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Welcome to Keith's night. 
Don't try it on anyone. 

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This is the power vacuum 
argument by Larkin Rose. 

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As I explained in my previous 
article when confronted about 

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the inherent immorality and 
illegitimate, see of government 

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stated soft and fall back on 
making the dire predictions of 

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chaos and Mayhem. 
Of course, this is logically 

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irrelevant to philosophical 
principles. 

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Reality doesn't change itself to
avoid bad things happening. 

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For example, person a As dude, 
don't jump out of the plane. 

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You don't have a parachute 
person be response. 

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Yes, I do. 
Because if I didn't, this would 

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kill me, ah, or person a says, 
people can't delegate rights. 

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They don't have person B says, 
yes, they can. 

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Otherwise there would be chaos, 
but there was something else 

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worth noting about one of the 
most common dire predictions 

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that state is fooling around. 
They basically argue that if 

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there were no Government, the 
horrendous chaotic violent 

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result would be a government 
Warlords. 

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Would take over and build armies
and Rule us all. 

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In other words, the worst case 
scenario. 

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That state is predict for 
anarchism is statism. 

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And that's pretty damn funny. 
I'm going to Advocate this bad 

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thing, a big powerful ruling 
class because otherwise we would

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end up with the thing. 
I'm advocating. 

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Status. 
Love to Proclaim that if a 

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certain Or ruling class 
collapsed and was overthrown or 

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just disappeared. 
It would create a power vacuum 

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and a new ruling class would 
magically appear actually, in 

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one way. 
They are quite right about that.

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But in another way they are dead
wrong. 

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The only reason power vacuums 
exists, is because most people 

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think there should be and has to
be a ruling class. 

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A supreme set of lawmakers a 
government. 

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If, for example, Washington. 
EC just fell into the Atlantic 

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today, a new government would 
regrow, but not because of magic

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or human nature or because the 
universe makes them appear. 

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But because people who believe 
in Authority will keep creating 

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new ruling classes. 
That's why I constantly 

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emphasize. 
The fact that the belief in 

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Authority, including all belief 
in government is the problem. 

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We never put a particular 
regime. 

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Is doing evil crap right now is 
never the actual problem. 

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The problem resides between 
several billion pairs of ears, 

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as long as most people believe 
that having rulers as legitimate

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and necessary. 
They will keep putting 

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narcissistic sociopaths on 
Thrones. 

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So, yes, as long as the general 
population is stuck in the 

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authoritarian mindset. 
Someone has to be in charge. 

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We need a leader. 
Then when one regime fails, 

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another will be built in its 
place often one even worse than 

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the one before. 
And yes. 

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This is why violent revolution 
is utterly pointless without 

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their first being a revolution 
of how people think. 

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However, once people outgrow the
Superstition of authority and 

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escaped, the statist 
indoctrination, they've been 

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programmed with there will be no
power vacuum to fill a society 

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of volunteers is not going to 
suddenly I'd that what they 

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really need is to be violently 
dominated by a new group of 

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politicians state has often 
talked about how some Tyrant or 

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Ward Lord. 
Would just take over while 

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completely missing the fact that
their own belief system is the 

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only reason anyone can take 
over. 

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They seem to believe in the 
existence of Hollywood villains 

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who are so diabolical that they 
can just make Power magically 

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appear. 
They don't seem to know that 

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every successful Tyrant has to 
dupe the general. 

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Public into singing him as a 
savior. 

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So that they gladly and eagerly 
give him control over their 

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lives and over everyone else's 
Mao. 

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Stalin Hitler. 
They were all cheered into Power

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by adoring masses, masses of you
guessed. 

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It statist spee people who 
believe in authority and 

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thought, government is what 
makes society and civilization 

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work. 
So in one sense, In a statist 

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warns of the power vacuum thing,
he is right while failing to 

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notice that he and his fellow 
status are, the only reason, his

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dire prediction holds any truth.
If the people don't perceive the

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new gang to have the right to 
rule, don't perceive it to be 

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Authority, then they don't cheer
for it. 

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They shoot at it and dies and 
that brings up the whole silly 

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warlord thing. 
If we didn't have government 

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protecting us Warlords, would 
take over. 

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Such an argument ignores, the 
fact that warlord saying street 

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gangs and the mafia two are 
almost always funded by black 

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markets created by government 
example, the illegal drug trade 

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without a ruling class. 
They wouldn't exist to begin 

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with. 
But the warlord's argument also 

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shows a profound ignorance of 
human nature at basically 

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implies that in the State of 
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The ability to rule doesn't 
depend upon the legitimacy of 

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those in power in the eyes of 
the people. 

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People in reality. 
It has everything to do with 

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that, especially in a place 
where 100 million people possess

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their own firearms. 
The idea of Warlords ruling by 

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brute force is just ridiculous. 
An example of private gun 

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ownership in the United States. 
Would you want to try to rule 

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those people by Brute Force? 
I wouldn't and not just because 

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I have moral principles and 
Simple. 

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I'd like to use is this imagine 
that you are an organized crime 

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boss and your goal is to extort 
a hundred million people of a 

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large chunk of what they earn 
every year. 

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You have 100,000 loyal 
underlings. 

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However, only 2000 of them are 
armed. 

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The rest paper pushers. 
Do you think you could 

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successfully robbed those people
when they outnumber and outgun 

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your Armed Forces? 
Fifty thousand to one? 

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Guess what the IRS does it, how 
most of their victims, imagine 

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the extortion to be legal and 
legitimate and necessary. 

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The victims feel an obligation 
to obey and pay tribute if 

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tomorrow, they all stopped 
feeling that obligation. 

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There would be no IRS by the end
of the day, that shows how much 

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perceptions determine power and 
how much political Authority 

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depends completely on the 
mentality of those. 

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Being controlled Larkin. 
Rose quotes, Steven Biko the 

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most potent weapon in the hands 
of the oppressor is the mind of 

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the oppressed Larkin. 
Rose continues. 

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In conclusion. 
There was only one gang with the

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ability to continually extort 
and control the American people.

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And that is the one that the 
American people imagined to be 

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Authority. 
In other words. 

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The one gang that can dominate 
us is already doing it. 

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And the only, Only reason it is 
able to do so is because of the 

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belief in Authority infecting 
the minds of the General Public.

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We already are dominated by evil
overlords. 

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They already have been taken. 
We already have been taken over 

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by a violent gang and mr. 
And mrs. 

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Status. 
You are the cause your belief 

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system is, what gives 
politicians, all their power. 

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So when you, why not volunteer 
us about how nasty gangs of 

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crooks might take over? 
Keep in mind. 

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They already did that. 
You are condoning, that, that 

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you are making that happen and 
that at your crappy belief 

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system is the only reason it 
continues to happen or is able 

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to happen at all. 
Way to go. 

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Thank you for watching Keith 
Knight. 

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Don't try it on anyone.