ANARCHY!

as a vector towards freedom and not towards chaos.

JERM WARFARE has interviewed » Etienne de la Boetie on anarchy and why all governments are a scam.

He explains how the very word ‘anarchy’ has been given a false meaning to trick people into being afraid of it.

Jerm Warfare is a very good interviewer who asks all the right questions at the right moments. I often make a point of listening to his uploads on Odysee and recommend that you follow him there. He describes this interview thus:

Etienne de la Boetie2 (yes, with a squared sign and, no, it isn’t his real name) previously chatted to me about why all governments are illegitimate authorities and, basically, why anarchy is not a bad word. Establishment propaganda has done a great job in duping a lot of people into believing that being governed by a self-imposed authority with a monopoly on violence, is equal to freedom.

What is anarchism?

For clarity, anarchism is a collection of ideas that lead to anarchy, although it’s probably acceptable to use both words to describe the same idea.

Rejection of the state equates to anarchism. But the problem that I have found is that anarchism is misunderstood, whether by design or not. Anarchism (or anarchy) does not mean chaos. Anarchism, in the words of Benjamin Tucker, could be described as 

He goes on to say that:

Basically, the government is the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will. Anarchy is a synonym for liberty, freedom, independence, self-government, non-interference and you-don’t-speak-for-me.

Governments are a scam

Etienne‘s book – which is available via his website The Art Of Liberty – is certainly worth buying because it highlights all of the aforementioned talking points in an easily digestible format.

Basically, Government – The Biggest Scam In History is about

Think of it even more simply.

If an armed gang knocked on your door and demanded that you pay them a percentage of your income, no matter what their reasons might be, then any rational individual will agree that such behaviour is criminal.

Replace “armed gang” with “government”.

Our conversation

I really enjoyed this conversation. In fact, it’s one of my favourites.

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I think it is only right to explain who Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie actually was.

He was born on 1 November 1530 and died on 18 August 1563. He was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet, and political theorist, best remembered for his intense and intimate friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian, and civil disobedience thought. ~ wikipedia