Ken Bartle – Today’s mindset cannot see past the security, comforts, and benefits of government, despite its citizens being bound into a life of slavery. Man strives for freedom, but has not yet discovered a political system without political rule.
A representative body acting as public guardian of natural law, can answer people’s protection, security and natural justice, without political rule, provided that it cannot ever be usurped and transformed into government. Kritarchy and Natural Law offer the method.
No government? Oh yes!
Today’s mindset, common as grains of sand on a beach, argues that government is needed to take care of us. That it does the exact opposite seems not to matter in the slightest. The mindset of holding tight to Big Brother’s benefits is the problem. It’s Man’s mindset of dependency. Without political rule, people point to anarchy as the certainty of more chaos, disturbance and increased criminality. It’s not because that outcome is certain, rather that it relieves one’s abject fear of having to rule themselves, fend for themselves, become independent. They want to be saved from sloth and apathy; have something or someone provide for them, never considering at whose expense, even their own. Deeper and more fundamental, an emotional reason exists, one concerning wellbeing and security.
Some know that anarchy truly means the absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems. Among these folk, some will have learned of Minarchy, which means strictly limited government. Fewer still will have heard of Kritarchy.
My fascination with language just keeps expanding. I love looking at expressions, words, colloquialisms, so-called “sayings” and the like with fresh awakened eyes. I can’t help it. The supposed, accepted and unconscious meanings of these imposed “expressions” are what direct our minds and turn our attention.