'I,Pencil', 'The Law', and 'Economics in One lesson' I have for many decades considered the acronym CIA to be Corporate Insurgency Agency as nearly everything the do and have done From the murder of JFK to every conflict has been to further the Fascist control of the banks and corporations. Even if by some miracle we could end the US empire of lies. I am quite sure the very lucrative secret societies that garner most of the power would reappear, it's human nature. Rise of the Ruthless psychopaths and sociopaths.
I have an opening for Grand High Researcher and Vizir. Great pay package (nothing) and travel perks (nowhere). Let me know if you're interested.
Funny you should mention the CIA. It was the OSS during WW2, and after the war, it was flooded with "ex" Nazis, while the agency subsumed Gen. Gehlen's Gladio teams and intelligence network. The CIA and NASA were both created out of the ashes of the Third Reich, and we are essentially living in the Fourth Reich, which explains all the German and East European surnames that keep popping up in NGOs and global dominance organizations.
China's birth rate is falling off a cliff, too. Too late for me, though I did homeschool, not vaccinate and otherwise didn't play the game. I think if 20% of the world decided to form an alt-economy outside their system, and/or everyone decided to stop paying taxes, it would go a long way toward yanking the chair out from under the Bumbledicks.
Rufus: That's a big "If". I'm currently reading "Diary of a Psychosis" by Tom Woods about the Covid Panic. It's hard to relive 2020 and the following years of Covid Madness.
To stop paying taxes is to risk ending up like Irwin Schiff, dying of cancer in a prison hospital chained to a bed.
As I noted, most people would rather give up and learn to live in the forest. All the anger and ire crated by the Damnpanic seems to have abated, and folks have just gone on their merry way, busy mapping the new forest and figuring out how to survive in it. Funny thing about human psychology, and something the Bumbledicks count on, is when you take the burr out from under the saddle, the horse doesn't mind carrying the weight after that. As for not paying taxes, you'd need at least 30% of the population to swear a blood oath to do it together and it would break the system. Most folds, however, learn to be ridden.
Rufus: I agree. History is full of fallen City States and Empires that were abandoned by the people who then became wanderers.
In the USA, most people don't pay Income Tax. They get tax credits (welfare) so I think it would be impossible to get 30% of people to quit paying the Income Tax, Sales Tax, or property taxes. The rich find ways around the taxes.
The Empire and City States of today will collapse and people will wander again.
You are correct, of course. There's a solution to every problem, but often there's pain involved somewhere in it. Most people will choose low-level decil-you-know pain, than take a chance on something better, with a lot of pain up front, but long-term benefits. We might call it Bird-in-Hand Syndrome. A major problem right now is that there are no more frontiers, where the bold and the brave can escape the madness. The only way out now is up, but that's been a long slow process.
Rufus: But there are new frontiers. The USA government and the State governments own huge portions of the western USA. All of that land could be settled as a new frontier. But of course, the STATE won't sell it. Maybe they are using the land as collateral on the government debt.
“I’d buy that for a dollar!”
It's been my lifelong ambition to own a 6000 SUX. On the other hand, I've been using SPF 5000 sunscreen since I was a kid.
A most excellent explanation. For those still not convinced Here are some very good sources of information;
https://mises.org/library. https://mises.org/free-market/problem-fascism. https://store.fee.org/ .
'I,Pencil', 'The Law', and 'Economics in One lesson' I have for many decades considered the acronym CIA to be Corporate Insurgency Agency as nearly everything the do and have done From the murder of JFK to every conflict has been to further the Fascist control of the banks and corporations. Even if by some miracle we could end the US empire of lies. I am quite sure the very lucrative secret societies that garner most of the power would reappear, it's human nature. Rise of the Ruthless psychopaths and sociopaths.
I have an opening for Grand High Researcher and Vizir. Great pay package (nothing) and travel perks (nowhere). Let me know if you're interested.
Funny you should mention the CIA. It was the OSS during WW2, and after the war, it was flooded with "ex" Nazis, while the agency subsumed Gen. Gehlen's Gladio teams and intelligence network. The CIA and NASA were both created out of the ashes of the Third Reich, and we are essentially living in the Fourth Reich, which explains all the German and East European surnames that keep popping up in NGOs and global dominance organizations.
Rufus: "How do we stop it?"
Italy had the fewest births last year in the modern age. Japan's births are very low, too.
Opt out. Don't reproduce.
So far, the State can't make it's own slaves though the Big Swinging Dicks are working hard on a solution to that problem.
China's birth rate is falling off a cliff, too. Too late for me, though I did homeschool, not vaccinate and otherwise didn't play the game. I think if 20% of the world decided to form an alt-economy outside their system, and/or everyone decided to stop paying taxes, it would go a long way toward yanking the chair out from under the Bumbledicks.
Rufus: That's a big "If". I'm currently reading "Diary of a Psychosis" by Tom Woods about the Covid Panic. It's hard to relive 2020 and the following years of Covid Madness.
To stop paying taxes is to risk ending up like Irwin Schiff, dying of cancer in a prison hospital chained to a bed.
As I noted, most people would rather give up and learn to live in the forest. All the anger and ire crated by the Damnpanic seems to have abated, and folks have just gone on their merry way, busy mapping the new forest and figuring out how to survive in it. Funny thing about human psychology, and something the Bumbledicks count on, is when you take the burr out from under the saddle, the horse doesn't mind carrying the weight after that. As for not paying taxes, you'd need at least 30% of the population to swear a blood oath to do it together and it would break the system. Most folds, however, learn to be ridden.
Rufus: I agree. History is full of fallen City States and Empires that were abandoned by the people who then became wanderers.
In the USA, most people don't pay Income Tax. They get tax credits (welfare) so I think it would be impossible to get 30% of people to quit paying the Income Tax, Sales Tax, or property taxes. The rich find ways around the taxes.
The Empire and City States of today will collapse and people will wander again.
You are correct, of course. There's a solution to every problem, but often there's pain involved somewhere in it. Most people will choose low-level decil-you-know pain, than take a chance on something better, with a lot of pain up front, but long-term benefits. We might call it Bird-in-Hand Syndrome. A major problem right now is that there are no more frontiers, where the bold and the brave can escape the madness. The only way out now is up, but that's been a long slow process.
Rufus: But there are new frontiers. The USA government and the State governments own huge portions of the western USA. All of that land could be settled as a new frontier. But of course, the STATE won't sell it. Maybe they are using the land as collateral on the government debt.