"Independence means we have an awesome military!" Huh?
That was an actual quote I heard on the radio during "Independence" day. No wonder so few people understand freedom, liberty, and independence; they are looking in the wrong places for the wrong things. It is very disheartening to hear such vacuous statements as the above quote. How can people work for liberty, or even value it, if they don't have the foggiest clue what it is? How can we educate them when they don't want to hear?
Unless and until the military surrounds DC and cordons it off to keep the tyranny contained, the military has nothing whatsoever to do with promoting "liberty".
"Independence" means you are not dependent. There is no such thing as complete independence since all living beings are dependent on the sun and/or chemicals of some sort, and other life (for us "higher" forms). We should not be dependent on unnecessary things, though. As humans we should never be dependent on theft and coercion, which is all government consists of. For humans "independence" means that we are not a burden on others and do not live as a parasite. It means that we only are part of voluntary associations and do not force ourselves and our preferences on others. Government worship is the polar opposite of "Independence". To support government is to spit on liberty and independence.
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Isn't the American Independence day all about celebrating how a bunch of white guys escaped statist brutality in Europe only to do that to blacks, women, and Indians over here? It's always been ironic to me.
ReplyDeleteYou could also sum up independence with the philosophy of anarcho-capitalism, which is voluntary association. The state and those who are of that mindset do not approve of voluntary associations, so they indoctrinate people against it. Just think of the kind of scary indoctrination that person on the radio had to go through before producing profoundly evil statements like that!