Re: Article: Europe's pain is coming America's way
Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 9:50 pm
There will not always be thugs, thieves, and slave drivers. Generations from now, human beings will look back on our times and wonder how we stayed sane in a nightmare of violence, propaganda, and dissociation. Much the same way as we would look back on the Middle Ages.
Another poster has written that a society, without coercion, would require an educated populace. That's skirting close to the truth, but that's not it. What a peaceful society requires is undamaged adults, from undamaged children.
Today's humans treat their children like slaves. They beat, humiliate, and terrorize them, and refer to it euphemistically as "spanking" or "discipline." They send them to indoctrination camps where they swear allegiance to the state, and are fed a ridiculous retelling of history, and they call this "education."
Proverbially, the legs of the young are broken, and then at eighteen they are expected to stand on these broken legs. What kind of man or woman stands then? The kind who can live on his own, unafraid of a self-guided life, without coercion? Or the kind who lives in a half-adulthood, always needing something half forgotten. The father and mother of the state, stand-in for the absent parents.
The stateless society is the end, the last stage in our movement. It's when the ancient world is finally gone. To get to the end, though, we start at the beginning. And the beginning of the life of society, is the beginning of the life of the individual.
Another poster has written that a society, without coercion, would require an educated populace. That's skirting close to the truth, but that's not it. What a peaceful society requires is undamaged adults, from undamaged children.
Today's humans treat their children like slaves. They beat, humiliate, and terrorize them, and refer to it euphemistically as "spanking" or "discipline." They send them to indoctrination camps where they swear allegiance to the state, and are fed a ridiculous retelling of history, and they call this "education."
Proverbially, the legs of the young are broken, and then at eighteen they are expected to stand on these broken legs. What kind of man or woman stands then? The kind who can live on his own, unafraid of a self-guided life, without coercion? Or the kind who lives in a half-adulthood, always needing something half forgotten. The father and mother of the state, stand-in for the absent parents.
The stateless society is the end, the last stage in our movement. It's when the ancient world is finally gone. To get to the end, though, we start at the beginning. And the beginning of the life of society, is the beginning of the life of the individual.