Don't make government important to you

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for September 29, 2024)

Government has become too important in our daily lives. Not because it's actually important to our existence, but because it interferes with everything we do, and then threatens to hurt us if we resist its meddling.

A leaky roof or a crumbling foundation is important for the same reason.

I've had intoxicated acquaintances get in my face and hang all over me. I hated to be around them or to run into them. They were not a benefit to my life, but they made themselves important and hard to ignore because they were a problem.

I try to avoid contact with government and its representatives for exactly the same reason.

Yet, government is so much worse than any individual. Drunk friends don't imagine they have a right to be in your face or to control everything you do, 24 hours per day. Government representatives do.

I've seen lists of things-- things which violate no one in any way-- which were normal and legal one hundred years ago, but are now either illegal or licensed. "Licensed" means "illegal without paying government for the privilege of doing something you have a natural human right to do". It's a long list, and it's incomplete.

Government didn't suddenly get the right to forbid or ration these things; it stole these things from the people. From you. You've been robbed and probably didn't even realize it. We've become too complacent, and too willing to put up with it.

It's past time the people started taking these things back. It's time to reduce government's influence in our lives; to make it safe to ignore government's demands and the opinions of the political criminals who come together to form governments.

One way to free yourself is to realize a license from government is not the same as a credential. Credentials can be valid; a government license never is. If you learn a skill and get credentials from a trade group, saying you have earned their certification, I'm going to trust that you know what you're doing. A driver's license is proof that government licenses are meaningless where competence is concerned. It's merely a way for government to rob, control, and threaten you.

Don't ask government for permission, but don't ask it for help, either. Both make government important to you. Both erode your natural authority over your own life. This isn't something you want anyone to take from you.

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Random collection of thoughts

But not like the actor who portrayed Han.

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Government is a violation of bodily autonomy.

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Most websites are smugly Leftist. All their assumptions and starting points are far-Left, so their conclusions are predetermined. It diminishes their credibility. (I am unashamedly biased in favor of liberty.) Those which are Right-wing are just as ridiculous and frustrating, but I encounter so few of them that I don't get overloaded with their stupidity like I do with those on the Left (with the Right, it's generally individuals more than institutions). I grow to hate both (statist) sides more with each passing day. It makes me want to avoid being online- which is probably a good thing.

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I wish there were a way to make the Democrat Party suffer for the past several years of lies, tyranny, manipulation, censorship, and targeting political opponents without rewarding the Republican Party for being stupid statists, too. The Libertarian Party isn't the solution I wish it were. The best move is still:

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My respect for government and for those who work for government is at an all-time low. The longer I live-- the longer I have to put up with that nonsense-- the more the respect evaporates. It keeps dropping lower and lower. I can't lose respect for cops or politicians since I didn't have any to begin with. But the rest of them are part of the problem, too. Their existence contributes to the problem. Every day my willingness to accommodate them is less than the day before.

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"Gender" is the wrong word when talking about living things.
Sex is binary.
Humans can't change sex.
If, in the future, it becomes possible for humans to change sex, I am completely enthusiastic about that medical advance. Go for it.

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Mainstream programming loves to show guns as useless for defense. That’s called fiction.

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Everyone thinks the presidential candidate they prefer-- at least among the DemoCRAPublicans-- is obviously going to win. You can probably tell which political criminal they prefer by which one they see as the inevitable winner.
I honestly have no prediction whatsoever. I can see it going either way. Neither outcome will surprise me. Nor would a resulting collapse afterward.

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I don't want communism imposed on me.
I don't care if you form a communist enclave that lives peacefully with all its neighbors. Have at it. Just don't become a parasitic community stealing from those around you. Don't force your system on others. Let anyone who joins you opt out at any time if they decide your group isn't in their best interest. Get along with your neighbors and let them live as they see fit, too. In other words, don't make it political.
There's the rub.
I've never seen communists who can abide by this neighborly behavior. It's the same with all statism. Their "system" is so great they'll either force you to join or they'll kill you.
Politics makes ideas toxic.

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Also, I’m insanely angry over the death of a squirrel. And at those responsible. This is where believing in government gets you.

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Finally, any SHTF event I prepare for, such as whatever could happen in the next week or so after the election, never happens. Probably because I’m as ready for it as possible. So, if nothing major happens, you’re welcome.

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