The State can be summarized as a legalized theft ring. Legalizing theft doesn't make it non-theft.
(Robbery, technically. States act like mafias because they are mafias.)
Theft has an inherent attribute; it destroys the creator of the property you're stealing. If you put up a street sign but it gets stolen every time, eventually you stop putting up that sign and travellers simply have to do without. If you cannot reasonably expect to keep your creation, you do not create it in the first place.
States can only survive more than a few seconds because humans are stupid and often don't realize they will fail to retain control of their creations. However, over time, they will make mistakes. Humans stop creating the stuff for whatever reason, and then they'll notice they're not the ones harmed by the deficit. Entropy is firmly opposed to States; their revenue erodes as a function of collecting the revenue at all. E.g. someone is fired and has to take a cheaper job. They notice their household revenue didn't go down nearly as much as they thought it would, so they learn not to put work into getting a better wage. Over time this basically communist attitude spreads culturally.
It turns out that any State that has involuntary revenue collection is fundamentally Communist. It's merely a question of how well the stewards of the crime family are able to resist their Communist urges. The "dissolution" of the monasteries was Henry 8 being unable to resist his urge to simply steal more stuff. A full Soviet Communism is the result of the State losing it entirely and stealing ("nationalizing") everything.
Turns out if you steal all the food, you destroy the food creators and everyone starves to death. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Modern States pretend to provide services. It's only propaganda. If they genuinely provided valuable services they would be able to charge service fees for the services, rather than stealing the money.
Secondly, States survive because humans are so stupid that accounting is a superpower. When the cost of resisting or overthrowing the State is lower than paying the State off, humans will continue to pay the State off. Indeed they will allow the State to increase the protection money premiums.
As a result, most humans of the superior kind who can manage accounting end up joining the State parasites. If the sheep insist so violently on being sheared, why fight it? Easier to simply take the wool. This fundamentally dishonourable lifestyle tends to cause rapid degeneration of the superior class, giving nearby younger mafias an opportunity to in turn steal their stolen goods.
The anarcho-pessimist is therefore fundamentally Amish. Don't be a peasant, because the villeins are villainous. Don't be the human-farmer, because you don't want to degenerate. Go [Benedict Option], and intend to remain all Benedict perpetually. Remember, if the State insists you trample a picture of Yeshua, just do it. Allowing a parasite to harm you is a far worse heresy than dirtying an icon.
Aside: nationalism is a scam. Your "countrymen" aren't on your side. It's merely a convenient unit for the sheep-human farmers. The farmers are especially not on your side. Sadly the scam is super effective, and the peasants have spent centuries thinking their parasites on their friends.
Note that, if everyone went anarcho-pessimist, they would falsify their own prophecy. A stateless society would be achieved. The resistance to coercive rule would simply be too expensive to overcome. This is a pure hypothetical, since the fraction of the population capable of accounting unquestionably does not exceed 10%.
ReplyDeleteAlso note that being polite the government is perfectly perverse. I amused myself by summing up most American activism. "Please sir, kindly steal less from me." Theft isn't polite, dumbass. Politeness to barbarians is perfectly pointless.