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Nov. 23, 2005 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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4 Loving the State: Leviathan and Optimism

How to fall in love with government all over again..!

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Loving the State Leviathan and Optimism by Stefan Molyneux MA www.freedomainradio.com So here in Canada, we are about to surrender our infants to the state.
Government daycare will be imposed upon us, and now not even the needs of their newborns will keep our citizens from returning to the tax galleys.
Another cluster of unionized state leeches will attach themselves to the body politic, hoping to feed on us forevermore.
I have mixed feelings about all of this.
I'm dismayed, of course, because, like all optimists, I resist the lessons of history.
For every civilization in history, the state has always expanded to devour the host society.
It is an iron rule without exception, but still I hope that somehow our state will go into a remission of sorts, stabilize, and let us live out our diminished lives as only partial slaves.
It will not be the case, of course.
Like all addictions, irrationality and violence are inherently unstable and inevitably expand to collapse.
The true addict has to hit bottom before he has even the slightest chance of recovery.
And there is no addict like the state.
Thus it is inevitable that state power will grow until it self-destructs.
To imagine otherwise is to imagine that the alcoholic will give up drinking while he is still flying high, or that the gambler will quit the casino while he's on a winning streak.
It's unthinkable!
So what is my relationship to the expansion of state power?
Overall, I have come to accept that I have been forcibly wed to an addict, and that to experience shock and dismay every time my, quote, spouse acts irrationally is itself irrational.
If a man has been a lifelong drinker, to be appalled every time he reaches for a drink represents a foolish failure to learn from experience.
The only answer, of course, is to get a, quote, divorce and get rid of the state completely.
If we are wedded to a hopeless crack addict and cannot get away, the only hope we can have is to encourage all his self-destructive habits until he is no longer a problem.
It's risky, of course, but it's the only option.
A woman who wants to be free of her alcoholic and abusive husband gets him drunk on snowy nights, then gives him the car keys.
Number five.
Go to the doctor.
Don't take up much of his time.
Complain about being tired or a light sleeper.
Get in, get out, and get him billing the state.
Trust me, he'll be more than happy to oblige.
Don't give to charity.
If you feel like helping the poor, give your money to a government welfare agency instead.
You'll be doing your part to help break the back of the government, which is the best thing you can do for the poor anyway.
Number seven.
Advocate bizarre rights.
The right to marry an ostrich.
The right for a bachelor to claim an equivalent to married deduction for his right hand.
The right to parade down the Mississippi.
Go for it!
Get politicians commissioning studies, hiring think tanks, pushing for funding inclusions in military spending bills.
Number eight.
Support U.S.
invasions.
I know, I know, this is hard to stomach, but think about it.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis died and continue to die as a result of the U.S.
invasion.
Ah, but half a million died during the peaceful sanctions of the 1990s.
Do you see?
Fewer Iraqis are dying now than before the U.S.
invaded.
Also, the U.N.
isn't giving Saddam billions of dollars of aid for free, so everyone's better off.
Except Saddam.
Number nine.
Support your troops.
Troops are expensive.
The more troops the state deploys, the quicker the state will collapse, and the freer the world will become.
Number 10.
Be an entrepreneur.
Start creating jobs.
The more people you get paying taxes, the more money the state will imagine it has, and the quicker it will self-destruct.
Number 11.
Speculate in real estate.
Land, transfer, taxes.
Enough said.
Number 12.
Drink and drive, though of course not together.
Alcohol and gas taxes.
Fuel the fire.
Number thirteen.
Support foreign aid.
Because of the billions of dollars spent in foreign aid, for instance, Africa is a complete mess.
Let's keep it going.
More free AIDS drugs, free food, more money to dictators, arms aplenty.
The only chance poorer nations have is for the governments of the rich nations to implode, and so stop funding the loathsome thugs that strangle them.
Number fourteen.
More money to artists.
The government especially needs to fund artists because no more tangible and revolting example of corrupt government waste exists.
Wasting money doesn't mean much.
It's not visceral enough, too abstract.
What we need is more statues made out of feces, more cows sawn in half, more crucifixes hung in urine.
That sends the real message.
It also gives us that much less to miss when the state finally goes down.
15.
Support money mischief.
What, you're not willing to swallow double-digit inflation to bring down the Leviathan?
Where's your love of freedom?
Write your local representative and demand even more deficit financing.
Demand the printing of additional money.
Demand that interest rates be kept artificially low.
Inflation will rise and government debt payments will break the back of the beast.
Sing as you roll your wheelbarrow of money to go and buy bread.
Short-term gain, long-term pain.
16.
Live.
Forever.
Old age pensions, long-term health care, little chance of taxation.
Don't be healthy, but don't die either.
Just linger on.
Be demanding.
See?
Even the old and infirm have their part to play.
Number 17.
Support trade sanctions and subsidies.
Basically, the more power the state has, the more it will be funded and corrupted by leeches intent on using that power to suck the lifeblood out of any productive person in sight.
Farmers, sure, they need money because there's, like, you know, weather and stuff.
The steel industry?
Tariffs!
Subsidies!
If the state sells its favors, it will have more donations to use as collateral to borrow on.
Let's keep governments and corporations nice and cozy.
That way, when the brutal state goes, it will take all the inefficient, parasitical corporations with it, and we can all get back to doing something actually useful.
These are just some of the approaches I've taken to the, quote, problem of the expansion of state power.
Each and every one has been incredibly helpful to me.
Now, rather than getting frustrated every time the state increases its power, I try to do everything I can to hurry it along.
For out of the rubble of self-destruction we shall arise free, and surely that's something we can all really get behind.
So, the next time someone asks you what you think of some new government program, stand on your feet and applaud it.
Cry your approval to the very skies.
Praise every aspect of it.
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