just take over while
completely missing the fact that their own belief system is the
only reason anyone can take over.
They seem to believe in the existence of Hollywood villains
who are so diabolical that they can just make Power magically
appear. They don't seem to know that
every successful Tyrant has to dupe the general.
Public into singing him as a savior.
So that they gladly and eagerly give him control over their
lives and over everyone else's Mao.
Stalin Hitler. They were all cheered into Power
by adoring masses, masses of you guessed.
It statist spee people who believe in authority and
thought, government is what makes society and civilization
work. So in one sense, In a statist
warns of the power vacuum thing, he is right while failing to
notice that he and his fellow status are, the only reason, his
dire prediction holds any truth. If the people don't perceive the
new gang to have the right to rule, don't perceive it to be
Authority, then they don't cheer for it.
They shoot at it and dies and that brings up the whole silly
warlord thing. If we didn't have government
protecting us Warlords, would take over.
Such an argument ignores, the fact that warlord saying street
gangs and the mafia two are almost always funded by black
markets created by government example, the illegal drug trade
without a ruling class. They wouldn't exist to begin
with. But the warlord's argument also
shows a profound ignorance of human nature at basically
implies that in the State of Mind.
The ability to rule doesn't depend upon the legitimacy of
those in power in the eyes of the people.
People in reality. It has everything to do with
that, especially in a place where 100 million people possess
their own firearms. The idea of Warlords ruling by
brute force is just ridiculous. An example of private gun
ownership in the United States. Would you want to try to rule
those people by Brute Force? I wouldn't and not just because
I have moral principles and Simple.
I'd like to use is this imagine that you are an organized crime
boss and your goal is to extort a hundred million people of a
large chunk of what they earn every year.
You have 100,000 loyal underlings.
However, only 2000 of them are armed.
The rest paper pushers. Do you think you could
successfully robbed those people when they outnumber and outgun
your Armed Forces? Fifty thousand to one?
Guess what the IRS does it, how most of their victims, imagine
the extortion to be legal and legitimate and necessary.
The victims feel an obligation to obey and pay tribute if
tomorrow, they all stopped feeling that obligation.
There would be no IRS by the end of the day, that shows how much
perceptions determine power and how much political Authority
depends completely on the mentality of those.
Being controlled Larkin. Rose quotes, Steven Biko the
most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of
the oppressed Larkin. Rose continues.
In conclusion. There was only one gang with the
ability to continually extort and control the American people.
And that is the one that the American people imagined to be
Authority. In other words.
The one gang that can dominate us is already doing it.
And the only, Only reason it is able to do so is because of the
belief in Authority infecting the minds of the General Public.
We already are dominated by evil overlords.
They already have been taken. We already have been taken over
by a violent gang and mr. And mrs.
Status. You are the cause your belief
system is, what gives politicians, all their power.
So when you, why not volunteer us about how nasty gangs of
crooks might take over? Keep in mind.
They already did that. You are condoning, that, that
you are making that happen and that at your crappy belief
system is the only reason it continues to happen or is able
to happen at all. Way to go.
Thank you for watching Keith Knight.
Don't try it on anyone.