Statism is the New Flat Earth
“But without government, wouldn’t everything fall off the earth?”
Imagine how the ancient world treated those who perceived the earth as a sphere. They were ridiculed, scorned, and even persecuted for a claim that is easily observable and provable by anyone with nothing but their senses and (un)common sense.
The objections would go like this: “How ridiculous! If the Earth were round, wouldn’t everything on the bottom part just fall off it?” And the funny thing is that, even though the Earth’s curvature has always been easily observable, no one could quite explain how a spherical Earth worked. It was hard for people to wrap their heads around it. It was just easier to assume that the Earth was a flat plane.
Where was I going with this? How does that fit with statelessness?
The ancients reacted the same way we do today when one claims that social order does not require the unnecessary evil of government.
The objections go like this: “How ridiculous! If we hadn’t had government, wouldn’t civility just collapse and everyone would just kill each other in the streets?” Talking about projection… as if the government is the only thing preventing a Mad Max free-for-all that’s always just waiting to erupt. But if living like savages were indeed what most of us truly wanted deep down, then isn’t government being unfair to us all by keeping us from doing so? Isn’t government being “undemocratic” by enforcing an “order” that the majority doesn’t want?
Statelessness is the new Sphere Earth
In most of human history, it was considered ridiculous to claim that the Earth was curved or a sphere. People just couldn’t wrap their heads around it. They could see indications of curvature, but they couldn’t piece the puzzle together. They couldn’t conceptualise gravity, or they couldn’t escape the indoctrination of centuries of religions specifically describing the earth as a flat surface. For example, the Bible is extremely clear about the earth being flat with four corners at which an Archangel stood. This is where the “four corners of the earth” saying came from. The Koran is even more ridiculous. Islam describes the earth as a flat oval disc on which there is a puddle in which the sun sets every day (a plagiarism from the epic of Gilgamesh, which predated and inspired many of today’s “mainstream” religions). Yes, religiosity is why people have such a hard time accepting new ideas.
It was once considered ridiculous, and even blasphemous, to claim that the Earth was spherical in nature. Today, it’s considered ridiculous, and even criminal, to claim that the state is an unnecessary evil, and that humans can form better, fairer, more efficient, and more orderly societies without government - ESPECIALLY without government.
You see the parallels here?
Telling people that indeed government is an unnecessary evil, and that we can have more orderly and safer societies WITHOUT government, is like telling people in the Dark Ages that the Earth was round. At best, you get ridiculed and shut down as an idiot; at worst, you get ostracised or burned at the stake for heresy: the term “anarchist” has been strawmanned for and deceptively associated with the mask-wearing Molotov-wielding communist rioter - you can thank government-funded propaganda for that.
Make no mistake: Statism is quite literally a fanatic religious cult. It believes in an all-powerful, all-knowing, benevolent, and non-existent entity known as “The State.” Its cult member will brutally slaughter you without a second thought if they feel that you threaten their belief system. The COVID era proved this point… that even your closest friends and relatives were willing to deny you your livelihood and even report you to the police for defying state overreach.
The irony is that the government apologists and statism enthusiasts are all so smug due to their self-appointed “genius” for figuring out the easiest thing: that the Earth is indeed a sphere. Yet they can’t seem to also understand that the ridiculous claim “we need government” is even more retarded than the flat earth model.
Granted, there’s A LOT of indoctrination rotting the mind of the statist - I know, I was there too. There’s tons of brainwashing I’d have to wash away to get the statist to understand that not only is government evil, but it is an unnecessary one at that. The only hindrance is the refusal to think.
I don’t expect humanity to ever escape its statist psychopathy. I fear that humanity will find a way to destroy itself - because of the state and only because of the state - before it ever understands that it can live without the state; live better without the state.
All I can do is speak out:
The earth isn’t flat. The state in’t necessary.
The earth is spherical. The state is evil.
A world without government is more orderly, more efficient, more humane, more abundant, more environmental, more peaceful, and most importantly, safer.
All I can do is speak out words that disappear faster than it takes to utter them.
The Flat Earth psyop
It is fitting that the flat earth narrative has all the hallmarks of a government psyop, with the clear motive to associate easily disprovable nonsense with legitimately critical anti-government voices, and therefore, ridicule and discredit dissenting voices. When you criticise government or its tyrannical overreaches (e.g., COVID and forced experimental injections), you’re sure to be met with some smug Dunning-Kruger-college graduate announcing himself with a ridiculous straw man like “I bet you believe the earth is flat, too….” It’s an association fallacy: Flat Earth propagandists appear to be - and appeal to - anti-government audiences. They exploit the virtue of questioning appeals to authority, thus promoting contrarianism: the idea that anything that is mainstream must be false, which is just as deluded as accepting every mainstream idea by default.
Look at those self-advertised “scientists” taking on the easy task of disproving the flat Earth model while patting themselves on the back as if they reinvented the wheel. They usually end their presentations with something along the lines of: “Normally, we wouldn’t care about people denying science. But it’s the same people who refuse to get vaccinated.”
See the connection there?
They falsely associate the ridiculousness of the flat Earth with the right to question the totally unscientific and immoral mandate to be injected with unsafe, ineffective, and experimental compounds.
It’s easy, thus for the undecided to associate the flat Earth stupidity with all those who question the state’s tyrannical bullshit, thereby “legitimising” the state in the eyes of gullible observers. This gains for the state undeserved credibility by proxy.
When something as easily verifiable as the spherical nature of the Earth is challenged in such an elaborately bullshitty Rumble-video gobbledygook, it positions the state and its mainstream narratives on a podium of credibility. “If the anti-state people believe in easily verifiable nonsense, then the state is in the right, right?”
Of course, the greatest deceivers tell easily verifiable truisms to gain credibility, much like wolves in sheep’s clothing. And the lies they tell are twisted truths, artfully spun in a way that is hard to deny - because they are based on facts - but facts with attached narratives to them nonetheless.
The blatant lies the government says, like “safe and effective” or “it’s the best system we’ve got,” are hard to disprove because they are unprovable and unfalsifiable at the time they were claimed. And most people are too uneducated or emotional to comprehend that any unprovable or unfalsifiable claim cannot be scientific in nature, and therefore, should be rejected as easily as it is being asserted (Hitchens’s razor).
I am tired of debating flat-earthers who fell for lazy videos made by state propagandists on minimum wage. Larken Rose does a much better job at debunking the flat Earth. No, an object on the horizon doesn’t drop 3 meters for every kilometer of distance, or whatever bullshit the claim you never bothered to test yourself is. If you’re bad at maths, at least have the humility to admit it. And for me, the midnight sun phenomenon absolutely proves the spherical nature of the Earth: in the same time zone, the length of day throughout the seasons changes disproportionally as you move from north to south. This proves curvature. Take all the time you need.
Eratosthenes observed, tested, and accurately calculated the Earth’s curvature two and a half thousand years ago. But why didn’t the ancient world acknowledge this, especially when seafarers could observe curvature and ships disappearing under the horizon? Maybe it’s because they had a hard time wrapping their heads around it, just like statists have a really hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that the state (centralised, coercive, threat-based government) is not only inefficient, wasteful, and unfair, but it is also immoral and belligerent, stifling human inspiration and aspiration for higher values.
I’m also tired of debunking the state and our deluded need for government. Yet I keep writing about statelessness, arguing for it, and defending logic against the schizophrenic irrationality of statism.
Mainstreamism
If you believe that the Earth is spherical, congratulations - you are correct. But don’t pat yourself on the back just yet. Most “globe-earthers” never steel-manned their conviction. They never scrutinised their belief, nor did they bother to research ways to prove that the Earth is spherical without relying on someone else’s word for it. OK, the Earth is round. You’re right, but can you yourself prove it? If you travelled back in time 1000 years and you had to explain the sphere Earth to the ancients, how would you? Do you know? Did you even bother to find out?
Just because you believe in a truism doesn’t make you smart. If you didn’t bother to learn how you can personally verify it, then you are just as gullible and intellectually lazy as people who believe in flat-Earth absurdities. You just happened to be exposed to the right thing first. You’re right, but only due to chance.
Contrarianism
Granted, many flat-earthers come from a place of healthy skepticism: “I don’t believe anything I can’t personally verify.” Fair enough and understandable: mainstream narratives promoted by the stench of government have plagued us long enough. It’s good to be skeptical and critical. For example, the easily demonstrable and observable lie of the 9/11 report should make any intellectually honest person at least suspicious. WTC 7 was a controlled demolition. It’s insane to think otherwise.
But this created another problem: contrarianism, whereby we deny anything and everything that is accepted by the mainstream, even if it’s correct. “1+1 does not equal 2 because we were taught that in government indoctrination camps (schools). Right?”
Wrong.
The devil comes to you with easily verifiable truisms to gain your trust.
Contrarianism leads the skeptics to believe in absurdities, thereby further entrenching the “normies” into their established belief systems, even if those systems are wrong.
So the normies go like this: “See? Skeptics of government believe in nonsense. The government believes the truth, that the Earth is spherical. Therefore, I trust government.”
No, shit, Sherlock. That’s like me demanding your trust just because I believe the sky is blue - an easily verifiable truism. It’s a halo effect and a fallacy. You poor, poor gullible idiots.
And contrarians - the other side of the brainwashed coin - will say that the Earth must be flat since the lying government says it’s spherical. That’s also a broad stroke and a horn effect fallacy. That’s like saying that 1+1 does not equal 2, simply because the government believes it to be equal, or that smoking must be good for you since Hitler was anti-smoking. Binary thinking is moronic; “thinking” is an exaggeration.
I’ve heard this retarded argument once: “Oh, but they call it “globe” earth, as in “globalism!” This proves that the Earth is flat.” Nah, man. It just proves you’ll reverse-engineer anything to confirm your contrarian bias. You aren’t better than mainstream normies. You are just a rebrand of gullibility and irrationality.
The bottom line
Don’t believe or disbelieve something just because it’s the mainstream or a contrarian narrative, and vice versa. Your motivation for believing something should be the commitment to truth, regardless of what that truth would mean, regardless of its implications.
Unfortunately, most people choose to believe what best suits them according to the meaning of said belief. They are not interested in truth. If they were, they would seek truth, even if truth meant something uncomfortable for them.
Ask yourself why you believe what you believe.
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Recommended reading
‘Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy’ by Robert P. Murphy
‘No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority’ by Lysander Spooner
‘For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto’ by Murray N. Rothbard
‘Power and Market: Government and the Economy’ by Murray N. Rothbard
‘Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market’ by Murray N. Rothbard
‘The Enterprise Of Law: Justice Without The State’ by Bruce L. Benson
‘The Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to Radical Capitalism’ by David Friedman
Psyops...The way to turn any truth upside down by attaching truth to untruths. No need to use the concept of integration nor nuances. Black and white thinking. Fundamentalism is the ideology of mental slavery.
wow..."easily observable " huh??? Even the ACTORNAUTS couldn't keep the secret...all military testing states " based on a FLAT EARTH model"...try to figure it out, poor beast...