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A Brief History of Government
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by Brian Crabtree (1992)
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Thousands of years ago, people were free.
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What happened? Well, here's the story...
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A certain group of similarly narrow-minded guys with similarly
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ridiculous ideas got on a power trip, and decided to use force to impose their
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own thoughts, morals, and customs on everyone else. These people also decided
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that instead of everybody sharing, it would be easier to control them if they
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were made to pass around money, which only the government could make.
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"The government is best which governs not at all and when men are
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prepared for it, that will be the kind of government they will have."
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- Henry David Thoreau
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These two factors, authority and property, created crime. Instead of
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everyone owning everything and nothing at all, people with less money had to
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steal and kill for it, in order to feed their starving families. People were
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even forced to pay a portion of their hard-earned wages to this evil and
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corrupt government, so that the government could afford to keep ruling them.
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All of this was done in the name of the 'Public Good'.
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Much Madness is divinest Sense-
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To a discerning eye-
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Much Sense, the starkest Madness-
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'Tis the Majority.
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In this, as All, prevail-
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Assent, and you are sane-
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Demur, you're straitway dangerous-
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And handled with a Chain.
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Emily Dickinson, c. 1862
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Eventually, someone had a pretty good idea, if it would have worked.
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The idea was that if everyone got an equal vote, everyone's views would be
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represented. Of course, by this time, the government had brainwashed so many
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people into thinking as they did that the tyranny of the majority was just as
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terrible as the tyranny of the original rulers. Why should the minority obey
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the mindless majority? Now you must see the problem with democracy. Another
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thing 'rule by the people' led to was plutocracy, rule by the rich. The more
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money you had, the more power you had, and the less money and power someone
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else had. There was, and is, tremendous poverty under capitalism.
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Communism, as it currently exists, doesn't work either. The idea is
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for everyone to be enployed, be paid equally, and for everything to cost the
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same. This was a good idea also, but to do this requires government control
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over almost every aspect of society. Not only does the government control
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the citizen's life, but all of the industries are state-owned. This causes a
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problem we've all experienced. Where are the longest lines? Not at fast-food
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places or supermarkets; the longest lines are at the post office and the
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Department of Motor Vehicles, state-operated institutions. The reason is that
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there's nowhere else to go! If you want a driver's license, you have to go to
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the D.M.V. In the Soviet Union, people had to wait many times longer than
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that just to buy food. Also, money is still a problem. If you need an
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example, just look at Russia, and how unbearable conditions were under Soviet
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rule.
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There are many other totalitarian systems in which the ruled have no
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representation whatsoever, but you can see for yourself how unfair they are.
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"As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in
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anarchy. Anarchy - the absence of a sovereign - such is the
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form of government to which we are every day approximating."
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- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Anarchism is the political perspective which regards all government as
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evil and unnecessary. Money and property are instruments used by the
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government to control people. Crime is merely the product of a society based
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on property and authority. Only in a society free from the coercive power of
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the state can there exist true freedom and liberty.
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"There will be a qualitative transformation, a new living, life-giving
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revelation, a new heaven and a new earth, a young and mighty world in which
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all our present dissonances will be resolved into a harmonious whole."
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- Mikhail Bakunin
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