A Destiny to Master

Taking hold of your presence in the universe is oft a great task to grasp. Your existence relies on your efforts to maintain itself. Without input your being within reality ceases. It ends abruptly, however strong the desire to continue.

This world offers you the freedom to think, feel and live. I argue however that it is the masses that are prepared to command other's individuality for their own personal gain, throwing liberty to the dogs. I do not call this a system of kindness or necessary human action, but taxation. Despite forever promoting the interests of the public, it is through the rule of government that humanity has become enslaved unwittingly. Through this, the goal of government and central planning becomes justified, but in no way does it subscribe morality to its cause. Plundering effort by the collective stakeholders is always theft; always an assault on liberty and your right to life.

Despotism holds a new name – democracy.

Should another have sway upon your life's dividend, I ask why? I ask how? I ask what right there is to challenge one's existence and force compensation where none is due. For every dollar that is taken from me, for every minute of labour I have contributed that does not return to me, it equates to just as much bondage – just that much of my life stolen.

Seemingly the world is created on non-effort; at least this is what a socialist may have you believe. That the world gives, or ought to give more than is distributed freely, is a fallacy that has no future in the millennia to come.

With those that agree with social freedoms, there is a tendency to place economic freedoms in a different category. If you support a person’s right to euthanasia (in effect, their right to do what they please with their life), and at the same time agree with redistributed wealth, there would be little consistency to your views. If consistency isn’t within your views, then there is no foundation to your convictions – there is no logic!

The nature of humans to divide and group certainly provides a strong inclination against freedom, but it can rarely be justified when looking at the core of our existence. We all have the right to pursue our own destiny, and at the same time, have no right to direct another’s. It remains yours to conquer and nobody else’s.

Anarchy, State & Utopia...

I’ll take a quick stab at defending anarchy (more closely, anarcho-capitalism), because it seems to be taking a bad rap from statists of all degrees with the perception it is only a Utopian ideal or ignorant et cetera.

My property is my effort. Indeed it is the ultimate expression of my effort; a mark of my existence. When does my effort become that of the state? What becomes of my effort when I have no definable right, but what others feel is just by the collective?

Consensus, or middle ground is the result of a group having their property taken by tax and getting it back in altered portions. How often is the outcome equal? And if it was equal, why contribute to the great bureaucracy of government in the first place?

I would say that democracy is a great disbeliever of morality within humans (perhaps second to religion). We are innately bad…

Joe down the road needs a hand up, so we need to coerce our terrible nation through tax to give him that hand. We can’t be charitable? We can’t be trusted to help that man?

How much do we pour out of our pockets every day to help find a cure for cancer? Is that through the wisdom of democracy? Or is it through the wisdom and morality of the individual willing to pass on his effort (albeit for altruistic gratification)?

I am growing more discontent with the LDP (Liberty and Democracy Party) simply for its tiptoeing around rights. Social rights are clear in the party…that is it. The consensus drawing on everything else is pitiful. To be honest it was the main motivator for finding another party outside of Labor and Liberal.

Participation in a democracy with clear property rights before the law is the only form of government that will hold any ounce of morality, and one that liberty and freedom enshrines.

I do believe in the rule of law, and I do believe in fundamental rights. Rights that cannot, under any circumstances, be contradicted. You either hold title over your efforts, or you don’t. There is no middle road.

I’ll give two quotes –

“The law perverted! The law - and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its proper direction, but made to pursue one entirely contrary! The law becomes the tool of every kind of avarice, instead of being its check! The law guilty of that very inequity which it was its mission to punish!” Frederic Bastiat’s The Law.

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” Thomas Jefferson.

Your attention please...

Words, letters, sounds, everything you see; your perception and experience has been moved by me. Even the little voice inside you has been sent a stray. You may understand, but should you feel empty after reading this, too bad. I have taken a piece of your life, and made you dwell in a direction that would not have occurred should I not have written and projected this feeling of mine. Now, interconnected by experience, everything moves you. Because you can only be aware of what you are aware of, you have surely been altered. A reality altered on an ever changing course.