Welcome to Keith's night. Don't try it on anyone. This is the power vacuum argument by Larkin Rose. As I explained in my previous article when confronted about the inherent immorality and illegitimate, see of government stated soft and fall back on making the dire predictions of chaos and Mayhem. Of course, this is logically irrelevant to philosophical principles. Reality doesn't change itself to avoid bad things happening. For example, person a As dude, don't jump out of the plane.
You don't have a parachute person be response. Yes, I do. Because if I didn't, this would kill me, ah, or person a says, people can't delegate rights. They don't have person B says, yes, they can. Otherwise there would be chaos, but there was something else worth noting about one of the most common dire predictions that state is fooling around. They basically argue that if there were no Government, the horrendous chaotic violent result would be a government Warlords.
Would take over and build armies and Rule us all. In other words, the worst case scenario. That state is predict for anarchism is statism. And that's pretty damn funny. I'm going to Advocate this bad thing, a big powerful ruling class because otherwise we would end up with the thing. I'm advocating. Status. Love to Proclaim that if a certain Or ruling class collapsed and was overthrown or
just disappeared. It would create a power vacuum and a new ruling class would magically appear actually, in one way. They are quite right about that. But in another way they are dead wrong. The only reason power vacuums exists, is because most people think there should be and has to be a ruling class. A supreme set of lawmakers a government.
If, for example, Washington. EC just fell into the Atlantic today, a new government would regrow, but not because of magic or human nature or because the universe makes them appear. But because people who believe in Authority will keep creating new ruling classes. That's why I constantly emphasize. The fact that the belief in Authority, including all belief in government is the problem. We never put a particular regime. Is doing evil crap right now is never the actual problem.
The problem resides between several billion pairs of ears, as long as most people believe that having rulers as legitimate and necessary. They will keep putting narcissistic sociopaths on Thrones. So, yes, as long as the general population is stuck in the authoritarian mindset. Someone has to be in charge. We need a leader. Then when one regime fails, another will be built in its place often one even worse than the one before. And yes.
This is why violent revolution is utterly pointless without their first being a revolution of how people think.
However, once people outgrow the Superstition of authority and escaped, the statist indoctrination, they've been programmed with there will be no power vacuum to fill a society of volunteers is not going to suddenly I'd that what they really need is to be violently dominated by a new group of politicians state has often talked about how some Tyrant or Ward Lord. Would just take over while completely missing the fact that their own belief system is the only reason anyone can take over.
They seem to believe in the existence of Hollywood villains who are so diabolical that they can just make Power magically appear. They don't seem to know that every successful Tyrant has to dupe the general. Public into singing him as a savior. So that they gladly and eagerly give him control over their lives and over everyone else's Mao. Stalin Hitler. They were all cheered into Power by adoring masses, masses of you guessed.
It statist spee people who believe in authority and thought, government is what makes society and civilization work. So in one sense, In a statist warns of the power vacuum thing, he is right while failing to notice that he and his fellow status are, the only reason, his dire prediction holds any truth. If the people don't perceive the new gang to have the right to rule, don't perceive it to be Authority, then they don't cheer for it.
They shoot at it and dies and that brings up the whole silly warlord thing. If we didn't have government protecting us Warlords, would take over. Such an argument ignores, the fact that warlord saying street gangs and the mafia two are almost always funded by black markets created by government example, the illegal drug trade without a ruling class. They wouldn't exist to begin
with. But the warlord's argument also shows a profound ignorance of human nature at basically implies that in the State of Mind. The ability to rule doesn't depend upon the legitimacy of those in power in the eyes of the people. People in reality. It has everything to do with that, especially in a place where 100 million people possess their own firearms. The idea of Warlords ruling by
brute force is just ridiculous. An example of private gun ownership in the United States. Would you want to try to rule those people by Brute Force? I wouldn't and not just because I have moral principles and Simple. I'd like to use is this imagine that you are an organized crime boss and your goal is to extort a hundred million people of a large chunk of what they earn every year. You have 100,000 loyal underlings. However, only 2000 of them are armed.
The rest paper pushers. Do you think you could successfully robbed those people when they outnumber and outgun your Armed Forces? Fifty thousand to one? Guess what the IRS does it, how most of their victims, imagine the extortion to be legal and legitimate and necessary. The victims feel an obligation to obey and pay tribute if tomorrow, they all stopped feeling that obligation.
There would be no IRS by the end of the day, that shows how much perceptions determine power and how much political Authority depends completely on the mentality of those. Being controlled Larkin. Rose quotes, Steven Biko the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed Larkin. Rose continues. In conclusion. There was only one gang with the ability to continually extort and control the American people.
And that is the one that the American people imagined to be Authority. In other words. The one gang that can dominate us is already doing it. And the only, Only reason it is able to do so is because of the belief in Authority infecting the minds of the General Public. We already are dominated by evil overlords. They already have been taken. We already have been taken over by a violent gang and mr. And mrs.
Status. You are the cause your belief system is, what gives politicians, all their power. So when you, why not volunteer us about how nasty gangs of crooks might take over? Keep in mind. They already did that. You are condoning, that, that you are making that happen and that at your crappy belief system is the only reason it continues to happen or is able to happen at all. Way to go. Thank you for watching Keith Knight. Don't try it on anyone.