George Ought to Help

a while back i followed a few links through the liberty loving blogosphere and stumbled upon this stunningly excellent video

im sure alot of you will have already seen it and even posted it yourself.

there are many reasons i think this is the such an amazing and powerful video not least of which is its simplicity. the concepts of objective ethics such as self ownership and the non aggression axiom and their consistent and uncompromisable application to socio-economic organisation can, as im sure we are all too painfully familiar with, be difficult to impart to others. we're fighting an uphill battle against the tar-like inertia of mindsets forged in unavoidable statist upbringing. the compromised, inconsistent and basically non-existent 'ethics' of coercive human organisation are so ingrained that it can be nigh on impossible to penetrate the double think to reach the natural human you know is in there somewhere. that is why the power of such a perfectly simple video like this should be praised from the rooftops. some insanely circuitous, disingenuous and machiavellian manipulation of ethics would be required to argue against the objective truth of the video's message. the video poses such a simple question to the accepted paradigm of coercive extortion that a child can understand it. even the most hardened statist will turn to a gibbering wreck of non-sequiturs if they argue the point.

i havent posted the above video before because i first saw it months before i began blogging  and i assume most people reading this will already have seen it. i am posting it now because the person/people behind this outstanding effort to promote the importance of individual liberty are planning another.



http://www.indiegogo.com/Edgar-the-exploiter

having made the first video from the ethical position, the argument of the second video (as i understand it) will be made from what molyneux calls 'the argument from effect'. the first video highlighted the ethical inconsistency of the coercive state and this one will turn the spotlight on the empirical evidence of government's unintended consequences. even if coercion weren't ethically abhorrent it is economically ineffectual and counter productive. the libertarian blogosphere that havent yet realised the path to individual liberty leads to anarchism are exponents of this 'argument from effect'.

we all wonder what is to be done and what can we do. awareness is the answer to the first question. the powers that be, our owners, our oppressors are a minority. there are more of us than them, true, but unfortunately they have co-opted the support of our fellow slaves. the state is not top-down hierarchical enslavement. coercion has been honed and developed into the 'horizontal state'. there are no bars on the cage but our fellow slaves will screach if we attempt to leave our confines and seek individual liberty. we've all experienced this and the depressing news is that it wont change in our life times. spreading awareness of individual liberty is the only path to realising natural human freedom. the more slaves that can be awoken to this objective truth the fewer bars there will be on our collective cage. minority revolution to whip the state out from under its dependents wont work because there are more of them than us. they will suppress us and rush to rebuild the apparatus of coercion that they have come to love. spreading awareness is the answer to the question what is to be done.
the answer to the second question, what can we do, is to take part in spreading that awareness. do all that you can with you talents. most of you blog or comment on blogs. excellent as these efforts are, few of us are able to produce such an impact as this video. if we cant do that then whats wrong with supporting the ones who can? the contribution options are many and varied and start at a pittance. for less than the cost of the msm sunday supplement you can assist in spreading the message of freedom. http://www.indiegogo.com/Edgar-the-exploiter