Outrage vs. Action

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Outrage runs rampant in political discourse, but what is the proposed remedy? Obedience to political power, and more political power? Sending law enforcement to impose your preferred policies? Bloating bureaucracy even more? No, thanks. Politics is the disease masquerading as its own cure. Politics is nothing more than a sophisticated zero sum game within a false choice fallacy. It can't be reformed. It must be undermined.

Undermining such ideas requires considerable wisdom, though. Misguided protests drive people to embrace the State even more. Violent revolutions tend to give power to a new cabal of violent officials. We need to subvert the system, sabotage its efforts, and expose its absurdity and violence to the masses. We need to let them see how its foundation is antithetical to its advertised purpose. We need to encourage people to realize that it is unnecessary.

The real problem with government goes far beyond the symptoms of death and destruction. It persists nor because people are unaware of its evils, because people believe it is a necessary evil. Attacking this fictitious necessity is the best option. It is relatively easy to protest in the streets. It looks like doing something. It vents outrage. What it doesn't do is undermine the corrupt system. All "concessions" to protesters by governments are merely to reinforce obedience to their system.

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By larkenrose@larkenrose on Facebook

Instead of begging for permission, we need to just exercise our liberty. I don't necessarily mean to suggest blatantly baiting cops into arresting you, unless that is your intent. I mean sidestepping and evading bad laws. Existence as a free individual is resistance in and of itself, and the more people who do this, the less legitimate government looks.

Don't ask for liberty to be legalized, question the legitimacy of legality as a rational and moral concept in the first place. That is the real revolution.