Gandhi was right.
"The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
(https://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap26.htm?fbclid=IwAR2RpTTZLN-qK22RndQgGVrQA0OQb6L_bylDirKUKvhn-Dc_DyqaPfxBQIo and/or https://books.google.com/books?id=JZzXv2JOZUMC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=The+State+represents+violence+in+a+concentrated+and+organized+form.%22&source=bl&ots=YnxnX9Rfx7&sig=ACfU3U1uUlmIUNS07wJbs5evCbQtcTQ4xQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi35JbDnsTiAhUKCKwKHVUMAxMQ6AEwCXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=The%20State%20represents%20violence%20in%20a%20concentrated%20and%20organized%20form.%22&f=false)
Special thanks to Larken Rose for many of the ideas expressed in this video. (https://www.youtube.com/user/LarkenRose)
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Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.
Especially half-liberate state like mine.
Today, while reluctantly opening and eating canned food, I remembered there was canned food in WWI. Then I thought about wheat and the roman empire, and how portable food seems to still be an important aspect of conquest. Acted as just a reminder that the world we live in is largely shaped by violence.
Yeah, government is violence. They use fear, theft, slander, and a myriad of other terribly immoral tactics, but without violence their power would dissolve.
If you don't bend to the rules, you will eventually be met with violence. People like to pretend there's morality involved in the decision making, to justify the violence, but there's not.
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