Amazingly good introduction to a voluntary society.
If You Were King
Posted to Facebook! Nice simple animation. Not too complicated but might get some people thinking. It was a little repetative with the "you'll have to have your thugs do everything" argument, it could have delved into some other objections also, but still got the point acrossed, and the ending wrapped it up nicely. I hope Larken stops by one of the other Philadelphia area events again soon, he's always a character.
You used "amazing" twice.
Good video.
Love it! Love the sarcastic tone! Would have been nice if they had put a few strategic quotes from some of the great luminaries whose ideas are present here, but I'm sure those folks would be happy just to know these ideas are spreading around.
"Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice."
- Epilogue of Jonathan Gullible by Kenneth Schooland
"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? The organizers maintain that society, when left undirected, rushes headlong to its inevitable destruction because the instincts of the people are so perverse. The legislators claim to stop this suicidal course and to give it a saner direction. Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place them beyond and above mankind; if so, let them show their titles to this superiority.
"They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority."
- The Law, Frederic Bastiat
Roman tyrants ... often provided the city wards with feasts to cajole the rabble, always more readily tempted by the pleasure of eating than by anything else. The most intelligent and understanding amongst them would not have quit his soup bowl to recover the liberty of the Republic of Plato. Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, “Long live the King!” The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them. A man might one day be presented with a sesterce and gorge himself at the public feast, lauding Tiberius and Nero for handsome liberality, who on the morrow, would be forced to abandon his property to their avarice, his children to their lust, his very blood to the cruelty of these magnificent emperors, without offering any more resistance than a stone or a tree stump. The mob has always behaved in this way—eagerly open to bribes that cannot be honorably accepted, and dissolutely callous to degradation and insult that cannot be honorably endured.
- Politics of Obedience, Etienne de la Boetie
These are just off the top of my head, there are dozens of others.
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