Politics and Money

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Statism and the Illusion of Choice

The state is that entity which claims a legitimate monopoly on the use of violence in a given territory, according to Max Weber. The Hobbesian, Rousseauvian, Lockean perspectives are that the state arose from a world of chaos by social contract that vested a ruling class with a monopoly on violence (for the good of the people, of course).

The funny thing is, nobody can point to a point when the modern state arose. Perhaps it was a place like Çatalhöyük (ca. 7500 BC) or Sumer (ca. 2900 BC)—where a stratified society was structured on the basis of might. The earliest monarchies, empires, and republics—they are all essentially based in violence. Inalienable rights were unheard of – if you blasphemed God (or one of his temporal bureaucrats in the Vatican) within the Holy Roman Empire, you could be excommunicated and anyone could kill you without reprisal. Government is rule by some men [sic] over others, nothing more. So is ours—which, let the record show, was built out of slave labor. In some sense, it still is.

Voters place their hope in God-Kings called Presidents, expecting sociopaths to lift them out of servitude.

http://theintelhub.com/2013/02/01/statism-and-the-illusion-of-choice/