{"id":26216,"date":"2016-12-21T08:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=26216"},"modified":"2016-12-21T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:49:23","slug":"i-am-ready-to-give-up-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/i-am-ready-to-give-up-on-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Ready To Give Up On Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"PeaceFreedomProsperity.com<\/a> | \u201cToday I received a message which expressed a very familiar sentiment I hear often. The \u201cpunchline\u201d was this: \u201cI am ready to give up on politics, but also scared to.\u201d As I\u2019ve explained before, the \u201cpolitical process\u201d is DESIGNED to: 1) use up the time, effort and money of good people; 2) accomplish nothing for those people, and; 3) eventually give those people the impression that resistance is futile, that this is just how things are, and that they should give up and go with the flow.<\/p>\n

Even as a statist, it struck me as odd that some people were vehemently pushing voting\u2013\u201cit\u2019s your civic duty, you have to participate!\u201d etc.\u2013without saying WHO they wanted others to vote for. Shouldn\u2019t you want the people who share your values to vote, and want everyone else to not vote? Why would anyone push voting PER SE? The answer is simple, but extremely creepy. The U.S. ruling class needs its victims to IMAGINE that the people have some say in the matter, that they are \u201cconsenting\u201d to the situation, and that those in power are \u201crepresenting\u201d the \u201cwill of the people.\u201d None of that is true, but if people don\u2019t IMAGINE it to be true, then the empire loses its perceived legitimacy, people stop imagining an obligation to obey BS \u201claws\u201d and pay BS \u201ctaxes,\u201d and then the empire comes crashing down.<\/p>\n

And therein lies the GOOD news. The path to freedom is the exact opposite direction from \u201cpolitical action.\u201d Nothing needs to be done TO the gang called \u201cgovernment\u201d; no election needs to be won, no revolution needs to occur. There is no need to petition tyrants, or whine for a change in \u201clegislation.\u201d Here\u2019s the secret: they appear powerful ONLY because their VICTIMS still believe in the myth of \u201cauthority,\u201d still believe in the Divine Right of Politicians. The \u201cpolitical process\u201d is like a primitive tribe trying to do battle with a Volcano God. \u201cNo matter how hard we fight, or how bravely we charge in, it keeps incinerating us!\u201d There is a solution. Walk away. But the key is NUMBERS. If one person tries to walk away, the true believers in the Volcano God will drag him back and throw him in. Likewise, if one person tries to ignore the mythical \u201cgovernment\u201d god, its true believers will eagerly sacrifice that \u201ccriminal\u201d to their bogus deity. However, when even a significant minority escapes the authoritarian indoctrination and stops imagining an obligation to obey the arbitrary threats of violence euphemistically called \u201claws,\u201d the lie becomes unenforceable. In one sense, what we\u2019re up against is \u201cSo Small a Thing\u201d (the title of my upcoming Anarchapulco talk), and recently a LOT more people have been escaping the lie. And the lie is the ONLY problem. Without it, all the war machines, the soldiers, cops and bureaucrats, the prisons\u2013all of it evaporates. And that day is coming. Yes, \u201cresistance\u201d in the form of voting, petitioning, and other \u201cpolitical action\u201d is futile. Getting humanity to wake up from the lie is not.\u201d \u2013 Larken Rose<\/p>\n

The Most Dangerous Superstition<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PeaceFreedomProsperity.com | \u201cToday I received a message which expressed a very familiar sentiment I hear often. The \u201cpunchline\u201d was this: \u201cI am ready to give up on politics, but also scared to.\u201d As I\u2019ve explained before, the \u201cpolitical process\u201d is DESIGNED to: 1) use up the time, effort and money of good people; 2) accomplish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[690,865,141],"class_list":["post-26216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-authority","tag-politics","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}