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Quote by: Osborn F Enready  You are far too quick to dismiss the fact that
SOCIETY hinges upon governance of some type.
I am pro-individualist, so I don't have much stake
in society, but the fact is that a majority of
people prefer societal living to remove the stress of basic
risks, such as fire, police and medical/dental as well
as basic services like electricity, water and sewer, cable, etc. |
None of those things require the kind of society we have. I don't have a fatalist understanding of the world.
People needn't a single type of vehicle to get to a destination in life. Alternative means could be utilized, so long as an effort is made to even consider restructuring society. If we are going to take seriously the idea of "free minds and free markets" then we should move toward freeing minds from market totalitarianism, which is taking shape quite clearly in the world (scandal after scandal, genuine oil interests in the Middle East, the bureaucratic hierarchy of the wokplace which renders workers expendable, placing profits before the public health, etc).
In our current society people who are most likely to seek promotion into management positions still may not be concerned much with what they end up managing. I remain wary of this state of affairs for reasons that should be obvious.
here's an approach that I basically endorse:
Anarcho-syndicalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolf Rocker was quite accurate in saying:
"Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are rather forced upon them from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. They do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace."
As for this country having origins in slavery, that's just common knowledge.
History of slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The first recorded slaves in the United States, in 1619 twenty Africans were brought by a Dutch soldier and sold to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia as indentured servants. The transformation from indentured servitude to racial slavery happened gradually. It wasn't until 1661 that a reference to slavery entered into Virginia law, directed at Caucasian servants who ran away with a black servant. It wouldn't be until the Slave Codes of 1705 that the status of African Americans as slaves would be sealed. This status would last for another 160 years, until after the end of the American Civil War with the ratification of the 13th Amendment in December 1865."
It goes back to the Encomienda era:
Encomienda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica the most common forms of slavery were those of prisoners-of-war and debtors. People unable to pay back a debt could be sentenced to work as a slave to the person owed until the debt was worked off. Slavery was not usually hereditary; children of slaves were born free. In Tahuantinsuyu (or Inca Empire), workers were subject to a mita in lieu of taxes which they paid by working for the government. Each ayllu, or extended family, would decide which family member to send to do the work."
Grandpa h.