"The crowd is untruth"

"The King alone cannot rule; he must have a sizable group of followers who enjoy the prerequisites of rule, for example, the members of the State apparatus, such as the full-time bureaucracy or the established nobility. "...For [the rulers'] essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. "Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.' For the masses of men do not create their own ideas, or indeed think through these ideas independently; they follow passively the ideas adopted and disseminated by the body of intellectuals. "The intellectuals are, therefore, the 'opinion-molders' in society. And since it is precisely a molding of opinion that the State most desperately needs, the basis for age-old alliance between the State and the intellectuals becomes clear." https://mises.org/online-book/anatomy-state/how-state-preserves-itself

(Customary + common) law > Statutory law

"To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." • Pierre Joseph-Proudhon, 1848

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Idyllic lake vibes

"All the great governments of the world—those now existing, as well as those that have passed away—have been of this character. They have been mere bands of robbers, who have associated for purposes of plunder, conquest, and the enslavement of their fellow men. And their laws, as they have called them, have been only such agreements as they have found it necessary to enter into, in order to maintain their organizations, and act together in plundering and enslaving others, and in securing to each his agreed share of the spoils." Lysander Spooner, "Natural Law; or the Science of Justice" (1882)

No. 71: Lysander Spooner,

The OLL Reader: An Anthology of the Best of the OLL No. 71: Lysander Spooner,

"The universe is cruel and full of darkness, and your will and determination are the only barrier between your loved ones and it's crushing apathy and brutality. You have no right to die, not here and not now."

Anti-voting anarchists rn: 😂 😂 😘

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Been following Scott's work for 20+ years and I think this is probably the best interview he's ever done on the US empire's real MENA policy. Pure, dense signal. Good to see him finally get some of the recognition he deserves. 🖤✌️

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Keanu playing The Cure? Pump that shit staight into my veins

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The number of body bags the anti-war crowd is producing from all these debates is peak irony

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