“The Matrix is one of the greatest metaphors ever.
‘Machines invented to make life easier end up
enslaving humanity. This is the most dystopian theory in science-fiction.
Why is this fear so universal, so compelling? Is it because we really believe
our toaster and our notebook will end up as our mechanical overlords? Of course
not. This is not a future that we fear but a past that we are already living.
Supposedly governments were meant to make human life
easier and safer. But governments always end up enslaving humanity. That which
we create to “serve us” ends up “ruling us.” The US government
by and for the people now imprisons millions.
It takes half the income by force, over-regulates, punishes, tortures,
slaughters foreigners, invades countries; overthrows governments, imposes seven
hundred imperialistic bases overseas and crushes future generations with massive
debts. That which we create to serve us ends
up ruling us.
The problem with the state as servant thesis is that it
is historically completely false; both empirically and logically. The idea that
states were invented by citizens to enhance their own security is utterly
untrue. Before governments in tribal times, human beings could only produce what
they consumed; there was no excess production of food or other resources: Thus
there was no point in owning slaves because the slaves could not produce any
excess that could be stolen by the master.
If a horse pulling a plow can only produce enough
additional food to feed the horse there is no point hunting, capturing and
breaking in a horse. However when agriculture improvements allowed for the
creation of excess crops, suddenly it became highly advantageous to own human
beings. When cows began to provide excess milk and meat, owning cows became
worthwhile.
The earliest governments and empires were in fact a
ruling class of slave hunters who understood that because human beings could
produce more than they consumed they were worth hunting, capturing breaking-in,
and owning. The earliest Egyptian and Chinese Empires were in reality, human
farms: Where people were hunted, captured, domesticated and owned like any other
form of livestock. Due to methodological and technological improvements the
slaves produced enough excess that the labor involved in capturing and keeping
them represented only a small sub-set of their total productivity.
The ruling class farmers kept a large portion of that
excess, while handing out gifts and payments to the brutalizing class; the
police, slave hunters and general sadists, and the propagandizing class, the
priests, intellectuals and artists. This situation continued for thousands of
years until the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries; when again massive
improvements in agricultural organization and technology created the second-wave
of excess productivity.
The enclosure movement reorganized and consolidated farm
land resulting in five to ten times more crops, creating a new class of
industrial workers displaced from the country and huddling in the new cities.
This enormous agricultural excess was the basis of the capital that drove the
Industrial Revolution. The Industrial revolution did not arise because the
ruling class wanted to free their serfs; but rather because they realized how
additional “liberties” could make their livestock
astoundingly more productive.
When cows are placed in very confining stalls they beat
their heads against the walls, resulting in injuries and infections. Thus
farmers now give them more room, not because they want to set their cows
free but because they want greater
productivity and lower costs. The next stop after
free-range [In Chickens] is not freedom [It's chicken McNuggets].
The rise of state capitalism in the nineteenth century
was actually the rise of free-range serfdom. Additional
liberties were granted to the human-livestock,
not with the goal offsetting them free; but rather with the goal of increasing
their productivity. Of course Intellectuals, Artists and Priests were and are
well paid, to conceal this reality. The great problem of modern human-livestock
ownership is the great challenge of enthusiasm. State Capitalism only works when
the Entrepreneurial Spirit drives creativity and productivity in the economy.
However excess productivity always creates a larger
state and swells the ruling classes, and their dependents; which eats into the
motivation for additional productivity. Taxes and regulations rise, state debt
and future farming increases, and living standards slow and decay. Depression
and despair begin to spread: As the reality of being owned sets in for the
general population. The solution to this is additional propaganda,
anti-depressant medications; superstition, wars, moral campaigns of every kind.
The creation of “enemies,” the inculcation of
Patriotism, collective fears: Paranoia about
outsiders and immigrants and so on.
It is essential to
understand the reality of the world. When you look at a map of the world,
you are not looking at countries, but farms. You are
allowed certain liberties, limited property
ownership, movement rights, freedom of association and occupation; not because
your government approves of these rights in principle, since it constantly
violates them, but rather because
free-range-livestock is so much cheaper to own and is so much more
productive. It is important to understand the reality of ideologies. State
Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Democracy; these are all livestock
management approaches. Some work well for long periods of State Capitalism and
some work very badly: Communism. They all fail because it is immoral and
irrational to treat human-beings as livestock.
The recent growth of
Freedom in China, India and Asia is occurring because the local state
farmers have upgraded their livestock-management-practices. They have recognized
that putting the cows in a larger stall will provide the rulers with more milk
and meat. Rulers have also recognized that if they prevent you from fleeing the
farm you will become depressed, inert and unproductive. A serf is the most
productive when he imagines he is free. Thus your rulers must provide the
illusion-of-freedom, in order to harvest you
most effectively. Thus you are allowed to
leave but never to real freedom; only to another farm [the entire
international-passport system insures this], because the whole world is a farm.
They will prevent you from taking a lot of money they will bury you in
endless-paperwork. They will restrict your right-to-work; but you are of course
free to leave; due to these difficulties very
few people do leave but the illusion of mobility is maintained!
If only one out of a thousand cows escapes, the illusion
of escaping significantly raises the productivity of the remaining 999, it
remains a net gain for the farmer. You are also kept on the farm through
licensing. The most productive livestock are the professionals. So the rulers
fit them with an electronic dog-collar called ‘a license.’ Which only allows
them to practice their trade on their own farm. [Global-corporations were
created to bridge this limitation]. To further create the illusion of freedom in
certain farms the livestock are allowed to choose between a few farmers that the
investors present, [purpose behind having candidates for office, and the
illusion of choice] at best they are given minor choices in how they are
managed. They are never given the choice to shut down the farm and be truly
free.
Government schools are indoctrination pens for
livestock. They train children to “love the farm” and
to fear true freedom and independence: And to
attack anyone who questions the brutal reality of human ownership. Furthermore
they create jobs for the intellectuals that State propaganda so relies on. The
ridiculous contradictions of Statism like religion can only be sustained through
endless propaganda inflicted upon helpless children. The idea that Democracy and
some sort of social contract justifies the brutal exercise of violent power over
billions is patently ridiculous.
If you say to a slave that his ancestors “chose” and
therefore he is bound by their decisions, he will simply say “If slavery is a
choice then I chose not to be a slave.” This is
the most frightening statement for the ruling classes, which is why they
trained their slaves to attack anyone who dares speak it. Statism is not a
philosophy. Statism does not originate from historical evidence or rationale
principles. Statism is an ex-post-facto justification for human-ownership.
Statism is an excuse for violence. Statism is an ideology and all ideologies are
variations on human-livestock management-practices.
Religion is pimped-out superstition, designed to drug
children with fears that they will endlessly pay to have alleviated. Nationalism
is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the
livestock. The opposite of superstition is not another superstition, but
the truth. The opposite of ideology is not a
different ideology, but clear evidence and rational principles. The opposite of
superstition and ideology – of stateism – is philosophy. [Decades
ago it was announced by the rulers that philosophy was dead, because there could
never be anything more to add to what had already been written - according to
the owners].
Reason and Courage will set us free; you do not have to
be livestock. Take the Red Pill – wake up!” (1)
