Live as if the state does not exist
What are they reading in Sweden?
Lev som om staten inte finns
http://www.mises.se/2014/02/19/lev-som-om-staten-inte-finns/
Google translator at http://translate.google.com/ Says the following:
Live as if the state does not exist
Author : Daniel West Published 2014-02-19 13:50
" If the right to vote could create change, they'd make it illegal . " - Emma Goldman
Of course there is nothing in it?
So many generations have come and gone since the democratic experiment started , and the only democracy has led to more centralization of power and more moral decay in society.
So do not vote.
Debate not.
Do not waste any energy on politics , because it only helps to maintain the smokescreen that the left-right scale is.
But , if you can not make a difference through political channels, what can you do to create a freer society?
Well, you can let your actions speak for itself.
The trick (which I unfortunately do not remember who I heard it from ) is to live as if the state does not exist.
What does that mean?
It means to reduce and eliminate all dependent on the welfare apparatus by :
- Take care of yourself and your own.
- Solve their own problems within the family and within the local community.
- Make sure you have food on the table or in the cellar , whether you lose your job or not , preferably by taking a vegetable garden and plant a few fruit trees.
- Follow their own moral codes rather than the state (often immoral ) laws.
- Create their own alternative means of payment as compensation for the state's counterfeit fiat currency .
- Changing services with a neighbor if possible instead of buying the services of others and thus give fuel to the tax system. Prioritize local community and voluntary cooperation especially state-sanctioned trade .
- Take responsibility for their own safety in the home and the area where you live (see also the book Where the production of security) through common sense, neighborhood watch and local militias.
- Lead their children's education , whether they are trapped in state school on the day or if you live in a country where homeschooling is legal.
- Planning for old age , avoid pulling on your debts , do not expect a state pension, and make sure you have productive natural systems in place that can provide you and future generations with food and shelter.
- Makes you independent of state-approved banks and central banks that enslave societies by creating money out of the air and then charge interest on the monopoly money they created .
Yes, like "Swedes" have lived for thousands of years.
For when the state can no longer feed on society and commerce life- force , it will fall off as the leech i .
But now most of us live in Sweden, and to live as if the state does not exist can be difficult for the Swedish government that steals 70 % of your income and exerts totalitarian control over society and especially over your children.
But ... what would happen if more and more people in Sweden completely ignored the welfare apparatus and began to solve their own problems within the family and within the local community?
What would happen if people did more and more independent of the state?
Because the state thrives on people rely on it so it is not far-fetched that it tooth and nail will try to counter the freedom these people create.
And when it does, so will its violent nature to come out in the daylight.
When the state abducts your child that you can give them a better education than the stupefying public school can do...
When the state is fighting you because you refuse to acknowledge its legitimacy or play with in their pyramid scheme called the welfare state ...
When the state with the help of the modern clergy , journalists , hunt and hang out individuals whose worldview and opinions violates the state-approved ...
When the state are dying a slow death for the Swedes no longer need it ...
When freedom is not far away.
Or what do you think?
In the comments we can see what sopme swedes are thinking:
Ludwig van Bethåven
Extremely good text . I agree with every word , except for the following two errors :
1. " Fiat currency " should be " fiat currency " . 2nd At a point is quoted " Swedish " . I do not understand the point of this . This particular detail disturbs me very much when the message of the rest of the text was so good.
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throat No
The point in question mentions the Swedes " for thousands of years ."
Why does it bother you " very much" that the author does not like the government propaganda ( in which literature represents stenålderskranier as " Old Swedish ", etc. ) claim that national formation existed for several millenniers time ?
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Daniel West
Maybe I should have developed why I quoted the "Swedes" .
It's like Michael and Throat No one says, I know that terms like "Swedes ", " Danes " , and so on has been and still is more a state tool for propaganda and control than it is something that has come from the bottom up .
See just how politicians today adapts "Swedishness " to suit their own agenda , eg immigration debate. Still a propaganda tool .
I am not versed in the history of Sweden in detail, but I can guess that "Swedes" as term arose after Gustav Vasa centralized power in Sweden in the 1500s . For thousands of years before the first " Swede " existed as our ancestors lived in these parts , so one can only wonder what they were .
I am a local patriot soul and believe you can be proud of its närbygd , its origins and the " Swedish " culture, but that indeed identify with the Swedish flag , the king or the state.
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to throat No by @ Daniel West
Dick Harrison writes, for instance in his rich book about the 1200s when the Swedish government , according to him was born " earl century " on page 687 :
"In 1100 , Sweden was not a kingdom . Not in the way a contemporary Swedish instinctively imagines a realm , that is, as a reasonably coherent territorial unit under joint management . Most people who lived here probably did not think they were Swedes. They were Geats , närkingar , Virds , hälsingar , Gotlanders or otherwise. Not Swedes. " Sweden " , as we know the state, had not been invented . "
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Ludwig van Bethåven
Found a case of Two-pass " right-left scale ." Now I'll stop looking wrong! ;)
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per Bylund
It is a very good idea that is well worth exploring further !
Harry Browne writes of a similar strategy for living " without " State of How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World ( a right basic book ) . It is also a fundamental principle of mutualism and agorister (particularly through the counter economics ) to " build the institutions of a free society from within the old ." And I wrote about something similar at Strike the Root 2005 : Saving the World Through Saving Yourself .
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Daniel West
Thanks for the introduction of some new concepts. Counter Economics , I am somewhat familiar with but agorism and mutualism was new to me.
What you wrote on Strike the Root was great. Henry David Thoreau was not stupid :
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. "
Speaking of which , you wrote : I'll be honest , I often find myself thinking that I'm going to liberate the world from evil, but also realize that I probably could spend every waking hour of my life on it without success , just to realize on his deathbed that I forgot about my own freedom and to live while I had the chance.
So to rid myself and family is priority one . Then comes the friends and neighbors and the local community. And do you get so far, I think the rest will take care of itself , for freedom has a tendency to draw people to him .
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per Bylund
Exactly! And the reason for that at all committed to freedom is hardly that you want the future to have a statue of one - the reason is that you want to BE free . So why waste time trying to liberate millions when it probably is not possible - and those you work to rid do not like it or even work against you . There is no rhyme or reason to argue this . But we are so schooled in collectivism that we automatically think so - even as hyper- individualists. It's hard to do away with feltänk that you have learned a lifetime and like everyone else maintains tooth and nail ...
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Patrick Sellman
It's an exhilarating article you've written and inspiring. The very fact that we are so indoctrinated into collective thinking begets easy desolation . How will humanity ever be able to step out of bondage and oppression ? To then hold on to freedom for those who want it are much more hopeful .
We are freedom lovers have all been amazed over the aggressive resistance we encounter when we advocate non- violence and freedom. Two such obvious things that people fought for the ages. It's easy to find them oemotsägbara .
Trälmentaliteten is inhamrad in the population. Only I have food on the table , roof over my head and at least a hope that someone will help me if I get into trouble so defended it tooth and nail . Independence and freedom are sacrificed as easy as pie to avoid taking responsibility over their own lives .
Now that we are still early in the year can you give some thought to that you work until October to the state , just over seven months to go. Fight on , piece together ! The next term is the powers agreed to trälperioden be extended. The question is rather how much?
The strategy chosen by some to push the issue of voluntary withdrawal from the state might not be so stupid. Freedom must also include the freedom to escape freedom. Let the thralls be slaves if they want.
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Bo Wennström
Slaves do not even know that they are in bondage and need someone who tells them what they want. Freedom and absolute freedom from disease none of us knows how it is, we have not experienced it yet .
PerKQ
A good text . With the internet it is easier than ever to get in touch with many people who are willing to perform while visiting and gentjänser free or at a low cost. An example is : http://jak.se/
I could see for myself that you registered on a site and then performed the services among themselves for a tenth of services for unregistered users .
It is not illegal to sell a service extremely cheap. The advantage is that the state then receives 1/10 part of a vanlgit transaction. It means that you have a tax rate of about 7% within the system.
Anna Gustin
Big visions of a future economic system that creates justice and be free from slavery. http://www.varldsbild.se/images/newsletter/newsJAN2014_deus-ex-machina.html
The world's monetary systems and economies in danger of collapse because only a few percent of all the money that is matched by real output . The rest is speculation. This book is about a new economic system called tidfaktorekonomi ( Tfe ) . Tfe means that a new value base is introduced into the economy, due to the time factor . Only when society's core values is no longer based on subjective arbitrariness can we avoid social injustice and chaos.
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Jonas Ek
Why replace one slavery to another ?
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Jonas Ek
And leisure is underrated :)
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Goran
We can see leisure as follows more or less is taken from reality.
In the housing association where I live , we have a contractor who cleans the stairwell. It costs each condominium member about 1,000 per year. Thus we may say that every member needs to work a day at work to fund the cleaning.
The alternative to this is that at one point a year performing each individual member is a cleaning of the stairs on their own , which takes about an hour.
A member would in other words be able to take time off work for a whole day and devote one hour of the day to clean up the stairwell and then be able to devote the rest day for something fun . In other words, acquired some leisure time .
However , people think it's better to work 8 hours extra each year to avoid having to 7 hours of extra leisure time.
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Bo Wennström
Absolute freedom can not be experienced by those who are not gifted with being in the " NEXT LOVE PERMANENTLY " - CAN NOT PULL LOOSE PIECES TYPE FREEDOM FROM WHOLE ORDER THAT FREEDOM TO EXIST
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Michael
Fine text , well written and with a beautiful vision . It puts good thoughts in mind. I think it's difficult to get others that have not already been thinking for a while , but there are a lot of flows that do not come from economics perspective and having draig similar conclusions.
I work in a place where money has bought most souls . But I'm thinking bilbränderna last spring. They stopped when it became weekend and a number of (presumably working ) guys got together and .. well .. put the state's monopoly of violence aside for a while. So there's some life left .
On the " Swedes" then perhaps, Daniel answer that but I can imagine it has to do with the Swedes that concept is linked to the state as a concept. You do not say Osmo : live or block pine : live or the like which may may have done before the creation of the State of Sweden .
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Conlon
Interesting thoughts. The problem is that when the state runs back entry clan society forward . The question is which one is preferable ...
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Jonas Ek
What is the difference?
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uno Hansson
What do you mean by clan society? Is it then something resembling panarki you mean ?
To each the government or non -governmental society he or she chooses ! - John Zube
http://www.mises.se/2010/09/25/panarkistiska-strategier/
The various " clans " within the territorial panarkin can not reasonably be viewed as anything but various derivatives to a completely libertarian market (where each association fully respects each individual's negative rights (including negative association ) .
Snow, ice and steam can not exist without water - it is derivative to water - the reverse is not possible.