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Midsommarläsning
Göran Högberg har samlat några trevliga citat med ämnet "freedom".

GLAD MIDSOMMAR! 
Vädret skall bli bättre under de kommande tio dagarna!

NÅGRA TREVLIGA CITAT PÅ ÄMNET ”FREEDOM”  (Pete Sisco)
Freedom, as defined, cannot be achieved through coercion.

Irresponsible or self-indulgent behavior will always increase in an environment where someone else has to pay the financial price as successful as the American experiment is, it has gradually evolved into a system of rule that one could argue is more oppressive than the minuscule taxes and regulation imposed by King George III.

Even the most fiercely independent among us must come into contact with other people and trade something of value we create, whether physical property or intellectual property, for something of value other people create. This is literally what keeps us alive.

This condition of true Freedom and non-coercion can exist, even in a world where no two individuals are the same or have the same beliefs, aspirations or values. In fact, any social system that does not respect those various, and often opposing, conditions is doomed to eventual failure.

Coercion means unwanted external control of our property. Coercion means non-Freedom.

Humankind as a species can never obtain Freedom if it uses social technology that relies upon coercion. Freedom and coercion are mutually incompatible.

Without the barriers of political coercion, the aspirations of individuals and groups of individuals from the full spectrum of humanity can organize and conduct their lives in the precise manner that suits their personal beliefs. In our current social system people are encouraged to vote in secret to interfere with the property of others.  This is called being a responsible citizen voter. It is in truth naked aggression against innocent parties

There is widespread belief that “somebody has to make the rules”, and historically that “somebody” has been an autocratic, coercive power that told people how they must live and backed up this authority with force. Some people have grown comfortable with that. Some practically worship it.

No one benefits from war except the coercer who prevails and his gain is always offset by orders of magnitude by the losses of other individuals. When those individuals have a say in the matter, as they do in a Contractual Republic, there can be no warfare.

The central problem with our current social system is that State coercion is available to any group that can organize itself adequately to appeal to politician.

The real problem with all religious difference of opinion arises only when someone in the room has a gun and the willingness to force his beliefs on others.

Coercive social systems always break down over time. It might take centuries for a Roman Empire, or just a few years for a Third Reich, but a system reliant on force and fraud always requires increasing levels of both until reality completely exposes the lies being told.

People in our society are addicted to interfering with property. In the United States this can take on a military zeal where millions of voters favor invading other countries for the benefit of “American interests” which is simply a euphemism for “financial reasons”.

People are conditioned to believe that some strange alchemy takes place wherein a majority vote transforms an action into something moral.

History shows that State coercion always escalates to the point of permeating every aspect of people’s lives. Is there any property or activity today not governed by a coercive law?

In the absence of the friction of coercion acting on creative individuals, innovation and productivity can flourish. Maximum human Freedom releases maximum human happiness and creativity into a global marketplace.

In an environment of maximum personal responsibility there is no impulse to war.

As long as “Freedom” is never defined every State can proudly claim it acts to serve Freedom. Every bomb dropped, every surveillance camera installed, every body cavity searched, every present and future dollar confiscated, every prisoner of conscience confined, every suspect tortured can all be in the service of undefined Freedom.

First, of course, we define the word Freedom: the social condition of everyone being in total control of their own property. Once we define Freedom we can see that universal property protection is the path to universal Freedom. And who would oppose such protection? Only those people wanting to benefit from plundering others!

The creation of global human Freedom is, by definition, a wholly peaceful revolution that does not require firing a shot. No dictator must be overthrown, no permission need be asked.

Opposing the State is a waste of time, money and lives and is always met with guns and bloodshed. The task is to build something better. The Wright Brothers did not spend their efforts sinking ships and derailing trains. They simply and peacefully built something superior and let the market decide its preference.

Freedom is not something to “fight for” any more than you can fight for the creation of a light bulb or a space station. Soldiers don’t build Freedom and they don’t fight for it. Soldiers kill people for one State and their victims die for another State. None of the players in that game lives in a condition of Freedom.

To build Freedom we must become disenthralled with using coercion.

As individuals we can organize ourselves, by mutual contract, into thousands of peaceful, productive societies that mutually support the principle of property protection and non-coercion.

ÖNSKAR EN TREVLIG MIDSOMMARHELG!

Detta är en personlig betraktelse. Åsikter som uttrycks är krönikörens egna.

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