I understand several weeks have passed since my last post, but I have been quite busy as I'm in college, preparing my first poetry book for publication, and slowly teaching myself Java for a blockchain idea I have related to ebooks. This piece you're about to read is what I consider dangerous thoughts as I wrote this over a year ago and was too afraid to post it on Liberty.me (I'll write a post later to clarify why). I realize most people don't know who I am and don't mind reading my literature. Anyways, I'm finally ready to release this specific piece for everyone with an internet connection to examine. Enjoy.
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As the rampant statism throughout the world continues without true challenge, I shall conduct a thought experiment of how our daily life experiences may be different. An assessment to obtain valuable information what spontaneous order may provide.
1.) What if corporate lobbying for favors from government bureaucrats ceased altogether? What if businesses both large and small participated upon an equal playing field where regulations were guided by the consumers, not politicians, and incentives to succeed were guided by individual actions? What if investments to expand commerce were provided by interested individuals through venture capital and crowdfunding instead of government loans? What if free market capitalism existed instead of a quasi-nationalized socialist system or a planned economy?
2.) What if political parties never existed? What if candidates running for available positions in federal, state, and local governments ran as Independents rather than as Republicans or Democrats? What if candidates never lied about their political intentions and received little to no monetary reward for their service? What if candidates stopped raising millions if not billions of dollars to occupy a position in government at a net loss?
3.) What if technological and scientific achievement was never slowed by unnecessary regulations? What if promising medical treatments were never patented nor required years of testing beyond the time required to insure the drug was safe? What if product testing was conducted by innovative companies rather than government agencies with bloated budgets? What if government backed, private sector monopolies were allowed to fail?
4.) What if we never hated people we never met? What if we first understood cultures these individuals unconsciously participated in? What if we actually conversed with people halfway around the Earth and conducted trade relations rather than holding them at gunpoint? What if everyone, no matter their location upon our pale blue dot, realized deep down all humans are similar because of DNA?
5.) What if parents never spanked their children? What if parents acted as mentors to the younger generation and not as figures of authority? What if the non-aggression principle was taught to all children at an early age and all adults actually practiced such moral wisdom? What if we never eliminated children's imaginations through coercive, doubtful means?
6.) What if there were no central banks? What if politicians directing endless global warfare disguised as promoting freedom and democracy suddenly found no fiat money to fund them? What if wise saving rather than mindless spending upon goods and services not directly associated with the overall being of basic sustainment was the norm? What if saving money for productive purposes was not penalized by an uncontrollable inflation tax? What if currency was sound, competitive, and followed a gold standard?
7.) What if all of nature was ‘legal?’ What if we allowed compulsive, depressed drug users access to doctors and counselors to assist them in their darkest hours instead of throwing them in a cage? What if cannabis was commercialized to access the plant’s benefits of food, fiber, medicine, fuel, building materials, and other uses? What if we ended the destructive, expensive war on drugs?
8.) What if there were no wars? What if those who support unnecessary aggressions paid for them instead of through taxpayer money? What if wars were monetary losses instead of profit makers for individuals who create them? What if peace and prosperity existed throughout the world to benefit ALL of humanity?
9.) What if there were no religions? What if everyone learned moral values through life experience rather than through verbal and physical threats of eternal suffering? What if individuals NEVER scapegoated their wrongful actions upon celestial deities in order to justify them? What if people realized asking questions based upon logic, reason, and empiricism are normal and beliefs derived from tradition, authority, and miscellaneous dogmas are means to enslave?
10.) What if we never paid unreasonable expenses known as taxes? What if we instead used the taxed funds upon expanding our businesses, directly assisting the poor, and outright save it ourselves? What if we never wasted precious time to calculate the financial amount “owed” to the government? What if everyone realized taxation IS theft?
11.) What if individuals claimed responsibility for their actions and self-ownership of their autonomies? What if everyone looked internally to solve problems rather than government bureaucrats? What if humanity realized natural rights has already solved most, if not all of the social discussions upon LGBT rights, abortion, and other issues without the necessity of statist court systems? What if nobody believed in collectives which harm and suppress an individual’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
Explain to me, why cannot humanity experience such an utopian livelihood? How exactly does the murder of thousands if not millions over disputes derived from natural resources, cultural beliefs, and outright hatred help the world improve? The seven plus billion people must cease all destructive division amongst themselves if we are to advance towards a brighter future. Now is the prime opportunity to construct a better world where everyone has equal right to improve themselves through individual and cooperative means. Peace, love, and prosperity through anarchy. Rules without rulers.
Hi, @joelhovell!
Thanks for taking time to post today. I spotted you on the "new" list.
I see we have some things in common, and so I'm following you now - not because I agree with everything you've said here, but because I'm sure I can learn some things from you.
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Thanks man, I'm glad you like this piece.