The statist system is based on utopian thinking ?
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"We are told that a strong central government is necessary because, human nature being what it is, the public needs to be protected from evil miscreants. We are then asked to assume that these same evil miscreants will not do everything they can to gain control of the state apparatus. This is contrary to all theory and experience and is thus utopian. Logic tells us that evil people will gravitate to positions of state power so they can lie, cheat, steal, and murder with the impunity granted by their legal monopoly.12 Experience tells us that liars, cheats, thieves, and murderers, such as Hitler, Stalin, Nixon and Clinton have in fact gravitated to politics to fulfill their foul agendas.
Statists assure us that irresponsible people will act responsibly. That is, state officials, who are given power over us, and who therefore are not responsible to us, will act responsibly. All logic and experience tell us this is false, and thus utopian. Statists tell us that no one should be the judge of his own cause because injustice would result, but that the state may be the judge of its own cause because its judges will ensure that justice is done. We know, however, that systems which contain internal contradictions, cannot exist and are thus utopian in nature. "
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http//www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski72.html
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Four or five hundred years of statecraft and indoctrination have made the viability of self-government unthinkable to the masses. The popular mind laughs at the prospect of self-government, but is absolutely certain that the modern state, which pointlessly killed 200 million people in the last century,43 and is off to a fast start in this one, can guarantee peace and harmony. Brainwashed, anyone?
Though self-government has yet to prove itself in action, what cannot be denied is that it is the only political system which leaves the laboratory of the mind without incorporating aggressive violence into its very structure. In contrast, the state system is aggressively violent in both theory and reality, producing a virtually endless stream of lurid and grotesquely brutal episodes in its career, murdering hundreds of millions of people it was allegedly designed to protect, setting back human progress centuries, and destroying modern man?s peace of mind in ways he may never fully understand. In today?s world, in large part the product of the rise of democratic states, tranquility is a state of mind best achieved by the ingestion of tranquilizers.
quoted from the same source(the article is fabulous!)
best wishes
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Peace Zlatan,
I personally think the current governments flaws are becoming clear and CHANGE is needed, a better system need to be implemented and I am sure there are better systems.
But obviously the people aren't bothered, the people need to want a change for change to come. Democracy is the best so far but I think there is better.
Nural