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Povestea înrobirii tale (RO) | The Story of Your Enslavement

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This is the story of your enslavement; how it came to be, and you can finally be free.


Like all animals, human beings want to dominate and exploit the resources around them.


At first, we mostly hunted and fished and ate off the land - but then 

something magical and terrible happened to our minds.

We became, alone among the animals, afraid of death, and of future loss.


And this was the start of a great tragedy, and an even greater possibility...


You see, when we became afraid of death, of injury, and imprisonment, 

we became controllable -- 

and so valuable -- in a way that no other resource could ever be.


The greatest resource for any human being to control is not natural resources, 

or tools, or animals or land -- but other human beings.

You can frighten an animal, because animals are afraid of pain in the moment, but you 

cannot frighten an animal with a loss of liberty, or with torture or imprisonment in the future, 

because animals have very little sense of tomorrow.

You cannot threaten a cow with torture, or a sheep with death. 

You cannot swing a sword at a tree and scream at it to produce more fruit, 

or hold a burning torch to a field and demand more wheat.

You cannot get more eggs by threatening a hen - but you can get a man 

to give you his eggs by threatening him.

Human farming has been the most profitable -- and destructive -- 

occupation throughout history, and it is now reaching its destructive climax.

Human society cannot be rationally understood until it is seen for what it is: 

a series of farms where human farmers own human livestock. 

Some people get confused because governments 

provide healthcare and water and education and roads, 

and thus imagine that there is some benevolence at work.


Nothing could be further from reality.


Farmers provide healthcare and irrigation and training to their livestock.


Some people get confused because we are allowed certain liberties, and thus imagine 

that our government protects our freedoms.

But farmers plant their crops a certain distance apart to increase their yields -- and will allow 

certain animals larger stalls or fields if it means they will produce more meat and milk.

In your country, your tax farm, your farmer grants you certain freedoms not because he cares 

about your liberties, but because he wants to increase his profits.


Are you beginning to see the nature of the cage you were born into?


There have been four major phases of human farming.


The first phase, in ancient Egypt, was direct and brutal human compulsion. 

Human bodies were controlled, but the creative productivity of the human mind 

remained outside the reach of the whip and the brand and the shackles. 

Slaves remained woefully under-productive and required enormous resources 

to control.

The second phase was the Roman model, wherein slaves were granted 

some capacity for freedom, ingenuity and creativity, which raised their productivity. 

This increased the wealth of Rome, and thus 

the tax income of the Roman government - and with this additional wealth, 

Rome became an empire, 

destroying the economic freedoms that fed its power, and collapsed.

I'm sure that this does not seem entirely unfamiliar.


After the collapse of Rome, the feudal model introduced the concept of livestock 

ownership and taxation. Instead of being directly owned, peasants farmed land 

that they could retain 

as long as they paid off the local warlords. This model broke down due to the 

continual subdivision of productive land, and was destroyed during the 

Enclosure movement, when land was consolidated, and 

hundreds of thousands of peasants were kicked off their ancestral lands, 

because new farming techniques made 

larger farms more productive with fewer people.

The increased productivity of the late Middle Ages created the excess food required 

for the expansion of towns and cities, which in turn gave rise 

to the modern Democratic model of human ownership.

As displaced peasants flooded into the cities, a huge stock of cheap human capital 

became available to the rising industrialists - and the ruling class of human farmers 

quickly realized that they could make more money by letting their livestock 

choose their own occupations.

Under the Democratic model, direct slave ownership has been replaced 

by the Mafia model.  The Mafia rarely owns businesses directly, but rather sends 

thugs around once a month to steal from the business "owners."

You are now allowed to choose your own occupation, which raises your productivity - 

and thus the taxes you can pay to your masters.

Your few freedoms are preserved because they are profitable to your owners.


The great challenge of the Democratic model is that increases in wealth and freedom 

threaten the farmers.  The ruling classes initially profit from a relatively free market 

in capital and labor, but as their livestock become more used to their freedoms and 

growing wealth, they begin to question why they need rulers at all.

Ah well. Nobody ever said that human farming was easy.


Keeping the tax livestock securely in the compounds of the ruling classes 

is a three phase process.


The first is to indoctrinate the young through government "education." 

As the wealth of democratic countries grew, government schools were universally 

inflicted in order to control the thoughts and souls of the livestock.

The second is to turn citizens against each other through 

the creation of dependent livestock.


It is very difficult to rule human beings directly through force -- 

and where it can be achieved, it remains cripplingly under-productive, 

as can be seen in North Korea.  Humans do not breed well 

or produce efficiently in direct captivity. 

If human beings believe that they are free, then they will produce much more 

for their farmers. The best way to maintain this illusion of freedom is to put some 

of the livestock on the payroll of the farmer. Those cows that become dependent 

on the existing hierarchy will then attack any other cows who point out the violence, 

hypocrisy and immorality of human ownership.

Freedom is slavery, and slavery is freedom.


If you can get the cows to attack each other whenever anybody brings up the reality 

of their situation, then you don't have to spend nearly as much controlling them directly.

Those cows who become dependent upon the stolen largess of the farmer 

will violently oppose any questioning of the virtue of human ownership -- and the 

intellectual and artistic classes, always and forever dependent 

upon the farmers -- will say, to anyone who demands freedom from ownership: 

"You will harm your fellow cows."

The livestock are kept enclosed by shifting the moral responsibility 

for the destructiveness of a violent system to those who demand real freedom.

The third phase is to invent continual external threats, so that the frightened 

livestock cling to the "protection" of the farmers.

This system of human farming is now nearing its end.


The terrible tragedy of the modern American system has occurred 

not in spite of, but because of past economic freedoms.

The massive increases in American wealth throughout the 19th century 

resulted from economic freedom -- and it was this very increase in wealth 

that fed the size and power of the state.

Whenever the livestock become exponentially more productive, you get 

a corresponding increase in the number of farmers and their dependents.

The growth of the state is always proportional to the preceding 

economic freedoms.


Economic freedoms create wealth, and the wealth attracts more thieves 

and political parasites, whose greed then destroys the economic freedoms.

In other words, freedom metastasizes the cancer of the state.


The government that starts off the smallest will always end up the largest.


This is why there can be no viable and sustainable alternative 

to a truly free and peaceful society.



A society without political rulers, without human ownership, 

without the violence of taxation and statism...

To be truly free is both very easy, and very hard.

We avoid the horror of our enslavement because it is painful to see it directly.



We dance around the violence of our dying system 

because we fear the attacks of our fellow livestock.

But we can only be kept in the cages we refuse to see.


Wake up...



To see the farm is to leave it.

Only published comments... Apr 15 2010, 10:15 PM by Stefan Molyneux

Filed under: libertarian, agorism, statism, slavery, "federal reserve", "tax farming", matrix, pacifism

Mellow gets 16 months - opinion piece by Nobody

Mellow gets 16 months

Scranton Political Times -> Main Message Board -> Mellow gets 16 months

Nobody (Guru) 2012-12-02 14:03:06 RE: Mellow gets 16 months Booger Brown wrote: "In case you didn't notice by the 200 letters and the big shots who still think Mellow was a "great guy who brought a lot of money to the area..." In my opinion, those 200 letters by 200 people represent 200 people who placed gain over morals- the end apparently justifes the means. That, in itself, is a sad comment on the moral standards set by those who are in a position to do more. As I often do, I quote the letter of George Baer, representing the coal barrons in the Anthracite strike of 1902- The letter captures the fiber of the people who have a hold on this area and it goes a long way to explain why they believe they must rule. I firmly believe People like Mellow believe their right to their positions come directly from their God and anything they do is in his name- and therefor above mere mortal laws. "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for -- not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men of property to whom God has given control of the property rights of the country, and upon the successful management of which so much depends." Somewhere within this twisted morality is the fact that "the rights and interests of the laboring man" are not "protected and cared for"- but rather abrogated in favor of the rights and interests of those "Christian men of property." Let me add one thought that is a slap in the face to every taxpayer- Mellow did not bring one cent to the area that was not taxpayer dollars. Politics is done by trading support of another's project for support of yours. In other words, the project that uses resourses most appropriately may not be funded but a project that has no value can be fully funded, because of a handshake. That is the morality that we celebrate by naming bridges and buildings after these weasels. I am frustrated when a public official is credited for "saving" businesses, "creating" jobs or "solving problems" with tax money. It's our money, not his. Except for the money he gained from renting himself space from the building he owned. That's all his now. ________________ "When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out." -Pastor Martin Niemöller http://nobodyscorner.blogspot.com

by:  Nobody@ http://ScrantonPoliticalTimes.com

For the entire file of letters in PDF form, one may download by clicking here. (long link @ https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73419741/Mellow_1212.pdf )  Size: 8.62 MB